assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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assimilation | (noun) in the theories of Jean Piaget: the application of a general schema to a particular instance | - |
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(noun) the process of assimilating new ideas into an existing cognitive structure | Synonyms: acculturation |
(noun) a linguistic process by which a sound becomes similar to an adjacent sound | - |
(noun) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | Synonyms: absorption |
(noun) the state of being assimilated; people of different backgrounds come to see themselves as part of a larger national family | - |
assimilator | (noun) someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs | Synonyms: learner, scholar, student |
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dissimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: unsimilarity |
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dissimilation | (noun) breakdown in living organisms of more complex substances into simpler ones together with release of energy | Synonyms: catabolism, destructive metabolism, katabolism |
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(noun) a linguistic process by which one of two similar sounds in a word becomes less like the other | - |
dissimilitude | (noun) dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness | Synonyms: unlikeness |
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facsimile | (noun) duplicator that transmits the copy by wire or radio | Synonyms: facsimile machine, fax |
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(noun) an exact copy or reproduction | Synonyms: autotype |
pessimism | (noun) a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things | - |
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(noun) the feeling that things will turn out badly | - |
pessimist | (noun) a person who expects the worst | - |
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prosimian | (noun) primitive primates having large ears and eyes and characterized by nocturnal habits | - |
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simian | (noun) an ape or monkey | - |
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similarity | (noun) the quality of being similar | - |
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(noun) a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit | Synonyms: law of similarity |
simile | (noun) a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') | - |
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similitude | (noun) a duplicate copy | Synonyms: counterpart, twin |
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(noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: alikeness, likeness |
unsimilarity | (noun) the quality of being dissimilar | Synonyms: dissimilarity |
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verisimilitude | (noun) the appearance of truth; the quality of seeming to be true | - |
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