antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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antisemitism | (noun) the intense dislike for and prejudice against Jewish people | Synonyms: anti-Semitism |
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antisepsis | (noun) the process of inhibiting the growth and multiplication of microorganisms | Synonyms: asepsis |
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(noun) (of non-living objects) the state of being free of pathogenic organisms | Synonyms: asepsis, sterileness, sterility |
antiseptic | (noun) a substance that destroys micro-organisms that carry disease without harming body tissues | - |
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antiserum | (noun) blood serum containing antibodies against specific antigens; provides immunity to a disease | - |
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antispasmodic | (noun) a drug used to relieve or prevent spasms (especially of the smooth muscles) | Synonyms: antispasmodic agent, spasmolytic |
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antistrophe | (noun) the section of a choral ode answering a previous strophe in classical Greek drama; the second of two metrically corresponding sections in a poem | - |
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antisyphilitic | (noun) a drug (or other chemical agent) that is effective against syphilis | - |
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antitauon | (noun) an antilepton of very great mass | Synonyms: tau-plus particle |
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antithesis | (noun) the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance | - |
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(noun) exact opposite | - |
antitoxin | (noun) an antibody that can neutralize a specific toxin | - |
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antitrade | (noun) winds blowing from west to east and lying above the trade winds in the tropics | Synonyms: antitrade wind |
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antitrades | (noun) wind in the upper atmosphere blowing above but in the opposite direction from the trade winds | - |
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antitussive | (noun) any medicine used to suppress or relieve coughing | - |
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antitype | (noun) a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by an earlier type or symbol; especially a figure or event in the New Testament having a counterpart in the Old Testament | - |
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(noun) an opposite or contrasting type | - |
antivenene | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenin |
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antivenin | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenene |
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antiviral | (noun) any drug that destroys viruses | Synonyms: antiviral agent, antiviral drug |
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astrantia | (noun) any plant of the genus Astrantia | Synonyms: masterwort |
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autoantibody | (noun) an antibody acting against tissues of the organism that produces it | - |
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banting | (noun) wild ox of the Malay Archipelago | Synonyms: banteng, Bos banteng, tsine |
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brigantine | (noun) two-masted sailing vessel square-rigged on the foremast and fore-and-aft rigged on the mainmast | Synonyms: hermaphrodite brig |
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brilliantine | (noun) a pomade to make the hair manageable and lustrous | - |
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canticle | (noun) a hymn derived from the Bible | - |
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cantilever | (noun) projecting horizontal beam fixed at one end only | - |
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cantillation | (noun) liturgical chanting | - |
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chanting | (noun) the act of singing in a monotonous tone | Synonyms: intonation |
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consubstantiation | (noun) the doctrine of the High Anglican Church that after the consecration of the Eucharist the substance of the body and blood of Christ coexists with the substance of the consecrated bread and wine | - |
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eglantine | (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | Synonyms: briar, brier, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
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elephantiasis | (noun) hypertrophy of certain body parts (usually legs and scrotum); the end state of the disease filariasis | - |
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enantiomer | (noun) either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical | Synonyms: enantiomorph |
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enantiomorph | (noun) either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical | Synonyms: enantiomer |
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enantiomorphism | (noun) the relation of opposition between crystals or molecules that are reflections of one another | Synonyms: mirror-image relation |
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enchantingness | (noun) Quality of having the ability to enchant; being charming, delightful. | - |
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galantine | (noun) boned poultry stuffed then cooked and covered with aspic; served cold | - |
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giantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: gigantism |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: gigantism, overgrowth |
gigantism | (noun) excessive largeness of stature | Synonyms: giantism |
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(noun) excessive size; usually caused by excessive secretion of growth hormone from the pituitary gland | Synonyms: giantism, overgrowth |
infanticide | (noun) murdering an infant | - |
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(noun) a person who murders an infant | - |
infantilism | (noun) infantile behavior in mature persons | - |
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(noun) an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics | - |
instantiation | (noun) a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it | - |
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insubstantiality | (noun) lacking substance or reality | - |
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(noun) lack of solid substance and strength | - |
isoantibody | (noun) an antibody that occurs naturally against foreign tissues from a person of the same species | Synonyms: alloantibody |
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mantichora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: manticora, manticore, mantiger |
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manticora | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticore, mantiger |
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manticore | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, mantiger |
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mantid | (noun) predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer | Synonyms: mantis |
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mantiger | (noun) a mythical monster having the head of man (with horns) and the body of a lion and the tail of a scorpion | Synonyms: mantichora, manticora, manticore |
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mantilla | (noun) a woman's silk or lace scarf | - |
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(noun) short cape worn by women | Synonyms: mantelet |
mantis | (noun) predacious long-bodied large-eyed insect of warm regions; rests with forelimbs raised as in prayer | Synonyms: mantid |
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mantispid | (noun) insect that resembles a mantis; larvae are parasites in the nests of spiders and wasps | - |
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mantissa | (noun) the positive fractional part of the representation of a logarithm; in the expression log 643 = 2.808 the mantissa is .808 | Synonyms: fixed-point part |
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meantime | (noun) the time between one event, process, or period and another | Synonyms: interim, lag, meanwhile |
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mercantilism | (noun) transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of supplying commodities (goods and services) | Synonyms: commerce, commercialism |
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(noun) an economic system (Europe in 18th century) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests | Synonyms: mercantile system |
neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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(noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
obscurantist | (noun) a person who is deliberately vague | - |
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pantie | (noun) short underpants for women or children | Synonyms: panty, scanty, step-in |
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pantile | (noun) a roofing tile with a S-shape; laid so that curves overlap | - |
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panting | (noun) breathing heavily (as after exertion) | Synonyms: heaving |
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(noun) any fabric used to make trousers | Synonyms: trousering |
plantigrade | (noun) an animal that walks with the entire sole of the foot touching the ground as e.g. bears and human beings | Synonyms: plantigrade mammal |
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planting | (noun) the act of fixing firmly in place | - |
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(noun) putting seeds or young plants in the ground to grow | - |
(noun) a collection of plants (trees or shrubs or flowers) in a particular area | - |
quantic | (noun) a homogeneous polynomial having at least two variables | - |
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quantifiability | (noun) the quality of being measurable | Synonyms: measurability |
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quantification | (noun) the act of discovering or expressing the quantity of something | - |
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(noun) a limitation imposed on the variables of a proposition (as by the quantifiers `some' or `all' or `no') | - |
quantifier | (noun) (grammar) a word that expresses a quantity (as `fifteen' or `many') | - |
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(noun) (logic) a word (such as `some' or `all' or `no') that binds the variables in a logical proposition | Synonyms: logical quantifier |
quantisation | (noun) the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory | Synonyms: quantization |
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quantity | (noun) how much there is or how many there are of something that you can quantify | Synonyms: amount, measure |
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(noun) an adequate or large amount | - |
(noun) the concept that something has a magnitude and can be represented in mathematical expressions by a constant or a variable | - |
quantization | (noun) the act of dividing into quanta or expressing in terms of quantum theory | Synonyms: quantisation |
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quarantine | (noun) isolation to prevent the spread of infectious disease | - |
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(noun) enforced isolation of patients suffering from a contagious disease in order to prevent the spread of disease | - |
ranting | (noun) a loud bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion | Synonyms: harangue, rant |
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romantic | (noun) a soulful or amorous idealist | - |
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(noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romanticist |
romanticisation | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticization, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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romanticism | (noun) impractical romantic ideals and attitudes | - |
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(noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romance |
romanticist | (noun) an artist of the Romantic Movement or someone influenced by Romanticism | Synonyms: romantic |
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(noun) someone who indulges in excessive sentimentality | Synonyms: sentimentalist |
romanticization | (noun) the act of indulging in sentiment | Synonyms: romanticisation, sentimentalisation, sentimentalization |
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santims | (noun) 100 santimi equal 1 lats in Latvia | - |
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scantiness | (noun) the quality of being meager | Synonyms: exiguity, leanness, meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantness |
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(noun) Of a garment, the property of being very small, light, or revealing. | Synonyms: skimpiness |
semanticist | (noun) a specialist in the study of meaning | Synonyms: semiotician |
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semantics | (noun) the study of language meaning | - |
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(noun) the meaning of a word, phrase, sentence, or text | - |
substantiality | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantialness |
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substantialness | (noun) the quality of being substantial or having substance | Synonyms: solidness, substantiality |
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substantiation | (noun) the act of validating; finding or testing the truth of something | Synonyms: proof, validation |
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(noun) additional proof that something that was believed (some fact or hypothesis or theory) is correct | Synonyms: check, confirmation, verification |
substantive | (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
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supplanting | (noun) act of taking the place of another especially using underhanded tactics | Synonyms: displacement |
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tarantism | (noun) a nervous disorder characterized by an uncontrollable impulse to dance; popularly attributed to bite of the southern European tarantula or wolf spider | - |
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transplanting | (noun) the act of removing something from one location and introducing it in another location | Synonyms: transplant, transplantation |
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transubstantiation | (noun) an act that changes the form or character or substance of something | Synonyms: transmutation |
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(noun) the Roman Catholic doctrine that the whole substance of the bread and the wine changes into the substance of the body and blood of Christ when consecrated in the Eucharist | - |
vigilantism | (noun) the actions of a vigilance committee in trying to enforce the laws | - |
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