abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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(noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
(noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
(noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
animalisation | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalization, brutalisation, brutalization |
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animalise | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalize, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalize |
animalism | (noun) preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites | Synonyms: physicality |
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(noun) the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature | - |
animalistic | (adjective) of or pertaining to animalism | - |
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animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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animalization | (noun) an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities | Synonyms: animalisation, brutalisation, brutalization |
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(noun) a depiction in the form of an animal | - |
animalize | (verb) become brutal or insensitive and unfeeling | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
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(verb) make brutal, unfeeling, or inhuman | Synonyms: animalise, brutalise, brutalize |
(verb) represent in the form of an animal | Synonyms: animalise |
anomalist | (noun) someone who has a special interest in exceptional cases | - |
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decimalisation | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalization |
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decimalise | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalize |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalize |
decimalization | (noun) the act of changing to a decimal system | Synonyms: decimalisation |
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decimalize | (verb) change to the decimal system | Synonyms: decimalise |
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(verb) change from fractions to decimals | Synonyms: decimalise |
formalin | (noun) a 10% solution of formaldehyde in water; used as a disinfectant or to preserve biological specimens | Synonyms: formol |
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formalisation | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalization |
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formalise | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalize |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalize, validate |
formalised | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalistic, formalized |
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(adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalized |
formalism | (noun) the practice of scrupulous adherence to prescribed or external forms | - |
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(noun) (philosophy) the philosophical theory that formal (logical or mathematical) statements have no meaning but that its symbols (regarded as physical entities) exhibit a form that has useful applications | - |
(noun) the doctrine that formal structure rather than content is what should be represented | - |
formalistic | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalized |
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formalities | (noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formality |
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formality | (noun) compliance with formal rules | - |
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(noun) a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies | Synonyms: formalness |
(noun) a requirement of etiquette or custom | Synonyms: formalities |
formalization | (noun) the act of making formal (as by stating formal rules governing classes of expressions) | Synonyms: formalisation |
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formalize | (verb) make formal or official | Synonyms: formalise |
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(verb) declare or make legally valid | Synonyms: formalise, validate |
formalized | (adjective) concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms (especially in religion or art) | Synonyms: formalised, formalistic |
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(adjective) given formal standing or endorsement; made official or legitimate by the observance of proper procedures | Synonyms: formalised |
informality | (noun) a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously | - |
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(noun) freedom from constraint or embarrassment | Synonyms: ease |
malice | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malevolency |
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(noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom |
malicious | (adjective) having the nature of or resulting from malice | - |
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maliciously | (adverb) with malice; in a malicious manner | - |
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maliciousness | (noun) feeling a need to see others suffer | Synonyms: malice, spite, spitefulness, venom |
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malign | (adjective) evil or harmful in nature or influence | - |
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(adjective) having or exerting a malignant influence | Synonyms: evil, malefic, malevolent |
(verb) speak unfavorably about | Synonyms: badmouth, drag through the mud, traduce |
malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
malignant | (adjective) dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) | - |
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malignantly | (adverb) in a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads | - |
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maligner | (noun) one who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel | Synonyms: backbiter, defamer, libeler, slanderer, traducer, vilifier |
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malignity | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignancy |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malevolence |
malignly | (adverb) in a malign and evil manner | - |
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malignment | (noun) slanderous defamation | Synonyms: smear, vilification |
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malik | (noun) the leader of a town or community in some parts of Asia Minor and the Indian subcontinent | - |
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malinger | (verb) avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill | Synonyms: skulk |
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malingerer | (noun) someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity | Synonyms: shammer, skulker |
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malingering | (noun) evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated | Synonyms: skulking |
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malinois | (noun) fawn-colored short-haired sheepdog | - |
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mammalian | (adjective) of or relating to the class Mammalia | - |
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(noun) any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk | Synonyms: mammal |
minimalism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, reductivism |
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minimalist | (adjective) of or relating to artistic minimalism | - |
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(adjective) advocating minimal reforms (as in government or politics) | - |
(noun) a practitioner or advocate of artistic minimalism | - |
(noun) a conservative who advocates only minor reforms in government or politics | - |
minimality | (noun) The state of being the smallest possible amount, quantity, or degree. | - |
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nonoptimality | (noun) The state of not being best, most favourable or desirable. | - |
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normalisation | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalization, standardisation, standardization |
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normalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalize, renormalise, renormalize |
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(verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalize |
normaliser | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normalizer |
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normality | (noun) expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common | Synonyms: normalcy |
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(noun) conformity with the norm | - |
(noun) (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter | Synonyms: N |
(noun) being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning | Synonyms: normalcy |
normalization | (noun) the imposition of standards or regulations | Synonyms: normalisation, standardisation, standardization |
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normalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, renormalise, renormalize |
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(verb) bring to a desired consistency, texture, or hardness by a process of gradually heating and cooling | Synonyms: anneal, temper |
(verb) become normal or return to its normal state | Synonyms: normalise |
normalizer | (noun) a person who normalizes | Synonyms: normaliser |
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primality | (noun) the property of being a prime number | - |
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renormalise | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalize |
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renormalize | (verb) make normal or cause to conform to a norm or standard | Synonyms: normalise, normalize, renormalise |
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rosemaling | (noun) a Scandinavian style of carved or painted decoration (as on furniture or walls or dinnerware) consisting of floral motifs | - |
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subnormality | (noun) lack of normal development of intellectual capacities | Synonyms: backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness |
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(noun) the state of being less than normal (especially with respect to intelligence) | - |
tatterdemalion | (adjective) worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing | Synonyms: tattered |
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(adjective) in deplorable condition | Synonyms: bedraggled, broken-down, derelict, dilapidated, ramshackle, tumble-down |
(noun) a dirty shabbily clothed urchin | Synonyms: ragamuffin |
tourmaline | (noun) a mineral that is a complex borosilicate and hydroxide of aluminum containing iron and magnesium and calcium and lithium and sodium; it is usually black but occurs in transparent colored forms that are used as gemstones | - |
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unmalicious | (adjective) not malicious or spiteful | - |
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