| inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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| inheritance | (noun) hereditary succession to a title or an office or property | Synonyms: heritage |
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| (noun) any attribute or immaterial possession that is inherited from ancestors | Synonyms: heritage |
| (noun) (genetics) attributes acquired via biological heredity from the parents | Synonyms: hereditary pattern |
| (noun) that which is inherited; a title or property or estate that passes by law to the heir on the death of the owner | Synonyms: heritage |
| inheritor | (noun) a person who is entitled by law or by the terms of a will to inherit the estate of another | Synonyms: heir, heritor |
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| inheritress | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritrix |
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| inheritrix | (noun) a female heir | Synonyms: heiress, inheritress |
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| inhibition | (noun) (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires | Synonyms: suppression |
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| (noun) the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof) | Synonyms: forbiddance, prohibition |
| (noun) the quality of being inhibited | - |
| (noun) (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part | - |
| inhibitor | (noun) a substance that retards or stops an activity | - |
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| inhomogeneity | (noun) the quality of being inhomogeneous | - |
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| inhospitableness | (noun) having an unfriendly and inhospitable disposition | - |
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| (noun) the environmental condition in a region that lacks a favorable climate or terrain for life or growth | - |
| inhospitality | (noun) unkind and inconsiderate welcome | - |
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| inhumaneness | (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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| inhumanity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: atrocity |
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| (noun) the quality of lacking compassion or consideration for others | Synonyms: inhumaneness |
| inhumation | (noun) the ritual placing of a corpse in a grave | Synonyms: burial, entombment, interment, sepulture |
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| inion | (noun) the craniometric point that is the most prominent point at the back of the head (at the occipital protuberance) | - |
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| iniquity | (noun) morally objectionable behavior | Synonyms: evil, immorality, wickedness |
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| (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: injustice, shabbiness, unfairness |
| initial | (noun) the first letter of a word (especially a person's name) | - |
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| initialisation | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialization, low-level formatting |
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| initialism | (noun) an abbreviation formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced separately | - |
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| (noun) a word formed from the initial letters of the several words in the name and pronounced as one word | Synonyms: acronym |
| initialization | (noun) (computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position | Synonyms: initialisation, low-level formatting |
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| initiate | (noun) people who have been introduced to the mysteries of some field or activity | Synonyms: enlightened |
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| (noun) someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field | Synonyms: learned person, pundit, savant |
| (noun) someone new to a field or activity | Synonyms: beginner, novice, tiro, tyro |
| initiation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, innovation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) an act that sets in motion some course of events | Synonyms: induction, trigger |
| (noun) wisdom as evidenced by the possession of knowledge | Synonyms: knowledgeability, knowledgeableness |
| (noun) a formal entry into an organization or position or office | Synonyms: induction, installation |
| initiative | (noun) the first of a series of actions | Synonyms: first step, opening, opening move |
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| (noun) readiness to embark on bold new ventures | Synonyms: enterprise, enterprisingness, go-ahead |
| initiator | (noun) a person who initiates a course of action | Synonyms: instigator |
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| injectant | (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injection |
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| injection | (noun) the forceful insertion of a substance under pressure | - |
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| (noun) the act of putting a liquid into the body by means of a syringe | Synonyms: shot |
| (noun) any solution that is injected (as into the skin) | Synonyms: injectant |
| injectiveness | (noun) (mathematics) The state or quality of relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain). | - |
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| injector | (noun) a contrivance for injecting (e.g., water into the boiler of a steam engine or particles into an accelerator etc.) | - |
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| (noun) An injector, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, eductor-jet pump or thermocompressor is a type of pump. | Synonyms: eductor-jet pump, ejector, steam ejector, steam injector, thermocompressor |
| injudiciousness | (noun) the trait of being injudicious | Synonyms: indiscretion |
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| (noun) lacking good judgment | Synonyms: indiscreetness |
| injunction | (noun) a formal command or admonition | - |
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| (noun) (law) a judicial remedy issued in order to prohibit a party from doing or continuing to do a certain activity | Synonyms: cease and desist order, enjoining, enjoinment |
| injuriousness | (noun) destructiveness that causes harm or injury | Synonyms: harmfulness |
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| injury | (noun) wrongdoing that violates another's rights and is unjustly inflicted | - |
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| (noun) an act that causes someone or something to receive physical damage | - |
| (noun) an accident that results in physical damage or hurt | Synonyms: accidental injury |
| (noun) a casualty to military personnel resulting from combat | Synonyms: combat injury, wound |
| (noun) any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.; the condition of an injury | Synonyms: harm, hurt, trauma |
| injustice | (noun) an unjust act | Synonyms: iniquity, shabbiness, unfairness |
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| (noun) the practice of being unjust or unfair | Synonyms: unjustness |
| ink | (noun) dark protective fluid ejected into the water by cuttlefish and other cephalopods | - |
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| (noun) a liquid used for printing or writing or drawing | - |
| inkberry | (noun) evergreen holly of eastern North America with oblong leathery leaves and small black berries | Synonyms: evergreen winterberry, gall-berry, gallberry, Ilex glabra |
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| inkblot | (noun) a blot made with ink | - |
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| inkiness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, blackness |
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| inkle | (noun) a linen tape used for trimming as a decoration | - |
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| inkling | (noun) a slight suggestion or vague understanding | Synonyms: glimmer, glimmering, intimation |
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| inkpad | (noun) a block of absorbent material saturated with ink; used to transfer ink evenly to a rubber stamp | Synonyms: inking pad, pad, stamp pad |
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| inkpot | (noun) a bottle of ink | Synonyms: ink bottle |
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| inkstand | (noun) a tray or stand for writing implements and containers for ink | - |
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| (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkwell |
| inkwell | (noun) a small well holding writing ink into which a pen can be dipped | Synonyms: inkstand |
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| inlay | (noun) a decoration made by fitting pieces of wood into prepared slots in a surface | - |
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| (noun) (dentistry) a filling consisting of a solid substance (as gold or porcelain) fitted to a cavity in a tooth and cemented into place | - |
| inlet | (noun) an opening through which fluid is admitted to a tube or container | Synonyms: intake |
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| (noun) an arm off of a larger body of water (often between rocky headlands) | Synonyms: recess |
| inmarriage | (noun) marriage within one's own tribe or group as required by custom or law | Synonyms: endogamy, intermarriage |
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| inmate | (noun) one of several resident of a dwelling (especially someone confined to a prison or hospital) | - |
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| (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inpatient |
| (noun) a person serving a sentence in a jail or prison | Synonyms: con, convict, yard bird, yardbird |
| inn | (noun) a hotel providing overnight lodging for travelers | Synonyms: auberge, hostel, hostelry, lodge |
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| innards | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, insides, viscera |
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| innateness | (noun) the quality of being innate | - |
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| innersole | (noun) the inner sole of a shoe or boot where the foot rests | Synonyms: insole |
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| innervation | (noun) the distribution of nerve fibers to an organ or body region | - |
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| (noun) the neural or electrical arousal of an organ or muscle or gland | Synonyms: excitation, irritation |
| inning | (noun) (baseball) one of nine divisions of play during which each team has a turn at bat | Synonyms: frame |
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| innings | (noun) the batting turn of a cricket player or team | - |
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| innkeeper | (noun) the owner or manager of an inn | Synonyms: boniface, host |
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| innocence | (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: artlessness, ingenuousness, naturalness |
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| (noun) a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense | - |
| (noun) the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil | Synonyms: pureness, purity, sinlessness, whiteness |
| innocency | (noun) an innocent quality or thing or act | - |
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| innocense | (noun) white and lavender to pale-blue flowers grow in perfect rings of widely spaced bands around the stems forming a kind of pagoda; California | Synonyms: Collinsia bicolor, Collinsia heterophylla, purple chinese houses |
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| innocent | (noun) a person who lacks knowledge of evil | Synonyms: inexperienced person |
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| innovation | (noun) the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new | Synonyms: creation, foundation, founding, initiation, instauration, institution, introduction, origination |
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| (noun) a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation | Synonyms: invention |
| (noun) the creation of something in the mind | Synonyms: conception, design, excogitation, invention |
| innovativeness | (noun) originality by virtue of introducing new ideas | - |
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| innovator | (noun) someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art | Synonyms: groundbreaker, pioneer, trailblazer |
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| innuendo | (noun) an indirect (and usually malicious) implication | Synonyms: insinuation |
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| innumerableness | (noun) a number beyond counting | Synonyms: countlessness |
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| inoculant | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculum |
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| inoculating | (noun) the act of protecting against disease by introducing a vaccine into the body to induce immunity | Synonyms: vaccinating |
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| inoculation | (noun) taking a vaccine as a precaution against contracting a disease | Synonyms: vaccination |
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| inoculator | (noun) a medical practitioner who inoculates people against diseases | Synonyms: vaccinator |
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| inoculum | (noun) a substance (a virus or toxin or immune serum) that is introduced into the body to produce or increase immunity to a particular disease | Synonyms: inoculant |
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| inopportuneness | (noun) the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time | Synonyms: untimeliness |
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| inordinateness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, excessiveness |
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| inosculation | (noun) a natural or surgical joining of parts or branches of tubular structures so as to make or become continuous | Synonyms: anastomosis |
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| inosine | (noun) a nucleoside that is formed by the deamination of adenosine; used in kidney transplantation to provide a temporary source of sugar | - |
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| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| inpatient | (noun) a patient who is residing in the hospital where he is being treated | Synonyms: inmate |
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| inpour | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpouring, inrush |
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| inpouring | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inrush |
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| input | (noun) a component of production; something that goes into the production of output | - |
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| (noun) any stimulating information or event; acts to arouse action | Synonyms: stimulant, stimulation, stimulus |
| (noun) signal going into an electronic system | Synonyms: input signal |
| (noun) a statement that expresses a personal opinion or belief or adds information | Synonyms: comment, remark |
| inquest | (noun) an inquiry into the cause of an unexpected death | - |
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| inquietude | (noun) feelings of anxiety that make you tense and irritable | Synonyms: disquietude, edginess, uneasiness |
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| inquirer | (noun) someone who asks a question | Synonyms: asker, enquirer, querier, questioner |
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| inquiring | (noun) a request for information | Synonyms: questioning |
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| inquiry | (noun) a systematic investigation of a matter of public interest | Synonyms: enquiry |
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| (noun) a search for knowledge | Synonyms: enquiry, research |
| (noun) an instance of questioning | Synonyms: enquiry, interrogation, query, question |
| inquisition | (noun) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals) | - |
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| inquisitiveness | (noun) The quality of being curious and interested. | - |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: curiousness |
| inquisitor | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: interrogator |
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| inroad | (noun) an invasion or hostile attack | - |
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| (noun) an encroachment or intrusion | - |
| inrush | (noun) an inflow | Synonyms: inpour, inpouring |
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| insalubriousness | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubrity |
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| insalubrity | (noun) the quality of being insalubrious and debilitating | Synonyms: insalubriousness |
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| insaneness | (noun) obsolete terms for legal insanity | Synonyms: lunacy, madness |
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| insanity | (noun) relatively permanent disorder of the mind | - |
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| inscription | (noun) the activity of inscribing (especially carving or engraving) letters or words | - |
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| (noun) letters inscribed (especially words engraved or carved) on something | Synonyms: lettering |
| (noun) a short message (as in a book or musical work or on a photograph) dedicating it to someone or something | Synonyms: dedication |
| inscrutability | (noun) the quality of being impossible to investigate | - |
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| insect | (noun) small air-breathing arthropod | - |
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| (noun) a person who has a nasty or unethical character undeserving of respect | Synonyms: dirt ball, louse, worm |
| insecticide | (noun) a chemical used to kill insects | Synonyms: insect powder |
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| insectifuge | (noun) a chemical substance that repels insects | Synonyms: insect repellant, insect repellent |
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| insectivore | (noun) small insect-eating mainly nocturnal terrestrial or fossorial mammals | - |
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| (noun) any organism that feeds mainly on insects | - |
| insecureness | (noun) the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety | - |
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| insecurity | (noun) the anxiety you experience when you feel vulnerable and insecure | - |
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| (noun) the state of being subject to danger or injury | - |
| insemination | (noun) the introduction of semen into the genital tract of a female | - |
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| (noun) the act of sowing (of seeds in the ground or, figuratively, of germs in the body or ideas in the mind, etc.) | - |