| abstention | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstinence |
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| attention | (noun) the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something | Synonyms: aid, care, tending |
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| (noun) a courteous act indicating affection | - |
| (noun) a motionless erect stance with arms at the sides and feet together; assumed by military personnel during drill or review | - |
| (noun) the process whereby a person concentrates on some features of the environment to the (relative) exclusion of others | Synonyms: attending |
| (noun) the faculty or power of mental concentration | - |
| (noun) a general interest that leads people to want to know more | - |
| attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
| (noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
| content | (noun) something (a person or object or scene) selected by an artist or photographer for graphic representation | Synonyms: depicted object, subject |
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| (noun) the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned | Synonyms: cognitive content, mental object |
| (noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: message, subject matter, substance |
| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: contents |
| (noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: capacity |
| (noun) the proportion of a substance that is contained in a mixture or alloy etc. | - |
| (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: contentedness |
| contentedness | (noun) the state of being contented with your situation in life | Synonyms: content |
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| contention | (noun) the act of competing as for profit or a prize | Synonyms: competition, rivalry |
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| (noun) a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement | Synonyms: arguing, argument, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt |
| (noun) a point asserted as part of an argument | - |
| contentiousness | (noun) an inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious | Synonyms: quarrelsomeness |
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| contentment | (noun) happiness with one's situation in life | - |
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| contents | (noun) a list of divisions (chapters or articles) and the pages on which they start | Synonyms: table of contents |
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| (noun) (usually plural) everything that is included in a collection and that is held or included in something | Synonyms: content |
| detent | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, dog, pawl |
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| detente | (noun) the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) | - |
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| detention | (noun) a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home | - |
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| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, hold |
| discontent | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontentedness, discontentment |
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| discontentedness | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentment |
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| discontentment | (noun) a longing for something better than the present situation | Synonyms: discontent, discontentedness |
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| distention | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distension |
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| (noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distension |
| entente | (noun) a friendly understanding between political powers | Synonyms: entente cordiale |
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| (noun) an informal alliance between countries | Synonyms: entente cordiale |
| existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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| existentialist | (noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
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| extent | (noun) the distance or area or volume over which something extends | - |
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| (noun) the point or degree to which something extends | - |
| inattention | (noun) lack of attention | - |
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| inattentiveness | (noun) the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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| (noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heedlessness |
| incompetent | (noun) someone who is not competent to take effective action | Synonyms: incompetent person |
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| intent | (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intention, purpose |
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| (noun) the intended meaning of a communication | Synonyms: purport, spirit |
| intention | (noun) an act of intending; a volition that you intend to carry out | - |
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| (noun) an anticipated outcome that is intended or that guides your planned actions | Synonyms: aim, design, intent, purpose |
| (noun) (usually plural) the goal with respect to a marriage proposal | - |
| intentionality | (noun) expressive of intentions | - |
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| intentness | (noun) the quality of being intent and concentrated | Synonyms: engrossment |
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| malcontent | (noun) a person who is discontented or disgusted | - |
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| obtention | (noun) the act of obtaining | Synonyms: obtainment |
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| ostentation | (noun) pretentious or showy or vulgar display | - |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| (noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: fanfare, flash |
| ostentatiousness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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| patent | (noun) an official document granting a right or privilege | Synonyms: letters patent |
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| (noun) a document granting an inventor sole rights to an invention | Synonyms: patent of invention |
| patentee | (noun) the inventor to whom a patent is issued | - |
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| penitent | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a person who repents for wrongdoing (a Roman Catholic may be admitted to penance under the direction of a confessor) | - |
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| penitentiary | (noun) a correctional institution for those convicted of major crimes | Synonyms: pen |
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| plenipotentiary | (noun) a diplomat who is fully authorized to represent his or her government | - |
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| portent | (noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, presage, prodigy, prognostic, prognostication |
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| potentate | (noun) a ruler who is unconstrained by law | Synonyms: dictator |
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| potential | (noun) the difference in electrical charge between two points in a circuit expressed in volts | Synonyms: electric potential, potential difference, potential drop, voltage |
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| (noun) the inherent capacity for coming into being | Synonyms: potency, potentiality |
| potentiality | (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, capableness |
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| (noun) the inherent capacity for coming into being | Synonyms: potency, potential |
| potentiation | (noun) (medicine) the synergistic effect of two drugs given simultaneously | - |
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| potentiometer | (noun) a resistor with three terminals, the third being an adjustable center terminal; used to adjust voltages in radios and TV sets | Synonyms: pot |
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| (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring direct current electromotive forces | - |
| pretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretension |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| retention | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, keeping |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retentiveness, retentivity |
| retentiveness | (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentivity |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentivity |
| retentivity | (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness |
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| (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentiveness |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentiveness |
| stent | (noun) a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
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| stentor | (noun) any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor | - |
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| (noun) a speaker with an unusually loud voice | - |
| sustentation | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, upkeep |
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| tent | (noun) a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs) | Synonyms: collapsible shelter |
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| (noun) a web that resembles a tent or carpet | - |
| tentacle | (noun) any of various elongated tactile or prehensile flexible organs that occur on the head or near the mouth in many animals; used for feeling or grasping or locomotion | - |
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| (noun) something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp and hold | - |
| tenter | (noun) a framework with hooks used for stretching and drying cloth | - |
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| tenterhook | (noun) one of a series of hooks used to hold cloth on a tenter | - |
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| tenth | (noun) a tenth part; one part in ten equal parts | Synonyms: one-tenth, ten percent, tenth part |
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| (noun) position ten in a countable series of things | - |
| tenting | (noun) the act of encamping and living in tents in a camp | Synonyms: bivouacking, camping, encampment |
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| tentmaker | (noun) someone who makes or repairs tents | - |
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| tentorium | (noun) (anatomy) a fold of dura mater that covers the cerebellum and supports the occipital lobes of the cerebrum | - |
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| unpretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being natural and without pretensions | - |
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