oblongness | (noun) the property of being shaped like a rectangle | Synonyms: rectangularity |
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overbearingness | (noun) the trait of being imperious and overbearing | Synonyms: domineeringness, imperiousness |
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painstakingness | (noun) the trait of being painstaking and careful | Synonyms: conscientiousness |
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paragneiss | (noun) a gneiss derived from a sedimentary rock. | - |
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paramagnet | (noun) magnet made of a substance whose magnetization is proportional to the strength of the magnetic field applied to it | - |
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paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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peignoir | (noun) a loose dressing gown for women | Synonyms: housecoat, neglige, negligee, wrapper |
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physiognomy | (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, smiler, visage |
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pignolia | (noun) edible seed of any of several nut pines especially some pinons of southwestern North America | Synonyms: pine nut, pinon nut |
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pignut | (noun) an American hickory tree having bitter nuts | Synonyms: black hickory, brown hickory, Carya glabra, pignut hickory |
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pleasingness | (noun) the quality of giving pleasure to the senses | - |
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plectognath | (noun) tropical marine fishes having the teeth fused into a beak and thick skin covered with bony plates or spines | Synonyms: plectognath fish |
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poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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(noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
precognition | (noun) knowledge of an event before it occurs | Synonyms: foreknowledge |
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pregnancy | (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, maternity |
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pregnanediol | (noun) a compound found in women's urine during certain phases of the menstrual cycle and in the urine of pregnant women | - |
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prognathism | (noun) the condition of being prognathous; the condition of having a projecting jaw | - |
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prognosis | (noun) a prediction of the course of a disease | Synonyms: medical prognosis, prospect |
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(noun) a prediction about how something (as the weather) will develop | Synonyms: forecast |
prognostic | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
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prognostication | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction |
(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic |
prognosticator | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, soothsayer |
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pugnacity | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, belligerence |
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reassignment | (noun) assignment to a different duty | - |
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recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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recognition | (noun) designation by the chair granting a person the right to speak in a deliberative body | - |
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(noun) the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering | Synonyms: identification |
(noun) an acceptance (as of a claim) as true and valid | - |
(noun) coming to understand something clearly and distinctly | Synonyms: realisation, realization |
(noun) approval | Synonyms: credit |
(noun) the explicit and formal acknowledgement of a government or of the national independence of a country | - |
(noun) (biology) the ability of one molecule to attach to another molecule that has a complementary shape | - |
(noun) the state or quality of being recognized or acknowledged | Synonyms: acknowledgement, acknowledgment |
recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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regnellidium | (noun) small latex-containing aquatic fern of southern Brazil | Synonyms: Regnellidium diphyllum |
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reign | (noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: sovereignty |
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(noun) the period during which a monarch is sovereign | - |
(noun) a period during which something or somebody is dominant or powerful | - |
repugnance | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repulsion, revulsion |
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(noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness |
resignation | (noun) the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.) | - |
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(noun) a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign | - |
(noun) acceptance of despair | Synonyms: surrender |
scorchingness | (noun) The quality of being scorching; extreme heat. | - |
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segno | (noun) (music) a notation written at the beginning or end of a passage that is to be repeated | - |
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seigneur | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seignior |
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seigneury | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigniory |
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(noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigniory, signory |
seignior | (noun) a man of rank in the ancient regime | Synonyms: feudal lord, seigneur |
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seigniorage | (noun) charged by a government for coining bullion | - |
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seigniory | (noun) the position and authority of a feudal lord | Synonyms: feudal lordship, seigneury |
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(noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, signory |
sickeningness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, nauseatingness, unsavoriness |
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sign | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: signboard |
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(noun) a public display of a message | - |
(noun) a gesture that is part of a sign language | - |
(noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: signal, signaling, signalling |
(noun) a character indicating a relation between quantities | - |
(noun) a perceptible indication of something not immediately apparent (as a visible clue that something has happened) | Synonyms: mark |
(noun) a fundamental linguistic unit linking a signifier to that which is signified | - |
(noun) an event that is experienced as indicating important things to come | Synonyms: augury, foretoken, preindication |
(noun) (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided | Synonyms: house, mansion, planetary house, sign of the zodiac, star sign |
(noun) having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges) | Synonyms: polarity |
(noun) (medicine) any objective evidence of the presence of a disorder or disease | - |
signage | (noun) signs collectively (especially commercial signs or posters) | - |
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signal | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signaling, signalling |
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(noun) any incitement to action | - |
(noun) an electric quantity (voltage or current or field strength) whose modulation represents coded information about the source from which it comes | - |
signaler | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaller |
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signaling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signalling |
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signalisation | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalization |
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signalization | (noun) a conspicuous indication | Synonyms: signalisation |
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signaller | (noun) someone who communicates by signals | Synonyms: signaler |
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signalling | (noun) any nonverbal action or gesture that encodes a message | Synonyms: sign, signal, signaling |
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signalman | (noun) a railroad employee in charge of signals and point in a railroad yard | - |
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signatory | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signer |
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signature | (noun) a distinguishing style | Synonyms: touch |
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(noun) your name written in your own handwriting | - |
(noun) a sheet with several pages printed on it; it folds to page size and is bound with other signatures to form a book | - |
(noun) the sharps or flats that follow the clef and indicate the key | Synonyms: key signature |
(noun) a melody used to identify a performer or a dance band or radio/tv program | Synonyms: signature tune, theme song |
signboard | (noun) structure displaying a board on which advertisements can be posted | Synonyms: sign |
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signer | (noun) someone who signs and is bound by a document | Synonyms: signatory |
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(noun) someone who can use sign language to communicate | - |
signet | (noun) a seal (especially one used to mark documents officially) | - |
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significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
signification | (noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, significance |
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signified | (noun) the meaning of a word or expression; the way in which a word or expression or situation can be interpreted | Synonyms: sense |
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signifier | (noun) the phonological or orthographic sound or appearance of a word that can be used to describe or identify something | Synonyms: descriptor, form, word form |
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signing | (noun) language expressed by visible hand gestures | Synonyms: sign language |
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signior | (noun) used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately | Synonyms: signor |
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signor | (noun) used as an Italian courtesy title; can be prefixed to the name or used separately | Synonyms: signior |
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signora | (noun) an Italian title of address equivalent to Mrs. when used before a name | - |
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signore | (noun) an Italian title of respect for a man; equivalent to the English `sir'; used separately (not prefixed to his name) | - |
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signorina | (noun) an Italian courtesy title for an unmarried woman; equivalent to `Miss', it is either used alone or before a name | - |
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signory | (noun) the estate of a seigneur | Synonyms: seigneury, seigniory |
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signpost | (noun) a post bearing a sign that gives directions or shows the way | Synonyms: guidepost |
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smugness | (noun) an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction | - |
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snugness | (noun) a state of warm snug comfort | Synonyms: cosiness, coziness |
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sovereign | (noun) a nation's ruler or head of state usually by hereditary right | Synonyms: crowned head, monarch |
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sovereignty | (noun) the authority of a state to govern another state | - |
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(noun) government free from external control | - |
(noun) royal authority; the dominion of a monarch | Synonyms: reign |
sphagnum | (noun) any of various pale or ashy mosses of the genus Sphagnum whose decomposed remains form peat | Synonyms: bog moss, peat moss, sphagnum moss |
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stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
stagnation | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnancy |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnancy |
strikingness | (noun) the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly | Synonyms: boldness |
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(noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, saliency |
surprisingness | (noun) extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected | Synonyms: unexpectedness |
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teemingness | (noun) the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply | Synonyms: abundance, copiousness |
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telegnosis | (noun) apparent knowledge of distant events without using sensory perceptions | - |
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temptingness | (noun) the power to entice or attract through personal charm | Synonyms: allure, allurement |
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topognosia | (noun) recognition of the location of a stimulus on the skin | Synonyms: topognosis |
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topognosis | (noun) recognition of the location of a stimulus on the skin | Synonyms: topognosia |
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toxicognath | (noun) either of a pair of poison fangs in the modified front pair of legs of the centipede | - |
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trustingness | (noun) the trait of believing in the honesty and reliability of others | Synonyms: trust, trustfulness |
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unappetisingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetizingness |
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unappetizingness | (noun) the property of spoiling the appetite | Synonyms: unappetisingness |
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unassumingness | (noun) a quality of naturalness and simplicity | Synonyms: sincerity |
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unbecomingness | (noun) the quality of being unbecoming | - |
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(noun) The state of not being flattering, attractive or appropriate. | - |
unchangingness | (noun) the quality of being unchangeable; having a marked tendency to remain unchanged | Synonyms: changelessness, unchangeability, unchangeableness |
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unfeelingness | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, insensibility |
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unforgivingness | (noun) The quality of having no allowance for weakness. | - |
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uninterestingness | (noun) inability to capture or hold one's interest | - |
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unknowingness | (noun) unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention | Synonyms: unawareness |
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(noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing |
unpleasingness | (noun) the quality of being unpleasant to to the senses | - |
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unwillingness | (noun) the trait of being unwilling | Synonyms: involuntariness |
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unyieldingness | (noun) resoluteness by virtue of being unyielding and inflexible | Synonyms: adamance, obduracy |
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vignette | (noun) a small illustrative sketch (as sometimes placed at the beginning of chapters in books) | - |
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(noun) a photograph whose edges shade off gradually | - |
(noun) a brief literary description | Synonyms: sketch |
willingness | (noun) cheerful compliance | - |
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wrongness | (noun) contrary to conscience or morality | - |
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(noun) the quality of not conforming to fact or truth | Synonyms: incorrectness |
(noun) inappropriate conduct | Synonyms: inappropriateness |
youngness | (noun) the opposite of oldness | - |
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