| abolitionism | (noun) the doctrine that calls for the abolition of slavery | - |
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| abolitionist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: emancipationist |
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| abortionist | (noun) a person (who should be a doctor) who terminates pregnancies | - |
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| 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 |
| accordionist | (noun) a musician who plays the accordion | - |
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| amnionic | (adjective) of or related to the amnion or characterized by developing an amnion | Synonyms: amnic, amniotic |
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| anionic | (adjective) of or relating to anions | - |
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| (noun) a class of synthetic detergents in which the molecules do not ionize in aqueous solutions | Synonyms: anionic detergent, non-ionic detergent |
| apportioning | (noun) the act of distributing by allotting or apportioning; distribution according to a plan | Synonyms: allocation, allotment, apportionment, assignation, parceling, parcelling |
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| associationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity | Synonyms: association theory |
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| avionic | (adjective) of or relating to avionics | - |
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| avionics | (noun) science and technology of electronic systems and devices for aeronautics and astronautics | - |
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| bionic | (adjective) of or relating to bionics | - |
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| (adjective) having particular physiological functions augmented or replaced by electronic or electromechanical components | - |
| bionics | (noun) application of biological principles to the study and design of engineering systems (especially electronic systems) | - |
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| cationic | (adjective) of or relating to cations | - |
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| chorionic | (adjective) of or relating to a chorion | - |
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| collaborationism | (noun) act of cooperating traitorously with an enemy that is occupying your country | Synonyms: collaboration, quislingism |
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| collaborationist | (noun) someone who collaborates with an enemy occupying force | Synonyms: collaborator, quisling |
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| commissioning | (noun) the act of granting authority to undertake certain functions | Synonyms: commission |
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| conditioning | (noun) a learning process in which an organism's behavior becomes dependent on the occurrence of a stimulus in its environment | - |
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| configurationism | (noun) (psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties | Synonyms: Gestalt psychology |
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| conservationist | (noun) someone who works to protect the environment from destruction or pollution | Synonyms: environmentalist |
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| contortionist | (noun) an acrobat able to twist into unusual positions | - |
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| conversationist | (noun) someone skilled at conversation | Synonyms: conversationalist, schmoozer |
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| coreligionist | (noun) someone having the same religion as another person | - |
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| counterrevolutionist | (noun) a revolutionary whose aim is to reverse the changes introduced by an earlier revolution | Synonyms: counter-revolutionist, counterrevolutionary |
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| creationism | (noun) the literal belief in the account of Creation given in the Book of Genesis | - |
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| cushioning | (noun) artifact consisting of soft or resilient material used to fill or give shape or protect or add comfort | Synonyms: padding |
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| deconstructionism | (noun) a philosophical theory of criticism (usually of literature or film) that seeks to expose deep-seated contradictions in a work by delving below its surface meaning | Synonyms: deconstruction |
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| deconstructionist | (adjective) of or concerned with the philosophical theory of literature known as deconstructionism | - |
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| deionize | (verb) deprive of ions | - |
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| deviationism | (noun) ideological defection from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| deviationist | (noun) an ideological defector from the party line (especially from orthodox communism) | - |
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| dimensioning | (adjective) indicating or determining size and position in space | - |
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| disillusioning | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disenchanting |
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| distortionist | (noun) a painter who introduces distortions | - |
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| diversionist | (noun) someone who commits sabotage or deliberately causes wrecks | Synonyms: saboteur, wrecker |
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| educationist | (noun) a specialist in the theory of education | Synonyms: educationalist |
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| elocutionist | (noun) a public speaker trained in voice production and gesture and delivery | - |
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| emancipationist | (noun) a reformer who favors abolishing slavery | Synonyms: abolitionist |
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| envisioning | (noun) visual imagery | Synonyms: picturing |
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| evolutionism | (noun) (biology) a scientific theory of the origin of species of plants and animals | Synonyms: theory of evolution, theory of organic evolution |
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| evolutionist | (noun) a person who believes in organic evolution | - |
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| excursionist | (noun) a tourist who is visiting sights of interest | Synonyms: rubberneck, sightseer, tripper |
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| exhibitionism | (noun) the perverse act of exposing and attracting attention to your own genitals | Synonyms: immodesty |
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| (noun) extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself | - |
| exhibitionist | (noun) someone who deliberately behaves in such a way as to attract attention | Synonyms: show-off |
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| (noun) someone with a compulsive desire to expose the genitals | Synonyms: flasher |
| exhibitionistic | (adjective) compulsively attracting attention to yourself especially by public exposure or exaggerated behavior | - |
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| expansionism | (noun) the doctrine of expanding the territory or the economic influence of a country | - |
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| expansionist | (adjective) of or involving or guided by expansionism | - |
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| 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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| extortionist | (noun) a criminal who extorts money from someone by threatening to expose embarrassing information about them | Synonyms: blackmailer, extortioner |
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| fashioning | (noun) the act that results in something coming to be | Synonyms: devising, making |
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| functioning | (adjective) performing or able to perform its regular function | - |
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| (noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: operation, performance |
| histrionic | (adjective) characteristic of acting or a stage performance; often affected | Synonyms: melodramatic |
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| histrionics | (noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: representation, theatrical, theatrical performance |
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| (noun) a deliberate display of emotion for effect | - |
| illusionist | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: seer, visionary |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator |
| 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 | - |
| inductionism | (noun) the scientific philosophy where laws are "induced" from sets of data. | - |
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| insurrectionism | (noun) the principle of revolt against constituted authority | - |
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| insurrectionist | (noun) a person who takes part in an armed rebellion against the constituted authority (especially in the hope of improving conditions) | Synonyms: freedom fighter, insurgent, rebel |
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| introspectionism | (noun) a doctrine that psychology must be based essentially on data derived from introspection. | - |
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| intuitionism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge is acquired primarily by intuition | - |
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| intuitionist | (adjective) of or relating to intuitionism | - |
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| ionic | (adjective) containing or involving or occurring in the form of ions | - |
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| ionisation | (noun) the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas | Synonyms: ionization |
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| (noun) the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge) | Synonyms: ionization |
| ionise | (verb) convert into ions | Synonyms: ionize |
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| (verb) become converted into ions | Synonyms: ionize |
| ionised | (adjective) converted totally or partly into ions | Synonyms: ionized |
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| ionization | (noun) the process of ionizing; the formation of ions by separating atoms or molecules or radicals or by adding or subtracting electrons from atoms by strong electric fields in a gas | Synonyms: ionisation |
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| (noun) the condition of being dissociated into ions (as by heat or radiation or chemical reaction or electrical discharge) | Synonyms: ionisation |
| ionize | (verb) convert into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
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| (verb) become converted into ions | Synonyms: ionise |
| ionized | (adjective) converted totally or partly into ions | Synonyms: ionised |
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| irreligionist | (noun) someone who is indifferent or hostile to religion | - |
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| isolationism | (noun) a policy of nonparticipation in international economic and political relations | - |
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| isolationist | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationistic |
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| (noun) an advocate of isolationism in international affairs | - |
| isolationistic | (adjective) of or relating to isolationism | Synonyms: isolationist |
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| lionise | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionize |
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| lionize | (verb) assign great social importance to | Synonyms: celebrate, lionise |
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| malfunctioning | (adjective) not performing or able to perform its regular function | Synonyms: nonfunctional |
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| methionine | (noun) a crystalline amino acid containing sulfur; found in most proteins and essential for nutrition | - |
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| moderationism | (noun) the policy of being moderate or acting with moderation | - |
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| moderationist | (noun) a person who takes a position in the political center | Synonyms: centrist, middle of the roader, moderate |
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| (noun) a moderate drinker (as opposed to a total abstainer) | - |
| neoevolutionism | (noun) school of anthropology concerned with long-term culture change and with the similar patterns of development that may be seen in unrelated, widely separated cultures. | Synonyms: neo-evolutionism |
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| neoexpressionism | (noun) an art movement based on expressionism; developed in 1980s in Europe and United States; crudely drawn garish paintings | - |
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| nonionic | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionised, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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| (adjective) not ionic | Synonyms: nonpolar |
| nonionised | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionic, nonionized, unionised, unionized |
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| nonionized | (adjective) not converted into ions | Synonyms: nonionic, nonionised, unionised, unionized |
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| nonunionised | (adjective) not affiliated in a trade union | Synonyms: nonunionized, unorganised, unorganized |
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| nonunionized | (adjective) not affiliated in a trade union | Synonyms: nonunionised, unorganised, unorganized |
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| nutritionist | (noun) a specialist in the study of nutrition | - |
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| obstructionism | (noun) deliberate interference | - |
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| obstructionist | (noun) someone who systematically obstructs some action that others want to take | Synonyms: obstructer, obstructor, resister, thwarter |
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| partitioning | (noun) the act of dividing or partitioning; separation by the creation of a boundary that divides or keeps apart | Synonyms: division, partition, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation |
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| (noun) an analysis into mutually exclusive categories | Synonyms: breakdown |
| partitionist | (noun) an advocate of partitioning a country | - |
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| percussionist | (noun) a musician who plays percussion instruments | - |
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| perfectionism | (noun) a disposition to feel that anything less than perfect is unacceptable | - |
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| perfectionist | (noun) a person who is displeased by anything that does not meet very high standards | - |
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| positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
| postganglionic | (adjective) beyond or distal to a ganglion (referring especially to the unmyelinated fibers that originate from cells in autonomic ganglia) | - |
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