| aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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| compensate | (verb) make payment to; compensate | Synonyms: recompense, remunerate |
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| (verb) make amends for; pay compensation for | Synonyms: indemnify, recompense, repair |
| (verb) do or give something to somebody in return | Synonyms: make up, pay, pay off |
| (verb) make reparations or amends for | Synonyms: correct, redress, right |
| (verb) adjust for | Synonyms: correct, counterbalance, even off, even out, even up, make up |
| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: cover, overcompensate |
| compensated | (adjective) receiving or eligible for compensation | Synonyms: remunerated, salaried, stipendiary |
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| compensation | (noun) the act of compensating for service or loss or injury | Synonyms: recompense |
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| (noun) something (such as money) given or received as payment or reparation (as for a service or loss or injury) | - |
| (noun) (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that conceals your undesirable shortcomings by exaggerating desirable behaviors | - |
| condensate | (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensation |
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| (noun) a product of condensation | - |
| condensation | (noun) the act of increasing the density of something | Synonyms: condensing |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an unconscious process whereby two ideas or images combine into a single symbol; especially in dreams | - |
| (noun) a shortened version of a written work | Synonyms: abridgement, abridgment, capsule |
| (noun) the process or result of becoming smaller or pressed together | Synonyms: compression, contraction |
| (noun) atmospheric moisture that has condensed because of cold | Synonyms: condensate |
| (noun) the process of changing from a gaseous to a liquid or solid state | - |
| dispensation | (noun) the act of dispensing (giving out in portions) | - |
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| (noun) an exemption from some rule or obligation | - |
| (noun) a share that has been dispensed or distributed | - |
| insatiable | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiate, unsatiable |
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| insatiably | (adverb) in an insatiable manner; with persistence but without satisfaction | Synonyms: unsatiably |
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| (adverb) to an insatiable degree | Synonyms: unsatiably |
| insatiate | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiable, unsatiable |
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| insensate | (adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation | Synonyms: insentient |
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| (adjective) without compunction or human feeling | Synonyms: cold-blooded, cold, inhuman |
| insensately | (adverb) in an insensate manner | - |
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| lansat | (noun) East Indian tart yellow berrylike fruit | Synonyms: lansa, lanseh, lanset |
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| monounsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) saturated except for one multiple bond | - |
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| overcompensate | (verb) make excessive corrections for fear of making an error | Synonyms: over-correct |
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| (verb) make up for shortcomings or a feeling of inferiority by exaggerating good qualities | Synonyms: compensate, cover |
| overcompensation | (noun) excessive compensation | - |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) an attempt to overcome a real or imagined defect or unwanted trait by overly exaggerating its opposite | - |
| polyunsaturated | (adjective) (of long-chain carbon compounds especially fats) having many unsaturated bonds | - |
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| sensate | (adjective) having physical sensation | - |
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| sensation | (noun) an unelaborated elementary awareness of stimulation | Synonyms: aesthesis, esthesis, sense datum, sense experience, sense impression |
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| (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sense, sensory faculty, sentience, sentiency |
| (noun) a general feeling of excitement and heightened interest | - |
| (noun) someone who is dazzlingly skilled in any field | Synonyms: ace, adept, champion, genius, hotshot, maven, mavin, star, superstar, virtuoso, whiz, whizz, wiz, wizard |
| (noun) a state of widespread public excitement and interest | - |
| sensational | (adjective) causing intense interest, curiosity, or emotion | - |
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| (adjective) relating to or concerned in sensation | Synonyms: sensory |
| (adjective) commanding attention | Synonyms: arresting, stunning |
| sensationalism | (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience | Synonyms: empiricism, empiricist philosophy |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the ethical doctrine that feeling is the only criterion for what is good | Synonyms: sensualism |
| (noun) the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes | Synonyms: luridness |
| (noun) subject matter that is calculated to excite and please vulgar tastes | - |
| sensationalist | (noun) someone who uses exaggerated or lurid material in order to gain public attention | Synonyms: ballyhoo artist |
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| sensationalistic | (adjective) typical of tabloids | Synonyms: scandalmongering, yellow |
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| sensationally | (adverb) in a sensational manner | - |
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| transatlantic | (adjective) crossing the Atlantic Ocean | - |
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| uncompensated | (adjective) not paying a salary | Synonyms: unsalaried |
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| unsated | (adjective) not having been satisfied | Synonyms: unsatiated, unsatisfied |
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| unsatiable | (adjective) impossible to satisfy | Synonyms: insatiable, insatiate |
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| unsatiably | (adverb) in an insatiable manner; with persistence but without satisfaction | Synonyms: insatiably |
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| (adverb) to an insatiable degree | Synonyms: insatiably |
| unsatiated | (adjective) not having been satisfied | Synonyms: unsated, unsatisfied |
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| unsatisfactorily | (adverb) in an unsatisfactory manner | - |
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| unsatisfactoriness | (noun) the quality of being inadequate or unsuitable | - |
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| unsatisfactory | (adjective) not giving satisfaction | - |
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| unsatisfiable | (adjective) not capable of being satisfied | - |
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| unsatisfied | (adjective) worried and uneasy | Synonyms: restless, ungratified |
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| (adjective) not having been satisfied | Synonyms: unsated, unsatiated |
| unsatisfying | (adjective) not up to expectations | Synonyms: disappointing, dissatisfactory |
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| unsaturated | (adjective) used of a compound (especially of carbon) containing atoms sharing more than one valence bond | - |
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| (adjective) not saturated; capable of dissolving more of a substance at a given temperature | - |
| (adjective) (of color) not chromatically pure; diluted | - |
| unsensational | (adjective) not of such character as to arouse intense interest, curiosity, or emotional reaction | - |
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