| literature | (noun) the profession or art of a writer | - |
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| (noun) the humanistic study of a body of literature | Synonyms: lit |
| (noun) creative writing of recognized artistic value | - |
| (noun) published writings in a particular style on a particular subject | - |
| liturgics | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgiology |
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| liturgiology | (noun) the study of liturgies | Synonyms: liturgics |
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| liturgist | (noun) an authority on liturgies | - |
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| liturgy | (noun) a rite or body of rites prescribed for public worship | - |
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| longitude | (noun) the angular distance between a point on any meridian and the prime meridian at Greenwich | - |
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| lotus | (noun) white Egyptian lotus: water lily of Egypt to southeastern Africa; held sacred by the Egyptians | Synonyms: Egyptian water lily, Nymphaea lotus, white lily, white lotus |
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| (noun) native to eastern Asia; widely cultivated for its large pink or white flowers | Synonyms: Indian lotus, Nelumbo nucifera, sacred lotus |
| lotusland | (noun) an idyllic realm of contentment and self-indulgence | Synonyms: lotus land |
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| macrotus | (noun) large-eared greyish bat of southern California and northwestern Mexico | Synonyms: Macrotus californicus |
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| magistrature | (noun) the position of magistrate | Synonyms: magistracy |
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| magnitude | (noun) the property of relative size or extent (whether large or small) | - |
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| (noun) relative importance | - |
| (noun) a number assigned to the ratio of two quantities; two quantities are of the same order of magnitude if one is less than 10 times as large as the other; the number of magnitudes that the quantities differ is specified to within a power of 10 | Synonyms: order of magnitude |
| mantua | (noun) loose gown of the 17th and 18th centuries | - |
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| manufacture | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: industry |
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| (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacturing |
| manufacturer | (noun) a business engaged in manufacturing some product | Synonyms: maker, manufacturing business |
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| (noun) someone who manufactures something | Synonyms: producer |
| manufacturing | (noun) the act of making something (a product) from raw materials | Synonyms: fabrication, manufacture |
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| masturbation | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure | Synonyms: onanism |
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| masturbator | (noun) a person who practices masturbation | Synonyms: onanist |
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| maturation | (noun) (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level | Synonyms: development, growing, growth, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
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| (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturement, ripening |
| (noun) (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus | Synonyms: festering, suppuration |
| maturement | (noun) coming to full development; becoming mature | Synonyms: maturation, ripening |
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| matureness | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: maturity |
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| maturity | (noun) state of being mature; full development | Synonyms: matureness |
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| (noun) the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed | Synonyms: adulthood |
| (noun) the date on which an obligation must be repaid | Synonyms: due date, maturity date |
| meatus | (noun) a natural body passageway | - |
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| melilotus | (noun) erect annual or biennial plant grown extensively especially for hay and soil improvement | Synonyms: melilot, sweet clover |
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| mentum | (noun) a projection below the mouth of certain mollusks that resembles a chin | - |
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| (noun) the protruding part of the lower jaw | Synonyms: chin |
| (noun) a projection like a chin formed by the sepals and base of the column in some orchids | - |
| microtubule | (noun) a microscopically small tubule | - |
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| micturition | (noun) the discharge of urine | Synonyms: urination |
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| miniature | (noun) a copy that reproduces a person or thing in greatly reduced size | Synonyms: toy |
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| (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: illumination |
| miniaturisation | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturization |
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| miniaturist | (noun) someone who paints tiny pictures in great detail | - |
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| miniaturization | (noun) act of making on a greatly reduced scale | Synonyms: miniaturisation |
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| misadventure | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: mischance, mishap |
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| misfortune | (noun) unnecessary and unforeseen trouble resulting from an unfortunate event | Synonyms: bad luck |
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| (noun) an unfortunate state resulting from unfavorable outcomes | Synonyms: bad luck, ill luck, tough luck |
| mixture | (noun) the act of mixing together | Synonyms: admixture, commixture, intermixture, mix, mixing |
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| (noun) an event that combines things in a mixture | Synonyms: mix |
| (noun) any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients | Synonyms: concoction, intermixture |
| (noun) a collection containing a variety of sorts of things | Synonyms: assortment, miscellanea, miscellany, mixed bag, motley, potpourri, salmagundi, smorgasbord, variety |
| (noun) (chemistry) a substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding) | - |
| moisture | (noun) wetness caused by water | Synonyms: wet |
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| momentum | (noun) an impelling force or strength | Synonyms: impulse |
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| (noun) the product of a body's mass and its velocity | - |
| monoculture | (noun) the cultivation of a single crop (on a farm or area or country) | - |
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| mortuary | (noun) a building (or room) where dead bodies are kept before burial or cremation | Synonyms: dead room, morgue |
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| multiculturalism | (noun) the doctrine that several different cultures (rather than one national culture) can coexist peacefully and equitably in a single country | - |
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| multitude | (noun) a large gathering of people | Synonyms: concourse, throng |
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| (noun) the common people generally | Synonyms: hoi polloi, mass, masses, people, the great unwashed |
| (noun) a large indefinite quantity | Synonyms: battalion, large number, pack, plurality |
| multitudinousness | (noun) a very large number (especially of people) | - |
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| musculature | (noun) the muscular system of an organism | Synonyms: muscle system, muscular structure |
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| mutualism | (noun) the relation between two different species of organisms that are interdependent; each gains benefits from the other | Synonyms: symbiosis |
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| mutuality | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, interdependency |
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| (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutualness |
| mutualness | (noun) a reciprocality of sentiments | Synonyms: mutuality |
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| nanotube | (noun) a fullerene molecule having a cylindrical or toroidal shape | Synonyms: carbon nanotube |
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| nasturtium | (noun) flowers and seeds and leaves all used as flavorings | - |
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| (noun) any tropical American plant of the genus Tropaeolum having pungent juice and long-spurred yellow to red flowers | - |
| natural | (noun) (craps) a first roll of 7 or 11 that immediately wins the stake | - |
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| (noun) a notation cancelling a previous sharp or flat | Synonyms: cancel |
| (noun) someone regarded as certain to succeed | - |
| naturalisation | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalization |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalization |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalization |
| naturalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations | - |
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| (noun) an artistic movement in 19th century France; artists and writers strove for detailed realistic and factual description | Synonyms: realism |
| naturalist | (noun) a biologist knowledgeable about natural history (especially botany and zoology) | Synonyms: natural scientist |
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| (noun) an advocate of the doctrine that the world can be understood in scientific terms | - |
| naturalization | (noun) the proceeding whereby a foreigner is granted citizenship | Synonyms: naturalisation |
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| (noun) changing the pronunciation of a borrowed word to agree with the borrowers' phonology | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the introduction of animals or plants to places where they flourish but are not indigenous | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| (noun) the quality of being brought into conformity with nature | Synonyms: naturalisation |
| naturalness | (noun) the quality of being natural or based on natural principles | - |
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| (noun) the likeness of a representation to the thing represented | - |
| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, innocence |
| nature | (noun) the complex of emotional and intellectual attributes that determine a person's characteristic actions and reactions | - |
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| (noun) the essential qualities or characteristics by which something is recognized | - |
| (noun) a particular type of thing | - |
| (noun) the natural physical world including plants and animals and landscapes etc. | - |
| (noun) a causal agent creating and controlling things in the universe | - |
| naturism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: nudism |
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| naturist | (noun) a person who practices nudity for reasons of health or religion | Synonyms: nudist |
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| naturopath | (noun) a therapist who practices naturopathy | - |
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| naturopathy | (noun) a method of treating disease using food and exercise and heat to assist the natural healing process | - |
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| neptunium | (noun) a radioactive transuranic metallic element; found in trace amounts in uranium ores; a by-product of the production of plutonium | Synonyms: atomic number 93, Np |
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| noctuid | (noun) usually dull-colored medium-sized nocturnal moth; the usually smooth-bodied larvae are destructive agricultural pests | Synonyms: noctuid moth, owlet moth |
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| nocturia | (noun) excessive urination at night; especially common in older men | Synonyms: nycturia |
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| nocturne | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: notturno |
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| nomenclature | (noun) a system of words used to name things in a particular discipline | Synonyms: language, terminology |
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| nomenklatura | (noun) the system of patronage in communist countries; controlled by committees in the Communist Party | - |
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| notturno | (noun) a pensive lyrical piece of music (especially for the piano) | Synonyms: nocturne |
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| nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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| nurture | (noun) helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community | Synonyms: breeding, bringing up, fosterage, fostering, raising, rearing, upbringing |
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| (noun) the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child | Synonyms: raising, rearing |
| nycturia | (noun) excessive urination at night; especially common in older men | Synonyms: nocturia |
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| obituary | (noun) a notice of someone's death; usually includes a short biography | Synonyms: necrology, obit |
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| obturator | (noun) a prosthesis used to close an opening (as to close an opening of the hard palate in cases of cleft palate) | - |
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| obtuseness | (noun) the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being slow to understand | Synonyms: dullness |
| omentum | (noun) a fold of peritoneum supporting the viscera | - |
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| opportuneness | (noun) timely convenience | Synonyms: patness, timeliness |
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| opportunism | (noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: expedience, self-interest, self-seeking |
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| opportunist | (noun) a person who places expediency above principle | Synonyms: self-seeker |
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| opportunity | (noun) a possibility due to a favorable combination of circumstances | Synonyms: chance |
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| orthodonture | (noun) the branch of dentistry dealing with the prevention or correction of irregularities of the teeth | Synonyms: dental orthopaedics, dental orthopedics, orthodontia, orthodontics |
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| outturn | (noun) what is produced in a given time period | Synonyms: output, turnout |
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| overture | (noun) a tentative suggestion designed to elicit the reactions of others | Synonyms: advance, approach, feeler |
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| (noun) orchestral music played at the beginning of an opera or oratorio | - |
| (noun) something that serves as a preceding event or introduces what follows | Synonyms: preliminary, prelude |
| overturn | (noun) the act of upsetting something | Synonyms: turnover, upset |
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| (noun) an improbable and unexpected victory | Synonyms: upset |
| paleostriatum | (noun) the inner pale yellow part of the lenticular nucleus | Synonyms: globus pallidus, pallidum |
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| palmature | (noun) an abnormality in which the fingers are webbed | - |
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| parimutuel | (noun) betting where winners share the total amount wagered | - |
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| parturiency | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail |
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| parturition | (noun) the process of giving birth | Synonyms: birth, birthing, giving birth |
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| pasturage | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasture |
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| (noun) succulent herbaceous vegetation of pastureland | Synonyms: herbage |
| pasture | (noun) bulky food like grass or hay for browsing or grazing horses or cattle | Synonyms: eatage, forage, grass, pasturage |
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| (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture land, pastureland |
| pastureland | (noun) a field covered with grass or herbage and suitable for grazing by livestock | Synonyms: grazing land, lea, ley, pasture, pasture land |
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| pectus | (noun) the part of the human torso between the neck and the diaphragm or the corresponding part in other vertebrates | Synonyms: chest, thorax |
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| peradventure | (noun) doubt or uncertainty as to whether something is the case | - |
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| perceptuality | (noun) The quality of being related to the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information. | - |
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| peripatus | (noun) any of numerous velvety-skinned wormlike carnivorous animals common in tropical forests having characteristics of both arthropods and annelid worms | Synonyms: onychophoran, velvet worm |
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| perpetuation | (noun) the act of prolonging something | Synonyms: lengthening, prolongation, protraction |
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| perpetuity | (noun) the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) | Synonyms: sempiternity |
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| perturbation | (noun) the act of causing disorder | Synonyms: disruption |
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| (noun) a disposition that is confused or nervous and upset | Synonyms: fluster |
| (noun) activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption | Synonyms: disturbance |
| (noun) (physics) a secondary influence on a system that causes it to deviate slightly | - |
| (noun) an unhappy and worried mental state | Synonyms: disturbance, upset |
| pertussis | (noun) a disease of the respiratory mucous membrane | Synonyms: whooping cough |
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| petrolatum | (noun) a semisolid mixture of hydrocarbons obtained from petroleum; used in medicinal ointments and for lubrication | Synonyms: mineral jelly, petroleum jelly |
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| petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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| petunia | (noun) any of numerous tropical herbs having fluted funnel-shaped flowers | - |
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| picture | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, image |
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| (noun) graphic art consisting of an artistic composition made by applying paints to a surface | Synonyms: painting |
| (noun) a representation of a person or scene in the form of a print or transparent slide or in digital format | Synonyms: exposure, photo, photograph, pic |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: impression, mental picture |
| (noun) a typical example of some state or quality | - |
| (noun) illustrations used to decorate or explain a text | Synonyms: pictorial matter |
| (noun) the visible part of a television transmission | Synonyms: video |
| (noun) a form of entertainment that enacts a story by sound and a sequence of images giving the illusion of continuous movement | Synonyms: film, flick, motion-picture show, motion picture, movie, moving-picture show, moving picture, pic, picture show |
| (noun) a graphic or vivid verbal description | Synonyms: characterisation, characterization, delineation, depiction, word-painting, word picture |
| (noun) a situation treated as an observable object | Synonyms: scene |
| picturesqueness | (noun) visually vivid and pleasing | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being strikingly expressive or vivid | - |