| philistinism | (noun) a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters | Synonyms: materialism |
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| pianism | (noun) performance by or technique of a pianist | - |
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| pianissimo | (adjective) (chiefly a direction or description in music) very soft | - |
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| (noun) (music) low loudness | Synonyms: piano |
| (adverb) a direction in music; to be played very softly | Synonyms: very softly |
| pianist | (noun) a person who plays the piano | Synonyms: piano player |
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| pianistic | (adjective) skilled at or adapted for the piano | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the piano | - |
| plebeianism | (noun) The quality or state of being of or pertaining to the common people; of being vulgar, common. | - |
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| pollotarianism | (noun) the practice of following a diet that includes chicken or other poultry, but not meat from mammals. | - |
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| polygynist | (noun) a man with two or more wives | - |
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| postmodernism | (noun) genre of art and literature and especially architecture in reaction against principles and practices of established modernism | - |
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| postmodernist | (adjective) of or relating to postmodernism | Synonyms: postmodern |
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| predestinarianism | (noun) the belief or doctrine of predestinarians | - |
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| predestinationist | (noun) anyone who submits to the belief that they are powerless to change their destiny | Synonyms: determinist, fatalist, predestinarian |
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| prednisolone | (noun) a glucocorticoid (trade names Pediapred or Prelone) used to treat inflammatory conditions | Synonyms: Pediapred, Prelone |
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| prednisone | (noun) a dehydrogenated analogue of cortisol (trade names Orasone or Deltasone or Liquid Pred or Meticorten); used as an anti-inflammatory drug in the treatment of arthritis and as an immunosuppressant | Synonyms: Deltasone, Liquid Pred, Meticorten, Orasone |
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| preservationist | (noun) someone who advocates the preservation of historical sites or endangered species or natural areas | - |
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| prohibitionist | (noun) a reformer who opposes the use of intoxicating beverages | Synonyms: dry |
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| projectionist | (noun) the person who operates the projector in a movie house | - |
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| proletarianism | (noun) The condition or political position of a member of the working class. | - |
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| protagonism | (noun) active support of an idea or cause etc.; especially the act of pleading or arguing for something | Synonyms: advocacy |
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| protagonist | (noun) a person who backs a politician or a team etc. | Synonyms: admirer, booster, champion, friend, supporter |
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| (noun) the principal character in a work of fiction | Synonyms: agonist |
| protectionism | (noun) the policy of imposing duties or quotas on imports in order to protect home industries from overseas competition | - |
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| protectionist | (noun) an advocate of protectionism | - |
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| punish | (verb) impose a penalty on; inflict punishment on | Synonyms: penalise, penalize |
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| punishable | (adjective) liable to or deserving punishment | - |
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| (adjective) (of an act or offense) subject to punishment by law | Synonyms: penal |
| punished | (adjective) subjected to a penalty (as pain or shame or restraint or loss) for an offense or fault or in order to coerce some behavior (as a confession or obedience) | - |
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| punishing | (adjective) resulting in punishment | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by effort to the point of exhaustion; especially physical effort | Synonyms: arduous, backbreaking, grueling, gruelling, hard, heavy, laborious, operose, toilsome |
| punishingly | (adverb) in a punishing manner | - |
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| punishment | (noun) the act of punishing, or the infliction of a penalty | Synonyms: penalisation, penalization, penalty |
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| reactionism | (noun) the political orientation of reactionaries | - |
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| reactionist | (adjective) opposed to political or social liberalism or reform | Synonyms: far-right, reactionary |
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| receptionist | (noun) a secretary whose main duty is to answer the telephone and receive visitors | - |
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| recognisable | (adjective) capable of being recognized | Synonyms: placeable, recognizable |
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| recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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| recognise | (verb) perceive to be the same | Synonyms: recognize |
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| (verb) be fully aware or cognizant of | Synonyms: agnise, agnize, realise, realize, recognize |
| (verb) accept (someone) to be what is claimed or accept his power and authority | Synonyms: acknowledge, know, recognize |
| (verb) express obligation, thanks, or gratitude for | Synonyms: acknowledge, recognize |
| (verb) express greetings upon meeting someone | Synonyms: greet, recognize |
| (verb) detect with the senses | Synonyms: discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, recognize, spot, tell apart |
| (verb) grant credentials to | Synonyms: accredit, recognize |
| (verb) show approval or appreciation of | Synonyms: recognize |
| recognised | (adjective) generally approved or compelling recognition | Synonyms: accepted, recognized |
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| (adjective) provided with a secure reputation | Synonyms: recognized |
| reductionism | (noun) a theory that all complex systems can be completely understood in terms of their components | - |
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| (noun) the analysis of complex things into simpler constituents | - |
| reductionist | (adjective) of or relating to the theory of reductionism | - |
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| refinish | (verb) give a new surface | - |
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| refinisher | (noun) a skilled worker who is employed to restore or refinish buildings or antique furniture | Synonyms: preserver, renovator, restorer |
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| refurnish | (verb) furnish with new or different furniture | - |
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| reharmonisation | (noun) a piece of music whose original harmony has been revised | Synonyms: reharmonization |
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| reharmonise | (verb) provide with a different harmony | Synonyms: reharmonize |
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| reincarnationism | (noun) a doctrine that on the death of the body the soul migrates to or is born again in another body | - |
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| religionism | (noun) exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal | Synonyms: pietism, religiosity, religiousism |
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| (noun) exaggerated religious zealotry | - |
| religionist | (noun) a person addicted to religion or a religious zealot | - |
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| reminisce | (verb) recall the past | - |
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| reminiscence | (noun) the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort) | Synonyms: recall, recollection |
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| (noun) a mental impression retained and recalled from the past | - |
| reminiscent | (adjective) serving to bring to mind | Synonyms: evocative, redolent, remindful, resonant |
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| reminiscently | (adverb) in a reminiscent manner | - |
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| reorganisation | (noun) the imposition of a new organization; organizing differently (often involving extensive and drastic changes) | Synonyms: reorganization, shake-up, shakeup |
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| reorganise | (verb) organize anew | Synonyms: reorganize, shake up |
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| (verb) organize anew, as after a setback | Synonyms: regroup, reorganize |
| reorganised | (adjective) organized again | Synonyms: reorganized |
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| replenish | (verb) fill something that had previously been emptied | Synonyms: fill again, refill |
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| replenishment | (noun) filling again by supplying what has been used up | Synonyms: refilling, renewal, replacement |
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| republicanism | (noun) the political orientation of those who hold that a republic is the best form of government | - |
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| reversionist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, recidivist |
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| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revolutionise | (verb) change radically | Synonyms: overturn, revolutionize |
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| (verb) fill with revolutionary ideas | Synonyms: inspire, revolutionize |
| revolutionism | (noun) a belief in the spread of revolutionary principles | - |
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| revolutionist | (noun) a radical supporter of political or social revolution | Synonyms: revolutionary, subversive, subverter |
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| ruffianism | (noun) violent lawless behavior | - |
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| sabianism | (noun) the religion of a group mentioned in the Koran as entitled to Muslim religious toleration along with Jews and Christians and usually identified with the Mandaeans or the Elkesaites. | - |
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| saturnism | (noun) toxic condition produced by the absorption of excessive lead into the system | Synonyms: lead poisoning, plumbism |
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| saxophonist | (noun) a musician who plays the saxophone | Synonyms: saxist |
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| scrutinise | (verb) examine carefully for accuracy with the intent of verification | Synonyms: audit, inspect, scrutinize |
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| (verb) to look at critically or searchingly, or in minute detail | Synonyms: scrutinize, size up, take stock |
| scrutiniser | (noun) a careful examiner; someone who inspects with great care | Synonyms: scrutinizer |
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| secessionism | (noun) a doctrine that maintains the right of secession | - |
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| secessionist | (noun) an advocate of secessionism | - |
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| sectarianism | (noun) a narrow-minded adherence to a particular sect or party or denomination | Synonyms: denominationalism |
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| segregationism | (noun) a political orientation favoring political or racial segregation | - |
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| segregationist | (noun) someone who believes the racial groups should be kept apart | Synonyms: segregator |
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| separationism | (noun) advocacy of a policy of strict separation of church and state | Synonyms: separatism |
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| separationist | (noun) an advocate of secession or separation from a larger group (such as an established church or a national union) | Synonyms: separatist |
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| sermonise | (verb) speak as if delivering a sermon; express moral judgements | Synonyms: moralise, moralize, preachify, sermonize |
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| sermoniser | (noun) someone whose occupation is preaching the gospel | Synonyms: preacher, preacher man, sermonizer |
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| sermonism | (noun) the conceptualism of Abelard. | - |
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| servomechanism | (noun) control system that converts a small mechanical motion into one requiring much greater power; may include a negative feedback system | Synonyms: servo, servosystem |
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| shamanise | (verb) practice shamanism | Synonyms: shamanize |
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| shamanism | (noun) an animistic religion of northern Asia having the belief that the mediation between the visible and the spirit worlds is effected by shamans | Synonyms: Asian shamanism |
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| (noun) any animistic religion similar to Asian shamanism (especially as practiced by certain Native American tribes) | - |
| shamanist | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanistic |
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| shamanistic | (adjective) of or relating to shamanism | Synonyms: shamanist |
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| sinister | (adjective) threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments | Synonyms: baleful, forbidding, menacing, minacious, minatory, ominous, threatening |
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| (adjective) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable | Synonyms: black, dark |
| (adjective) on or starting from the wearer's left | - |
| sinistral | (adjective) of or on the left | - |
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| (adjective) preferring to use left foot or hand or eye | - |
| sinistrality | (noun) preference for using the left hand | Synonyms: left-handedness |
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| sinistrorsal | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorse |
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| sinistrorse | (adjective) spiraling upward from right to left | Synonyms: sinistrorsal |
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| solemnisation | (noun) the public performance of a sacrament or solemn ceremony with all appropriate ritual | Synonyms: celebration, solemnization |
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| solemnise | (verb) make solemn and grave | Synonyms: solemnize |
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| (verb) observe or perform with dignity or gravity | Synonyms: solemnize |
| (verb) perform (the wedding ceremony) with proper ceremonies | Synonyms: solemnize |
| southernism | (noun) an attitude characteristic of Southerners (especially in the US) | - |
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| (noun) a locution or pronunciation peculiar to the southern United States | - |
| stalinise | (verb) transform in accordance with Stalin's policies | Synonyms: stalinize |
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| suburbanise | (verb) make suburban in character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
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| (verb) take on suburban character | Synonyms: suburbanize |
| suburbanised | (adjective) surrounded by many suburbs | Synonyms: suburbanized |
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| swinish | (adjective) resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy | Synonyms: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine |
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| (adjective) ill-mannered and coarse and contemptible in behavior or appearance | Synonyms: boorish, loutish, neandertal, neanderthal, oafish |
| swinishness | (noun) The quality of resembling a swine; being gluttonous, coarse, debased. | - |
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| symphonise | (verb) play or sound together, in harmony | Synonyms: symphonize |
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| symphonist | (noun) a composer of symphonies | - |
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| synchronisation | (noun) coordinating by causing to indicate the same time | Synonyms: synchronization, synchronizing |
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| (noun) an adjustment that causes something to occur or recur in unison | Synonyms: synchronising, synchronization, synchronizing |
| (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronicity, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
| synchronise | (verb) make synchronous and adjust in time or manner | Synonyms: sync, synchronize |
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| (verb) operate simultaneously | Synonyms: synchronize |
| (verb) cause to indicate the same time or rate | Synonyms: synchronize |
| (verb) arrange or represent events so that they co-occur | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronize |
| (verb) make (motion picture sound) exactly simultaneous with the action | Synonyms: synchronize |
| (verb) happen at the same time | Synonyms: contemporise, contemporize, synchronize |
| synchronised | (adjective) operating in unison | Synonyms: synchronized |
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