absenteeism | (noun) habitual absence from work | - |
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absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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absentmindedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, abstractedly, inattentively |
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absentmindedness | (noun) preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored | - |
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absinth | (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinthe |
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absinthe | (noun) strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anise | Synonyms: absinth |
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(noun) aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe | Synonyms: Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, lad's love, old man |
absolution | (noun) the act of absolving or remitting; formal redemption as pronounced by a priest in the sacrament of penance | Synonyms: remission, remission of sin, remittal |
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(noun) the condition of being formally forgiven by a priest in the sacrament of penance | - |
absolutisation | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutization |
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absolutism | (noun) the doctrine of an absolute being, often related to idealism in philosophy. | - |
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(noun) an ideological belief in the complete and unrestricted power of government. | Synonyms: totalism, totalitarianism |
(noun) a form of government in which the ruler is an absolute dictator (not restricted by a constitution or laws or opposition etc.) | Synonyms: authoritarianism, Caesarism, despotism, dictatorship, monocracy, one-man rule, shogunate, Stalinism, totalitarianism, tyranny |
(noun) dominance through threat of punishment and violence | Synonyms: despotism, tyranny |
absolutist | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutistic |
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(noun) one who advocates absolutism | - |
absolutistic | (adjective) pertaining to the principle of totalitarianism | Synonyms: absolutist |
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absolutization | (noun) the process of rendering something absolute or converting it into an absolute. | Synonyms: absolutisation |
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absolvitory | (adjective) providing absolution | Synonyms: exonerative, forgiving |
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absorbefacient | (adjective) inducing or promoting absorption | Synonyms: sorbefacient |
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absorbing | (adjective) capable of arousing and holding the attention | Synonyms: engrossing, fascinating, gripping, riveting |
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absorption | (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: engrossment, preoccupancy, preoccupation |
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(noun) complete attention; intense mental effort | Synonyms: concentration, engrossment, immersion |
(noun) (chemistry) a process in which one substance permeates another; a fluid permeates or is dissolved by a liquid or solid | Synonyms: soaking up |
(noun) the process of absorbing nutrients into the body after digestion | Synonyms: assimilation |
(noun) (physics) the process in which incident radiated energy is retained without reflection or transmission on passing through a medium | - |
(noun) the social process of absorbing one cultural group into harmony with another | Synonyms: assimilation |
absorptive | (adjective) having power or capacity or tendency to absorb or soak up something (liquids or energy etc.) | Synonyms: absorbent |
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absorptivity | (noun) (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body | Synonyms: absorption factor |
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abstain | (verb) choose not to consume | Synonyms: desist, refrain |
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(verb) refrain from voting | - |
abstainer | (noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstinent, nondrinker |
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(noun) someone who practices self denial as a spiritual discipline | Synonyms: ascetic |
abstemious | (adjective) sparing in consumption of especially food and drink | - |
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(adjective) marked by temperance in indulgence | Synonyms: light |
abstemiously | (adverb) in a sparing manner; without overindulgence | Synonyms: temperately |
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abstemiousness | (noun) moderation in eating and drinking | - |
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(noun) restricted to bare necessities | - |
abstention | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstinence |
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abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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abstinence | (noun) act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite | - |
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(noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstention |
abstinent | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstentious |
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(noun) a person who refrains from drinking intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: abstainer, nondrinker |
abstraction | (noun) a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples | Synonyms: abstract entity |
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(noun) the act of withdrawing or removing something | - |
(noun) an abstract painting | - |
(noun) a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance | Synonyms: abstract |
(noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstractedness |
(noun) the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances | Synonyms: generalisation, generalization |
abstractionism | (noun) an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation | Synonyms: abstract art |
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(noun) a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples | Synonyms: unrealism |
abstractionist | (adjective) not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature | Synonyms: abstract, nonfigurative, nonobjective |
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(noun) a painter of abstract pictures | Synonyms: abstract artist |
abstractive | (adjective) of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting | - |
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abstrusity | (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
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absurdity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: fatuity, fatuousness, silliness |
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(noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdness, ridiculousness |
abulia | (noun) a loss of will power | Synonyms: aboulia |
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abulic | (adjective) suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions | Synonyms: aboulic |
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abusive | (adjective) characterized by physical or psychological maltreatment | - |
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(adjective) expressing offensive reproach | Synonyms: opprobrious, scurrilous |
abusively | (adverb) in an abusive manner | - |
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acacia | (noun) any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia | - |
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academia | (noun) the academic world | Synonyms: academe |
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academic | (adjective) associated with academia or an academy | - |
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(adjective) marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects | Synonyms: donnish, pedantic |
(adjective) hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result | - |
(noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academician, faculty member |
academically | (adverb) in regard to academic matters | - |
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academician | (noun) an educator who works at a college or university | Synonyms: academic, faculty member |
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(noun) a scholar who is skilled in academic disputation | Synonyms: schoolman |
(noun) someone elected to honorary membership in an academy | - |
academicianship | (noun) the position of member of an honorary academy | - |
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academicism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academism, scholasticism |
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(noun) Purely speculative thoughts and attitudes. | - |
(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academism |
academism | (noun) orthodoxy of a scholastic variety | Synonyms: academicism, scholasticism |
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(noun) a style of painting and sculpture produced under the influence of European academies of art. | Synonyms: academic art, academicism |
acanthion | (noun) the craniometric point at the anterior extremity of the intermaxillary suture | - |
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acanthocytosis | (noun) the presence of acanthocytes in the blood stream (as in abetalipoproteinemia) | - |
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acanthoid | (adjective) shaped like a spine or thorn | Synonyms: acanthous, spinous |
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acantholysis | (noun) a breakdown of a cell layer in the epidermis (as in pemphigus) | - |
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acanthopterygian | (noun) a teleost fish with fins that are supported by sharp inflexible rays | Synonyms: spiny-finned fish |
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acanthosis | (noun) an abnormal but benign thickening of the prickle-cell layer of the skin (as in psoriasis) | - |
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acanthotic | (adjective) of or relating to or having acanthosis | - |
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acapnia | (noun) a state in which the level of carbon dioxide in the blood is lower than normal; can result from deep or rapid breathing | Synonyms: hypocapnia |
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acapnial | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnic, acapnotic |
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acapnic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnotic |
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acapnotic | (adjective) relating to or demonstrating acapnia | Synonyms: acapnial, acapnic |
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acaracide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaricide |
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acardia | (noun) congenital absence of the heart (as in the development of some monsters) | - |
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acariasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acaridiasis, acariosis |
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acaricide | (noun) a chemical agent used to kill mites | Synonyms: acaracide |
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acarid | (noun) very small free-living arachnid that is parasitic on animals or plants; related to ticks | - |
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acaridiasis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acariosis |
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acarine | (noun) mite or tick | - |
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acariosis | (noun) infestation with itch mites | Synonyms: acariasis, acaridiasis |
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acarophobia | (noun) a morbid fear of small insects and mites and worms | - |
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acatalectic | (adjective) (verse) metrically complete; especially having the full number of syllables in the final metrical foot | - |
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(noun) (prosody) a line of verse that has the full number of syllables | - |
acataphasia | (noun) a disorder in which a lesion to the central nervous system leaves you unable to formulate a statement or to express yourself in an organized manner | - |
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acathexia | (noun) an inability to retain bodily secretions | - |
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acathexis | (noun) (psychoanalysis) a lack of cathexis; a condition in which significant objects or memories arouse no emotion in an individual | - |
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acceleration | (noun) the act of accelerating; increasing the speed | Synonyms: quickening, speedup |
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(noun) an increase in rate of change | - |
(noun) (physics) a rate of increase of velocity | - |
accelerative | (adjective) tending to increase velocity | Synonyms: acceleratory |
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accenting | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accentuation, emphasizing |
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accentuation | (noun) the act of giving special importance or significance to something | Synonyms: accenting, emphasizing |
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(noun) the use or application of an accent; the relative prominence of syllables in a phrase or utterance | - |
acceptability | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptableness |
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acceptation | (noun) the act of accepting with approval; favorable reception | Synonyms: acceptance, adoption, espousal |
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(noun) the accepted meaning of a word | Synonyms: word meaning, word sense |
(noun) acceptance as true or valid | - |
accepting | (adjective) tolerating without protest | - |
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acceptive | (adjective) inclined to accept rather than reject | - |
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(adjective) accepting willingly | Synonyms: acceptant |
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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accessorial | (adjective) nonessential but helpful | - |
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acciaccatura | (noun) an embellishing note usually written in smaller size | Synonyms: appoggiatura, grace note |
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accidence | (noun) the part of grammar that deals with the inflections of words | Synonyms: inflectional morphology |
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accident | (noun) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause | Synonyms: chance event, fortuity, stroke |
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(noun) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury | - |
accidental | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: incidental, nonessential |
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(adjective) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally | Synonyms: inadvertent |
(noun) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature | - |
accidentally | (adverb) without advance planning | Synonyms: by chance, circumstantially, unexpectedly |
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(adverb) without intention; in an unintentional manner | Synonyms: unintentionally |
(adverb) of a minor or subordinate nature | Synonyms: incidentally |
accipitrine | (adjective) of or relating to or belonging to the genus Accipiter (or to typical hawks) | - |
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acclaim | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclamation, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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(verb) praise vociferously | Synonyms: hail, herald |
(verb) clap one's hands or shout after performances to indicate approval | Synonyms: applaud, clap, spat |
acclamation | (noun) enthusiastic approval | Synonyms: acclaim, eclat, plaudit, plaudits |
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acclimate | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimatise, acclimatize |
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acclimation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimatisation, acclimatization |
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acclimatisation | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatization |
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acclimatise | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatize |
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acclimatization | (noun) adaptation to a new climate (a new temperature or altitude or environment) | Synonyms: acclimation, acclimatisation |
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acclimatize | (verb) get used to a certain climate | Synonyms: acclimate, acclimatise |
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acclivitous | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: rising, uphill |
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acclivity | (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
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accommodating | (adjective) helpful in bringing about a harmonious adaptation | Synonyms: accommodative |
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(adjective) obliging; willing to do favors | - |
accommodatingly | (adverb) in accommodation | Synonyms: obligingly |
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