| aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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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 | - |
| 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 | - |
| lansat | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lanseh, lanset |
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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 | - |
| 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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| unsatisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable | - |
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