eightpence | (noun) a coin worth eight pennies | - |
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electroencephalogram | (noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, encephalogram |
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electroencephalograph | (noun) medical instrument that records electric currents generated by the brain | - |
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electroencephalographic | (adjective) of or relating to an electroencephalograph | - |
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eloquence | (noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: fluency, smoothness |
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emergence | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, egression |
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(noun) the act of emerging | Synonyms: emersion |
(noun) the becoming visible | Synonyms: egress, issue |
(noun) the gradual beginning or coming forth | Synonyms: growth, outgrowth |
eminence | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: tubercle, tuberosity |
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(noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, note, preeminence |
enceinte | (adjective) in an advanced stage of pregnancy | Synonyms: big, expectant, gravid, great, heavy, large, with child |
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encephalartos | (noun) any of numerous cycads of the genus Encephalartos having stout cylindrical trunks and a terminal crown of long often spiny pinnate leaves | - |
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encephalitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain usually caused by a virus; symptoms include headache and neck pain and drowsiness and nausea and fever (`phrenitis' is no longer in scientific use) | Synonyms: cephalitis, phrenitis |
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encephalocele | (noun) protrusion of brain tissue through a congenital fissure in the skull | - |
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encephalogram | (noun) an X ray of the brain made by replacing spinal fluid with a gas (usually oxygen) to improve contrast | Synonyms: pneumoencephalogram |
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(noun) a graphical record of electrical activity of the brain; produced by an electroencephalograph | Synonyms: EEG, electroencephalogram |
encephalograph | (noun) Any apparatus used to produce an encephalogram by recording electric currents generated by the brain. | - |
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encephalography | (noun) roentgenography of the brain after spinal fluid has been replaced by a gas (usually oxygen); produces an encephalogram | - |
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encephalomeningitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord and their meninges | Synonyms: cerebromeningitis, meningoencephalitis |
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encephalomyelitis | (noun) inflammation of the brain and spinal cord | - |
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encephalon | (noun) that part of the central nervous system that includes all the higher nervous centers; enclosed within the skull; continuous with the spinal cord | Synonyms: brain |
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encephalopathy | (noun) any disorder or disease of the brain | Synonyms: brain disease, brain disorder |
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equivalence | (noun) qualities that are comparable | Synonyms: comparability, compare, comparison |
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(noun) essential equality and interchangeability | - |
(noun) a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced | Synonyms: equality, equation, par |
essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
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(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
(noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
esurience | (noun) extreme gluttony | Synonyms: edacity, rapaciousness, rapacity, voraciousness, voracity |
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(noun) excessive desire to eat | Synonyms: edacity, ravenousness, voraciousness, voracity |
evanescence | (noun) the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight | - |
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evidence | (noun) your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief | Synonyms: grounds |
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(noun) (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved | - |
(noun) an indication that makes something evident | - |
(verb) provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes | Synonyms: attest, certify, demonstrate, manifest |
(verb) provide evidence for | Synonyms: bear witness, prove, show, testify |
(verb) give evidence | Synonyms: tell |
evidenced | (adjective) supported by evidence | - |
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excellence | (noun) the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree | - |
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(noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellency |
excrescence | (noun) (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body | - |
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(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
expedience | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expediency |
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(noun) taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others | Synonyms: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking |
experience | (noun) the content of direct observation or participation in an event | - |
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(noun) the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities | - |
(noun) an event as apprehended | - |
(verb) undergo | Synonyms: have |
(verb) have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations | Synonyms: know, live |
(verb) undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind | Synonyms: feel |
(verb) go through (mental or physical states or experiences) | Synonyms: get, have, receive |
(verb) undergo or live through a difficult experience | Synonyms: go through, see |
experienced | (adjective) having experience; having knowledge or skill from observation or participation | Synonyms: experient |
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faience | (noun) glazed earthenware decorated with opaque colors | - |
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feculence | (noun) something that is feculent | - |
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fence | (noun) a barrier that serves to enclose an area | Synonyms: fencing |
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(noun) a dealer in stolen property | - |
(verb) have an argument about something | Synonyms: argue, contend, debate |
(verb) surround with a wall in order to fortify | Synonyms: fence in, palisade, surround, wall |
(verb) fight with fencing swords | - |
(verb) enclose with a fence | Synonyms: fence in |
(verb) receive stolen goods | - |
fencelike | (adjective) resembling a fence | - |
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fencer | (noun) someone skilled at fencing | Synonyms: swordsman |
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fencesitter | (noun) a neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) | Synonyms: independent, mugwump |
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fivepence | (noun) a coin worth five cents | - |
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flatulence | (noun) pompously embellished language | Synonyms: turgidity, turgidness |
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(noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulency, gas |
florescence | (noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, flowering, inflorescence |
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fluorescence | (noun) light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength | - |
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fourpence | (noun) a former English silver coin worth four pennies | Synonyms: groat |
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fraudulence | (noun) something intended to deceive; deliberate trickery intended to gain an advantage | Synonyms: dupery, fraud, hoax, humbug, put-on |
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(noun) the quality of being fraudulent | Synonyms: deceit |
(noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: duplicity |
frequence | (noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequency, oftenness |
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grandiloquence | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
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hence | (adverb) (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | Synonyms: so, thence, therefore, thus |
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(adverb) from this time | - |
(adverb) from this place | - |
henceforth | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforward |
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henceforward | (adverb) from this time forth; from now on | Synonyms: henceforth |
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hyperintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: superintelligence |
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immanence | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanency |
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imminence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminency, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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immunofluorescence | (noun) (immunology) a technique that uses antibodies linked to a fluorescent dye in order to study antigens in a sample of tissue | - |
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impatience | (noun) a dislike of anything that causes delay | - |
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(noun) a restless desire for change and excitement | - |
(noun) a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay | Synonyms: restlessness |
impendence | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendency |
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impenitence | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitency |
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impermanence | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanency |
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impertinence | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: archness, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impudence, insolence |
(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impudence |
impotence | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotency, powerlessness |
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(noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotency |
improvidence | (noun) a lack of prudence and care by someone in the management of resources | Synonyms: shortsightedness |
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imprudence | (noun) a lack of caution in practical affairs | - |
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impudence | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, insolence |
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(noun) an impudent statement | Synonyms: cheek, impertinence |
inadvertence | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertency, unmindfulness |
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(noun) an unintentional omission resulting from failure to notice something | Synonyms: oversight |
incalescence | (noun) the property of being warming | Synonyms: calefaction |
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incandescence | (noun) light from heat | - |
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(noun) the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised | Synonyms: glow |
incidence | (noun) the striking of a light beam on a surface | - |
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(noun) the relative frequency of occurrence of something | Synonyms: relative incidence |
incipience | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipiency |
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incoherence | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherency, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherency |
incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
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(noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
inconsequence | (noun) having no important effects or influence | - |
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(noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, illogicalness |
incontinence | (noun) indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures | Synonyms: dissoluteness, self-gratification |
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(noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinency |
inconvenience | (noun) the quality of not being useful or convenient | - |
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(noun) a difficulty that causes anxiety | Synonyms: troublesomeness, worriment |
(noun) an inconvenient discomfort | Synonyms: incommodiousness |
(verb) to cause inconvenience or discomfort to | Synonyms: bother, discommode, disoblige, incommode, put out, trouble |
incurrence | (noun) the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable) | - |
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independence | (noun) the successful ending of the American Revolution | - |
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(noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independency |
indifference | (noun) the trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally | Synonyms: apathy, numbness, spiritlessness |
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(noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: nonchalance, unconcern |
(noun) unbiased impartial unconcern | - |
(noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassiveness, impassivity, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
indigence | (noun) a state of extreme poverty or destitution | Synonyms: need, pauperism, pauperization, penury |
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indolence | (noun) inactivity resulting from a dislike of work | Synonyms: laziness |
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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 |
inexpedience | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpediency |
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inexperience | (noun) lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience | Synonyms: rawness |
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inexperienced | (adjective) lacking practical experience or training | Synonyms: inexperient |
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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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inflorescence | (noun) the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk | - |
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(noun) the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms | Synonyms: anthesis, blossoming, efflorescence, florescence, flowering |
influence | (noun) causing something without any direct or apparent effort | - |
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(noun) a power to affect persons or events especially power based on prestige etc | - |
(noun) a cognitive factor that tends to have an effect on what you do | - |
(noun) one having power to influence another | - |
(noun) the effect of one thing (or person) on another | - |
(verb) shape or influence; give direction to | Synonyms: determine, mold, mould, regulate, shape |
(verb) induce into action by using one's charm | Synonyms: charm, tempt |
(verb) have and exert influence or effect | Synonyms: act upon, work |
influencer | (noun) a person who has a large following on one or more social media platform that works to generate interest in contemporary social issues and/or advertise consumer products | - |
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infructescence | (noun) the fruiting stage of the inflorescence | - |
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inherence | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherency |
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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 |
insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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(noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
insolence | (noun) an offensive disrespectful impudent act | - |
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(noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: cheekiness, crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence |
insurgence | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgency |
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intelligence | (noun) the operation of gathering information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence activity, intelligence operation |
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(noun) the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience | - |
(noun) information about recent and important events | Synonyms: news, tidings, word |
(noun) secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy) | Synonyms: intelligence information |
(noun) a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy | Synonyms: intelligence agency, intelligence service |
interdependence | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependency, mutuality |
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interference | (noun) the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding | Synonyms: hinderance, hindrance |
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(noun) (American football) blocking a player's path with your body | - |
(noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, preventative, preventive |
(noun) a policy of intervening in the affairs of other countries | Synonyms: intervention |
(noun) electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication | Synonyms: disturbance, noise |
intermittence | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittency |
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intransigence | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigency |
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intumescence | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescency, swelling |
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(noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescency |
iridescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: opalescence |
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irreverence | (noun) a disrespectful act | Synonyms: violation |
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(noun) an irreverent mental attitude | - |
jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
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(noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |