insensibility | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callosity, callousness, hardness, unfeelingness |
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(noun) a lack of sensibility | - |
insensible | (adjective) incapable of physical sensation | - |
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(adjective) barely able to be perceived | Synonyms: indiscernible, undetectable |
(adjective) unresponsive to stimulation | Synonyms: out of it, senseless |
(adjective) unaware of or indifferent to | Synonyms: unaffected |
insensibly | (adverb) in a numb manner; without feeling | Synonyms: numbly |
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insensitive | (adjective) not responsive to physical stimuli | - |
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(adjective) deficient in human sensibility; not mentally or morally sensitive | - |
insensitively | (adverb) in an insensitive manner | - |
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insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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insensitivity | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitiveness |
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insentience | (noun) lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations | - |
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insentient | (adjective) devoid of feeling and consciousness and animation | Synonyms: insensate |
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intrasentential | (adjective) of or relating to constituents within a sentence | - |
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isentropic | (adjective) with unchanging entropy; at constant entropy | - |
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jocoseness | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocosity, merriness |
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kerosene | (noun) a flammable hydrocarbon oil used as fuel in lamps and heaters | Synonyms: coal oil, kerosine, lamp oil |
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lederhosen | (noun) leather shorts often worn with suspenders; worn especially by men and boys in Bavaria | - |
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lessen | (verb) decrease in size, extent, or range | Synonyms: decrease, diminish, fall |
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(verb) wear off or die down | Synonyms: subside |
(verb) make become smaller | Synonyms: decrease, minify |
lessened | (adjective) impaired by diminution | Synonyms: diminished, vitiated, weakened |
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(adjective) decreased in severity; made less harsh | - |
lessening | (noun) a change downward | Synonyms: decrease, drop-off |
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loosen | (verb) become loose or looser or less tight | Synonyms: loose, relax |
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(verb) make loose or looser | Synonyms: loose |
(verb) make less dense | - |
(verb) disentangle and raise the fibers of | Synonyms: tease, tease apart |
(verb) cause to become loose | Synonyms: undo, untie |
(verb) become less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
(verb) make less severe or strict | Synonyms: relax |
loosened | (adjective) straightened out | Synonyms: disentangled, unsnarled |
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looseness | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, profligacy |
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(noun) movement or space for movement | Synonyms: play |
(noun) a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice | - |
(noun) freedom from restraint | - |
(noun) the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints | - |
(noun) frequent and watery bowel movements; can be a symptom of infection or food poisoning or colitis or a gastrointestinal tumor | Synonyms: diarrhea, diarrhoea, looseness of the bowels |
loosening | (noun) the act of making something less tight | Synonyms: laxation |
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(noun) an occurrence of control or strength weakening | Synonyms: relaxation, slackening |
mesencephalon | (noun) the middle portion of the brain | Synonyms: midbrain |
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mesenchyme | (noun) mesodermal tissue that forms connective tissue and blood and smooth muscles | - |
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mesenteric | (adjective) of or relating to or located in a mesentery | - |
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mesentery | (noun) a double layer of peritoneum that attaches to the back wall of the abdominal cavity and supports the small intestines | - |
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messenger | (noun) a person who carries a message | Synonyms: courier |
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microsensor | (noun) A submicrometer- to millimeter-size device that converts a nonelectrical physical or chemical quantity, such as pressure, acceleration, temperature, or gas concentration, into an electrical signal; it is generally able to offer better sensitivity, accuracy, dynamic range, and reliability, as well as lower power consumption, compared to larger counterparts. | - |
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misrepresent | (verb) represent falsely | Synonyms: belie |
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(verb) tamper, with the purpose of deception | Synonyms: cook, fake, falsify, fudge, manipulate, wangle |
misrepresentation | (noun) a willful perversion of facts | Synonyms: falsification |
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(noun) a misleading falsehood | Synonyms: deceit, deception |
misrepresented | (adjective) having an intended meaning altered or misrepresented | Synonyms: distorted, perverted, twisted |
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moroseness | (noun) a sullen moody resentful disposition | Synonyms: sourness, sulkiness, sullenness |
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(noun) a gloomy ill-tempered feeling | Synonyms: glumness, sullenness |
nonessential | (adjective) not of prime or central importance | Synonyms: accidental, incidental |
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(noun) anything that is not essential | Synonyms: inessential |
nonrepresentational | (adjective) of or relating to a style of art in which objects do not resemble those known in physical nature | - |
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nonrepresentative | (adjective) not standing for something else | Synonyms: unsymbolic |
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nonsense | (adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsensical |
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(noun) ornamental objects of no great value | Synonyms: falderol, folderal, frill, gimcrack, gimcrackery, trumpery |
(noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsensicality |
nonsensical | (adjective) so unreasonable as to invite derision | Synonyms: absurd, cockeyed, derisory, idiotic, laughable, ludicrous, preposterous, ridiculous |
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(adjective) having no intelligible meaning | Synonyms: nonsense |
nonsensicality | (noun) a message that seems to convey no meaning | Synonyms: bunk, hokum, meaninglessness, nonsense |
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nonsensitive | (adjective) never having had security classification | Synonyms: unrestricted |
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obtuseness | (noun) the quality of lacking a sharp edge or point | - |
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(noun) the quality of being slow to understand | Synonyms: dullness |
omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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omnipresent | (adjective) being present everywhere at once | Synonyms: ubiquitous |
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operoseness | (noun) the quality of requiring extended effort | Synonyms: laboriousness, toilsomeness |
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oversensitive | (adjective) unduly sensitive or thin-skinned | - |
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oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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passenger | (noun) a traveler riding in a vehicle (a boat or bus or car or plane or train etc) who is not operating it | Synonyms: rider |
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perverseness | (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perversity |
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(noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perversity |
photosensitise | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitize |
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photosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to visible light | Synonyms: light-sensitive |
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photosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: radiosensitivity |
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photosensitize | (verb) make (an organism or substance) sensitive to the influence of radiant energy and especially light | Synonyms: photosensitise |
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preciseness | (noun) the quality of being reproducible in amount or performance | Synonyms: precision |
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(noun) clarity as a consequence of precision | Synonyms: clearcutness |
presence | (noun) the act of being present | - |
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(noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, mien |
(noun) the impression that something is present | - |
(noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: front |
(noun) an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby | - |
(noun) the state of being present; current existence | - |
present | (adjective) temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration | - |
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(adjective) being or existing in a specified place | - |
(noun) a verb tense that expresses actions or states at the time of speaking | Synonyms: present tense |
(noun) something presented as a gift | - |
(noun) the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech | Synonyms: nowadays |
(verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, represent |
(verb) cause to come to know personally | Synonyms: acquaint, introduce |
(verb) deliver (a speech, oration, or idea) | Synonyms: deliver |
(verb) recognize with a gesture prescribed by a military regulation; assume a prescribed position | Synonyms: salute |
(verb) formally present a debutante, a representative of a country, etc. | - |
(verb) present somebody with something, usually to accuse or criticize | Synonyms: confront, face |
(verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: represent, stage |
(verb) represent abstractly, for example in a painting, drawing, or sculpture | Synonyms: portray |
(verb) give an exhibition of to an interested audience | Synonyms: demo, demonstrate, exhibit, show |
(verb) give as a present; make a gift of | Synonyms: gift, give |
(verb) hand over formally | Synonyms: submit |
(verb) give, especially as an honor or reward | Synonyms: award |
(verb) offer for others to consider | Synonyms: pose |
presentable | (adjective) fit to be seen | - |
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presentably | (adverb) in a presentable manner | - |
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presentation | (noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: demonstration, presentment |
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(noun) the activity of formally presenting something (as a prize or reward) | - |
(noun) a visual representation of something | Synonyms: display |
(noun) (obstetrics) position of the fetus in the uterus relative to the birth canal | - |
(noun) the act of making something publicly available; presenting news or other information by broadcasting or printing it | - |
(noun) the act of presenting a proposal | - |
(noun) formally making a person known to another or to the public | Synonyms: intro, introduction |
presentational | (adjective) of or relating to a presentation (especially in psychology or philosophy) | - |
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presenter | (noun) person who makes a gift of property | Synonyms: bestower, conferrer, donor, giver |
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(noun) an advocate who presents a person (as for an award or a degree or an introduction etc.) | Synonyms: sponsor |
(noun) someone who presents a message of some sort (as a petition or an address or a check or a memorial etc.) | - |
presentiment | (noun) a feeling of evil to come | Synonyms: boding, foreboding, premonition |
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presentism | (noun) the doctrine that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (as in the Book of Revelations) are presently in the course of being fulfilled | - |
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presentist | (noun) a theologian who believes that the Scripture prophecies of the Apocalypse (the Book of Revelation) are being fulfilled at the present time | - |
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presently | (adverb) at this time or period; now | Synonyms: currently |
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(adverb) in the near future | Synonyms: before long, shortly, soon |
presentment | (noun) an accusation of crime made by a grand jury on its own initiative | Synonyms: notification |
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(noun) a show or display; the act of presenting something to sight or view | Synonyms: demonstration, presentation |
(noun) a document that must be accepted and paid by another person | - |
presentness | (noun) the quality of being the present | Synonyms: nowness |
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profuseness | (noun) the property of being extremely abundant | Synonyms: cornucopia, profusion, richness |
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prosencephalon | (noun) the anterior portion of the brain; the part of the brain that develops from the anterior part of the neural tube | Synonyms: forebrain |
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quintessence | (noun) the purest and most concentrated essence of something | - |
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(noun) the most typical example or representative of a type | - |
(noun) the fifth and highest element after air and earth and fire and water; was believed to be the substance composing all heavenly bodies | Synonyms: ether |
quintessential | (adjective) representing the perfect example of a class or quality | - |
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radiosensitive | (adjective) sensitive to radiation | - |
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radiosensitivity | (noun) sensitivity to the action of radiant energy | Synonyms: photosensitivity |
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represent | (verb) to establish a mapping (of mathematical elements or sets) | Synonyms: map |
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(verb) serve as a means of expressing something | - |
(verb) express indirectly by an image, form, or model; be a symbol | Synonyms: stand for, symbolise, symbolize, typify |
(verb) point out or draw attention to in protest or remonstrance | - |
(verb) bring forward and present to the mind | Synonyms: lay out, present |
(verb) describe or present, usually with respect to a particular quality | - |
(verb) create an image or likeness of | Synonyms: interpret |
(verb) play a role or part | Synonyms: act, play |
(verb) perform (a play), especially on a stage | Synonyms: present, stage |
(verb) be a delegate or spokesperson for; represent somebody's interest or be a proxy or substitute for, as of politicians and office holders representing their constituents, or of a tenant representing other tenants in a housing dispute | - |
(verb) be representative or typical for | - |
(verb) be the defense counsel for someone in a trial | Synonyms: defend |
(verb) form or compose | Synonyms: be, comprise, constitute, make up |
(verb) be typical of | Synonyms: exemplify |
(verb) take the place of or be parallel or equivalent to | Synonyms: correspond, stand for |
representable | (adjective) expressible in symbolic form | - |
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representation | (noun) an activity that stands as an equivalent of something or results in an equivalent | - |
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(noun) the act of representing; standing in for someone or some group and speaking with authority in their behalf | - |
(noun) a creation that is a visual or tangible rendering of someone or something | - |
(noun) the right of being represented by delegates who have a voice in some legislative body | - |
(noun) a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image | Synonyms: internal representation, mental representation |
(noun) a factual statement made by one party in order to induce another party to enter into a contract | - |
(noun) a performance of a play | Synonyms: histrionics, theatrical, theatrical performance |
(noun) a statement of facts and reasons made in appealing or protesting | - |
(noun) a body of legislators that serve in behalf of some constituency | - |
(noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: agency, delegacy |
representational | (adjective) (used especially of art) depicting objects, figures,or scenes as seen | - |
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representative | (adjective) standing for something else | - |
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(adjective) being or characteristic of government by representation in which citizens exercise power through elected officers and representatives | - |
(adjective) serving to represent or typify | - |
(noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, instance |
(noun) a person who represents others | - |
(noun) a member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
(noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, spokesperson, voice |
represented | (adjective) represented accurately or precisely | Synonyms: delineate, delineated |
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resent | (verb) feel bitter or indignant about | - |
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(verb) wish ill or allow unwillingly | Synonyms: begrudge |
resentful | (adjective) full of or marked by resentment or indignant ill will | - |
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resentfully | (adverb) with resentment; in a resentful manner | - |
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resentment | (noun) a feeling of deep and bitter anger and ill-will | Synonyms: bitterness, gall, rancor, rancour |
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risen | (adjective) (of e.g. celestial bodies) above the horizon | - |
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samisen | (noun) a Japanese stringed instrument resembling a banjo with a long neck and three strings and a fretless fingerboard and a rectangular soundbox; played with a plectrum | Synonyms: shamisen |
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sarsenet | (noun) a fine soft silk fabric often used for linings | Synonyms: sarcenet |
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sen | (noun) a fractional monetary unit of Japan and Indonesia and Cambodia; equal to one hundredth of a yen or rupiah or riel | - |
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senate | (noun) assembly possessing high legislative powers | - |
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senator | (noun) a member of a senate | - |
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senatorial | (adjective) of or relating to senators | - |
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senatorship | (noun) the office of senator | - |
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send | (verb) cause to be directed or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: mail, post |
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(verb) transfer | Synonyms: get off, send off |
(verb) broadcast over the airwaves, as in radio or television | Synonyms: air, beam, broadcast, transmit |
(verb) assign to a station | Synonyms: place, post, station |
(verb) to cause or order to be taken, directed, or transmitted to another place | Synonyms: send out |
(verb) transport commercially | Synonyms: ship, transport |
(verb) cause to go somewhere | Synonyms: direct |
(verb) cause to be admitted; of persons to an institution | Synonyms: charge, commit, institutionalise, institutionalize |
sendee | (noun) the intended recipient of a message | - |
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sender | (noun) set used to broadcast radio or tv signals | Synonyms: transmitter |
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(noun) someone who transmits a message | Synonyms: transmitter |
sending | (noun) the act of causing something to go (especially messages) | - |
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sendup | (noun) a composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way | Synonyms: burlesque, lampoon, mockery, parody, pasquinade, put-on, send-up, spoof, takeoff, travesty |
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sene | (noun) 100 sene equal 1 tala in Western Samoa | - |
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senega | (noun) perennial bushy herb of central and southern United States having white flowers with green centers and often purple crest; similar to Seneca snakeroot | Synonyms: Polygala alba |
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(noun) dried root of two plants of the genus Polygala containing an irritating saponin | - |
senesce | (verb) grow old or older | Synonyms: age, get on, maturate, mature |
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senescence | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: agedness |
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(noun) the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
senescent | (adjective) growing old | Synonyms: ageing, aging |
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seneschal | (noun) the chief steward or butler of a great household | Synonyms: major-domo |
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senile | (adjective) mentally or physically infirm with age | Synonyms: doddering, doddery, gaga |
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