adrenosterone | (noun) a steroid having androgenic activity; obtained from the cortex of the adrenal gland | - |
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agnostic | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostical |
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(adjective) of or pertaining to an agnostic or agnosticism | - |
(noun) a person who claims that they cannot have true knowledge about the existence of God (but does not deny that God might exist) | - |
(noun) someone who is doubtful or noncommittal about something | Synonyms: doubter |
agnostical | (adjective) uncertain of all claims to knowledge | Synonyms: agnostic |
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agnosticism | (noun) the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge | Synonyms: scepticism, skepticism |
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(noun) a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God | - |
anagnost | (noun) a cleric in the minor orders of the Eastern Orthodox Church who reads the lessons aloud in the liturgy (analogous to the lector in the Roman Catholic Church) | - |
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diagnostic | (adjective) concerned with diagnosis; used for furthering diagnosis | - |
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(adjective) characteristic or indicative of a disease | Synonyms: symptomatic |
diagnostician | (noun) a doctor who specializes in medical diagnosis | Synonyms: pathologist |
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diagnostics | (noun) the branch of medical science dealing with the classification of disease | Synonyms: nosology |
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glasnost | (noun) a policy of the Soviet government allowing freer discussion of social problems | - |
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gnostic | (adjective) possessing intellectual or esoteric knowledge of spiritual things | - |
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gynostegium | (noun) the crown of the stamen in plants of the genus Asclepias | - |
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jejunostomy | (noun) surgical creation of an opening between the jejunum and the anterior abdominal wall; will allow artificial feeding | - |
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nonprognosticative | (adjective) not offering prognostications | - |
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nostalgia | (noun) longing for something past | - |
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nostalgic | (adjective) unhappy about being away and longing for familiar things or persons | - |
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nostalgically | (adverb) in a nostalgic manner | - |
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nostoc | (noun) found in moist places as rounded jellylike colonies | - |
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nostril | (noun) either one of the two external openings to the nasal cavity in the nose | Synonyms: anterior naris |
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nostrum | (noun) patent medicine whose efficacy is questionable | - |
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(noun) hypothetical remedy for all ills or diseases; once sought by the alchemists | Synonyms: catholicon, cure-all, panacea |
paternoster | (noun) a type of lift having a chain of open compartments that move continually in an endless loop so that (agile) passengers can step on or off at each floor | - |
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prognostic | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognosticative |
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(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostication |
prognosticate | (verb) make a prediction about; tell in advance | Synonyms: anticipate, call, forebode, foretell, predict, promise |
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(verb) indicate, as with a sign or an omen | Synonyms: augur, auspicate, betoken, bode, forecast, foreshadow, foretell, omen, portend, predict, prefigure, presage |
prognostication | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prophecy, vaticination |
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(noun) a statement made about the future | Synonyms: forecasting, foretelling, prediction |
(noun) a sign of something about to happen | Synonyms: omen, portent, presage, prodigy, prognostic |
prognosticative | (adjective) of or relating to prediction; having value for making predictions | Synonyms: predictive, prognostic |
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prognosticator | (noun) someone who makes predictions of the future (usually on the basis of special knowledge) | Synonyms: forecaster, predictor, soothsayer |
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rhinostenosis | (noun) narrowing of the passages in the nasal cavities | - |
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telegnostic | (adjective) obtaining knowledge of distant events allegedly without use of normal sensory mechanisms | - |
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unostentatious | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unpretending, unpretentious |
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(adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unpretentious |