| accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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| (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
| accessible | (adjective) capable of being reached | - |
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| (adjective) easy to get along with or talk to; friendly | - |
| (adjective) easily obtained | - |
| (adjective) capable of being read with comprehension | Synonyms: approachable |
| accession | (noun) the act of attaining or gaining access to a new office or right or position (especially the throne) | Synonyms: rise to power |
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| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: access, admission, admittance, entree |
| (noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: assenting |
| (noun) something added to what you already have | Synonyms: addition |
| (noun) (civil law) the right to all of that which your property produces whether by growth or improvement | - |
| (noun) a process of increasing by addition (as to a collection or group) | - |
| (verb) make a record of additions to a collection, such as a library | - |
| accessional | (adjective) of or constituting an accession | - |
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| aggression | (noun) violent action that is hostile and usually unprovoked | Synonyms: hostility |
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| (noun) deliberately unfriendly behavior | - |
| (noun) the act of initiating hostilities | - |
| (noun) a disposition to behave aggressively | - |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggressiveness |
| aggressive | (adjective) having or showing determination and energetic pursuit of your ends | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of an enemy or one eager to fight | Synonyms: belligerent |
| (adjective) tending to spread quickly | Synonyms: fast-growing, strong-growing |
| aggressively | (adverb) in an aggressive manner | Synonyms: sharply |
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| aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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| (noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
| (noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
| blessing | (noun) the act of praying for divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
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| (noun) the formal act of approving | Synonyms: approval, approving |
| (noun) a ceremonial prayer invoking divine protection | Synonyms: benediction |
| (noun) a short prayer of thanks before a meal | Synonyms: grace, thanksgiving |
| (noun) a desirable state | Synonyms: boon |
| buttressing | (noun) a support usually of stone or brick; supports the wall of a building | Synonyms: buttress |
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| caressing | (noun) affectionate play (or foreplay without contact with the genital organs) | Synonyms: cuddling, fondling, hugging, kissing, necking, petting, smooching, snuggling |
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| cession | (noun) the act of ceding | Synonyms: ceding |
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| compressibility | (noun) the property of being able to occupy less space | Synonyms: sponginess, squeezability |
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| compressible | (adjective) capable of being compressed or made more compact | - |
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| (adjective) capable of being easily compressed | Synonyms: squeezable |
| compressing | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compression |
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| compression | (noun) applying pressure | Synonyms: compressing |
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| (noun) encoding information while reducing the bandwidth or bits required | - |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: condensation, contraction |
| (noun) an increase in the density of something | Synonyms: compaction, concretion, densification |
| concession | (noun) a contract granting the right to operate a subsidiary business | Synonyms: grant |
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| (noun) a point conceded or yielded | - |
| (noun) the act of conceding or yielding | Synonyms: conceding, yielding |
| concessionaire | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessioner |
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| concessioner | (noun) someone who holds or operates a concession | Synonyms: concessionaire |
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| concessive | (adjective) of or pertaining to concession | - |
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| conessi | (noun) tropical Asian tree with hard white wood and bark formerly used as a remedy for dysentery and diarrhea | Synonyms: Holarrhena antidysenterica, Holarrhena pubescens, ivory tree, kurchee, kurchi |
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| confession | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) the act of a penitent disclosing his sinfulness before a priest in the sacrament of penance in the hope of absolution | - |
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| (noun) an admission of misdeeds or faults | - |
| (noun) a written document acknowledging an offense and signed by the guilty party | - |
| (noun) a public declaration of your faith | - |
| (noun) the document that spells out the belief system of a given church (especially the Reformation churches of the 16th century) | - |
| confessional | (noun) a booth where a priest sits to hear confessions | - |
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| congressional | (adjective) of or relating to congress | - |
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| deaccession | (verb) sell (art works) from a collection, especially in order to raise money for the purchase of other art works | - |
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| decompressing | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompression |
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| decompression | (noun) relieving pressure (especially bringing a compressed person gradually back to atmospheric pressure) | Synonyms: decompressing |
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| (noun) restoring compressed information to its normal form for use or display | - |
| degressive | (adjective) going down by steps | - |
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| (adjective) (of taxes) gradually decreasing in rate on sums below a certain amount | - |
| depressing | (adjective) causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | Synonyms: cheerless, uncheerful |
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| depressingly | (adverb) in a depressing manner or to a depressing degree | - |
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| depression | (noun) pushing down | - |
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| (noun) sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy | - |
| (noun) a sunken or depressed geological formation | Synonyms: natural depression |
| (noun) angular distance below the horizon (especially of a celestial object) | - |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: impression, imprint |
| (noun) a mental state characterized by a pessimistic sense of inadequacy and a despondent lack of activity | - |
| (noun) an air mass of lower pressure; often brings precipitation | Synonyms: low |
| (noun) a long-term economic state characterized by unemployment and low prices and low levels of trade and investment | Synonyms: economic crisis, slump |
| (noun) a state of depression and anhedonia so severe as to require clinical intervention | Synonyms: clinical depression, depressive disorder |
| depressive | (noun) someone suffering psychological depression | - |
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| dessiatine | (noun) a former Russian unit of area equal to 2.7 acres | - |
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| digression | (noun) a turning aside (of your course or attention or concern) | Synonyms: deflection, deflexion, deviation, divagation, diversion |
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| (noun) wandering from the main path of a journey | Synonyms: excursion |
| (noun) a message that departs from the main subject | Synonyms: aside, divagation, excursus, parenthesis |
| digressive | (adjective) (of e.g. speech and writing) tending to depart from the main point or cover a wide range of subjects | Synonyms: discursive, excursive, rambling |
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| (adjective) of superficial relevance if any | Synonyms: tangential |
| digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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| dispossession | (noun) the expulsion of someone (such as a tenant) from the possession of land by process of law | Synonyms: eviction, legal ouster |
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| (noun) freeing from evil spirits | Synonyms: exorcism |
| distressing | (adjective) bad; unfortunate | Synonyms: deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, sad, sorry |
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| (adjective) causing distress or worry or anxiety | Synonyms: distressful, disturbing, perturbing, troubling, worrisome, worrying |
| distressingly | (adverb) unpleasantly | Synonyms: painfully |
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| distressingness | (noun) the quality of being painful | Synonyms: painfulness |
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| dressing | (noun) the activity of getting dressed; putting on clothes | Synonyms: grooming |
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| (noun) the act of applying a bandage | Synonyms: bandaging, binding |
| (noun) processes in the conversion of rough hides into leather | - |
| (noun) a cloth covering for a wound or sore | Synonyms: medical dressing |
| (noun) making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure | Synonyms: fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization |
| (noun) savory dressings for salads; basically of two kinds: either the thin French or vinaigrette type or the creamy mayonnaise type | Synonyms: salad dressing |
| (noun) a mixture of seasoned ingredients used to stuff meats and vegetables | Synonyms: stuffing |
| egression | (noun) the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent | Synonyms: egress, emergence |
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| excessive | (adjective) beyond normal limits | Synonyms: inordinate, undue, unreasonable |
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| (adjective) unrestrained, especially with regard to feelings | Synonyms: extravagant, exuberant, overweening |
| excessively | (adverb) to a degree exceeding normal or proper limits | Synonyms: overly, to a fault, too |
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| excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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| expressible | (adjective) capable of being expressed | - |
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| expression | (noun) the act of forcing something out by squeezing or pressing | - |
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| (noun) the feelings expressed on a person's face | Synonyms: aspect, face, facial expression, look |
| (noun) a word or phrase that particular people use in particular situations | Synonyms: locution, saying |
| (noun) the style of expressing yourself | Synonyms: formulation |
| (noun) expression without words | Synonyms: manifestation, reflection, reflexion |
| (noun) a group of symbols that make a mathematical statement | Synonyms: formula |
| (noun) the communication (in speech or writing) of your beliefs or opinions | Synonyms: verbal expression, verbalism |
| (noun) a group of words that form a constituent of a sentence and are considered as a single unit | Synonyms: construction, grammatical construction |
| (noun) (genetics) the process of expressing a gene | - |
| expressionism | (noun) an art movement early in the 20th century; the artist's subjective expression of inner experiences was emphasized; an inner feeling was expressed through a distorted rendition of reality | - |
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| expressionist | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who is an adherent of expressionism | - |
| expressionistic | (adjective) of or relating to expressionism | Synonyms: expressionist |
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| expressionless | (adjective) deliberately impassive in manner | Synonyms: deadpan, impassive, poker-faced, unexpressive |
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| expressive | (adjective) performing gestures or possessing qualities or features that suggest a certain state of being or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by expression | - |
| expressively | (adverb) with expression; in an expressive manner | - |
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| expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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| guessing | (noun) an estimate based on little or no information | Synonyms: dead reckoning, guess, guesswork, shot |
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| hairdressing | (noun) care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair | Synonyms: hair care, haircare |
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| (noun) a toiletry for the hair | Synonyms: hair grease, hair oil, hair tonic |
| hessian | (noun) (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot | Synonyms: Hessian boot, jackboot, Wellington, Wellington boot |
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| immunosuppression | (noun) lowering the body's normal immune response to invasion by foreign substances; can be deliberate (as in lowering the immune response to prevent rejection of a transplanted organ) or incidental (as a side effect of radiotherapy or chemotherapy for cancer) | - |
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| immunosuppressive | (adjective) of or relating to a substance that lowers the body's normal immune response and induces immunosuppression | - |
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| (noun) a drug that lowers the body's normal immune response | Synonyms: immune suppressant drug, immunosuppressant, immunosuppressive drug, immunosuppressor |
| impressible | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressionable, waxy |
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| impression | (noun) an impressionistic portrayal of a person | - |
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| (noun) the act of pressing one thing on or into the surface of another | - |
| (noun) (dentistry) an imprint of the teeth and gums in wax or plaster | - |
| (noun) an outward appearance | Synonyms: effect |
| (noun) a vague idea in which some confidence is placed | Synonyms: belief, feeling, notion, opinion |
| (noun) a clear and telling mental image | Synonyms: mental picture, picture |
| (noun) a symbol that is the result of printing or engraving | Synonyms: stamp |
| (noun) all the copies of a work printed at one time | Synonyms: printing |
| (noun) a concavity in a surface produced by pressing | Synonyms: depression, imprint |
| impressionable | (adjective) easily impressed or influenced | Synonyms: impressible, waxy |
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| impressionist | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionistic |
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| (noun) an artist who follows the theories of Impressionism | - |
| impressionistic | (adjective) relating to or characteristic of Impressionism | Synonyms: impressionist |
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| (adjective) of or relating to or based on an impression rather than on facts or reasoning | - |
| impressive | (adjective) making a strong or vivid impression | - |
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| (adjective) producing a strong effect | Synonyms: telling |
| impressively | (adverb) in an impressive manner | Synonyms: imposingly |
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| impressiveness | (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, magnificence, richness |
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| (noun) the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind | - |
| inaccessibility | (noun) the quality of not being accessible | - |
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| inaccessible | (adjective) capable of being reached only with great difficulty or not at all | Synonyms: unaccessible |
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| (adjective) not capable of being obtained | Synonyms: unobtainable, unprocurable, untouchable |
| inaccessibly | (adverb) in an inaccessible manner | - |
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| incompressibility | (noun) the property of being incompressible | - |
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| incompressible | (adjective) incapable of being compressed; resisting compression | - |
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| inexpressible | (adjective) defying expression | Synonyms: unexpressible |
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| inexpressibly | (adverb) to an inexpressible degree | Synonyms: indescribably, ineffably, unspeakably, unutterably |
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| inexpressive | (adjective) not expressive | - |
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| inexpressively | (adverb) without expression; in an inexpressive manner | - |
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| ingressive | (noun) a speech sound by which the airstream flows inward through the mouth or nose. | - |
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| intercessio | (noun) the right of veto possessed by Roman magistrates. | - |
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| intercession | (noun) the act of intervening (as to mediate a dispute, etc.) | Synonyms: intervention |
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| (noun) a prayer to God on behalf of another person | - |
| irrepressibility | (noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: buoyancy |
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| irrepressible | (adjective) impossible to repress or control | Synonyms: uncontrollable |
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| lypressin | (noun) an antidiuretic and vasoconstrictor used to treat diabetes insipidus | - |
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| messiah | (noun) any expected deliverer | Synonyms: christ |
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| messiahship | (noun) the position of messiah | - |
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| messianic | (adjective) of or relating to a messiah promising deliverance | - |
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| messily | (adverb) in a messy, untidy manner | Synonyms: untidily |
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| messiness | (noun) the trait of being untidy and messy | Synonyms: untidiness |
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| (noun) a state of confusion and disorderliness | Synonyms: mess, muss, mussiness |
| multiprocessing | (noun) simultaneous processing by two or more processing units | Synonyms: parallel processing |
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| necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| necessitous | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken |
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| necessity | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, requirement, requisite |
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| (noun) the condition of being essential or indispensable | - |
| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| nonaggression | (noun) a policy of not initiating hostilities | - |
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| nonaggressive | (adjective) not aggressive; not given to fighting or assertiveness | Synonyms: unaggressive |
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| nonprofessional | (adjective) not professional; not engaged in a profession or engaging in as a profession or for gain | - |
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| nonprogressive | (adjective) old-fashioned and out of date | Synonyms: fusty, standpat, unprogressive |
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| obsession | (noun) an unhealthy and compulsive preoccupation with something or someone | Synonyms: fixation |
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| (noun) an irrational motive for performing trivial or repetitive actions, even against your will | Synonyms: compulsion |
| obsessional | (adjective) characterized by or constituting an obsession | Synonyms: obsessive |
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| obsessionally | (adverb) in a compulsive manner | Synonyms: compulsively, obsessively |
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