| misogynism | (noun) hatred of women | Synonyms: misogyny |
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| misoneism | (noun) hatred of change or innovation | - |
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| moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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| moderatism | (noun) a political philosophy of avoiding the extremes of left and right by taking a moderate position or course of action | Synonyms: centrism |
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| modernism | (noun) practices typical of contemporary life or thought | - |
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| (noun) genre of art and literature that makes a self-conscious break with previous genres | - |
| (noun) the quality of being current or of the present | Synonyms: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness |
| momism | (noun) excessive protection | Synonyms: overprotection, overshielding |
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| monarchism | (noun) a belief in and advocacy of monarchy as a political system | - |
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| monasticism | (noun) asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience | - |
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| monetarism | (noun) an economic theory holding that variations in unemployment and the rate of inflation are usually caused by changes in the supply of money | - |
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| mongolianism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolism, trisomy 21 |
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| mongolism | (noun) a congenital disorder caused by having an extra 21st chromosome; results in a flat face and short stature and mental retardation | Synonyms: Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, mongolianism, trisomy 21 |
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| monism | (noun) the doctrine that reality consists of a single basic substance or element | - |
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| monocentrism | (noun) the property of having or proceeding from a single center. | - |
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| monochromatism | (noun) complete color blindness; colors can be differentiated only on the basis of brightness | Synonyms: monochromacy, monochromasy, monochromatic vision, monochromia |
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| monoideism | (noun) a state of prolonged absorption in a single idea (as in mental depression, trance, hypnosis). | - |
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| monometallism | (noun) the use of only one metal (such as gold or silver) in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of monetary value. | - |
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| monorchidism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchism |
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| monorchism | (noun) failure of one testes to descend into the scrotum | Synonyms: monorchidism |
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| monotheism | (noun) belief in a single God | - |
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| monotopism | (noun) origin of a systematic group only once (as by mutation) or at a single location. | - |
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| moralism | (noun) judgments about another person's morality | - |
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| (noun) a moral maxim | - |
| mosaicism | (noun) the condition in which an organism has two or more cell populations that differ in genetic makeup | - |
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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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| mutism | (noun) the condition of being unable or unwilling to speak | Synonyms: muteness |
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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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| mysticism | (noun) a religion based on mystical communion with an ultimate reality | Synonyms: religious mysticism |
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| (noun) obscure or irrational thought | - |
| nanism | (noun) a genetic abnormality resulting in short stature | Synonyms: dwarfism |
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| narcism | (noun) an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself | Synonyms: narcissism, self-love |
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| narcissism | (noun) an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself | Synonyms: narcism, self-love |
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| narcoterrorism | (noun) the financing of terrorist activities by participation in the drug trade | - |
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| nationalism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: patriotism |
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| (noun) the doctrine that your national culture and interests are superior to any other | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that nations should act independently (rather than collectively) to attain their goals | - |
| (noun) the aspiration for national independence felt by people under foreign domination | - |
| nativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that some ideas are innate | - |
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| (noun) the policy of perpetuating native cultures (in opposition to acculturation) | - |
| 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 |
| naturism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: nudism |
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| necrophilism | (noun) an irresistible sexual attraction to dead bodies | Synonyms: necromania, necrophilia |
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| negativism | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativeness, negativity |
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| neobehaviorism | (noun) a school of psychology based on the general principles of behaviorism but broader and more flexible in concept. It stresses experimental research and laboratory analyses in the study of overt behavior and in various subjective phenomena that cannot be directly observed and measured, such as fantasies, love, stress, empathy, trust, and personality. | - |
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| neoclassicism | (noun) revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation | - |
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| neocolonialism | (noun) control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures | - |
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| neoconservatism | (noun) an approach to politics or theology that represents a return to a traditional point of view (in contrast to more liberal or radical schools of thought of the 1960s) | - |
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| neocriticism | (noun) a form of neo-Kantianism developed principally by C. B. Renouvier and his followers rejecting the noumena of Kant and restricting knowledge to phenomena as constituted by a priori categories. | - |
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| neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| neoliberalism | (noun) a political orientation originating in the 1960s; blends liberal political views with an emphasis on economic growth | - |
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| neologism | (noun) the act of inventing a word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
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| (noun) a newly invented word or phrase | Synonyms: coinage, neology |
| neoplasm | (noun) an abnormal new mass of tissue that serves no purpose | Synonyms: tumor, tumour |
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| neoromanticism | (noun) an art movement based on a revival of Romanticism in art and literature | - |
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| nepotism | (noun) favoritism shown to relatives or close friends by those in power (as by giving them jobs) | - |
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| nervism | (noun) the philosophical position adopted by Pavlov that all behavioral and physiological processes are regulated by the nervous system. | - |
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| neuroticism | (noun) a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction | Synonyms: neurosis, psychoneurosis |
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| neurotropism | (noun) an affinity for neural tissues | - |
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| neutralism | (noun) a policy of neutrality or nonalignment in international affairs | - |
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| nihilism | (noun) a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake | - |
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| (noun) complete denial of all established authority and institutions | - |
| (noun) the delusion that things (or everything, including the self) do not exist; a sense that everything is unreal | Synonyms: nihilistic delusion |
| noctambulism | (noun) walking by a person who is asleep | Synonyms: noctambulation, sleepwalking, somnambulation, somnambulism |
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| nomadism | (noun) The way of life of people who, having no fixed home, move around seasonally in search of food, water and grazing etc. | - |
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| nominalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name | - |
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| nonconformism | (noun) the practice of nonconformity | - |
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| (noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformance, nonconformity |
| nucleoplasm | (noun) the protoplasm that constitutes the nucleus of a cell | Synonyms: karyoplasm |
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| nudism | (noun) going without clothes as a social practice | Synonyms: naturism |
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| obiism | (noun) belief in a kind of sorcery that originated in Africa and is practiced in the West Indies | - |
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| obscurantism | (noun) a deliberate act intended to make something obscure | - |
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| (noun) a policy of opposition to enlightenment or the spread of knowledge | - |
| obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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| occidentalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Western civilizations | - |
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| occultism | (noun) a belief in supernatural powers and the possibility of bringing them under human control | - |
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| (noun) the study of the supernatural | - |
| oculism | (noun) the craft of an oculist | - |
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| oecumenism | (noun) a movement promoting union between religions (especially between Christian churches) | Synonyms: ecumenism |
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| onanism | (noun) manual stimulation of the genital organs (of yourself or another) for sexual pleasure | Synonyms: masturbation |
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| (noun) a method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation | Synonyms: coitus interruptus, pulling out, withdrawal, withdrawal method |
| oneirism | (noun) absentminded dreaming while awake | Synonyms: air castle, castle in Spain, castle in the air, daydream, daydreaming, reverie, revery |
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| operationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that the meaning of a proposition consists of the operations involved in proving or applying it | - |
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| ophidism | (noun) poisoning by snake venom | - |
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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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| optimism | (noun) a general disposition to expect the best in all things | - |
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| (noun) the optimistic feeling that all is going to turn out well | - |
| organicism | (noun) theory that the total organization of an organism rather than the functioning of individual organs is the determinant of life processes | - |
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| organism | (noun) a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independently | Synonyms: being |
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| (noun) a system considered analogous in structure or function to a living body | - |
| orgasm | (noun) the moment of most intense pleasure in sexual intercourse | Synonyms: climax, coming, sexual climax |
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| orientalism | (noun) the quality or customs or mannerisms characteristic of Asian civilizations | - |
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| originalism | (noun) the belief that the United States Constitution should be interpreted in the way the authors originally intended it | - |
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| ornamentalism | (noun) the practice of ornamental display | - |
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| ostracism | (noun) the act of excluding someone from society by general consent | - |
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| (noun) the state of being banished or ostracized (excluded from society by general consent) | Synonyms: banishment, Coventry |
| pacificism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacifism, passivism |
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| (noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacifism |
| pacifism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, passivism |
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| (noun) the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration | Synonyms: pacificism |
| paganism | (noun) any of various religions other than Christianity or Judaism or Islamism | Synonyms: heathenism, pagan religion |
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| pandeism | (noun) the belief that God created the universe and its phenomena by becoming the universe, thereafter the sole manifestation of God | - |
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| panentheism | (noun) the belief that God is in part of the universe and its phenomena and also transcends the universe and intervenes in its operations | - |
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| pantheism | (noun) the doctrine or belief that God is the universe and its phenomena (taken or conceived of as a whole) or the doctrine that regards the universe as a manifestation of God | - |
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| (noun) (rare) worship that admits or tolerates all gods | - |
| papism | (noun) offensive terms for the practices and rituals of the Roman Catholic Church | Synonyms: popery |
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| (noun) the beliefs and practices of the Catholic Church based in Rome | Synonyms: Roman Catholicism, Romanism |
| paracosm | (noun) a prolonged fantasy world invented by children; can have a definite geography and language and history | - |
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| parallelism | (noun) similarity by virtue of corresponding | Synonyms: correspondence |
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| paralogism | (noun) an unintentionally invalid argument | - |
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| paramagnetism | (noun) materials like aluminum or platinum become magnetized in a magnetic field but it disappears when the field is removed | - |
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| parasitism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage) | - |
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| parochialism | (noun) a limitation of views or interests like that defined by a local parish | - |
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| paroxysm | (noun) a sudden uncontrollable attack | Synonyms: convulsion, fit |
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| particularism | (noun) a focus on something particular | - |
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| passivism | (noun) the doctrine that all violence is unjustifiable | Synonyms: pacificism, pacifism |
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| paternalism | (noun) the attitude (of a person or a government) that subordinates should be controlled in a fatherly way for their own good | - |
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| patriotism | (noun) love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it | Synonyms: nationalism |
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| pauperism | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: indigence, need, pauperization, penury |
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| pentecostalism | (noun) the principles and practices of Pentecostal religious groups; characterized by religious excitement and talking in tongues | - |
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| perfectionism | (noun) a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable | - |
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