| acephalism | (noun) absence of the head (as in the development of some monsters) | Synonyms: acephalia, acephaly |
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| actualisation | (noun) making real or giving the appearance of reality | Synonyms: actualization, realisation, realization |
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| aerialist | (noun) an acrobat who performs in the air (as on a rope or trapeze) | - |
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| agriculturalist | (noun) someone concerned with the science or art or business of cultivating the soil | Synonyms: agriculturist, cultivator, grower, raiser |
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| alkaliser | (noun) an agent that counteracts or neutralizes acidity (especially in the stomach) | Synonyms: alkalizer, antacid, antiacid, gastric antacid |
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| amoralism | (noun) the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| amoralist | (noun) someone who adheres to the doctrine that ordinary moral distinctions are invalid | - |
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| anecdotalism | (noun) The property of being related to short accounts of real incidents or persons, often humorous or interesting. | - |
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| animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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| animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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| (noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
| annalism | (noun) The writing of annals. | - |
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| annalist | (noun) a historian who writes annals | - |
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| anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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| arbalist | (noun) late version of the crossbow with a steel bow | Synonyms: arbalest |
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| (noun) archer who uses an arbalest | - |
| artificialism | (noun) Czech surrealism founded in 1928 by Jindrich Styrsky and Toyen (Marie Cerminova). | - |
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| atonalism | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonality |
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| bilateralism | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilaterality |
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| bilingualism | (noun) the ability to speak two languages colloquially | - |
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| bilingualist | (noun) a person who speaks two languages fluently | Synonyms: bilingual |
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| bipedalism | (noun) the bodily attribute of being bipedal; having two feet | - |
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| brachycephalism | (noun) the quality of being brachycephalic | Synonyms: brachycephaly |
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| brutalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, animalization, brutalization |
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| (noun) the activity of treating someone savagely or viciously | Synonyms: brutalization |
| (noun) the condition of being treated in a cruel and savage manner | Synonyms: brutalization |
| cabalism | (noun) adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or interpretation | Synonyms: kabbalism |
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| cabalist | (noun) an expert who is highly skilled in obscure or difficult or esoteric matters | Synonyms: kabbalist |
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| (noun) a member of a cabal | - |
| calisaya | (noun) Peruvian shrub or small tree having large glossy leaves and cymes of fragrant yellow to green or red flowers; cultivated for its medicinal bark | Synonyms: Cinchona calisaya, Cinchona ledgeriana, Cinchona officinalis |
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| calisthenics | (noun) the practice of calisthenic exercises | Synonyms: callisthenics |
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| (noun) light exercises designed to promote general fitness | Synonyms: callisthenics |
| canalisation | (noun) the production of a canal or a conversion to canals | Synonyms: canalization |
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| (noun) management through specified channels of communication | Synonyms: canalization, channelisation, channelization |
| cannibalism | (noun) the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind | - |
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| capitalisation | (noun) the act of capitalizing on an opportunity | Synonyms: capitalization |
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| (noun) the sale of capital stock | Synonyms: capitalization |
| (noun) an estimation of the value of a business | Synonyms: capitalization |
| (noun) writing in capital letters | Synonyms: capitalization |
| capitalism | (noun) an economic system based on private ownership of capital | Synonyms: capitalist economy |
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| capitalist | (noun) a person who invests capital in a business (especially a large business) | - |
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| (noun) a conservative advocate of capitalism | - |
| centralisation | (noun) the act of consolidating power under a central control | Synonyms: centralization |
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| (noun) gathering to a center | Synonyms: centralization |
| centralism | (noun) the political policy of concentrating power in a central organization | - |
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| chrysalis | (noun) pupa of a moth or butterfly enclosed in a cocoon | - |
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| classicalism | (noun) a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint and strict forms | Synonyms: classicism |
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| clericalism | (noun) a policy of supporting the influence and power of the clergy in secular or political matters | - |
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| clericalist | (noun) one who advocates clericalism | - |
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| clinocephalism | (noun) a congenital defect in which the top of the head is depressed (concave instead of convex) | Synonyms: clinocephaly |
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| colloquialism | (noun) a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech | - |
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| colonialism | (noun) exploitation by a stronger country of weaker one; the use of the weaker country's resources to strengthen and enrich the stronger country | - |
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| colonialist | (noun) a believer in colonialism | - |
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| commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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| commercialisation | (noun) the act of commercializing something; involving something in commerce | Synonyms: commercialization |
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| commercialism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, mercantilism |
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| communalism | (noun) the practice of communal living and common ownership | - |
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| (noun) loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole | - |
| compartmentalisation | (noun) the act of distributing things into classes or categories of the same type | Synonyms: assortment, categorisation, categorization, classification, compartmentalization |
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| (noun) a mild state of dissociation | Synonyms: compartmentalization |
| conceptualisation | (noun) inventing or contriving an idea or explanation and formulating it mentally | Synonyms: conceptualization, formulation |
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| (noun) an elaborated concept | Synonyms: conceptuality, conceptualization |
| conceptualism | (noun) the doctrine that the application of a general term to various objects indicates the existence of a mental entity that mediates the application | - |
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| constitutionalism | (noun) advocacy of a system of government according to constitutional principles | - |
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| (noun) a constitutional system of government (usually with a written constitution) | - |
| constitutionalist | (noun) an advocate of constitutional government | - |
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| contextualism | (noun) any doctrine emphasizing the importance of the context in solving problems or establishing the meaning of terms | - |
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| controversialist | (noun) a person who disputes; who is good at or enjoys controversy | Synonyms: disputant, eristic |
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| conventionalisation | (noun) the act of conventionalizing; conforming to a conventional style | Synonyms: conventionalization |
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| conventionalism | (noun) orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional | Synonyms: convention, conventionality |
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| conversationalist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationist, schmoozer |
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| corydalis | (noun) a plant of the genus Corydalis with beautiful compound foliage and spurred tubular flowers | - |
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| criminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something illegal | Synonyms: criminalization |
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| criminalism | (noun) the state of being a criminal | Synonyms: criminality, criminalness |
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| cymbalist | (noun) a performer on the cymbals | - |
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| decentalisation | (noun) the social process in which population and industry moves from urban centers to outlying districts | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decentralisation | (noun) the spread of power away from the center to local branches or governments | Synonyms: decentralization |
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| decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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| decriminalisation | (noun) legislation that makes something legal that was formerly illegal | Synonyms: decriminalization |
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| demineralisation | (noun) the removal of minerals and mineral salts from a liquid (especially from water) | Synonyms: demineralization |
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| (noun) abnormal loss of mineral salts (especially from bone) | Synonyms: demineralization |
| demoralisation | (noun) destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy | Synonyms: demoralization |
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| (noun) depression resulting from an undermining of your morale | Synonyms: demoralization |
| (noun) a state of disorder and confusion | Synonyms: demoralization |
| denationalisation | (noun) changing something from state to private ownership or control | Synonyms: denationalization, privatisation, privatization |
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| denominationalism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: sectarianism |
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| (noun) the tendency, in Protestantism, to separate into religious denominations or to advocate such separations | - |
| depersonalisation | (noun) representing a human being as a physical thing deprived of personal qualities or individuality | Synonyms: depersonalization, reification |
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| (noun) emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness | Synonyms: depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis |
| (noun) (existentialism) a loss of personal identity; a feeling of being an anonymous cog in an impersonal social machine | Synonyms: depersonalization |
| detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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| (noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
| devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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| diagonalisation | (noun) changing a square matrix to diagonal form (with all non-zero elements on the principal diagonal) | Synonyms: diagonalization |
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| digitalis | (noun) any of several plants of the genus Digitalis | Synonyms: foxglove |
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| (noun) a powerful cardiac stimulant obtained from foxglove | Synonyms: digitalin, digitalis glycoside |
| digitalisation | (noun) the administration of digitalis for the treatment of certain heart disorders | Synonyms: digitalization |
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| dolichocephalism | (noun) the quality of being dolichocephalic | Synonyms: dolichocephaly |
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| dualism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil | - |
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| dualist | (noun) an adherent of dualism | - |
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| ecumenicalism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicism, ecumenism |
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| editorialist | (noun) a journalist who writes editorials | Synonyms: columnist |
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| educationalist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationist |
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| emotionalism | (noun) emotional nature or quality | Synonyms: emotionality |
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| environmentalism | (noun) the activity of protecting the environment from pollution or destruction | - |
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| (noun) the philosophical doctrine that environment is more important than heredity in determining intellectual growth | - |
| environmentalist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: conservationist |
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| equalisation | (noun) the act of making equal or uniform | Synonyms: equalization, leveling |
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| equaliser | (noun) a weight that balances another weight | Synonyms: balance, counterbalance, counterpoise, counterweight, equalizer |
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| (noun) electronic equipment that reduces frequency distortion | Synonyms: equalizer |
| evangelicalism | (noun) stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation | - |
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| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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| experimentalism | (noun) an orientation that favors experimentation and innovation | - |
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| (noun) an empirical doctrine that advocates experimental principles | - |
| externalisation | (noun) embodying in an outward form | Synonyms: exteriorisation, exteriorization, externalization |
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| (noun) attributing to outside causes | Synonyms: externalization |
| fatalism | (noun) a philosophical doctrine holding that all events are predetermined in advance for all time and human beings are powerless to change them | - |
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| (noun) a submissive mental attitude resulting from acceptance of the doctrine that everything that happens is predetermined and inevitable | - |
| fatalist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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| federalisation | (noun) the act of being put under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
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| (noun) the state of being under federal control | Synonyms: federalization |
| federalism | (noun) the idea of a federal organization of more or less self-governing units | - |
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| federalist | (noun) an advocate of federalism | - |
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| feudalism | (noun) the social system that developed in Europe in the 8th century; vassals were protected by lords who they had to serve in war | Synonyms: feudal system |
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| fictionalisation | (noun) writing in a fictional form | Synonyms: fabrication, fictionalization |
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| (noun) a literary work based partly or wholly on fact but written as if it were fiction | Synonyms: fictionalization |
| finalisation | (noun) the act of finalizing | Synonyms: finalization |
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| finalist | (noun) a contestant who reaches the final stages of a competition | - |
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| focalisation | (noun) the act of bringing into focus | Synonyms: focalization, focusing |
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| (noun) the confinement of an infection to a limited area | Synonyms: focalization |
| formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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