indignation | (noun) a feeling of righteous anger | Synonyms: outrage |
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indignity | (noun) an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem | - |
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indigo | (noun) a blue-violet color | - |
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(noun) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye | Synonyms: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria |
(noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigotin |
indigotin | (noun) a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically | Synonyms: anil, indigo |
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indinavir | (noun) a protease inhibitor (trade name Crixivan) used for treating HIV | Synonyms: Crixivan |
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indirection | (noun) indirect procedure or action | - |
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(noun) deceitful action that is not straightforward | - |
indirectness | (noun) having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal | - |
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indiscernibility | (noun) The state or characteristic of being indiscernible; inability to be observed. | - |
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indiscipline | (noun) the trait of lacking discipline | Synonyms: undiscipline |
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indiscreetness | (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
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indiscretion | (noun) a petty misdeed | Synonyms: peccadillo |
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(noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: injudiciousness |
indispensability | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensableness, vitalness |
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indispensableness | (noun) the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without | Synonyms: indispensability, vitalness |
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indisposition | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance |
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(noun) a slight illness | - |
indisputability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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indistinctness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, softness |
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indistinguishability | (noun) exact sameness | Synonyms: identicalness, identity |
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indium | (noun) a rare soft silvery metallic element; occurs in small quantities in sphalerite | Synonyms: atomic number 49, In |
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individual | (noun) a human being; person, singular, assertive existential pronoun; pronoun, person, singular; quantifier: assertive existential | Synonyms: mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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(noun) a single organism | - |
individualisation | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualization, individuation |
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individualism | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individuality, individuation |
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(noun) the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs | Synonyms: laissez faire |
(noun) a belief in the importance of the individual and the virtue of self-reliance and personal independence | - |
individualist | (noun) a person who pursues independent thought or action | - |
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individuality | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuation |
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(noun) the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity | Synonyms: identity, personal identity |
individualization | (noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individuation |
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individuation | (noun) the quality of being individual | Synonyms: individualism, individuality |
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(noun) discriminating the individual from the generic group or species | Synonyms: individualisation, individualization |
indivisibility | (noun) (arithmetic) The state of being impossible to divide by a specific integer without leaving a remainder. | - |
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indoctrination | (noun) teaching someone to accept doctrines uncritically | - |
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indole | (noun) a white or yellowish crystalline heterocyclic compound extracted from coal tar and used in perfumery, medicine, and as a flavouring agent. | - |
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indolence | (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: laziness |
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indomethacin | (noun) a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Indocin) | Synonyms: Indocin |
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indomitability | (noun) the property being difficult or impossible to defeat | Synonyms: invincibility |
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indorsement | (noun) the act of endorsing | Synonyms: endorsement |
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(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, sanction, warrant |
(noun) a promotional statement (as found on the dust jackets of books) | Synonyms: blurb, endorsement |
(noun) a speech seconding a motion | Synonyms: endorsement, second, secondment |
(noun) a signature that validates something | Synonyms: endorsement |
indorser | (noun) someone who expresses strong approval | Synonyms: endorser, ratifier, subscriber |
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(noun) a person who transfers his ownership interest in something by signing a check or negotiable security | Synonyms: endorser |
indri | (noun) large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn | Synonyms: Indri brevicaudatus, Indri indri, indris |
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indris | (noun) large short-tailed lemur of Madagascar having thick silky fur in black and white and fawn | Synonyms: indri, Indri brevicaudatus, Indri indri |
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indubitability | (noun) the quality of being beyond question or dispute or doubt | Synonyms: indisputability, unquestionability, unquestionableness |
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inducement | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducing |
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(noun) a positive motivational influence | Synonyms: incentive, motivator |
inducer | (noun) someone who tries to persuade or induce or lead on | Synonyms: persuader |
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(noun) an agent capable of activating specific genes | - |
inducing | (noun) act of bringing about a desired result | Synonyms: inducement |
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inductance | (noun) an electrical device (typically a conducting coil) that introduces inductance into a circuit | Synonyms: inductor |
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(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electromotive force (EMF) is generated in a closed circuit by a change in the flow of current | Synonyms: induction |
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 | - |