disconcertment | (noun) anxious embarrassment | Synonyms: discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertion |
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discontinuance | (noun) the act of discontinuing or breaking off; an interruption (temporary or permanent) | Synonyms: discontinuation |
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discordance | (noun) strife resulting from a lack of agreement | Synonyms: discord |
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(noun) a harsh mixture of sounds | Synonyms: discord |
disincentive | (noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: deterrence |
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disinheritance | (noun) the act by a donor that terminates the right of a person to inherit | - |
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disobedience | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: noncompliance |
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(noun) the trait of being unwilling to obey | - |
dissidence | (noun) disagreement; especially disagreement with the government | - |
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dissilience | (noun) the emergence of seeds as seed pods burst open when they are ripe | - |
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dissonance | (noun) disagreeable sounds | - |
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(noun) the auditory experience of sound that lacks musical quality; sound that is a disagreeable auditory experience | Synonyms: noise, racket |
(noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissension |
distance | (noun) the property created by the space between two objects or points | - |
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(noun) size of the gap between two places | Synonyms: length |
(noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: aloofness |
(noun) a distant region | - |
(noun) the interval between two times | Synonyms: space |
(noun) a remote point in time | - |
disturbance | (noun) the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion | - |
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(noun) a noisy fight | Synonyms: affray, fray, ruffle |
(noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: perturbation |
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: interference, noise |
(noun) a disorderly outburst or tumult | Synonyms: commotion, disruption, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do |
(noun) (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness | Synonyms: folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder |
(noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: perturbation, upset |
divergence | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergency |
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(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, variance |
(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergency |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, difference |
divulgence | (noun) the act of disclosing something that was secret or private | Synonyms: divulgement |
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dominance | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, potency, say-so |
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(noun) superior development of one side of the body | Synonyms: laterality |
(noun) the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not | - |
(noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control |
dunce | (noun) a stupid person; these words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence | Synonyms: blockhead, bonehead, dumbass, dunderhead, fuckhead, hammerhead, knucklehead, loggerhead, lunkhead, muttonhead, numskull, shithead |
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durance | (noun) imprisonment (especially for a long time) | - |
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ebullience | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: enthusiasm, exuberance |
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echoencephalogram | (noun) a graphical image of the brain produced by an echoencephalograph | - |
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echoencephalograph | (noun) a sonograph that creates an image of the brain and its abnormalities | - |
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echoencephalography | (noun) a noninvasive diagnostic procedure that uses ultrasound to study the anatomy of the brain | - |
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effervescence | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: bubbliness, frothiness |
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(noun) the process of bubbling as gas escapes | - |
efflorescence | (noun) a powdery deposit on a surface | Synonyms: bloom |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, florescence, flowering, inflorescence |
(noun) any red eruption of the skin | Synonyms: rash, roseola, skin rash |
(noun) the period of greatest prosperity or productivity | Synonyms: bloom, blossom, flower, flush, heyday, peak, prime |
effluence | (noun) the process of flowing out | Synonyms: efflux, outflow |
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effulgence | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: radiance, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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elastance | (noun) The capacity of a dielectric for opposing an electric charge | Synonyms: electrical elastance |
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electroencephalogram | (noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, encephalogram |
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electroencephalograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents generated by the brain | - |
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elegance | (noun) a refined quality of gracefulness and good taste | - |
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(noun) a quality of neatness and ingenious simplicity in the solution of a problem (especially in science or mathematics) | - |
eloquence | (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: fluency, smoothness |
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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 |
eminence | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: tubercle, tuberosity |
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(noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, note, preeminence |
encephalartos | (noun) any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves | - |
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encephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) | Synonyms: cephalitis, phrenitis |
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encephalocele | (noun) protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | - |
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encephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: pneumoencephalogram |
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(noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, electroencephalogram |
encephalograph | (noun) Any apparatus used to produce an encephalogram by recording electric currents generated by the brain. | - |
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encephalography | (noun) roentgenography of the brain after spinal fluid has been replaced by a gas (usually oxygen); produces an encephalogram | - |
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encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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encephalomyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord | - |
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encephalon | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: brain |
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encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
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encumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
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(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, incumbrance, load, onus |
(noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: incumbrance |
endurance | (noun) the power to withstand hardship or stress | - |
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(noun) a state of surviving; remaining alive | Synonyms: survival |
enhancement | (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: sweetening |
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enhancer | (noun) anything that serves by contrast to call attention to another thing's good qualities | Synonyms: foil |
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entrance | (noun) the act of entering | Synonyms: entering, entry, incoming, ingress |
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(noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entranceway, entree, entry, entryway |
(noun) a movement into or inward | Synonyms: entering |
entrancement | (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: ravishment |
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entranceway | (noun) something that provides access (to get in or get out) | Synonyms: entrance, entree, entry, entryway |
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equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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(noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
(noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
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(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
(noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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(noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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(noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
(noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
exceedance | (noun) (geology) the probability that an earthquake will generate a level of ground motion that exceeds a specified reference level during a given exposure time | - |
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excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
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(noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
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(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
exorbitance | (noun) excessive excess | Synonyms: outrageousness |
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expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
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(noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
experience | (noun) the content of direct observation or participation in an event | - |
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(noun) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities | - |
(noun) an event as apprehended | - |
extravagance | (noun) the activity of excessive spending | Synonyms: high life, highlife, lavishness, prodigality |
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(noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: prodigality, profligacy |
(noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagancy |
exuberance | (noun) overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval | Synonyms: ebullience, enthusiasm |
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(noun) joyful enthusiasm | - |
faience | (noun) glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors | - |
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faineance | (noun) the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work | Synonyms: idleness |
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feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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fence | (noun) a barrier that serves to enclose an area | Synonyms: fencing |
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(noun) a dealer in stolen property | - |
fencer | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: swordsman |
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fencesitter | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: independent, mugwump |
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fiance | (noun) a man who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: groom-to-be |
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fiancee | (noun) a woman who is engaged to be married | Synonyms: bride-to-be |
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finance | (noun) the commercial activity of providing funds and capital | - |
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(noun) the management of money and credit and banking and investments | - |
(noun) the branch of economics that studies the management of money and other assets | - |
finances | (noun) assets in the form of money | Synonyms: cash in hand, funds, monetary resource, pecuniary resource |
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fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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flamboyance | (noun) extravagant elaborateness | Synonyms: floridity, floridness, showiness |
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flatulence | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: turgidity, turgidness |
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(noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulency, gas |
florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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flounce | (noun) the act of walking with exaggerated jerky motions | - |
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(noun) a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim | Synonyms: frill, furbelow, ruffle |
fluidounce | (noun) a United States unit of capacity or volume equal to 1.804 cubic inches | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
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(noun) a British imperial unit of capacity or volume (liquid or dry) equal to 8 fluid drams or 28.416 cubic centimeters (1.734 cubic inches) | Synonyms: fluid ounce |
fluorescence | (noun) light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength | - |
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forbearance | (noun) a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting | - |
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(noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: longanimity, patience |
forbiddance | (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: inhibition, prohibition |
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(noun) an official prohibition or edict against something | Synonyms: ban, banning, forbidding |
fourpence | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: groat |
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fragrance | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness |
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(noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, perfume, scent |
frankincense | (noun) an aromatic gum resin obtained from various Arabian or East African trees; formerly valued for worship and for embalming and fumigation | Synonyms: gum olibanum, olibanum, thus |
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fraudulence | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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(noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: deceit |
(noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: duplicity |
freelance | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelancer, independent, self-employed person |
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freelancer | (noun) a writer or artist who sells services to different employers without a long-term contract with any of them | Synonyms: free-lance, free lance, freelance, independent, self-employed person |
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frequence | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequency, oftenness |
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furtherance | (noun) the advancement of some enterprise | Synonyms: forwarding, promotion |
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(noun) encouragement of the progress or growth or acceptance of something | Synonyms: advancement, promotion |
geomancer | (noun) one who practices geomancy | - |
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glance | (noun) a quick look | Synonyms: coup d'oeil, glimpse |
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governance | (noun) the act of governing; exercising authority | Synonyms: administration, governing, government, government activity |
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(noun) the persons (or committees or departments etc.) who make up a body for the purpose of administering something | Synonyms: administration, brass, establishment, governing body, organisation, organization |
grandiloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
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grievance | (noun) a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action | - |
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(noun) an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice | - |
(noun) a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation | Synonyms: grudge, score |
guidance | (noun) the act of setting and holding a course | Synonyms: direction, steering |
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(noun) the act of guiding or showing the way | Synonyms: steering |
(noun) something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action | Synonyms: counsel, counseling, counselling, direction |
happenstance | (noun) an event that might have been arranged although it was really accidental | Synonyms: coincidence |
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hesitance | (noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitancy |
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hinderance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hindrance, interference |
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(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hindrance, impediment |
hindrance | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, interference |
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(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative, preventive |
(noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, deterrent, handicap, hinderance, impediment |