destabilization | (noun) the action of destabilizing; making something less stable (especially of a government or country or economy) | Synonyms: destabilisation |
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(noun) an event that causes a loss of equilibrium (as of a ship or aircraft) | - |
destalinisation | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinization |
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destalinization | (noun) social process of neutralizing the influence of Joseph Stalin by revising his policies and removing monuments dedicated to him and renaming places named in his honor | Synonyms: de-Stalinisation, de-Stalinization, destalinisation |
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destination | (noun) the ultimate goal for which something is done | Synonyms: terminus |
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(noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: address, name and address |
(noun) the place designated as the end (as of a race or journey) | Synonyms: finish, goal |
destiny | (noun) an event (or a course of events) that will inevitably happen in the future | Synonyms: fate |
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(noun) the ultimate agency regarded as predetermining the course of events | Synonyms: fate |
(noun) your overall circumstances or condition in life (including everything that happens to you) | Synonyms: circumstances, fate, fortune, lot, luck, portion |
destitution | (noun) a state without friends or money or prospects | - |
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destroyer | (noun) a small fast lightly armored but heavily armed warship | Synonyms: guided missile destroyer |
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(noun) a person who destroys or ruins or lays waste to | Synonyms: ruiner, undoer, uprooter, waster |
destructibility | (noun) vulnerability to destruction | - |
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destruction | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: devastation |
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(noun) an event that completely destroys something | Synonyms: demolition, wipeout |
(noun) a final state | Synonyms: death, end |
destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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desuetude | (noun) a state of inactivity or disuse | - |
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desynchronisation | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronization, desynchronizing |
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desynchronization | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronizing |
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desynchronizing | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times | Synonyms: asynchronism, asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization |
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detachment | (noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: disengagement |
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(noun) coming apart | Synonyms: breakup, separation |
(noun) avoiding emotional involvement | Synonyms: withdrawal |
(noun) a small unit of troops of special composition | - |
(noun) the state of being isolated or detached | Synonyms: insularism, insularity, insulation |
detail | (noun) an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, point |
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(noun) extended treatment of particulars | - |
(noun) a temporary military unit | Synonyms: contingent |
(noun) a crew of workers selected for a particular task | - |
(noun) a small part that can be considered separately from the whole | Synonyms: item, particular |
detailing | (noun) an individualized description of a particular instance | Synonyms: particularisation, particularization |
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details | (noun) true confidential information | Synonyms: inside information |
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detainee | (noun) some held in custody | Synonyms: political detainee |
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detainment | (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detention, hold |
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detectability | (noun) The state of being noticeable. | - |
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detecting | (noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detection, detective work, sleuthing |
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detection | (noun) the act of detecting something; catching sight of something | Synonyms: catching, espial, spotting, spying |
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(noun) a police investigation to determine the perpetrator | Synonyms: detecting, detective work, sleuthing |
(noun) the perception that something has occurred or some state exists | Synonyms: sensing |
(noun) the detection that a signal is being received | Synonyms: signal detection |
detective | (noun) a police officer who investigates crimes | Synonyms: investigator, police detective, tec |
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(noun) an investigator engaged or employed in obtaining information not easily available to the public | - |
detector | (noun) any device that receives a signal or stimulus (as heat or pressure or light or motion etc.) and responds to it in a distinctive manner | Synonyms: sensing element, sensor |
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(noun) electronic equipment that detects the presence of radio signals or radioactivity | - |
(noun) rectifier that extracts modulation from a radio carrier wave | Synonyms: demodulator |
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 |
detergence | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergency |
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detergency | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergence |
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detergent | (noun) a cleansing agent that differs from soap but can also emulsify oils and hold dirt in suspension | - |
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(noun) a surface-active chemical widely used in industry and laundering | - |
deterioration | (noun) process of changing to an inferior state | Synonyms: declension, decline in quality, worsening |
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(noun) a symptom of reduced quality or strength | Synonyms: impairment |
determent | (noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: deterrence, intimidation |
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determinant | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinative, determiner, determining factor |
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(noun) a square matrix used to solve simultaneous equations | - |
(noun) the site on the surface of an antigen molecule to which an antibody attaches itself | Synonyms: antigenic determinant, epitope |
determinateness | (noun) the quality of being predictable with great confidence | Synonyms: definiteness |
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determination | (noun) the act of determining the properties of something, usually by research or calculation | Synonyms: finding |
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(noun) the act of making up your mind about something | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
(noun) the quality of being determined to do or achieve something; firmness of purpose | Synonyms: purpose |
(noun) a position or opinion or judgment reached after consideration | Synonyms: conclusion, decision |
(noun) deciding or controlling something's outcome or nature | - |
determinative | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determiner, determining factor |
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(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determiner |
determiner | (noun) a determining or causal element or factor | Synonyms: causal factor, determinant, determinative, determining factor |
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(noun) one of a limited class of noun modifiers that determine the referents of noun phrases | Synonyms: determinative |
(noun) an argument that is conclusive | Synonyms: clincher, determining factor |
determinism | (noun) (philosophy) a philosophical theory holding that all events are inevitable consequences of antecedent sufficient causes; often understood as denying the possibility of free will | - |
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determinist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: fatalist, predestinarian, predestinationist |
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deterrence | (noun) the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety | - |
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(noun) a communication that makes you afraid to try something | Synonyms: determent, intimidation |
(noun) a negative motivational influence | Synonyms: disincentive |
deterrent | (noun) something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress | Synonyms: balk, baulk, check, handicap, hinderance, hindrance, impediment |
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detestation | (noun) hate coupled with disgust | Synonyms: abhorrence, abomination, execration, loathing, odium |
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dethronement | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: deposition |
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detonation | (noun) the act of detonating an explosive | - |
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(noun) a violent release of energy caused by a chemical or nuclear reaction | Synonyms: blowup, explosion |
detonator | (noun) a mechanical or electrical explosive device or a small amount of explosive; can be used to initiate the reaction of a disrupting explosive | Synonyms: cap, detonating device |
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detour | (noun) a roundabout road (especially one that is used temporarily while a main route is blocked) | Synonyms: roundabout way |
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detox | (noun) the hospital ward or clinic in which patients are detoxified | - |
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detoxification | (noun) treatment for poisoning by neutralizing the toxic properties (normally a function of the liver) | - |
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(noun) a treatment for addiction to drugs or alcohol intended to remove the physiological effects of the addictive substances | - |
detraction | (noun) the act of discrediting or detracting from someone's reputation (especially by slander) | - |
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(noun) a petty disparagement | Synonyms: petty criticism |
detractor | (noun) one who disparages or belittles the worth of something | Synonyms: depreciator, disparager, knocker |
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detribalisation | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalization |
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(noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalization |
detribalization | (noun) the decline or termination of tribal organization | Synonyms: detribalisation |
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(noun) the act of causing tribal people to abandon their customs and adopt urban ways of living | Synonyms: detribalisation |
detriment | (noun) a damage or loss | Synonyms: hurt |
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detrition | (noun) effort expended in moving one object over another with pressure | Synonyms: friction, rubbing |
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(noun) the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, grinding |
(noun) erosion by friction | Synonyms: abrasion, attrition, corrasion |
detritus | (noun) the remains of something that has been destroyed or broken up | Synonyms: debris, dust, junk, rubble |
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(noun) loose material (stone fragments and silt etc) that is worn away from rocks | - |
detumescence | (noun) diminution of swelling; the subsidence of anything swollen | - |
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deuce | (noun) one of the four playing cards in a deck that have two spots | Synonyms: two |
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(noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: devil, dickens |
(noun) the cardinal number that is the sum of one and one or a numeral representing this number | Synonyms: 2, II, two |
(noun) a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game | - |
deuteranopia | (noun) dichromacy characterized by a lowered sensitivity to green light resulting in an inability to distinguish green and purplish-red | Synonyms: Daltonism, green-blindness |
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deuterium | (noun) an isotope of hydrogen which has one neutron (as opposed to zero neutrons in hydrogen) | Synonyms: heavy hydrogen |
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deuteron | (noun) the nucleus of deuterium; consists of one proton and one neutron; used as a bombarding particle in accelerators | - |
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deutzia | (noun) any of various shrubs of the genus Deutzia having usually toothed opposite leaves and shredding bark and white or pink flowers in loose terminal clusters | - |
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devaluation | (noun) the reduction of something's value or worth | - |
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(noun) an official lowering of a nation's currency; a decrease in the value of a country's currency relative to that of foreign countries | - |
devastation | (noun) the termination of something by causing so much damage to it that it cannot be repaired or no longer exists | Synonyms: destruction |
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(noun) plundering with excessive damage and destruction | Synonyms: ravaging |
(noun) an event that results in total destruction | Synonyms: desolation |
(noun) the feeling of being confounded or overwhelmed | - |
(noun) the state of being decayed or destroyed | Synonyms: desolation |
developer | (noun) photographic equipment consisting of a chemical solution for developing film | - |
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(noun) someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use) | - |
developing | (noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: development |
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development | (noun) act of improving by expanding or enlarging or refining | - |
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(noun) the act of making some area of land or water more profitable or productive or useful | Synonyms: exploitation |
(noun) (music) the section of a composition or movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes are developed and elaborated | - |
(noun) a recent event that has some relevance for the present situation | - |
(noun) a district that has been developed to serve some purpose | - |
(noun) processing a photosensitive material in order to make an image visible | Synonyms: developing |
(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: growing, growth, maturation, ontogenesis, ontogeny |
(noun) a process in which something passes by degrees to a different stage (especially a more advanced or mature stage) | Synonyms: evolution |
(noun) a state in which things are improving; the result of developing (as in the early part of a game of chess) | - |
deviance | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviation |
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(noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration |
deviant | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviate, perv, perve, pervert |
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deviate | (noun) a person whose behavior deviates from what is acceptable especially in sexual behavior | Synonyms: degenerate, deviant, perv, perve, pervert |
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deviation | (noun) deviate behavior | Synonyms: deviance |
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(noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, digression, divagation, diversion |
(noun) the error of a compass due to local magnetic disturbances | - |
(noun) the difference between an observed value and the expected value of a variable or function | - |
(noun) a variation that deviates from the standard or norm | Synonyms: departure, difference, divergence |
deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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device | (noun) any clever maneuver | Synonyms: gimmick, twist |
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(noun) an instrumentality invented for a particular purpose | - |
(noun) an emblematic design (especially in heraldry) | - |
(noun) any ornamental pattern or design (as in embroidery) | - |
(noun) something in an artistic work designed to achieve a particular effect | - |
devices | (noun) an inclination or desire; used in the plural in the phrase `left to your own devices' | - |
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devil | (noun) a word used in exclamations of confusion | Synonyms: deuce, dickens |
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(noun) an evil supernatural being | Synonyms: daemon, daimon, demon, fiend |
(noun) a cruel wicked and inhuman person | Synonyms: demon, fiend, monster, ogre |
(noun) a rowdy or mischievous person (usually a young man) | Synonyms: heller, hellion |
devilfish | (noun) extremely large pelagic tropical ray that feeds on plankton and small fishes; usually harmless but its size make it dangerous if harpooned | Synonyms: manta, manta ray |
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(noun) bottom-living cephalopod having a soft oval body with eight long tentacles | Synonyms: octopus |
(noun) medium-sized greyish-black whale of the northern Pacific | Synonyms: Eschrichtius gibbosus, Eschrichtius robustus, gray whale, grey whale |
devilishness | (noun) The property of resembling or being characteristic of a devil. | - |
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devilment | (noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilry, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
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devilry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: deviltry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, deviltry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
deviltry | (noun) wicked and cruel behavior | Synonyms: devilry |
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(noun) reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others | Synonyms: devilment, devilry, mischief-making, mischief, mischievousness, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan |
devilwood | (noun) small tree of southern United States having panicles of dull white flowers followed by dark purple fruits | Synonyms: American olive, Osmanthus americanus |
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deviousness | (noun) the quality of being deceitful and underhanded | Synonyms: crookedness |
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(noun) the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly | Synonyms: obliqueness |
devisal | (noun) the act of devising something | Synonyms: contrivance |
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devise | (noun) (law) a gift of real property by will | - |
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(noun) a will disposing of real property | - |
devisee | (noun) someone to whom property (especially realty) is devised by will | - |
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deviser | (noun) a person who makes plans | Synonyms: contriver, planner |
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devising | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: fashioning, making |
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devisor | (noun) someone who devises real property in a will | - |
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devitalisation | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalization |
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devitalization | (noun) the act of reducing the vitality of something | Synonyms: devitalisation |
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devoir | (noun) formal expression of respect | - |
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devolution | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolvement |
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(noun) the process of declining from a higher to a lower level of effective power or vitality or essential quality | Synonyms: degeneration |
devolvement | (noun) the delegation of authority (especially from a central to a regional government) | Synonyms: devolution |
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devotedness | (noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotion |
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devotee | (noun) an ardent follower and admirer | Synonyms: buff, fan, lover |
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devotion | (noun) (usually plural) religious observance or prayers (usually spoken silently) | - |
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(noun) commitment to some purpose | - |
(noun) religious zeal; the willingness to serve God | Synonyms: cultism, veneration |
(noun) feelings of ardent love | Synonyms: devotedness |
devotional | (noun) a short religious service | - |
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devourer | (noun) someone who eats greedily or voraciously | - |
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devoutness | (noun) piety by virtue of being devout | Synonyms: religiousness |
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