airsickness | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) | Synonyms: air sickness |
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blackness | (noun) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) | Synonyms: black, inkiness |
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(noun) total absence of light | Synonyms: black, lightlessness, pitch blackness, total darkness |
blankness | (noun) the state of being blank; void; emptiness | - |
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bleakness | (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bareness, desolation, nakedness |
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breakneck | (adjective) moving at very high speed | - |
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briskness | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: alacrity, smartness |
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cockney | (adjective) characteristic of Cockneys or their dialect | - |
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(noun) the nonstandard dialect of natives of the east end of London | - |
crookneck | (noun) yellow squash with a thin curved neck and somewhat warty skin | Synonyms: crookneck squash, summer crookneck |
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dankness | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: clamminess |
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darkness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: duskiness, swarthiness |
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(noun) having a dark or somber color | - |
(noun) an unenlightened state | Synonyms: dark |
(noun) an unilluminated area | Synonyms: dark, shadow |
(noun) absence of light or illumination | Synonyms: dark |
(noun) absence of moral or spiritual values | Synonyms: dark, wickedness |
frankness | (noun) the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech | Synonyms: candidness, candor, candour, directness, forthrightness |
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(noun) the trait of being blunt and outspoken | Synonyms: outspokenness |
greensickness | (noun) iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin | Synonyms: chlorosis |
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hackney | (noun) a compact breed of harness horse | - |
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(noun) a carriage for hire | Synonyms: hackney carriage, hackney coach |
hackneyed | (adjective) repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse | Synonyms: banal, commonplace, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn |
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heartsickness | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, despondency, disconsolateness |
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homesickness | (noun) a longing to return home | - |
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knead | (verb) to mix into a homogeneous mass | Synonyms: work |
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(verb) manually manipulate (someone's body), usually for medicinal or relaxation purposes | Synonyms: massage, rub down |
knee | (noun) joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee | Synonyms: stifle |
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(noun) the part of a trouser leg that provides the cloth covering for the knee | - |
(noun) hinge joint in the human leg connecting the tibia and fibula with the femur and protected in front by the patella | Synonyms: articulatio genus, genu, human knee, knee joint |
kneecap | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneepan, patella |
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(verb) shoot in the kneecap, often done by terrorist groups as a warning | - |
kneel | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneeling |
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(verb) rest one's weight on one's knees | - |
kneeler | (noun) a board (sometimes cushioned) for someone to kneel on | - |
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(noun) a person in a kneeling position | - |
kneeling | (noun) supporting yourself on your knees | Synonyms: kneel |
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kneepan | (noun) a small flat triangular bone in front of the knee that protects the knee joint | Synonyms: kneecap, patella |
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knell | (noun) the sound of a bell rung slowly to announce a death or a funeral or the end of something | - |
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(verb) ring as in announcing death | - |
(verb) make (bells) ring, often for the purposes of musical edification | Synonyms: ring |
lovesickness | (noun) a pining for a loved one | - |
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meekness | (noun) a disposition to be patient and long suffering | Synonyms: subduedness |
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(noun) the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness | Synonyms: submission |
pinkness | (noun) the quality of being pink | - |
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quickness | (noun) a rate that is rapid | Synonyms: celerity, rapidity, rapidness, speediness |
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(noun) intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay | Synonyms: mental quickness, quick-wittedness |
(noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility |
rankness | (noun) the attribute of having a strong offensive smell | Synonyms: fetidness, foulness, malodorousness, stinkiness |
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(noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, prolificacy, richness |
seasickness | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling on water | Synonyms: mal de mer, naupathia |
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semidarkness | (noun) partial darkness | - |
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sickness | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: illness, malady, unwellness |
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(noun) the state that precedes vomiting | Synonyms: nausea |
(noun) defectiveness or unsoundness | - |
slackness | (noun) the quality of being loose (not taut) | Synonyms: slack |
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(noun) the quality of being lax and neglectful | Synonyms: laxity, laxness, remissness |
(noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lassitude, lethargy |
sleekness | (noun) the smooth feel of silk fabric | Synonyms: silkiness |
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(noun) the quality of being well-groomed and neatly tailored | - |
slickness | (noun) a slippery smoothness | Synonyms: slick, slip, slipperiness |
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(noun) a kind of fluent easy superficiality | Synonyms: glibness |
(noun) verbal misrepresentation intended to take advantage of you in some way | Synonyms: hanky panky, hocus-pocus, jiggery-pokery, skulduggery, skullduggery, trickery |
starkness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: bareness |
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(noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: absoluteness, utterness |
thickness | (noun) the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width | - |
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(noun) resistance to flow | - |
(noun) used of a line or mark | Synonyms: heaviness |
(noun) indistinct articulation | - |
weakness | (noun) the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain | - |
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(noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, impuissance |
(noun) a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you | - |
(noun) a flaw or weak point | Synonyms: failing |
(noun) the condition of being financially weak | - |