achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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adiabaticity | (noun) The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). | - |
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analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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anthracite | (noun) a hard natural coal that burns slowly and gives intense heat | Synonyms: anthracite coal, hard coal |
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anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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aromaticity | (noun) The property of having an aroma. | - |
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ascites | (noun) accumulation of serous fluid in peritoneal cavity | - |
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atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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atrocity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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(noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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(noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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bacitracin | (noun) a polypeptide antibiotic of known chemical structure effective against several types of Gram-positive organisms; usually applied locally | - |
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bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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calcite | (noun) a common mineral consisting of crystallized calcium carbonate; a major constituent of limestone | - |
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calcitonin | (noun) thyroid hormone that tends to lower the level of calcium in the blood plasma and inhibit resorption of bone | Synonyms: thyrocalcitonin |
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capacitance | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitor, condenser, electrical condenser |
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(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacity, electrical capacity |
capacitor | (noun) an electrical device characterized by its capacity to store an electric charge | Synonyms: capacitance, condenser, electrical condenser |
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capacity | (noun) the maximum production possible | - |
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(noun) a specified function | - |
(noun) capability to perform or produce | - |
(noun) tolerance for alcohol | - |
(noun) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior | Synonyms: mental ability |
(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacitance, electrical capacity |
(noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: content |
(noun) (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive | - |
(noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capability |
catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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cecity | (noun) the state of being blind or lacking sight | Synonyms: blindness, sightlessness |
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cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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chalcocite | (noun) a heavy grey mineral that is an ore of copper | Synonyms: copper glance |
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chromaticity | (noun) the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | Synonyms: hue |
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citadel | (noun) a stronghold into which people could go for shelter during a battle | Synonyms: bastion |
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citation | (noun) an official award (as for bravery or service) usually given as formal public statement | Synonyms: commendation |
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(noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, cite, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
(noun) a summons that commands the appearance of a party at a proceeding | - |
(noun) a passage or expression that is quoted or cited | Synonyms: quotation, quote |
(noun) (law) the act of citing (as of spoken words or written passages or legal precedents etc.) | - |
cite | (noun) a short note recognizing a source of information or of a quoted passage | Synonyms: acknowledgment, citation, credit, mention, quotation, reference |
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cither | (noun) a musical stringed instrument with strings stretched over a flat sounding board; it is laid flat and played with a plectrum and with fingers | Synonyms: zither, zithern |
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(noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cithern, citole, cittern, gittern |
cithern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, citole, cittern, gittern |
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citizen | (noun) a native or naturalized member of a state or other political community | - |
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citizenry | (noun) the body of citizens of a state or country | Synonyms: people |
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citizenship | (noun) conduct as a citizen | - |
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(noun) the status of a citizen with rights and duties | - |
citole | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, cittern, gittern |
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citrange | (noun) more aromatic and acid tasting than oranges; used in beverages and marmalade | - |
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(noun) more aromatic and acidic than oranges | Synonyms: citrange tree, Citroncirus webberi |
citrate | (noun) a salt or ester of citric acid | - |
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citrin | (noun) a vitamin that maintains the resistance of cell and capillary walls to permeation | Synonyms: bioflavinoid, vitamin P |
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citrine | (noun) semiprecious yellow quartz resembling topaz | - |
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citron | (noun) large lemonlike fruit with thick aromatic rind; usually preserved | - |
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(noun) thorny evergreen small tree or shrub of India widely cultivated for its large lemonlike fruits that have thick warty rind | Synonyms: citron tree, Citrus medica |
citronwood | (noun) wood of a citron tree | - |
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(noun) durable fragrant wood; used in building (as in the roof of the cathedral at Cordova, Spain) | Synonyms: sandarac |
citrulline | (noun) an amino acid that does not occur in proteins but is an intermediate in the conversion of ornithine to arginine | - |
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citrus | (noun) any of numerous fruits of the genus Citrus having thick rind and juicy pulp; grown in warm regions | Synonyms: citrous fruit, citrus fruit |
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(noun) any of numerous tropical usually thorny evergreen trees of the genus Citrus having leathery evergreen leaves and widely cultivated for their juicy edible fruits having leathery aromatic rinds | Synonyms: citrus tree |
cittern | (noun) a 16th century musical instrument resembling a guitar with a pear-shaped soundbox and wire strings | Synonyms: cither, cithern, citole, gittern |
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city | (noun) people living in a large densely populated municipality | Synonyms: metropolis |
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(noun) a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts | Synonyms: metropolis, urban center |
(noun) an incorporated administrative district established by state charter | - |
cityscape | (noun) painting depicting a city or urban area | - |
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(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area | - |
complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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cyclicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodicity |
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cytotoxicity | (noun) the degree to which something is toxic to living cells | - |
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dacite | (noun) a grey volcanic rock containing plagioclase and quartz and other crystalline minerals | - |
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deficit | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: shortage, shortfall |
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(noun) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period) | - |
(noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing | - |
(noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning | - |
domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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(noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
duplicity | (noun) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: double-dealing |
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(noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: fraudulence |
eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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(noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
(noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
edacity | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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(noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: esurience, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
elasticity | (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: snap |
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electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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(noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
(noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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ethnicity | (noun) an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | - |
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excitability | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitableness, volatility |
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(noun) excessive sensitivity of an organ or body part | Synonyms: irritability |
excitableness | (noun) being easily excited | Synonyms: excitability, volatility |
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excitant | (noun) a drug that temporarily quickens some vital process | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulant drug |
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excitation | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitement |
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(noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: innervation, irritation |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitement, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
excitement | (noun) something that agitates and arouses | Synonyms: excitation |
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(noun) disturbance usually in protest | Synonyms: agitation, hullabaloo, turmoil, upheaval |
(noun) the feeling of lively and cheerful joy | Synonyms: exhilaration |
(noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, fervor, fervour, inflammation |
excitotoxin | (noun) any of a group of neurologically active compounds, such as glutamate and aspartame, that have detrimental excitatory effects on the central nervous system when taken in high concentrations. | - |
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explicitness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being explicit | - |
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febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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(noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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felicity | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicitousness |
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(noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: happiness |
ferocity | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness |
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fugacity | (noun) the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) | Synonyms: fugaciousness |
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(noun) the tendency of a gas to expand or escape | - |
hydroelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by water power | - |
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hydrophobicity | (noun) the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water | - |
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hydrostaticity | (noun) The condition of relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit. | - |
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hypertonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonus |
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(noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a higher osmotic pressure than some other | - |
hypervelocity | (noun) excessive velocity | - |
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hypotonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonia, hypotonus |
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(noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other | - |
illicitness | (noun) the quality of not conforming strictly to law | - |
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immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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implicitness | (noun) inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect | - |
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incapacity | (noun) lack of physical or natural qualifications | - |
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(noun) lack of intellectual power | - |
incitation | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitement |
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(noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitement, provocation |
incitement | (noun) an act of urging on or spurring on or rousing to action or instigating | Synonyms: incitation |
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(noun) the act of exhorting; an earnest attempt at persuasion | Synonyms: exhortation |
(noun) needed encouragement | Synonyms: provocation |
(noun) something that incites or provokes; a means of arousing or stirring to action | Synonyms: incitation, provocation |
inciter | (noun) someone who deliberately foments trouble | Synonyms: firebrand, instigant, instigator, provoker |
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inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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infelicity | (noun) inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | - |
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lecithin | (noun) a yellow phospholipid essential for the metabolism of fats; found in egg yolk and in many plant and animal cells; used commercially as an emulsifier | - |
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leoncita | (noun) small South American marmoset with silky fur and long nonprehensile tail | Synonyms: lion marmoset, lion monkey, tamarin |
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lepidocrocite | (noun) a red to reddish brown mineral consisting of iron oxide hydroxide; often found in iron ores together with goethite | - |
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licitness | (noun) the quality of strictly conforming to law | - |
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loquacity | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, talkativeness |
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lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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lysogenicity | (noun) the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material | Synonyms: lysogeny |
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mendacity | (noun) the tendency to be untruthful | - |
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