ani | (noun) black tropical American cuckoo | - |
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anil | (noun) shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: Indigofera anil, Indigofera suffruticosa |
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(noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: indigo, indigotin |
aniline | (noun) oily poisonous liquid amine obtained from nitrobenzene and used to make dyes and plastics and medicines | Synonyms: aminobenzine, aniline oil, phenylamine |
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anima | (noun) (Jungian psychology) the inner self (not the external persona) that is in touch with the unconscious | - |
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animadversion | (noun) harsh criticism or disapproval | Synonyms: censure |
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animal | (noun) a living organism characterized by voluntary movement | Synonyms: animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna |
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animalcule | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalculum |
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animalculum | (noun) microscopic organism such as an amoeba or paramecium | Synonyms: animalcule |
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animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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(noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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animalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, brutalisation, brutalization |
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(noun) a depiction in the form of an animal | - |
animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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animation | (noun) the making of animated cartoons | - |
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(noun) general activity and motion | Synonyms: liveliness |
(noun) the activity of giving vitality and vigour to something | Synonyms: invigoration, vivification |
(noun) the property of being able to survive and grow | Synonyms: vitality |
(noun) quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous | Synonyms: brio, invigoration, spiritedness, vivification |
(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: aliveness, life, living |
animatism | (noun) the attribution of consciousness and personality to natural phenomena such as thunderstorms and earthquakes and to objects such as plants and stones | - |
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animator | (noun) the technician who produces animated cartoons | - |
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(noun) someone who imparts energy and vitality and spirit to other people | Synonyms: energiser, energizer, vitaliser, vitalizer |
animatronics | (noun) the construction of robots to look like animals (developed for Disneyland) | - |
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anime | (noun) a style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art and often adult themes | - |
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(noun) a hard copal derived from an African tree | Synonyms: Zanzibar copal |
(noun) any of various resins or oleoresins | Synonyms: gum anime |
animism | (noun) the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls | - |
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animist | (noun) one who accepts the doctrine of animism | - |
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animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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animus | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animosity, bad blood |
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anion | (noun) a negatively charged ion | - |
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anionic | (noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
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anise | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise seed, aniseed |
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(noun) native to Egypt but cultivated widely for its aromatic seeds and the oil from them used medicinally and as a flavoring in cookery | Synonyms: anise plant, Pimpinella anisum |
aniseed | (noun) liquorice-flavored seeds, used medicinally and in cooking and liquors | Synonyms: anise, anise seed |
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aniseikonia | (noun) visual defect in which the shape and size of an ocular image differ in the two eyes | - |
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anisette | (noun) liquorice-flavored usually colorless sweet liqueur made from aniseed | Synonyms: anisette de Bordeaux |
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anisogamete | (noun) either of a pair of unlike gametes especially those unlike in size | - |
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anisogamy | (noun) (biology) reproduction by the union or fusion of two differing gametes (especially differing in size) | - |
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anisometropia | (noun) difference in the refractive power of the two eyes | - |
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anisotropy | (noun) the property of being anisotropic; having a different value when measured in different directions | - |
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