| inductee | (noun) someone who is drafted into military service | Synonyms: conscript, draftee |
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| (noun) a person inducted into an organization or social group | - |
| induction | (noun) the act of bringing about something (especially at an early time) | - |
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| (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: initiation, trigger |
| (noun) reasoning from detailed facts to general principles | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization, inductive reasoning |
| (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: elicitation, evocation |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: initiation, installation |
| (noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: inductance |
| inductionism | (noun) the scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. | - |
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| inductor | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductance |
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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 |
| indulging | (noun) the act of indulging or gratifying a desire | Synonyms: humoring, humouring, indulgence, pampering |
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| indument | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indumentum |
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| indumentum | (noun) a covering of fine hairs (or sometimes scales) as on a leaf or insect | Synonyms: indument |
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| induration | (noun) any pathological hardening or thickening of tissue | Synonyms: sclerosis |
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| indusium | (noun) a membrane enclosing and protecting the developing spores especially that covering the sori of a fern | - |
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| industrialisation | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialization |
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| industrialism | (noun) an economic system built on large industries rather than on agriculture or craftsmanship | - |
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| industrialist | (noun) someone who manages or has significant financial interest in an industrial enterprise | - |
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| industrialization | (noun) the development of industry on an extensive scale | Synonyms: industrial enterprise, industrialisation |
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| industriousness | (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: diligence, industry |
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| industry | (noun) the organized action of making of goods and services for sale | Synonyms: manufacture |
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| (noun) persevering determination to perform a task | Synonyms: diligence, industriousness |
| (noun) the people or companies engaged in a particular kind of commercial enterprise | - |
| indweller | (noun) a person who inhabits a particular place | Synonyms: denizen, dweller, habitant, inhabitant |
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| (noun) activation by an inner spirit or force or principle | - |
| inebriant | (noun) a liquor or brew containing alcohol as the active agent | Synonyms: alcohol, alcoholic beverage, alcoholic drink, intoxicant |
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| inebriate | (noun) a chronic drinker | Synonyms: drunk, drunkard, rummy, sot, wino |
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| inebriation | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| (noun) habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms | Synonyms: alcohol addiction, alcoholism, drunkenness |
| inebriety | (noun) a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol | Synonyms: drunkenness, inebriation, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness |
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| ineffaceability | (noun) The quality of being difficult to delete, remove, wash away, blot out, or efface. | Synonyms: indelibility |
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| ineffectiveness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectuality, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectuality | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectualness |
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| ineffectualness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectiveness, ineffectuality |
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| inefficaciousness | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficacy |
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| inefficacy | (noun) a lack of efficacy | Synonyms: inefficaciousness |
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| inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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| inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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| inelegance | (noun) the quality of lacking refinement and good taste | - |
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| ineligibility | (noun) the quality or state of being ineligible | - |
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| ineluctability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to avoid or evade | Synonyms: unavoidability |
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| ineptitude | (noun) having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful | Synonyms: worthlessness |
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| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
| ineptness | (noun) the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose | Synonyms: unsuitability, unsuitableness |
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| (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness |
| inequality | (noun) lack of equality | - |
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| inequity | (noun) injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards | Synonyms: unfairness |
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| inerrancy | (noun) (Christianity) exemption from error | - |
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| inertia | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactiveness, inactivity |
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| (noun) (physics) the tendency of a body to maintain its state of rest or uniform motion unless acted upon by an external force | - |
| inertness | (noun) immobility by virtue of being inert | - |
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| inessential | (noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
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| inessentiality | (noun) not of basic importance | - |
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| inevitability | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitableness |
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| inevitable | (noun) an unavoidable event | - |
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| inevitableness | (noun) the quality of being unavoidable | Synonyms: inevitability |
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| inexactitude | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactness |
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| inexactness | (noun) the quality of being inexact | Synonyms: inexactitude |
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| inexhaustibility | (noun) The state or condition of being impossible to exhaust; of being unlimited. | - |
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| inexorability | (noun) mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up | Synonyms: inexorableness, relentlessness |
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| inexorableness | (noun) mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up | Synonyms: inexorability, relentlessness |
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| inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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| inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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| inexpensiveness | (noun) the quality of being affordable | - |
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| inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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| inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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| infallibility | (noun) the quality of never making an error | - |
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| infamy | (noun) a state of extreme dishonor | Synonyms: opprobrium |
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| (noun) evil fame or public reputation | - |
| infancy | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: babyhood |
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| (noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: babyhood, early childhood |
| infant | (noun) a very young child (birth to 1 year) who has not yet begun to walk or talk | Synonyms: babe, baby |
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| infanticide | (noun) murdering an infant | - |
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| (noun) a person who murders an infant | - |
| infantilism | (noun) infantile behavior in mature persons | - |
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| (noun) an abnormal condition in which an older child or adult retains infantile characteristics | - |
| infantry | (noun) an army unit consisting of soldiers who fight on foot | Synonyms: foot |
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| infantryman | (noun) fights on foot with small arms | Synonyms: foot soldier, footslogger, marcher |
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| infarct | (noun) localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply | Synonyms: infarction |
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| infarction | (noun) localized necrosis resulting from obstruction of the blood supply | Synonyms: infarct |
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| infatuation | (noun) an object of extravagant short-lived passion | - |
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| (noun) a foolish and usually extravagant passion or love or admiration | - |
| (noun) temporary love of an adolescent | Synonyms: calf love, crush, puppy love |
| infeasibility | (noun) the quality of not being doable | Synonyms: unfeasibility |
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| infection | (noun) moral corruption or contamination | - |
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| (noun) (international law) illegality that taints or contaminates a ship or cargo rendering it liable to seizure | - |
| (noun) the communication of an attitude or emotional state among a number of people | Synonyms: contagion |
| (noun) an incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted | Synonyms: contagion, transmission |
| (noun) (medicine) the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms and their multiplication which can lead to tissue damage and disease | - |
| (noun) (phonetics) the alteration of a speech sound under the influence of a neighboring sound | - |
| (noun) the pathological state resulting from the invasion of the body by pathogenic microorganisms | - |
| infelicity | (noun) inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | - |
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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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| inferior | (noun) a character or symbol set or printed or written beneath or slightly below and to the side of another character | Synonyms: subscript |
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| (noun) one of lesser rank or station or quality | - |
| inferiority | (noun) an inferior quality | Synonyms: low quality |
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| (noun) the quality of being a competitive disadvantage | Synonyms: unfavorable position |
| (noun) the state of being inferior | Synonyms: lower rank, lower status |
| infernal | (noun) an inhabitant of Hell | - |
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| inferno | (noun) a very intense and uncontrolled fire | Synonyms: conflagration |
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| (noun) any place of pain and turmoil | Synonyms: hell, hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits |
| infertility | (noun) the state of being unable to produce offspring; in a woman it is an inability to conceive; in a man it is an inability to impregnate | Synonyms: sterility |
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| infestation | (noun) a swarm of insects that attack plants | Synonyms: plague |
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| (noun) the state of being invaded or overrun by parasites | - |
| infidel | (noun) a person who does not acknowledge your god | Synonyms: gentile, heathen, pagan |
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| infidelity | (noun) the quality of being unfaithful | Synonyms: unfaithfulness |
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| infield | (noun) the area of a baseball field that is enclosed by 3 bases and home plate | Synonyms: baseball diamond, diamond |
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| infielder | (noun) (baseball) a person who plays a position in the infield | - |
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| infighting | (noun) boxing at close quarters | - |
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| (noun) conflict between members of the same organization (usually concealed from outsiders) | - |
| infiltration | (noun) a process in which individuals (or small groups) penetrate an area (especially the military penetration of enemy positions without detection) | - |
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| (noun) the slow passage of a liquid through a filtering medium | Synonyms: percolation |
| infiltrator | (noun) an intruder (as troops) with hostile intent | - |
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| (noun) someone who takes up a position surreptitiously for the purpose of espionage | - |
| infinite | (noun) the unlimited expanse in which everything is located | Synonyms: space |
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| infiniteness | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infinitude, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| infinitesimal | (noun) (mathematics) a variable that has zero as its limit | - |
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| infinitive | (noun) the uninflected form of the verb | - |
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| infinitude | (noun) the quality of being infinite; without bound or limit | Synonyms: boundlessness, infiniteness, limitlessness, unboundedness |
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| (noun) an infinite quantity | - |
| infinity | (noun) time without end | Synonyms: eternity |
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| infirmary | (noun) a health facility where patients receive treatment | Synonyms: hospital |
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| infirmity | (noun) the state of being weak in health or body (especially from old age) | Synonyms: debility, feebleness, frailness, frailty, valetudinarianism |
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| infix | (noun) an affix that is inserted inside the word | - |
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| inflaming | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflammation |
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| inflammability | (noun) the quality of being easily ignited and burning rapidly | Synonyms: flammability |
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| inflammation | (noun) arousal to violent emotion | Synonyms: inflaming |
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| (noun) the act of setting something on fire | Synonyms: firing, ignition, kindling, lighting |
| (noun) a response of body tissues to injury or irritation; characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat | Synonyms: redness, rubor |
| (noun) the state of being emotionally aroused and worked up | Synonyms: excitation, excitement, fervor, fervour |
| inflater | (noun) an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire) | Synonyms: inflator |
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| inflation | (noun) the act of filling something with air | - |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| (noun) (cosmology) a brief exponential expansion of the universe (faster than the speed of light) postulated to have occurred shortly after the big bang | - |
| (noun) a general and progressive increase in prices | Synonyms: rising prices |
| inflator | (noun) an air pump operated by hand to inflate something (as a tire) | Synonyms: inflater |
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| inflection | (noun) the patterns of stress and intonation in a language | Synonyms: prosody |
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| (noun) a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified | Synonyms: modulation |
| (noun) deviation from a straight or normal course | Synonyms: flection, flexion |
| (noun) a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function | Synonyms: inflexion |
| inflexibility | (noun) the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe | Synonyms: rigidity, rigidness |
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| (noun) a lack of physical flexibility | Synonyms: inflexibleness |
| inflexibleness | (noun) a lack of physical flexibility | Synonyms: inflexibility |
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