| achromasia | (noun) unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) | Synonyms: lividity, lividness, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness |
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| achromatic | (adjective) having no hue | Synonyms: neutral |
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| achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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| achromatin | (noun) the part of a cell nucleus that is relatively uncolored by stains or dyes | - |
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| achromatinic | (adjective) (of substance of a cell nucleus) not readily colored by stains | - |
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| achromatise | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatize |
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| achromatism | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromaticity, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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| achromatize | (verb) remove color from | Synonyms: achromatise |
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| achromatous | (adjective) having little or inadequate color | - |
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| achromia | (noun) an absence of normal pigmentation especially in the skin (as in albinism) or in red blood cells | - |
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| achromic | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromous |
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| achromous | (adjective) having no color | Synonyms: achromic |
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| anachronic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronistic, anachronous |
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| anachronism | (noun) an artifact that belongs to another time | - |
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| (noun) a person who seems to be displaced in time; who belongs to another age | - |
| (noun) something located at a time when it could not have existed or occurred | Synonyms: misdating, mistiming |
| anachronistic | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronous |
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| anachronistically | (adverb) in an anachronistic manner | - |
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| anachronous | (adjective) chronologically misplaced | Synonyms: anachronic, anachronistic |
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| catachresis | (noun) strained or paradoxical use of words either in error (as `blatant' to mean `flagrant') or deliberately (as in a mixed metaphor: `blind mouths') | - |
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| catachrestic | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestical |
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| catachrestical | (adjective) constituting or characterized by or given to catachresis | Synonyms: catachrestic |
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| diachronic | (adjective) used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time | Synonyms: historical |
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| diachrony | (noun) the study of linguistic change | Synonyms: diachronic linguistics, historical linguistics |
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| lachrymal | (adjective) of or relating to tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
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| (adjective) relating to or located near the organ that produces tears | Synonyms: lacrimal |
| lachrymation | (noun) shedding tears | Synonyms: lacrimation, tearing, watering |
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| lachrymator | (noun) a gas that makes the eyes fill with tears but does not damage them; used in dispersing crowds | Synonyms: lacrimator, tear gas, teargas |
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| lachrymatory | (adjective) relating to or prompting tears | Synonyms: lacrimatory |
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| lachrymose | (adjective) showing sorrow | Synonyms: dolorous, dolourous, tearful, weeping |
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