| domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
| doomed | (noun) people who are destined to die soon | Synonyms: lost |
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| doorframe | (noun) the frame that supports a door | Synonyms: doorcase |
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| dormer | (noun) a gabled extension built out from a sloping roof to accommodate a vertical window | Synonyms: dormer window |
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| dosemeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosimeter |
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| dosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring doses of ionizing radiation (X-rays or radioactivity) | Synonyms: dosemeter |
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| dosimetry | (noun) measuring the dose of radiation emitted by a radioactive source | - |
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| downtime | (noun) a period of time when something (as a machine or factory) is not operating (especially as a result of malfunctions) | - |
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| dreamer | (noun) a person who escapes into a world of fantasy | Synonyms: escapist, wishful thinker |
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| (noun) someone guided more by ideals than by practical considerations | Synonyms: idealist |
| (noun) someone who is dreaming | - |
| drome | (noun) an airfield equipped with control tower and hangars as well as accommodations for passengers and cargo | Synonyms: aerodrome, airdrome, airport |
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| dromedary | (noun) one-humped camel of the hot deserts of northern Africa and southwestern Asia | Synonyms: Arabian camel, Camelus dromedarius |
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| drummer | (noun) someone who plays a drum | - |
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| dulcimer | (noun) a trapezoidal zither whose metal strings are struck with light hammers | - |
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| (noun) a stringed instrument used in American folk music; an elliptical body and a fretted fingerboard and three strings | - |
| duramen | (noun) the older inactive central wood of a tree or woody plant; usually darker and denser than the surrounding sapwood | Synonyms: heartwood |
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| durometer | (noun) An instrument for measuring the degree of hardness; especially, an instrument for testing the relative hardness of steel rails and the like. | - |
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| dynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument designed to measure power | Synonyms: ergometer |
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| dysmenorrhea | (noun) painful menstruation | - |
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| easement | (noun) the act of reducing something unpleasant (as pain or annoyance) | Synonyms: alleviation, easing, relief |
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| (noun) (law) the privilege of using something that is not your own (as using another's land as a right of way to your own land) | - |
| econometrician | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrist |
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| econometrics | (noun) the application of mathematics and statistics to the study of economic and financial data | - |
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| econometrist | (noun) an economist who uses statistical and mathematical methods | Synonyms: econometrician |
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| ecumenicalism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenicism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenism |
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| ecumenism | (noun) (Christianity) the doctrine of the ecumenical movement that promotes cooperation and better understanding among different religious denominations: aimed at universal Christian unity | Synonyms: ecumenicalism, ecumenicism |
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| (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: oecumenism |
| edutainment | (noun) entertainment that is intended to be educational | - |
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| effacement | (noun) withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous | Synonyms: self-effacement |
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| (noun) shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor | - |
| eightsome | (noun) a Scottish reel for eight dancers | - |
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| (noun) eight people considered as a unit | Synonyms: octet, octette |
| eimeria | (noun) parasitic on the digestive epithelium of vertebrates and higher invertebrates | Synonyms: coccidium |
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| elastomer | (noun) any of various elastic materials that resemble rubber (resumes its original shape when a deforming force is removed) | - |
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| electrodynamometer | (noun) measuring instrument that uses the interaction of the magnetic fields of two coils to measure current or voltage or power | - |
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| electrometer | (noun) meter to measure electrostatic voltage differences; draws no current from the source | - |
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| element | (noun) an artifact that is one of the individual parts of which a composite entity is made up; especially a part that can be separated from or attached to a system | Synonyms: component, constituent |
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| (noun) an abstract part of something | Synonyms: component, constituent, factor, ingredient |
| (noun) the most favorable environment for a plant or animal | - |
| (noun) a straight line that generates a cylinder or cone | - |
| (noun) the situation in which you are happiest and most effective | - |
| (noun) any of the more than 100 known substances (of which 92 occur naturally) that cannot be separated into simpler substances and that singly or in combination constitute all matter | Synonyms: chemical element |
| (noun) one of four substances thought in ancient and medieval cosmology to constitute the physical universe | - |
| elements | (noun) violent or severe weather (viewed as caused by the action of the four elements) | - |
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| elopement | (noun) the act of running away with a lover (usually to get married) | - |
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| embalmer | (noun) a mortician who treats corpses with preservatives | - |
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| embalmment | (noun) preservation (of a dead body) by treating with balsams and drugs and other chemicals | - |
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| embankment | (noun) a long artificial mound of stone or earth; built to hold back water or to support a road or as protection | - |
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| embarkment | (noun) the act of passengers and crew getting aboard a ship or aircraft | Synonyms: boarding, embarkation |
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| embarrassment | (noun) extreme excess | Synonyms: overplus, plethora, superfluity |
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| (noun) some event that causes someone to be embarrassed | - |
| (noun) the shame you feel when your inadequacy or guilt is made public | - |
| (noun) the state of being embarrassed (usually by some financial inadequacy) | - |
| embayment | (noun) an indentation of a shoreline larger than a cove but smaller than a gulf | Synonyms: bay |
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| embellishment | (noun) the act of adding extraneous decorations to something | Synonyms: ornamentation |
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| (noun) a superfluous ornament | - |
| (noun) elaboration of an interpretation by the use of decorative (sometimes fictitious) detail | Synonyms: embroidery |
| embezzlement | (noun) the fraudulent appropriation of funds or property entrusted to your care but actually owned by someone else | Synonyms: defalcation, misapplication, misappropriation, peculation |
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| embitterment | (noun) the state of being embittered | - |
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| embodiment | (noun) giving concrete form to an abstract concept | - |
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| (noun) a concrete representation of an otherwise nebulous concept | Synonyms: shape |
| (noun) a new personification of a familiar idea | Synonyms: avatar, incarnation |
| embossment | (noun) sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background | Synonyms: relief, relievo, rilievo, sculptural relief |
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| (noun) an impression produced by pressure or printing | Synonyms: imprint |
| embracement | (noun) the act of clasping another person in the arms (as in greeting or affection) | Synonyms: embrace, embracing |
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| embroilment | (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: imbroglio |
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| emeer | (noun) an independent ruler or chieftain (especially in Africa or Arabia) | Synonyms: ameer, amir, emir |
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| emendation | (noun) a correction by emending; a correction resulting from critical editing | - |
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| emerald | (noun) the green color of an emerald | - |
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| (noun) a transparent piece of emerald that has been cut and polished and is valued as a precious gem | - |
| (noun) a green transparent form of beryl; highly valued as a gemstone | - |
| emergence | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, egression |
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| (noun) the act of emerging | Synonyms: emersion |
| (noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, issue |
| (noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: growth, outgrowth |
| emergency | (noun) a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage | Synonyms: emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake |
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| (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: exigency, pinch |
| (noun) a state in which martial law applies | - |
| emeritus | (noun) a professor or minister who is retired from assigned duties | - |
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| emersion | (noun) the act of emerging | Synonyms: emergence |
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| (noun) (astronomy) the reappearance of a celestial body after an eclipse | Synonyms: egress |
| emery | (noun) a hard grey-black mineral consisting of corundum and either hematite or magnetite; used as an abrasive (especially as a coating on paper) | - |
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| emesis | (noun) the reflex act of ejecting the contents of the stomach through the mouth | Synonyms: disgorgement, puking, regurgitation, vomit, vomiting |
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| emetic | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: nauseant, vomit, vomitive |
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| emmenagogue | (noun) any agent that promotes menstrual discharge | - |
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| emmer | (noun) hard red wheat grown especially in Russia and Germany; in United States as stock feed | Synonyms: starch wheat, Triticum dicoccum, two-grain spelt |
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| emmet | (noun) social insect living in organized colonies; characteristically the males and fertile queen have wings during breeding season; wingless sterile females are the workers | Synonyms: ant, pismire |
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| emmetropia | (noun) (ophthalmology) the normal refractive condition of the eye in which there is clear focus of light on the retina | - |
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| emolument | (noun) compensation received by virtue of holding an office or having employment (usually in the form of wages or fees) | - |
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| emplacement | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: locating, location, placement, position, positioning |
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| (noun) military installation consisting of a prepared position for siting a weapon | - |
| employment | (noun) the occupation for which you are paid | Synonyms: work |
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| (noun) the act of using | Synonyms: exercise, usage, use, utilisation, utilization |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: engagement |
| (noun) the state of being employed or having a job | Synonyms: employ |
| empowerment | (noun) the act of conferring legality or sanction or formal warrant | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization |
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| enactment | (noun) acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture | Synonyms: characterization, personation, portrayal |
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| (noun) the passing of a law by a legislative body | Synonyms: passage |
| (noun) a legal document codifying the result of deliberations of a committee or society or legislative body | Synonyms: act |
| enamel | (noun) any smooth glossy coating that resembles ceramic glaze | - |
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| (noun) a paint that dries to a hard glossy finish | - |
| (noun) hard white substance covering the crown of a tooth | Synonyms: tooth enamel |
| (noun) a colored glassy compound (opaque or partially opaque) that is fused to the surface of metal or glass or pottery for decoration or protection | - |
| enamelware | (noun) cooking utensil of enameled iron | - |
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| enantiomer | (noun) either one of a pair of compounds (crystals or molecules) that are mirror images on each other but are not identical | Synonyms: enantiomorph |
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| encampment | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, tenting |
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| (noun) temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers | Synonyms: bivouac, camp, cantonment |
| (noun) a site where people on holiday can pitch a tent | Synonyms: bivouac, campground, camping area, camping ground, camping site, campsite |
| encasement | (noun) the act of enclosing something in a case | Synonyms: incasement |
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| encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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| enchantment | (noun) a magical spell | Synonyms: bewitchment |
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| (noun) a feeling of great liking for something wonderful and unusual | Synonyms: captivation, enthrallment, fascination |
| (noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: spell, trance |
| encirclement | (noun) a war measure that isolates some area of importance to the enemy | Synonyms: blockade |
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| encompassment | (noun) including entirely | - |
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| encouragement | (noun) the act of giving hope or support to someone | Synonyms: boost |
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| (noun) the expression of approval and support | - |
| (noun) the feeling of being encouraged | - |
| encroachment | (noun) entry to another's property without right or permission | Synonyms: intrusion, trespass, usurpation, violation |
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| (noun) influencing strongly | Synonyms: impact, impingement |
| (noun) any entry into an area not previously occupied | Synonyms: intrusion, invasion |
| endameba | (noun) any ameba of the genus Endamoeba | - |
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| endangerment | (noun) a source of danger; a possibility of incurring loss or misfortune | Synonyms: hazard, jeopardy, peril, risk |
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| endearment | (noun) the act of showing affection | - |
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| endgame | (noun) the final stages of a chess game after most of the pieces have been removed from the board | Synonyms: end game |
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| (noun) the final stages of an extended process of negotiation | Synonyms: end game |
| endometriosis | (noun) the presence of endometrium elsewhere than in the lining of the uterus; causes premenstrual pain and dysmenorrhea | Synonyms: adenomyosis |
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| endometritis | (noun) inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) | Synonyms: metritis |
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| endometrium | (noun) (pregnancy) the mucous membrane that lines the uterus; thickens under hormonal control and (if pregnancy does not occur) is shed in menstruation; if pregnancy occurs it is shed along with the placenta at parturition | - |
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| endorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: indorsement |
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| (noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, imprimatur, indorsement, sanction, warrant |
| (noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, indorsement |
| (noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: indorsement, second, secondment |
| (noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: indorsement |
| endowment | (noun) the act of endowing with a permanent source of income | - |
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| (noun) natural abilities or qualities | Synonyms: gift, natural endowment, talent |
| (noun) the capital that provides income for an institution | Synonyms: endowment fund |
| enfeeblement | (noun) serious weakening and loss of energy | Synonyms: debilitation, enervation, exhaustion |
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| enfeoffment | (noun) under the feudal system, the deed by which a person was given land in exchange for a pledge of service | - |
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| enforcement | (noun) the act of enforcing; ensuring observance of or obedience to | - |
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| enfranchisement | (noun) the act of certifying or bestowing a franchise on | Synonyms: certification |
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| (noun) a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote) | Synonyms: franchise |
| (noun) freedom from political subjugation or servitude | - |
| engagement | (noun) the act of sharing in the activities of a group | Synonyms: involution, involvement, participation |
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| (noun) a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war | Synonyms: battle, conflict, fight |
| (noun) the act of giving someone a job | Synonyms: employment |
| (noun) employment for performers or performing groups that lasts for a limited period of time | Synonyms: booking |
| (noun) a mutual promise to marry | Synonyms: betrothal, troth |
| (noun) contact by fitting together | Synonyms: interlocking, mesh, meshing |
| (noun) a meeting arranged in advance | Synonyms: appointment, date |
| engorgement | (noun) eating ravenously or voraciously to satiation | - |
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| (noun) congestion with blood | - |
| engrossment | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: intentness |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
| (noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: absorption, concentration, immersion |
| enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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| enjambement | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambment |
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| enjambment | (noun) the continuation of a syntactic unit from one line of verse into the next line without a pause | Synonyms: enjambement |
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| enjoinment | (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, injunction |
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| enjoyment | (noun) act of receiving pleasure from something | Synonyms: delectation |
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| (noun) (law) the exercise of the legal right to enjoy the benefits of owning property | Synonyms: use |
| (noun) the pleasure felt when having a good time | - |
| enlargement | (noun) the act of increasing (something) in size or volume or quantity or scope | Synonyms: expansion |
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| (noun) a photographic print that has been enlarged | Synonyms: blowup, magnification |
| (noun) a discussion that provides additional information | Synonyms: elaboration, expansion |
| (noun) the state of being enlarged | - |
| enlightenment | (noun) education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge | - |
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| (noun) (Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness | Synonyms: nirvana |