absence | (noun) failure to be present | - |
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(noun) the state of being absent | - |
(noun) the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy | Synonyms: absence seizure |
(noun) the time interval during which something or somebody is away | - |
absent | (adjective) not being in a specified place | - |
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(adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absentminded, abstracted, scatty |
(adjective) nonexistent | Synonyms: lacking, missing, wanting |
(verb) stay away or leave | Synonyms: remove |
absentee | (noun) one that is absent or not in residence | - |
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absenteeism | (noun) habitual absence from work | - |
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absently | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absentmindedly, abstractedly, inattentively |
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absentminded | (adjective) lost in thought; showing preoccupation | Synonyms: absent, abstracted, scatty |
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absentmindedly | (adverb) in an absentminded or preoccupied manner | Synonyms: absently, abstractedly, inattentively |
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absentmindedness | (noun) preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored | - |
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abstruseness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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(noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
adiposeness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposity, fattiness |
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aftersensation | (noun) an image (usually a negative image) that persists after stimulation has ceased | Synonyms: afterimage |
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arsenal | (noun) a military structure where arms and ammunition and other military equipment are stored and training is given in the use of arms | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
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(noun) a place where arms are manufactured | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
(noun) all the weapons and equipment that a country has | Synonyms: armory, armoury |
arsenate | (noun) a salt or ester of arsenic acid | - |
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arsenic | (noun) a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and in various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar | Synonyms: As, atomic number 33 |
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(noun) a white powdered poisonous trioxide of arsenic; used in manufacturing glass and as a pesticide (rat poison) and weed killer | Synonyms: arsenic trioxide, arsenous anhydride, arsenous oxide, ratsbane, white arsenic |
arsenical | (adjective) relating to or containing arsenic | - |
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(noun) a pesticide or drug containing arsenic | - |
arsenide | (noun) a compound of arsenic with a more positive element | - |
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arsenious | (adjective) relating to compounds in which arsenic is trivalent | - |
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arsenopyrite | (noun) a silver-white or grey ore of arsenic | Synonyms: mispickel |
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assent | (noun) agreement with a statement or proposal to do something | Synonyms: acquiescence |
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(verb) to agree or express agreement | Synonyms: accede, acquiesce |
assenter | (noun) a person who assents | - |
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assentient | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assenting |
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assenting | (adjective) expressing agreement or consent | Synonyms: assentient |
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(noun) agreeing with or consenting to (often unwillingly) | Synonyms: accession |
baseness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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basenji | (noun) small smooth-haired breed of African origin having a tightly curled tail and the inability to bark | - |
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bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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boysenberry | (noun) large raspberry-flavored fruit; cross between blackberries and raspberries | - |
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(noun) cultivated hybrid bramble of California having large dark wine-red fruit with a flavor resembling raspberries | Synonyms: boysenberry bush |
bunsen | (noun) a gas burner used in laboratories; has an air valve to regulate the mixture of gas and air | Synonyms: bunsen burner, etna |
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chosen | (noun) an exclusive group of people | Synonyms: elect |
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(noun) one who is the object of choice; who is given preference | - |
closeness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: nearness |
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(noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | Synonyms: secretiveness |
(noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: stuffiness |
(noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy |
(noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
(noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: intimacy |
coarsen | (verb) make less subtle or refined | - |
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(verb) make or become coarse or coarser | - |
coarsened | (adjective) made coarse or crude by lack of skill | - |
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coarseness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: nubbiness, tweediness |
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(noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: graininess, granularity |
(noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
(noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: saltiness |
comatoseness | (noun) a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury | Synonyms: coma |
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commonsense | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsensible, commonsensical |
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commonsensible | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensical |
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commonsensical | (adjective) exhibiting native good judgment | Synonyms: commonsense, commonsensible |
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conciseness | (noun) terseness and economy in writing and speaking achieved by expressing a great deal in just a few words | Synonyms: concision, pithiness, succinctness |
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consensual | (adjective) existing by consent | - |
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consensus | (noun) agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole | - |
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consent | (noun) permission for something to happen | - |
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(verb) give an affirmative reply to; respond favorably to | Synonyms: accept, go for |
consentaneous | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentient, unanimous |
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consentient | (adjective) in complete agreement | Synonyms: consentaneous, unanimous |
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consenting | (adjective) having given consent | - |
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delicatessen | (noun) a shop selling ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: deli, food shop |
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(noun) ready-to-eat food products | Synonyms: delicatessen food |
denseness | (noun) the amount per unit size | Synonyms: density |
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(noun) the spatial property of being crowded together | Synonyms: compactness, concentration, density, tightness |
(noun) the quality of being mentally slow and limited | Synonyms: dumbness, slow-wittedness |
desensitisation | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitization |
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desensitise | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
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(verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitize |
desensitising | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitizing |
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desensitization | (noun) the process of reducing sensitivity | Synonyms: desensitisation |
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desensitize | (verb) make insensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
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(verb) cause not to be sensitive | Synonyms: desensitise |
desensitizing | (adjective) making less susceptible or sensitive to either physical or emotional stimuli | Synonyms: desensitising |
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diffuseness | (noun) the spatial property of being spread out over a wide area or through a large volume | - |
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disenable | (verb) make unable to perform a certain action | Synonyms: disable, incapacitate |
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disenchant | (verb) free from enchantment | Synonyms: disillusion |
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disenchanted | (adjective) freed from enchantment | - |
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disenchanting | (adjective) freeing from illusion or false belief | Synonyms: disillusioning |
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disenchantment | (noun) freeing from false belief or illusions | Synonyms: disillusion, disillusionment |
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disencumber | (verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disentangle, extricate, untangle |
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disenfranchise | (verb) deprive of voting rights | Synonyms: disfranchise |
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disenfranchised | (adjective) deprived of the rights of citizenship especially the right to vote | Synonyms: disfranchised, voiceless, voteless |
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disenfranchisement | (noun) the act of withdrawing certification or terminating a franchise | - |
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disengage | (verb) become free | - |
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(verb) release from something that holds fast, connects, or entangles | Synonyms: withdraw |
(verb) free or remove obstruction from | Synonyms: free |
disengagement | (noun) to break off a military action with an enemy | Synonyms: fallback, pullout |
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(noun) the act of releasing from an attachment or connection | Synonyms: detachment |
disentangle | (verb) smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb | Synonyms: comb, comb out |
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(verb) extricate from entanglement | Synonyms: straighten out, unsnarl |
(verb) separate the tangles of | Synonyms: unwind |
(verb) release from entanglement of difficulty | Synonyms: disencumber, extricate, untangle |
(verb) free from involvement or entanglement | Synonyms: disembroil, disinvolve |
disentangled | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: loosened, unsnarled |
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disentanglement | (noun) the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition | Synonyms: extrication, unsnarling, untangling |
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disentangler | (noun) a person who removes tangles; someone who takes something out of a tangled state | Synonyms: unraveler, unraveller |
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dissension | (noun) disagreement among those expected to cooperate | Synonyms: discord |
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(noun) a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters | Synonyms: disagreement, dissonance |
dissent | (noun) the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent | Synonyms: objection, protest |
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(noun) (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority | - |
(noun) a difference of opinion | - |
(verb) withhold assent | - |
(verb) be of different opinions | Synonyms: differ, disagree, take issue |
(verb) express opposition through action or words | Synonyms: protest, resist |
dissenter | (noun) a person who dissents from some established policy | Synonyms: contestant, dissident, objector, protester |
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dissentient | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissenting, dissident |
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(adjective) (of Catholics) refusing to attend services of the Church of England | Synonyms: recusant |
dissenting | (adjective) disagreeing, especially with a majority | Synonyms: dissentient, dissident |
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dissentious | (adjective) dissenting (especially dissenting with the majority opinion) | Synonyms: divisive, factious |
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diverseness | (noun) noticeable heterogeneity | Synonyms: diversity, multifariousness, variety |
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drusen | (noun) (plural) an eye disease resulting from small accumulations of hyaline bodies underneath the retina | - |
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dysentery | (noun) an infection of the intestines marked by severe diarrhea | - |
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essence | (noun) a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor | Synonyms: perfume |
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(noun) the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience | Synonyms: center, centre, core, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, kernel, marrow, meat, nitty-gritty, nub, pith, substance, sum |
(noun) the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work | Synonyms: burden, core, effect, gist |
(noun) any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted | - |
essential | (adjective) basic and fundamental | - |
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(adjective) defining rights and duties as opposed to giving the rules by which rights and duties are established | Synonyms: substantive |
(adjective) being or relating to or containing the essence of a plant etc | - |
(adjective) of the greatest importance | Synonyms: all-important, all important, crucial, of the essence |
(adjective) absolutely necessary; vitally necessary | Synonyms: indispensable |
(noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: necessary, necessity, requirement, requisite |
essentiality | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentialness |
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essentially | (adverb) in essence; at bottom or by one's (or its) very nature | Synonyms: basically, fundamentally |
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essentialness | (noun) basic importance | Synonyms: essentiality |
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extrasensory | (adjective) seemingly outside normal sensory channels | Synonyms: paranormal |
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falseness | (noun) the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical | Synonyms: hollowness, insincerity |
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(noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, fickleness, inconstancy |
(noun) the state of being false or untrue | Synonyms: falsity |
ginseng | (noun) Chinese herb with palmately compound leaves and small greenish flowers and forked aromatic roots believed to have medicinal powers | Synonyms: nin-sin, Panax ginseng, Panax pseudoginseng, Panax schinseng |
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(noun) aromatic root of ginseng plants | - |
godsend | (noun) a sudden happening that brings good fortune (as a sudden opportunity to make money) | Synonyms: bonanza, boom, bunce, gold rush, gravy, manna from heaven, windfall |
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gooseneck | (noun) something in a thin curved form (like the neck of a goose) | - |
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greisen | (noun) a granitic rock composed of quartz and mica | - |
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hausen | (noun) valuable source of caviar and isinglass; found in Black and Caspian seas | Synonyms: Acipenser huso, beluga, white sturgeon |
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hexenbesen | (noun) an abnormal tufted growth of small branches on a tree or shrub caused by fungi or insects or other physiological disturbance | Synonyms: staghead, witch broom, witches' broom |
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hoarseness | (noun) a throaty harshness | Synonyms: gruffness, huskiness |
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hypersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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hypersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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hypersensitivity | (noun) extreme sensitivity | - |
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(noun) pathological sensitivity | - |
hypersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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immenseness | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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impreciseness | (noun) the quality of lacking precision | Synonyms: imprecision |
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inessential | (adjective) not basic or fundamental | Synonyms: unessential |
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(adjective) not absolutely necessary | - |
(noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: nonessential |
inessentiality | (noun) not of basic importance | - |
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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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