acquiescence | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: assent |
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(noun) acceptance without protest | - |
adolescence | (noun) in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood | - |
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(noun) the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood | - |
adolescent | (noun) a juvenile between the onset of puberty and maturity | Synonyms: stripling, teen, teenager |
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ascendance | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendancy, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendant | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendent, root |
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(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendent |
ascendence | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendency, control, dominance |
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ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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ascendent | (noun) someone from whom you are descended (but usually more remote than a grandparent) | Synonyms: ancestor, antecedent, ascendant, root |
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(noun) position or state of being dominant or in control | Synonyms: ascendant |
ascender | (noun) (printing) the part of tall lowercase letters that extends above the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending above other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who ascends | - |
ascending | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascension, ascent, rise |
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ascension | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascent, rise |
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(noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascent, rise, rising |
(noun) (astronomy) the rising of a star above the horizon | - |
ascent | (noun) the act of changing location in an upward direction | Synonyms: ascending, ascension, rise |
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(noun) a movement upward; rise above the ground | Synonyms: ascension, rise, rising |
(noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: acclivity, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
autofluorescence | (noun) self-induced fluorescence | - |
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bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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coalescence | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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cognoscente | (noun) an expert able to appreciate a field; especially in the fine arts | Synonyms: connoisseur |
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concupiscence | (noun) a desire for sexual intimacy | Synonyms: eros, physical attraction, sexual desire |
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condescendingness | (noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescension |
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condescension | (noun) the trait of displaying arrogance by patronizing those considered inferior | Synonyms: disdainfulness, superciliousness |
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(noun) affability to your inferiors and temporary disregard for differences of position or rank | Synonyms: condescendingness |
(noun) a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient | Synonyms: disdain, patronage |
convalescence | (noun) gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury | Synonyms: recovery, recuperation |
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convalescent | (noun) a person who is recovering from illness | - |
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crescendo | (noun) (music) a gradual increase in loudness | - |
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crescent | (noun) any shape resembling the curved shape of the moon in its first or last quarters | - |
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damascene | (noun) a design produced by inlaying gold or silver into steel | - |
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decalescence | (noun) phenomenon that occurs when a metal is being heated and there is a sudden slowing in the rate of temperature increase; slowing is caused by a change in the internal crystal structure of the metal | - |
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decrescendo | (noun) (music) a gradual decrease in loudness | Synonyms: diminuendo |
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defervescence | (noun) abatement of a fever as indicated by a reduction in body temperature | - |
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dehiscence | (noun) (biology) release of material by splitting open of an organ or tissue; the natural bursting open at maturity of a fruit or other reproductive body to release seeds or spores or the bursting open of a surgically closed wound | - |
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descendant | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendent |
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descendants | (noun) all of the offspring of a given progenitor | Synonyms: posterity |
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descendent | (noun) a person considered as descended from some ancestor | Synonyms: descendant |
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descender | (noun) (printing) the part of lowercase letters that extends below the other lowercase letters | - |
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(noun) a lowercase letter that has a part extending below other lowercase letters | - |
(noun) someone who descends | - |
descensus | (noun) the slipping or falling out of place of an organ (as the uterus) | Synonyms: prolapse, prolapsus |
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descent | (noun) the act of changing your location in a downward direction | - |
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(noun) properties attributable to your ancestry | Synonyms: extraction, origin |
(noun) a movement downward | - |
(noun) the hereditary derivation of an individual | Synonyms: ancestry, blood, blood line, bloodline, line, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, pedigree, stemma, stock |
(noun) a downward slope or bend | Synonyms: declension, declination, decline, declivity, downslope, fall |
(noun) the kinship relation between an individual and the individual's progenitors | Synonyms: filiation, line of descent, lineage |
detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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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 |
evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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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 |
florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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fluorescence | (noun) light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength | - |
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fluorescent | (noun) a lighting fixture that uses a fluorescent lamp | Synonyms: fluorescent fixture |
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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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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 |
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 |
infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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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 |
intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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(noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |
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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juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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luminescence | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: glow |
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(noun) light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures | - |
nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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obscenity | (noun) an obscene act | - |
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(noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: bawdiness, lewdness, salaciousness, salacity |
(noun) an offensive or indecent word or phrase | Synonyms: dirty word, filth, smut, vulgarism |
obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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opalescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: iridescence |
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phosphorescence | (noun) a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased | - |
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proscenium | (noun) the wall that separates the stage from the auditorium in a modern theater | Synonyms: proscenium wall |
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(noun) the part of a modern theater stage between the curtain and the orchestra (i.e., in front of the curtain) | Synonyms: apron, forestage |
pubescence | (noun) the time of life when sex glands become functional | Synonyms: puberty |
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putrescence | (noun) the quality of rotting and becoming putrid | Synonyms: rottenness |
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(noun) in a state of progressive putrefaction | Synonyms: corruption, putridness, rottenness |
quiescence | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency, sleeping |
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(noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescency |
quiescency | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, sleeping |
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(noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence |
recrudescence | (noun) a return of something after a period of abatement | - |
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rejuvenescence | (noun) A renewal of youthful characteristics or vitality. | - |
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reminiscence | (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, recollection |
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(noun) a mental impression retained and recalled from the past | - |
renascence | (noun) a second or new birth | Synonyms: rebirth, reincarnation |
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scenario | (noun) an outline or synopsis of a play (or, by extension, of a literary work) | - |
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(noun) a postulated sequence of possible events | - |
(noun) a setting for a work of art or literature | - |
scenarist | (noun) a writer of screenplays | - |
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scene | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scenery |
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(noun) graphic art consisting of the graphic or photographic representation of a visual percept | Synonyms: view |
(noun) the visual percept of a region | Synonyms: aspect, panorama, prospect, view, vista |
(noun) a subdivision of an act of a play or performance | - |
(noun) a consecutive series of pictures that constitutes a unit of action in a film | Synonyms: shot |
(noun) an incident (real or imaginary) | - |
(noun) the place where some action occurs | - |
(noun) the context and environment in which something is set | Synonyms: setting |
(noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: picture |
(noun) a display of bad temper | Synonyms: conniption, fit, tantrum |
scenery | (noun) the painted structures of a stage set that are intended to suggest a particular locale | Synonyms: scene |
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(noun) the appearance of a place | - |
sceneshifter | (noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery | Synonyms: shifter |
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scent | (noun) any property detected by the olfactory system | Synonyms: aroma, odor, odour, olfactory property, smell |
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(noun) an odor left in passing by which a person or animal can be traced | - |
(noun) a distinctive odor that is pleasant | Synonyms: aroma, fragrance, perfume |
senescence | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: agedness |
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(noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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(noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
transcendency | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendence |
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(noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendence |
transcendentalism | (noun) any system of philosophy emphasizing the intuitive and spiritual above the empirical and material | Synonyms: transcendental philosophy |
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transcendentalist | (noun) advocate of transcendentalism | - |
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tumescence | (noun) tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues | - |
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