aboriginal | (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aborigine, indigen, indigene, native |
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angina | (noun) any disease of the throat or fauces marked by spasmodic attacks of intense suffocative pain | - |
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(noun) a heart condition marked by paroxysms of chest pain due to reduced oxygen to the heart | Synonyms: angina pectoris |
asparaginase | (noun) antineoplastic drug (trade name Elspar) sometimes used to treat lymphoblastic leukemia | Synonyms: Elspar |
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imaginary | (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
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imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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(noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
(noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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invagination | (noun) the folding in of an outer layer so as to form a pocket in the surface | Synonyms: infolding, introversion, intussusception |
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(noun) the condition of being folded inward or sheathed | Synonyms: introversion |
marginalia | (noun) notes written in the margin | - |
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marginalisation | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalization |
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marginality | (noun) the property of being marginal or on the fringes | - |
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marginalization | (noun) the social process of becoming or being made marginal (especially as a group within the larger society) | Synonyms: marginalisation |
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original | (noun) an original creation (i.e., an audio recording) from which copies can be made | Synonyms: master, master copy |
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(noun) something that serves as a model or a basis for making copies | Synonyms: archetype, pilot |
originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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originality | (noun) the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) | - |
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(noun) the ability to think and act independently | - |
origination | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction |
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(noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: inception, origin |
originator | (noun) someone who creates new things | Synonyms: conceiver, mastermind |
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pagination | (noun) the system of numbering pages | Synonyms: folio, page number, paging |
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unoriginality | (noun) the quality of being unoriginal | - |
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(noun) uncreativeness due to a lack of originality | - |
vagina | (noun) the lower part of the female reproductive tract; a moist canal in female mammals extending from the labia minora to the uterus | - |
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virginal | (noun) a legless rectangular harpsichord; played (usually by women) in the 16th and 17th centuries | Synonyms: pair of virginals |
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