agromania | (noun) an intense desire to be alone or out in the open | - |
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balletomania | (noun) extraordinary enthusiasm for ballets | - |
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bibliomania | (noun) preoccupation with the acquisition and possession of books | - |
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decalcomania | (noun) the art of transferring designs from specially prepared paper to a wood or glass or metal surface | - |
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(noun) either a design that is fixed to some surface or a paper bearing the design which is to be transferred to the surface | Synonyms: decal |
dehumanisation | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanization |
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dehumanization | (noun) the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities | Synonyms: dehumanisation |
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dipsomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, potomania |
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dipsomaniac | (noun) a person who drinks alcohol to excess habitually | Synonyms: alcoholic, alky, boozer, lush, soaker, souse |
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egomania | (noun) an intense and irresistible love for yourself and concern for your own needs | - |
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egomaniac | (noun) an abnormally egotistical person | - |
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germanite | (noun) a rare reddish-grey mineral consisting of a copper iron germanium sulfide | - |
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germanium | (noun) a brittle grey crystalline element that is a semiconducting metalloid (resembling silicon) used in transistors; occurs in germanite and argyrodite | Synonyms: atomic number 32, Ge |
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humanisation | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanization |
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humanism | (noun) the doctrine emphasizing a person's capacity for self-realization through reason; rejects religion and the supernatural | Synonyms: secular humanism |
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(noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanitarianism |
(noun) the cultural movement of the Renaissance; based on classical studies | - |
humanist | (noun) a classical scholar or student of the liberal arts | - |
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(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanitarian |
humanitarian | (noun) someone devoted to the promotion of human welfare and to social reforms | Synonyms: do-gooder, improver |
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(noun) an advocate of the principles of humanism; someone concerned with the interests and welfare of humans | Synonyms: humanist |
humanitarianism | (noun) the doctrine that people's duty is to promote human welfare | Synonyms: humanism |
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humanities | (noun) studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills) | Synonyms: arts, humanistic discipline, liberal arts |
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humanity | (noun) all of the living human inhabitants of the earth | Synonyms: human beings, human race, humankind, humans, man, mankind, world |
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(noun) the quality of being humane | - |
(noun) the quality of being human | Synonyms: humanness, manhood |
humanization | (noun) the act of making more human | Synonyms: humanisation |
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inhumanity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: atrocity |
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(noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumaneness |
kleptomania | (noun) an irresistible impulse to steal in the absence of any economic motive | - |
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kleptomaniac | (noun) someone with an irrational urge to steal in the absence of an economic motive | - |
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leishmaniasis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniosis |
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leishmaniosis | (noun) sores resulting from a tropical infection by protozoa of the genus Leishmania which are spread by sandflies | Synonyms: kala azar, leishmaniasis |
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logomania | (noun) pathologically excessive (and often incoherent) talking | Synonyms: logorrhea |
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mania | (noun) an irrational but irresistible motive for a belief or action | Synonyms: cacoethes, passion |
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(noun) a mood disorder; an affective disorder in which the victim tends to respond excessively and sometimes violently | Synonyms: manic disorder |
maniac | (noun) an insane person | Synonyms: lunatic |
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(noun) a person who has an obsession with or excessive enthusiasm for something | - |
manicotti | (noun) large pasta tubes stuffed with chopped meat or mild cheese and baked in tomato sauce | - |
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manicure | (noun) professional care for the hands and fingernails | - |
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manicurist | (noun) a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails | - |
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manifest | (noun) a customs document listing the contents put on a ship or plane | - |
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manifestation | (noun) a public display of group feelings (usually of a political nature) | Synonyms: demonstration |
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(noun) a manifest indication of the existence or presence or nature of some person or thing | - |
(noun) expression without words | Synonyms: expression, reflection, reflexion |
(noun) a clear appearance | - |
(noun) an appearance in bodily form (as of a disembodied spirit) | Synonyms: materialisation, materialization |
manifesto | (noun) a public declaration of intentions (as issued by a political party or government) | Synonyms: pronunciamento |
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manifold | (noun) a pipe that has several lateral outlets to or from other pipes | - |
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(noun) a set of points such as those of a closed surface or an analogue in three or more dimensions | - |
(noun) a lightweight paper used with carbon paper to make multiple copies | Synonyms: manifold paper |
manikin | (noun) a life-size dummy used to display clothes | Synonyms: form, manakin, mannequin, mannikin |
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(noun) a person who is very small but who is not otherwise deformed or abnormal | Synonyms: homunculus, mannikin |
(noun) a woman who wears clothes to display fashions | Synonyms: fashion model, manakin, mannequin, mannikin, model |
manila | (noun) a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp | Synonyms: manila paper, manilla, manilla paper |
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manilla | (noun) a strong paper or thin cardboard with a smooth light brown finish made from e.g. Manila hemp | Synonyms: manila, manila paper, manilla paper |
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manioc | (noun) cassava with long tuberous edible roots and soft brittle stems; used especially to make cassiri (an intoxicating drink) and tapioca | Synonyms: bitter cassava, gari, mandioc, mandioca, Manihot esculenta, Manihot utilissima, tapioca plant |
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(noun) cassava root eaten as a staple food after drying and leaching; source of tapioca | Synonyms: cassava |
(noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioca |
manioca | (noun) a starch made by leaching and drying the root of the cassava plant; the source of tapioca; a staple food in the tropics | Synonyms: cassava, cassava starch, manioc |
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manipulability | (noun) the quality of being controllable by skilled movements of the hands | - |
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manipulation | (noun) exerting shrewd or devious influence especially for one's own advantage | Synonyms: use |
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(noun) the action of touching with the hands (or the skillful use of the hands) or by the use of mechanical means | Synonyms: handling |
manipulativeness | (noun) The quality of using manipulation purposefully, of tending to manipulate others. | - |
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manipulator | (noun) an agent that operates some apparatus or machine | Synonyms: operator |
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(noun) a person who handles things manually | - |
maniraptor | (noun) advanced carnivorous theropod; regarded as surviving today as living birds | - |
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megalomania | (noun) a psychological state characterized by delusions of grandeur | - |
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megalomaniac | (noun) a pathological egotist | - |
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monomania | (noun) a mania restricted to one thing or idea | Synonyms: possession |
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monomaniac | (noun) a person suffering from monomania | - |
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necromania | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necrophilia, necrophilism |
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nymphomania | (noun) abnormally intense sexual desire in women | - |
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nymphomaniac | (noun) a woman with abnormal sexual desires | Synonyms: nympho |
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onomatomania | (noun) obsession with a particular word which the person uses repeatedly or which intrudes into consciousness | - |
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phaneromania | (noun) an irresistible desire to pick at superficial body parts (as in obsessive nail-biting) | - |
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potomania | (noun) an intense persistent desire to drink alcoholic beverages to excess | Synonyms: alcoholism, dipsomania |
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pyromania | (noun) an uncontrollable desire to set fire to things | - |
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pyromaniac | (noun) a person with a mania for setting things on fire | - |
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shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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(noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
squandermania | (noun) prodigious squandering (usually by a government) | - |
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superhumanity | (noun) The state or condition of being beyond what is possible for a human being. | - |
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trichotillomania | (noun) an irresistible urge to pull out your own hair | - |
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womaniser | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womanizer |
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womanishness | (noun) the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man) | Synonyms: effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness, unmanliness |
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womanizer | (noun) a man who likes many women and has short sexual relationships with them | Synonyms: philanderer, womaniser |
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