nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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(noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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(noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
oblanceolate | (adjective) (of a leaf shape) having a broad rounded apex and a tapering base | - |
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observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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(noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
(noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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(noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
oneiromancer | (noun) someone who divines through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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onomancer | (noun) one who practices onomancy | - |
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ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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(noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
(noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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(noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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(noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
outbalance | (verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outweigh, overbalance, preponderate |
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outdistance | (verb) go far ahead of | Synonyms: distance, outstrip |
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overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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(noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
overbalance | (verb) cause to be off balance | - |
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(verb) weigh more heavily | Synonyms: outbalance, outweigh, preponderate |
overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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(noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
(noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
perchance | (adverb) through chance | Synonyms: by chance |
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(adverb) by chance | Synonyms: maybe, mayhap, peradventure, perhaps, possibly |
performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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(noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
(noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
(noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
(noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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piquance | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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(noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquancy, piquantness |
pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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(noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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prance | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: strut, swagger |
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(verb) to walk with a lofty proud gait, often in an attempt to impress others | Synonyms: cock, ruffle, sashay, strut, swagger, tittup |
(verb) ride a horse such that it springs and bounds forward | - |
(verb) cause (a horse) to bound spring forward | - |
(verb) spring forward on the hind legs | - |
prancer | (noun) a mettlesome or fiery horse | - |
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precancerous | (adjective) of or relating to a growth that is not malignant but is likely to become so if not treated | - |
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precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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predominance | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predomination |
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(noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predomination, prepotency |
preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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(noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
(noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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(noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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pursuance | (noun) the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion | Synonyms: prosecution |
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(noun) a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria | Synonyms: pursuit, quest |
purveyance | (noun) the act of supplying something | - |
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pyromancer | (noun) one who practices pyromancy | - |
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quittance | (noun) payment of a debt or obligation | Synonyms: repayment |
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(noun) a document or receipt certifying release from an obligation or debt | - |
radiance | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiancy, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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(noun) the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface | Synonyms: glow, glowing |
(noun) an attractive combination of good health and happiness | - |
reactance | (noun) opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance) | - |
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reappearance | (noun) the act of someone appearing again | Synonyms: return |
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(noun) the event of something appearing again | - |
reassurance | (noun) the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence | - |
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recalcitrance | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrancy, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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recognizance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognisance |
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reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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redundance | (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundancy |
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refinance | (verb) renew the financing of | - |
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reflectance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that is reflected from a surface | Synonyms: coefficient of reflection, reflection factor, reflectivity |
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reinsurance | (noun) sharing the risk by insurance companies; part or all of the insurer's risk is assumed by other companies in return for part of the premium paid by the insured | - |
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relevance | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevancy |
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reliance | (noun) certainty based on past experience | Synonyms: trust |
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(noun) the state of relying on something | - |
reluctance | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition |
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(noun) (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance) | - |
remembrance | (noun) the ability to recall past occurrences | Synonyms: anamnesis, recollection |
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(noun) a recognition of meritorious service | Synonyms: commemoration, memorial |
remittance | (noun) a payment of money sent to a person in another place | Synonyms: remission, remitment, remittal |
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remonstrance | (noun) the act of expressing earnest opposition or protest | Synonyms: expostulation, objection, remonstration |
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repentance | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, penitence |
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repugnance | (noun) intense aversion | Synonyms: horror, repulsion, revulsion |
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(noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, inconsistency, mutual exclusiveness |
resemblance | (noun) similarity in appearance or external or superficial details | - |
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resistance | (noun) group action in opposition to those in power | - |
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(noun) the military action of resisting the enemy's advance | - |
(noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: opposition |
(noun) an electrical device that resists the flow of electrical current | Synonyms: resistor |
(noun) the degree of unresponsiveness of a disease-causing microorganism to antibiotics or other drugs (as in penicillin-resistant bacteria) | - |
(noun) (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness | - |
(noun) a secret group organized to overthrow a government or occupation force | Synonyms: underground |
(noun) any mechanical force that tends to retard or oppose motion | - |
(noun) a material's opposition to the flow of electric current; measured in ohms | Synonyms: electric resistance, electrical resistance, impedance, ohmic resistance, resistivity |
(noun) (medicine) the condition in which an organism can resist disease | Synonyms: immunity |
(noun) the capacity of an organism to defend itself against harmful environmental agents | - |
resonance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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(noun) the quality imparted to voiced speech sounds by the action of the resonating chambers of the throat and mouth and nasal cavities | - |
(noun) a vibration of large amplitude produced by a relatively small vibration near the same frequency of vibration as the natural frequency of the resonating system | - |
(noun) an excited state of a stable particle causing a sharp maximum in the probability of absorption of electromagnetic radiation | - |
(noun) a relationship of mutual understanding or trust and agreement between people | Synonyms: rapport |
reverberance | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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rhabdomancer | (noun) someone who uses a divining rod to find underground water | Synonyms: dowser, water witch |
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riddance | (noun) the act of forcing out someone or something | Synonyms: ejection, exclusion, expulsion |
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(noun) the act of removing or getting rid of something | Synonyms: elimination |
romance | (noun) an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure) | Synonyms: romanticism |
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(noun) a novel dealing with idealized events remote from everyday life | - |
(noun) a story dealing with love | Synonyms: love story |
(noun) a relationship between two lovers | Synonyms: love affair |
(verb) tell romantic or exaggerated lies | - |
(verb) talk or behave amorously, without serious intentions | Synonyms: butterfly, chat up, coquet, coquette, dally, flirt, mash, philander |
(verb) have a love affair with | - |
(verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, solicit, woo |
ropedancer | (noun) an acrobat who performs on a rope stretched at some height above the ground | Synonyms: ropewalker |
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seance | (noun) a meeting of spiritualists | Synonyms: session, sitting |
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semblance | (noun) picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing | Synonyms: likeness |
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(noun) an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading | Synonyms: color, colour, gloss |
(noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: illusion |
semitrance | (noun) a trancelike state in which the person can follow instructions but voluntary action is weak or absent | - |
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severance | (noun) the act of severing | Synonyms: severing |
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(noun) a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions) | Synonyms: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture |
significance | (noun) the quality of being significant | - |
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(noun) a meaning that is not expressly stated but can be inferred | Synonyms: implication, import |
(noun) the message that is intended or expressed or signified | Synonyms: import, meaning, signification |
stance | (noun) standing posture | - |
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(noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: position, posture |
substance | (noun) the real physical matter of which a person or thing consists | - |
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(noun) a particular kind or species of matter with uniform properties | - |
(noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, consistency |
(noun) the idea that is intended | Synonyms: meaning |
(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, sum |
(noun) content communicating a message; what something is about | Synonyms: content, message, subject matter |
(noun) considerable capital (wealth or income) | Synonyms: means |
(noun) material of a particular kind or constitution | - |
sufferance | (noun) patient endurance especially of pain or distress | - |
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(noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, toleration |
superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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sustenance | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustentation, upkeep |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, victuals |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support |
tapdance | (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tap |
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tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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temperance | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: sobriety |
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(noun) the act of tempering | - |
(noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: moderation |
tolerance | (noun) the act of tolerating something | - |
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(noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, margin |
(noun) the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions | - |
(noun) a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior | Synonyms: permissiveness |
(noun) willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others | - |
trance | (noun) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep | - |
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(noun) A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect. | - |
(noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, spell |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate |
trancelike | (adjective) as if in a trance | - |
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transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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unbalance | (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, instability |
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(noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: derangement, mental unsoundness |
(verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
(verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
unbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: imbalanced |
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(adjective) affected with madness or insanity | Synonyms: brainsick, crazy, demented, disturbed, mad, sick, unhinged |
(adjective) debits and credits are not equal | - |
unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |
usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
(noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |
utterance | (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: vocalization |
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valance | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, pelmet, valance board |
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valiance | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
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variance | (noun) an activity that varies from a norm or standard | Synonyms: variation |
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(noun) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation) | - |
(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, divergence |
(noun) the quality of being subject to variation | Synonyms: variability, variableness |
(noun) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value | - |
(noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: division |
(noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variant |