| hesitator | (noun) one who hesitates (usually out of fear) | Synonyms: hesitater, vacillator, waverer |
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| heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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| homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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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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| immensity | (noun) unusual largeness in size or extent or number | Synonyms: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, sizeableness, vastness, wideness |
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| impetuosity | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuousness |
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| imposition | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: infliction |
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| (noun) an uncalled-for burden | - |
| inapposite | (adjective) of an inappropriate or misapplied nature | Synonyms: out of place |
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| inappositeness | (noun) inappropriateness | Synonyms: inaptness |
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| indisposition | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance |
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| (noun) a slight illness | - |
| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| inquisition | (noun) a severe interrogation (often violating the rights or privacy of individuals) | - |
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| inquisitive | (adjective) showing curiosity | Synonyms: questioning, speculative, wondering |
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| (adjective) inquiring or appearing to inquire | - |
| inquisitively | (adverb) with curiosity | Synonyms: curiously, interrogatively |
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| inquisitiveness | (noun) The quality of being curious and interested. | - |
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| (noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: curiousness |
| inquisitor | (noun) a questioner who is excessively harsh | Synonyms: interrogator |
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| inquisitorial | (adjective) especially indicating a form of prosecution in which proceedings are secret and the accused is questioned by a prosecutor who acts also as the judge | - |
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| (adjective) having the authority to conduct official investigations | - |
| (adjective) marked by inquisitive interest; especially suggestive of an ecclesiastical inquisitor | - |
| inquisitory | (adjective) diligent and thorough in inquiry or investigation | Synonyms: probing, searching |
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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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| intensity | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensiveness |
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| (noun) chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence vivid in hue | Synonyms: chroma, saturation, vividness |
| (noun) the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction) | Synonyms: loudness, volume |
| (noun) the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or electromagnetic radiation) | Synonyms: intensity level, strength |
| interposition | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpellation, interpolation |
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| (noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: intervention |
| intransitive | (adjective) designating a verb that does not require or cannot take a direct object | - |
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| (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that does not take an object | Synonyms: intransitive verb, intransitive verb form |
| intransitively | (adverb) in an intransitive manner | - |
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| intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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| intransitivise | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivize |
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| intransitivity | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitiveness |
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| intransitivize | (verb) intransitivize | Synonyms: detransitivise, detransitivize, intransitivise |
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| jocosity | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, merriness |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocularity |
| juxtaposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, collocation |
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| (noun) a side-by-side position | - |
| lassitude | (noun) weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy | Synonyms: inanition, lethargy, slackness |
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| (noun) a feeling of lack of interest or energy | Synonyms: languor, listlessness |
| (noun) a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness) | Synonyms: lethargy, sluggishness |
| luminosity | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminousness |
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| magnesite | (noun) a white mineral consisting of magnesium carbonate; a source of magnesium | - |
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| malposition | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: misplacement |
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| martensite | (noun) a solid solution of carbon in alpha-iron that is formed when steel is cooled so rapidly that the change from austenite to pearlite is suppressed; responsible for the hardness of quenched steel | - |
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| meticulosity | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulousness, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
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| monstrosity | (noun) something hideous or frightful | - |
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| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monster |
| multiversity | (noun) a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers | - |
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| mussitate | (verb) talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice | Synonyms: maunder, mumble, mutter |
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| mussitation | (noun) a low continuous indistinct sound; often accompanied by movement of the lips without the production of articulate speech | Synonyms: murmur, murmuration, murmuring, mutter, muttering |
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| myositis | (noun) inflammation of muscle tissue | - |
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| necessitarian | (noun) someone who does not believe the doctrine of free will | - |
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| necessitate | (verb) require as useful, just, or proper | Synonyms: ask, call for, demand, involve, need, postulate, require, take |
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| (verb) cause to be a concomitant | - |
| necessitous | (adjective) poor enough to need help from others | Synonyms: destitute, impoverished, indigent, needy, poverty-stricken |
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| necessity | (noun) anything indispensable | Synonyms: essential, necessary, requirement, requisite |
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| (noun) the condition of being essential or indispensable | - |
| nonparasitic | (adjective) not parasitic on another organism | Synonyms: free-living, nonsymbiotic |
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| nonsensitive | (adjective) never having had security classification | Synonyms: unrestricted |
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| numerosity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerousness |
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| obesity | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: corpulency, fleshiness |
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| opposite | (adjective) of leaves etc; growing in pairs on either side of a stem | Synonyms: paired |
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| (adjective) characterized by opposite extremes; completely opposed | Synonyms: diametric, diametrical, polar |
| (adjective) the other one of a complementary pair | - |
| (adjective) being directly across from each other; facing | - |
| (adjective) altogether different in nature or quality or significance | - |
| (adjective) moving or facing away from each other | - |
| (noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other | Synonyms: antonym, opposite word |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposition |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, reverse |
| (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| (adverb) directly facing each other | Synonyms: face-to-face, face to face |
| oppositely | (adverb) in an opposite position | - |
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| oppositeness | (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: opposition |
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| opposition | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: confrontation |
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| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: resistance |
| (noun) a body of people united in opposing something | - |
| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, foeman |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposite |
| (noun) a direction opposite to another | - |
| (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: oppositeness |
| oppositionality | (noun) The quality of opposing or of being in conflict. | - |
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| oppositive | (adjective) expressing antithesis or opposition | Synonyms: adversative |
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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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| ovipositor | (noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes | - |
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| pallasite | (noun) a meteorite composed principally of olivine and metallic iron | - |
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| pansinusitis | (noun) inflammation of all of the paranasal sinuses | - |
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| parasitaemia | (noun) a condition in which parasites are present in the blood | Synonyms: parasitemia |
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| parasite | (noun) an animal or plant that lives in or on a host (another animal or plant); it obtains nourishment from the host without benefiting or killing the host | - |
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| (noun) a follower who hangs around a host (without benefit to the host) in hope of gain or advantage | Synonyms: leech, sponge, sponger |
| parasitemia | (noun) a condition in which parasites are present in the blood | Synonyms: parasitaemia |
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| parasitic | (adjective) of or pertaining to epenthesis | Synonyms: epenthetic |
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| (adjective) relating to or caused by parasites | Synonyms: parasitical |
| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitical |
| parasitical | (adjective) relating to or caused by parasites | Synonyms: parasitic |
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| (adjective) of plants or persons; having the nature or habits of a parasite or leech; living off another | Synonyms: bloodsucking, leechlike, parasitic |
| parasitically | (adverb) in a parasitic manner | - |
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| parasiticidal | (adjective) capable of expelling or destroying parasitic worms | Synonyms: anthelminthic, anthelmintic, helminthic |
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| parasitism | (noun) the relation between two different kinds of organisms in which one receives benefits from the other by causing damage to it (usually not fatal damage) | - |
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| perquisite | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, prerogative, privilege |
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| (noun) an incidental benefit awarded for certain types of employment (especially if it is regarded as a right) | Synonyms: fringe benefit, perk |
| perversity | (noun) deliberately deviating from what is good | Synonyms: perverseness |
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| (noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: contrariness, perverseness |
| phillipsite | (noun) a group of white or reddish crystalline minerals of the zeolite family consisting of a hydrous silicate of calcium and potassium and aluminum | - |
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| 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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| pilosity | (noun) the quality of having hair | Synonyms: hairiness |
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| polymyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| pomposity | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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| ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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| porosity | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porousness |
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| posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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| (verb) take as a given; assume as a postulate or axiom | Synonyms: postulate |
| (verb) put before | Synonyms: put forward, state, submit |
| (verb) put (something somewhere) firmly | Synonyms: deposit, fix, situate |
| position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
| (noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
| (noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
| (noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
| (noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
| (noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
| (verb) put into a certain place or abstract location | Synonyms: lay, place, pose, put, set |
| (verb) cause to be in an appropriate place, state, or relation | - |
| positionable | (adjective) capable of being positioned | - |
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| positional | (adjective) of or relating to or determined by position | - |
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| positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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| (noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
| positioning | (adjective) causing to fall into line or into position | Synonyms: aligning |
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| (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
| positive | (adjective) characterized by or displaying affirmation or acceptance or certainty etc. | - |
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| (adjective) indicating existence or presence of a suspected condition or pathogen | Synonyms: confirming |
| (adjective) reckoned, situated or tending in the direction which naturally or arbitrarily is taken to indicate increase or progress or onward motion | - |
| (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positivist, positivistic |
| (adjective) involving advantage or good | Synonyms: plus |
| (adjective) persuaded of; very sure | Synonyms: confident, convinced |
| (adjective) having a positive charge | Synonyms: electropositive, positively charged |
| (adjective) marked by excessive confidence | Synonyms: cocksure, overconfident |
| (adjective) formally laid down or imposed | Synonyms: prescribed |
| (adjective) greater than zero | - |
| (adjective) impossible to deny or disprove | Synonyms: incontrovertible, irrefutable |
| (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
| (noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
| positively | (adverb) downright | - |
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| (adverb) so as to be positive; in a positive manner | - |
| positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
| positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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| (noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
| positivist | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivistic |
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| (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
| positivistic | (adjective) of or relating to positivism | Synonyms: positive, positivist |
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| positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
| positron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: antielectron |
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| postposition | (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) | - |
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