fence | (noun) a barrier that serves to enclose an area | Synonyms: fencing |
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(noun) a dealer in stolen property | - |
fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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flatulence | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: turgidity, turgidness |
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(noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulency, gas |
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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fourpence | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: groat |
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fraudulence | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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(noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: deceit |
(noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: duplicity |
frequence | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequency, oftenness |
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grandiloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
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hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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immanence | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanency |
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imminence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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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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impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
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(noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
(noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
impendence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendency |
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impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
impotence | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotency, powerlessness |
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(noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotency |
improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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imprudence | (noun) a lack of caution in practical affairs | - |
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impudence | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, insolence |
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(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impertinence |
inadvertence | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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(noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: oversight |
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 |
incidence | (noun) the striking of a light beam on a surface | - |
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(noun) the relative frequency of occurrence of something | Synonyms: relative incidence |
incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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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 |
incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
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(noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
inconsequence | (noun) having no important effects or influence | - |
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(noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness |
incontinence | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: dissoluteness, self-gratification |
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(noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinency |
inconvenience | (noun) the quality of not being useful or convenient | - |
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(noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: troublesomeness, worriment |
(noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: incommodiousness |
incurrence | (noun) the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) | - |
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independence | (noun) the successful ending of the American Revolution | - |
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(noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independency |
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 |
indigence | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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indolence | (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: laziness |
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indulgence | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulging, pampering |
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(noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: craziness, folly, foolery, lunacy, tomfoolery |
(noun) the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution | - |
(noun) an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires | Synonyms: self-indulgence |
(noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: lenience, leniency |
inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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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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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 |
influence | (noun) causing something without any direct or apparent effort | - |
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(noun) a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc | - |
(noun) a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do | - |
(noun) one having power to influence another | - |
(noun) the effect of one thing (or person) on another | - |
infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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innocence | (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness |
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(noun) a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense | - |
(noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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(noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
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intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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(noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
(noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
(noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
(noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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interference | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance |
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(noun) (American football) blocking a player's path with your body | - |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, preventative, preventive |
(noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: intervention |
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, noise |
intermittence | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittency |
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intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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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 |
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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irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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(noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
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(noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |
juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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lenience | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: leniency |
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(noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: leniency, lenity, mildness |
(noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, leniency |
licence | (noun) a legal document giving official permission to do something | Synonyms: license, permit |
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(noun) freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) | Synonyms: license |
(noun) excessive freedom; lack of due restraint | Synonyms: license |
luminescence | (noun) light from nonthermal sources | Synonyms: glow |
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(noun) light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures | - |
magnificence | (noun) the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand | Synonyms: brilliance, grandeur, grandness, splendor, splendour |
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(noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, impressiveness, richness |
magniloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, grandiosity, ornateness, rhetoric |
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maleficence | (noun) the quality or nature of being harmful or evil | Synonyms: balefulness, mischief |
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(noun) doing or causing evil | - |
malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
nescience | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness |
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neuroscience | (noun) the scientific study of the nervous system | - |
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ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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nonviolence | (noun) peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate | Synonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistance |
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obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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(noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
(noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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occurrence | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrent |
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(noun) an instance of something occurring | - |
offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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(noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
(noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
(noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
(noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
omnipotence | (noun) the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power | - |
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omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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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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opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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patience | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: solitaire |
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(noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, longanimity |
penitence | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, repentance |
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permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
(noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
pertinence | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinency |
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pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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(noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
(noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
phosphorescence | (noun) a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased | - |
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polyvalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalency |
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(noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalency |