eudaemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudemon, good spirit |
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eudaemonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaimonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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eudaimonia | (noun) a contented state of being happy and healthy and prosperous | Synonyms: eudaemonia, upbeat, welfare, well-being, wellbeing |
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eudemon | (noun) a benevolent spirit | Synonyms: eudaemon, good spirit |
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eudemonism | (noun) an ethical system that evaluates actions by reference to personal well-being through a life based on reason | Synonyms: endaemonism |
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eudiometer | (noun) measuring instrument consisting of a graduated glass tube for measuring volume changes in chemical reactions between gases | - |
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feud | (noun) a bitter quarrel between two parties | - |
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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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feudatory | (noun) a person holding a fief; a person who owes allegiance and service to a feudal lord | Synonyms: liege, liege subject, liegeman, vassal |
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pseud | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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pseudo | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pretender, pseud, role player, sham, shammer |
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pseudobulb | (noun) a solid bulblike enlargement of the stem of some orchids | - |
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pseudocarp | (noun) fruit containing much fleshy tissue besides that of the ripened ovary; as apple or strawberry | Synonyms: accessory fruit |
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pseudocyesis | (noun) physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant | Synonyms: false pregnancy |
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pseudoephedrine | (noun) poisonous crystalline alkaloid occurring with ephedrine and isomorphic with it | - |
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pseudohallucination | (noun) an image vivid enough to be a hallucination but recognized as unreal | - |
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pseudohermaphrodite | (noun) someone having external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex; not a true hermaphrodite because there is no ambiguity in the sex of the external genitalia and hence no question about gender at birth | - |
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pseudohermaphroditism | (noun) congenital condition in which a person has external genitalia of one sex and internal sex organs of the other sex | - |
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pseudomonad | (noun) bacteria usually producing greenish fluorescent water-soluble pigment; some pathogenic for plants and animals | - |
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pseudonym | (noun) a fictitious name used when the person performs a particular social role | Synonyms: anonym, nom de guerre |
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pseudophloem | (noun) false phloem | - |
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pseudopod | (noun) temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion | Synonyms: pseudopodium |
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pseudopodium | (noun) temporary outgrowth used by some microorganisms as an organ of feeding or locomotion | Synonyms: pseudopod |
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pseudorubella | (noun) a viral disease of infants and young children; characterized by abrupt high fever and mild sore throat; a few days later there is a faint pinkish rash that lasts for a few hours to a few days | Synonyms: exanthema subitum, roseola infantilis, roseola infantum |
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pseudoscience | (noun) an activity resembling science but based on fallacious assumptions | - |
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pseudoscorpion | (noun) small nonvenomous arachnid resembling a tailless scorpion | Synonyms: false scorpion |
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pseudosmallpox | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudovariola, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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pseudovariola | (noun) a mild form of smallpox caused by a less virulent form of the virus | Synonyms: alastrim, Cuban itch, Kaffir pox, milk pox, pseudosmallpox, variola minor, West Indian smallpox, white pox |
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