abhorrence | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abomination, detestation, execration, loathing, odium |
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adherence | (noun) faithful support for a cause or political party or religion | Synonyms: adhesion, attachment |
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(noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adhesion, adhesiveness, bond |
adherent | (noun) someone who believes and helps to spread the doctrine of another | Synonyms: disciple |
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adrenal | (noun) either of a pair of complex endocrine glands situated near the kidney | Synonyms: adrenal gland, suprarenal gland |
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adrenalectomy | (noun) surgical removal of one or both adrenal glands | Synonyms: suprarenalectomy |
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adrenaline | (noun) a catecholamine secreted by the adrenal medulla in response to stress (trade name Adrenalin); stimulates autonomic nerve action | Synonyms: Adrenalin, epinephrin, epinephrine |
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adrenarche | (noun) the increase in activity of the adrenal glands just before puberty | - |
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adrenergic | (noun) drug that has the effects of epinephrine | Synonyms: adrenergic drug |
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adrenocorticotrophin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotropic hormone, adrenocorticotropin, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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adrenocorticotropin | (noun) a hormone produced by the anterior pituitary gland that stimulates the adrenal cortex | Synonyms: ACTH, adrenocorticotrophic hormone, adrenocorticotrophin, adrenocorticotropic hormone, corticotrophin, corticotropin |
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adrenosterone | (noun) a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland | - |
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afferent | (noun) a nerve that passes impulses from receptors toward or to the central nervous system | Synonyms: afferent nerve, sensory nerve |
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andrena | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrenid, mining bee |
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andrenid | (noun) a bee that is a member of the genus Andrena | Synonyms: andrena, mining bee |
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apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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apprentice | (noun) works for an expert to learn a trade | Synonyms: learner, prentice |
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apprenticeship | (noun) the position of apprentice | - |
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arena | (noun) a playing field where sports events take place | Synonyms: scene of action |
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(noun) a large structure for open-air sports or entertainments | Synonyms: bowl, sports stadium, stadium |
(noun) the central area of an ancient Roman amphitheater where contests and spectacles were held; especially an area that was strewn with sand | - |
(noun) a particular environment or walk of life | Synonyms: area, domain, field, orbit, sphere |
arenavirus | (noun) animal viruses belonging to the family Arenaviridae | - |
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austereness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
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awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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(noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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(noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
(noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
barren | (noun) an uninhabited wilderness that is worthless for cultivation | Synonyms: waste, wasteland |
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barrenness | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: aridity, fruitlessness |
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(noun) the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children | - |
barrenwort | (noun) slow-growing creeping plant with semi-evergreen leaves on erect wiry stems; used as ground cover | Synonyms: bishop's hat, Epimedium grandiflorum |
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belligerence | (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: aggressiveness, pugnacity |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerency |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
belligerent | (noun) someone who fights (or is fighting) | Synonyms: battler, combatant, fighter, scrapper |
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bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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brent | (noun) small dark geese that breed in the north and migrate southward | Synonyms: brant, brant goose, brent goose |
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brethren | (noun) (plural) the lay members of a male religious order | - |
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buckminsterfullerene | (noun) a spheroidal fullerene; the first known example of a fullerene | Synonyms: buckyball |
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chlorenchyma | (noun) parenchyma whose cells contain chloroplasts | - |
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chloroprene | (noun) derivative of butadiene used in making neoprene by polymerization | - |
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circumference | (noun) the size of something as given by the distance around it | Synonyms: perimeter |
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(noun) the length of the closed curve of a circle | - |
(noun) the boundary line encompassing an area or object | Synonyms: circuit |
clarence | (noun) a closed carriage with four wheels and seats for four passengers | - |
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cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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coherence | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherency |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness |
coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
concurrence | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrency |
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(noun) the temporal property of two things happening at the same time | Synonyms: co-occurrence, coincidence, conjunction |
(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrency |
(noun) a state of cooperation | Synonyms: meeting of minds |
concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
conference | (noun) a discussion among participants who have an agreed (serious) topic | Synonyms: group discussion |
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(noun) a prearranged meeting for consultation or exchange of information or discussion (especially one with a formal agenda) | - |
(noun) an association of sports teams that organizes matches for its members | Synonyms: league |
coreference | (noun) the grammatical relation between two words that have a common referent | - |
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countercurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: crosscurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: crosscurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
countertransference | (noun) the psychoanalyst's displacement of emotion onto the patient or more generally the psychoanalyst's emotional involvement in the therapeutic interaction | - |
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crenation | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenature, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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crenature | (noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenel, crenelle, scallop |
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crenel | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenelle |
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(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenelle, scallop |
crenelation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenellation |
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(noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenellation |
crenellation | (noun) the action of constructing ramparts with gaps for firing guns or arrows | Synonyms: crenelation |
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(noun) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns | Synonyms: battlement, crenelation |
crenelle | (noun) a notch or open space between two merlons in a crenelated battlement | Synonyms: crenel |
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(noun) one of a series of rounded projections (or the notches between them) formed by curves along an edge (as the edge of a leaf or piece of cloth or the margin of a shell or a shriveled red blood cell observed in a hypertonic solution etc.) | Synonyms: crenation, crenature, crenel, scallop |
crosscurrent | (noun) actions counter to the main group activity | Synonyms: countercurrent |
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(noun) a stretch of turbulent water in a river or the sea caused by one current flowing into or across another current | Synonyms: countercurrent, rip, riptide, tide rip |
cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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currency | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currentness, up-to-dateness |
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(noun) general acceptance or use | - |
(noun) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used | - |
current | (noun) a steady flow of a fluid (usually from natural causes) | Synonyms: stream |
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(noun) dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas | Synonyms: flow, stream |
(noun) a flow of electricity through a conductor | Synonyms: electric current |
currentness | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currency, up-to-dateness |
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dedifferentiation | (noun) the loss of specialization in form or function | - |
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deference | (noun) a courteous expression (by word or deed) of esteem or regard | Synonyms: respect |
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(noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness |
(noun) courteous regard for people's feelings | Synonyms: respect, respectfulness |
demureness | (noun) the trait of behaving with reserve and decorum | - |
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(noun) the affectation of being demure in a provocative way | Synonyms: coyness |
deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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(noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
(noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
deterrent | (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
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difference | (noun) the quality of being unlike or dissimilar | - |
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(noun) a disagreement or argument about something important | Synonyms: conflict, difference of opinion, dispute |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, deviation, divergence |
(noun) the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend | Synonyms: remainder |
(noun) a significant change | - |
differentia | (noun) distinguishing characteristics (especially in different species of a genus) | - |
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differential | (noun) a bevel gear that permits rotation of two shafts at different speeds; used on the rear axle of automobiles to allow wheels to rotate at different speeds on curves | Synonyms: differential gear |
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(noun) a quality that differentiates between similar things | - |
(noun) the result of mathematical differentiation; the instantaneous change of one quantity relative to another; df(x)/dx | Synonyms: derivative, derived function, differential coefficient, first derivative |
differentiation | (noun) the mathematical process of obtaining the derivative of a function | - |
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(noun) a discrimination between things as different and distinct on the basis of their characteristics or attributes | Synonyms: distinction |
(noun) (biology) the structural adaptation of some body part for a particular function | Synonyms: specialisation, specialization |
differentiator | (noun) a person who (or that which) differentiates | Synonyms: discriminator |
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drenching | (noun) the act of making something completely wet | Synonyms: soaking, souse, sousing |
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efferent | (noun) a nerve that conveys impulses toward or to muscles or glands | Synonyms: efferent nerve, motor nerve |
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entireness | (noun) the state of being total and complete | Synonyms: entirety, integrality, totality |
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entrenchment | (noun) an entrenched fortification; a position protected by trenches | Synonyms: intrenchment |
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entrepreneur | (noun) someone who organizes a business venture and assumes the risk for it | Synonyms: enterpriser |
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forename | (noun) the name that precedes the surname | Synonyms: first name, given name |
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forenoon | (noun) the time period between dawn and noon | Synonyms: morn, morning, morning time |
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forensics | (noun) scientific tests or techniques used in the investigation of crimes | - |
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frenzy | (noun) state of violent mental agitation | Synonyms: craze, delirium, fury, hysteria |
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fullerene | (noun) a form of carbon having a large molecule consisting of an empty cage of sixty or more carbon atoms | - |
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gangrene | (noun) the localized death of living cells (as from infection or the interruption of blood supply) | Synonyms: mortification, necrosis, sphacelus |
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(noun) necrotic tissue; a mortified or gangrenous part or mass | Synonyms: slough, sphacelus |
gerenuk | (noun) slender East African antelope with slim neck and backward-curving horns | Synonyms: Litocranius walleri |
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godparent | (noun) a person who sponsors someone (the godchild) at baptism | - |
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grandparent | (noun) a parent of your father or mother | - |
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grenade | (noun) a small explosive bomb thrown by hand or fired from a missile | - |
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grenadier | (noun) deep-sea fish with a large head and body and long tapering tail | Synonyms: rattail, rattail fish |
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(noun) an infantryman equipped with grenades | Synonyms: grenade thrower |
grenadine | (noun) thin syrup made from pomegranate juice; used in mixed drinks | - |
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hebephrenia | (noun) a form of schizophrenia characterized by severe disintegration of personality including erratic speech and childish mannerisms and bizarre behavior; usually becomes evident during puberty; the most common diagnostic category in mental institutions | Synonyms: disorganized schizophrenia, disorganized type schizophrenia, hebephrenic schizophrenia |
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hereness | (noun) the state of being here in this place | - |
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hyperadrenalism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive ACTH resulting in greater than normal functioning of the adrenal gland; characterized by obesity | Synonyms: Cushing's disease |
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hyperadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by excessive cortisol | Synonyms: Cushing's syndrome |
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hypoadrenalism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin | Synonyms: Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, hypoadrenocorticism |
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hypoadrenocorticism | (noun) a glandular disorder caused by failure of function of the cortex of the adrenal gland and marked by anemia and prostration with brownish skin | Synonyms: Addison's disease, Addison's syndrome, hypoadrenalism |
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immatureness | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immaturity |
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impureness | (noun) the condition of being impure | Synonyms: impurity |
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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 |
incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
incurrence | (noun) the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) | - |
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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 |
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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inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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