hydromancer | (noun) one who practices hydromancy | - |
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hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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ignorance | (noun) the lack of knowledge or education | - |
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illuminance | (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illumination |
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imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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(noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
immanence | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanency |
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imminence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
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(noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
(noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
impedance | (noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, ohmic resistance, resistance, resistivity |
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impendence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendency |
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impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
importance | (noun) the quality of being important and worthy of note | - |
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(noun) a prominent status | Synonyms: grandness |
impotence | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotency, powerlessness |
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(noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotency |
improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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imprudence | (noun) a lack of caution in practical affairs | - |
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impudence | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, insolence |
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(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impertinence |
impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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inadvertence | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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(noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: oversight |
incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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(noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
incendiarism | (noun) malicious burning to destroy property | Synonyms: arson, fire-raising |
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incendiary | (noun) a bomb that is designed to start fires; is most effective against flammable targets (such as fuel) | Synonyms: firebomb, incendiary bomb |
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(noun) a criminal who illegally sets fire to property | Synonyms: arsonist, firebug |
incense | (noun) the pleasing scent produced when incense is burned | - |
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(noun) a substance that produces a fragrant odor when burned | - |
incentive | (noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: inducement, motivator |
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(noun) an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output | Synonyms: bonus |
inception | (noun) an event that is a beginning; a first part or stage of subsequent events | Synonyms: origin, origination |
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incertitude | (noun) the state of being unsure of something | Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty |
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incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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incessantness | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessancy |
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incest | (noun) sexual intercourse between persons too closely related to marry (as between a parent and a child) | - |
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incidence | (noun) the striking of a light beam on a surface | - |
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(noun) the relative frequency of occurrence of something | Synonyms: relative incidence |
incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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incognizance | (noun) a lack of knowledge or recognition | - |
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incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
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(noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
inconceivability | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivableness |
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inconceivableness | (noun) the state of being impossible to conceive | Synonyms: inconceivability |
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inconsequence | (noun) having no important effects or influence | - |
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(noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness |
incontinence | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: dissoluteness, self-gratification |
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(noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinency |
inconvenience | (noun) the quality of not being useful or convenient | - |
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(noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: troublesomeness, worriment |
(noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: incommodiousness |
incumbrance | (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, interference, preventative, preventive |
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(noun) an onerous or difficult concern | Synonyms: burden, encumbrance, load, onus |
(noun) a charge against property (as a lien or mortgage) | Synonyms: encumbrance |
incurrence | (noun) the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) | - |
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independence | (noun) the successful ending of the American Revolution | - |
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(noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independency |
indifference | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, numbness, spiritlessness |
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(noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: nonchalance, unconcern |
(noun) unbiased impartial unconcern | - |
(noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
indigence | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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indolence | (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: laziness |
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inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |
indulgence | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulging, pampering |
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(noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, lunacy, tomfoolery |
(noun) the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution | - |
(noun) an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires | Synonyms: self-indulgence |
(noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: lenience, leniency |
inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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inference | (noun) the reasoning involved in drawing a conclusion or making a logical judgment on the basis of circumstantial evidence and prior conclusions rather than on the basis of direct observation | Synonyms: illation |
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inflorescence | (noun) the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk | - |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
influence | (noun) causing something without any direct or apparent effort | - |
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(noun) a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc | - |
(noun) a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do | - |
(noun) one having power to influence another | - |
(noun) the effect of one thing (or person) on another | - |
influencer | (noun) a person who has a large following on one or more social media platform that works to generate interest in contemporary social issues and/or advertise consumer products | - |
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infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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(noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
(noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
(noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
innocence | (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness |
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(noun) a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense | - |
(noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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insignificance | (noun) the quality of having little or no significance | - |
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insincerity | (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: falseness, hollowness |
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insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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(noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
insouciance | (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: carefreeness, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
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instance | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, representative |
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(noun) an occurrence of something | Synonyms: case, example |
insurance | (noun) written contract or certificate of insurance | Synonyms: insurance policy, policy |
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(noun) promise of reimbursement in the case of loss; paid to people or companies so concerned about hazards that they have made prepayments to an insurance company | - |
(noun) protection against future loss | Synonyms: indemnity |
insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
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intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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(noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
(noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
(noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
(noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
intemperance | (noun) excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence | Synonyms: intemperateness, self-indulgence |
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(noun) consumption of alcoholic drinks | Synonyms: intemperateness |
(noun) the quality of being intemperate | - |
interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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interference | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance |
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(noun) (American football) blocking a player's path with your body | - |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, preventative, preventive |
(noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: intervention |
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, noise |
intermittence | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittency |
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intolerance | (noun) impatience with annoyances | - |
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(noun) unwillingness to recognize and respect differences in opinions or beliefs | - |
intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
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(noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
invariance | (noun) the quality of being resistant to variation | Synonyms: invariability, invariableness |
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(noun) the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it | - |
iridescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: opalescence |
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irrelevance | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevancy |
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irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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(noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
issuance | (noun) the act of providing an item for general use or for official purposes (usually in quantity) | Synonyms: issue, issuing |
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jounce | (noun) a sudden jarring impact | Synonyms: jar, jolt, shock |
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jubilance | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilancy, jubilation |
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jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
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(noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |
juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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lance | (noun) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon | Synonyms: shaft, spear |
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(noun) an implement with a shaft and barbed point used for catching fish | Synonyms: fishgig, fizgig, gig, spear |
(noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lancet |
lancelet | (noun) small translucent lancet-shaped burrowing marine animal; primitive forerunner of the vertebrates | Synonyms: amphioxus |
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lancer | (noun) (formerly) a cavalryman armed with a lance | - |
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lancers | (noun) a quadrille for 8 or 16 couples | - |
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lancet | (noun) a surgical knife with a pointed double-edged blade; used for punctures and small incisions | Synonyms: lance |
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(noun) an acutely pointed Gothic arch, like a lance | Synonyms: lancet arch |
lancetfish | (noun) large elongate scaleless oceanic fishes with sharp teeth and a long dorsal fin that resembles a sail | Synonyms: lancet fish, wolffish |
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lancewood | (noun) source of most of the lancewood of commerce | Synonyms: lancewood tree, Oxandra lanceolata |
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(noun) durable straight-grained wood of the lacewood tree; used for building and cabinetwork and tools | - |
launce | (noun) very small silvery eellike schooling fishes that burrow into sandy beaches | Synonyms: sand eel, sand lance, sand launce |
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lenience | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: leniency |
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(noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: leniency, lenity, mildness |
(noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, leniency |
leukoencephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the white matter of the brain | - |
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licence | (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: license, permit |
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(noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: license |
(noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: license |
lithomancer | (noun) one who practices lithomancy | - |
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