abstention | (noun) the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol) | Synonyms: abstinence |
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abstentious | (adjective) self-restraining; not indulging an appetite especially for food or drink | Synonyms: abstinent |
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austenite | (noun) a solid solution of ferric carbide or carbon in iron; cools to form pearlite or martensite | - |
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austenitic | (adjective) composed of austenite | - |
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chasten | (verb) change by restraining or moderating | Synonyms: temper |
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(verb) correct by punishment or discipline | Synonyms: subdue, tame |
(verb) censure severely | Synonyms: castigate, chastise, correct, objurgate |
chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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chastening | (noun) a rebuke for making a mistake | Synonyms: chastisement, correction |
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christen | (verb) administer baptism to | Synonyms: baptise, baptize |
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christening | (noun) giving a Christian name at baptism | - |
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coexistence | (noun) existing peacefully together | - |
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coexistent | (adjective) existing at the same time | Synonyms: coexisting |
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consistence | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistency, substance |
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(noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistency |
consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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(noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
(noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
(noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
consistent | (adjective) (sometimes followed by `with') in agreement or consistent or reliable | - |
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(adjective) marked by an orderly, logical, and aesthetically consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherent, logical, ordered |
(adjective) capable of being reproduced | Synonyms: reproducible |
(adjective) the same throughout in structure or composition | Synonyms: uniform |
consistently | (adverb) in a systematic or consistent manner | Synonyms: systematically |
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distend | (verb) become wider | Synonyms: dilate |
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(verb) swell from or as if from internal pressure | - |
(verb) cause to expand as if by internal pressure | - |
distended | (adjective) abnormally distended especially by fluids or gas | Synonyms: bloated, intumescent, puffy, swollen, tumescent, tumid, turgid |
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distensible | (adjective) capable of being distended; able to stretch and expand | - |
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distension | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distention |
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(noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distention |
distention | (noun) the act of expanding by pressure from within | Synonyms: distension |
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(noun) the state of being stretched beyond normal dimensions | Synonyms: dilatation, distension |
enterostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the intestine | - |
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existence | (noun) everything that exists anywhere | Synonyms: cosmos, creation, macrocosm, universe, world |
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(noun) the state or fact of existing | Synonyms: being, beingness, face of the earth |
existent | (adjective) having existence or being or actuality | Synonyms: existing |
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(adjective) being or occurring in fact or actuality; having verified existence; not illusory | Synonyms: real |
(adjective) presently existing in fact and not merely potential or possible | Synonyms: actual |
existential | (adjective) relating to or dealing with existence (especially with human existence) | - |
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(adjective) of or as conceived by existentialism | - |
(adjective) derived from experience or the experience of existence | Synonyms: experiential |
existentialism | (noun) (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves | Synonyms: existential philosophy, existentialist philosophy |
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existentialist | (adjective) relating to or involving existentialism | - |
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(noun) a philosopher who emphasizes freedom of choice and personal responsibility but who regards human existence in a hostile universe as unexplainable | Synonyms: existential philosopher, existentialist philosopher |
fasten | (verb) make tight or tighter | Synonyms: tighten |
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(verb) become fixed or fastened | - |
(verb) cause to be firmly attached | Synonyms: fix, secure |
(verb) attach to | - |
fastened | (adjective) firmly closed or secured | - |
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(adjective) furnished or closed with buttons or something buttonlike | Synonyms: buttoned |
(adjective) fastened with strings or cords | Synonyms: tied |
fastener | (noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastening, fixing, holdfast |
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(noun) a person who fastens or makes fast | - |
fastening | (noun) the act of fastening things together | Synonyms: attachment |
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(noun) restraint that attaches to something or holds something in place | Synonyms: fastener, fixing, holdfast |
glisten | (noun) the quality of shining with a bright reflected light | Synonyms: glister, glitter, scintillation, sparkle |
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(verb) be shiny, as if wet | Synonyms: gleam, glint, glitter, shine |
glistening | (adjective) reflecting light | Synonyms: glossy, lustrous, sheeny, shining, shiny |
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hasten | (verb) act at high speed | Synonyms: festinate, hurry, look sharp, rush |
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(verb) cause to occur rapidly | Synonyms: induce, rush, stimulate |
(verb) move hurridly | Synonyms: belt along, bucket along, cannonball along, hie, hotfoot, pelt along, race, rush, rush along, speed, step on it |
(verb) speed up the progress of; facilitate | Synonyms: expedite |
inconsistency | (noun) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | - |
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(noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
inconsistent | (adjective) displaying a lack of consistency | - |
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(adjective) not in agreement | Synonyms: discrepant |
(adjective) not capable of being made consistent or harmonious | - |
inconsistently | (adverb) without showing consistency | - |
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insistence | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistency |
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(noun) continual and persistent demands | Synonyms: insisting |
(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistency, press, pressure |
insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
insistent | (adjective) repetitive and persistent | Synonyms: repetitive |
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(adjective) demanding attention | Synonyms: clamant, crying, exigent, instant |
insistently | (adverb) in an insistent manner | - |
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laryngostenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of the larynx | - |
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listen | (verb) hear with intention | - |
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(verb) listen and pay attention | Synonyms: hear, take heed |
(verb) pay close attention to; give heed to | Synonyms: heed, mind |
listener | (noun) someone who listens attentively | Synonyms: attender, auditor, hearer |
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listenership | (noun) all the listeners collectively of a particular radio programme, station, or broadcaster. | - |
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listening | (noun) the act of hearing attentively | Synonyms: hearing |
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moisten | (verb) make moist | Synonyms: dampen, wash |
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(verb) moisten with fine drops | Synonyms: drizzle |
moistener | (noun) a device that dampens or moistens something | Synonyms: dampener |
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moistening | (noun) the act of making something slightly wet | Synonyms: dampening |
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nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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nonexistent | (adjective) not having existence or being or actuality | - |
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ostensibility | (noun) The quality of being professed, supposed rather than demonstrably true or real. | - |
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ostensible | (adjective) represented or appearing as such; pretended | Synonyms: ostensive |
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(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so | Synonyms: apparent, seeming |
ostensibly | (adverb) from appearances alone | Synonyms: apparently, on the face of it, seemingly |
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ostensive | (adjective) represented or appearing as such; pretended | Synonyms: ostensible |
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(adjective) manifestly demonstrative | - |
ostensorium | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: monstrance |
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ostentate | (verb) display proudly; act ostentatiously or pretentiously | Synonyms: flash, flaunt, show off, swank |
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ostentation | (noun) pretentious or showy or vulgar display | - |
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(noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
(noun) a gaudy outward display | Synonyms: fanfare, flash |
ostentatious | (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: pretentious |
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(adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: pretentious |
ostentatiously | (adverb) with ostentation; in an ostentatious manner | Synonyms: showily |
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ostentatiousness | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
(noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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persistent | (adjective) retained; not shed | Synonyms: lasting |
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(adjective) never-ceasing | Synonyms: relentless, unrelenting |
(adjective) stubbornly unyielding | Synonyms: dogged, dour, pertinacious, tenacious, unyielding |
(adjective) continually recurring to the mind | Synonyms: haunting |
persistently | (adverb) with persistence | - |
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(adverb) in a persistent manner | - |
preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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preexistent | (adjective) existing previously or before something | Synonyms: pre-existent, pre-existing, preexisting |
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relistening | (noun) the act of hearing again | Synonyms: rehearing |
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rhinostenosis | (noun) narrowing of the passages in the nasal cavities | - |
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stench | (noun) a distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant | Synonyms: fetor, foetor, malodor, malodour, mephitis, reek, stink |
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stencil | (noun) a sheet of material (metal, plastic, cardboard, waxed paper, silk, etc.) that has been perforated with a pattern (printing or a design); ink or paint can pass through the perforations to create the printed pattern on the surface below | - |
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(verb) mark or print with a stencil | - |
stenograph | (noun) a machine for typewriting shorthand characters | - |
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(noun) a shorthand character | - |
(verb) write in shorthand | - |
stenographer | (noun) someone skilled in the transcription of speech (especially dictation) | Synonyms: amanuensis, shorthand typist |
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stenographic | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographical |
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stenographical | (adjective) of or relating to or employing stenography | Synonyms: stenographic |
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stenography | (noun) the act or art of writing in shorthand | - |
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(noun) a method of writing rapidly using an abbreviated symbolic system | Synonyms: shorthand, tachygraphy |
stenopterygius | (noun) an ichthyosaur of the genus Stenopterygius | Synonyms: Stenopterygius quadrisicissus |
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stenosed | (adjective) abnormally constricted body canal or passage | Synonyms: stenotic |
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stenosis | (noun) abnormal narrowing of a bodily canal or passageway | Synonyms: stricture |
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stenotic | (adjective) abnormally constricted body canal or passage | Synonyms: stenosed |
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stent | (noun) a slender tube inserted inside a tubular body part (as a blood vessel) to provide support during and after surgical anastomosis | - |
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stentor | (noun) any of several trumpet-shaped ciliate protozoans that are members of the genus Stentor | - |
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(noun) a speaker with an unusually loud voice | - |
stentorian | (adjective) (used of the voice or sound) deep and resonant | Synonyms: booming |
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subsistence | (noun) minimal (or marginal) resources for subsisting | - |
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(noun) the state of existing in reality; having substance | - |
(noun) a means of surviving | - |
sustenance | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustentation, upkeep |
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(noun) a source of materials to nourish the body | Synonyms: aliment, alimentation, nourishment, nutriment, nutrition, victuals |
(noun) the financial means whereby one lives | Synonyms: bread and butter, keep, livelihood, living, support |
sustentacular | (adjective) serving to sustain or support | - |
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sustentation | (noun) the act of sustaining life by food or providing a means of subsistence | Synonyms: maintenance, sustainment, sustenance, upkeep |
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tungsten | (noun) a heavy grey-white metallic element; the pure form is used mainly in electrical applications; it is found in several ores including wolframite and scheelite | Synonyms: atomic number 74, W, wolfram |
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unfasten | (verb) become undone or untied | - |
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(verb) cause to become undone | - |
unfastened | (adjective) not closed or secured | - |
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(adjective) not buttoned | Synonyms: unbuttoned |
(adjective) not tied | Synonyms: untied |
(adjective) affording unobstructed entrance and exit; not shut or closed | Synonyms: open |
unfastener | (noun) a person who unfastens or unwraps or opens | Synonyms: opener, undoer, untier |
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unfastening | (noun) loosening the ties that fasten something | Synonyms: undoing, untying |
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unostentatious | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unpretending, unpretentious |
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(adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unpretentious |
ureterostenosis | (noun) stenosis of the ureter | - |
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