aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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bonsai | (noun) a dwarfed ornamental tree or shrub grown in a tray or shallow pot | - |
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caravansary | (noun) an inn in some eastern countries with a large courtyard that provides accommodation for caravans | Synonyms: caravan inn, caravanserai, khan |
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chainsaw | (noun) portable power saw; teeth linked to form an endless chain | Synonyms: chain saw |
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commensal | (noun) either of two different animal or plant species living in close association but not interdependent | - |
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commensalism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms when one receives benefits from the other without damaging it | - |
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compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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(noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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(noun) a product of condensation | - |
condensation | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensing |
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(noun) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams | - |
(noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, capsule |
(noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, contraction |
(noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensate |
(noun) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | - |
consanguinity | (noun) (anthropology) the condition of being related by blood | Synonyms: blood kinship, cognation |
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dispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensableness |
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dispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you can get along without | Synonyms: dispensability |
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dispensary | (noun) clinic where medicine and medical supplies are dispensed | - |
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dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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(noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
(noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
greensand | (noun) an olive-green sandstone containing glauconite | - |
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indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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lansa | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansat, lanseh, lanset |
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lansat | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lanseh, lanset |
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mainsail | (noun) the lowermost sail on the mainmast | - |
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mansard | (noun) a hip roof having two slopes on each side | Synonyms: mansard roof |
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overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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(noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
ransacking | (noun) a thorough search for something (often causing disorder or confusion) | Synonyms: rummage |
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sensation | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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(noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
(noun) a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest | - |
(noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
(noun) a state of widespread public excitement and interest | - |
sensationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy |
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(noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensualism |
(noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: luridness |
(noun) subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes | - |
sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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transactinide | (noun) any of the artificially produced elements with atomic numbers greater than 103 | - |
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transaction | (noun) the act of transacting within or between groups (as carrying on commercial activities) | Synonyms: dealing, dealings |
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transactions | (noun) a written account of what transpired at a meeting | Synonyms: minutes, proceedings |
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transactor | (noun) someone who conducts or carries on business or negotiations | - |
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transalpine | (noun) one living on or coming from the other side of the Alps from Italy | - |
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transaminase | (noun) a class of transferases that catalyze transamination (that transfer an amino group from an amino acid to another compound) | Synonyms: aminopherase, aminotransferase |
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transamination | (noun) the process of transferring an amino group from one compound to another | - |
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(noun) the process of transposing an amino group within a chemical compound | - |
unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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unsanitariness | (noun) a state that is not conducive to health | - |
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unsatisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable | - |
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unsavoriness | (noun) extreme unpalatability to the mouth | Synonyms: disgustingness, distastefulness, nauseatingness, sickeningness |
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(noun) the property of being extremely unacceptable to the mind | Synonyms: disgustingness |