| 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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| prescriptivism | (noun) (linguistics) a doctrine supporting or promoting prescriptive linguistics | - |
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| (noun) (ethics) a doctrine holding that moral statements prescribe appropriate attitudes and behavior | - |
| previse | (verb) realize beforehand | Synonyms: anticipate, foreknow, foresee |
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| (verb) warn in advance or beforehand; give an early warning | Synonyms: forewarn |
| prevision | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prescience |
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| (noun) a prophetic vision (as in a dream) | - |
| (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prospicience |
| (noun) the act of predicting (as by reasoning about the future) | Synonyms: anticipation, prediction |
| primitivism | (noun) a genre characteristic of (or imitative of) primitive artists or children | - |
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| (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitiveness, rudeness |
| progressivism | (noun) the political orientation of those who favor progress toward better conditions in government and society | - |
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| protoavis | (noun) most primitive avian type known; extinct bird of the Triassic having bird-like jaw and hollow limbs and breastbone with dinosaur-like tail and hind limbs | - |
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| provision | (noun) the activity of supplying or providing something | Synonyms: supply, supplying |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of thinking about what you will do in the event of something happening | Synonyms: planning, preparation |
| (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: proviso |
| (noun) a store or supply of something (especially of food or clothing or arms) | - |
| (verb) supply with provisions | Synonyms: purvey |
| provisional | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisionary, tentative |
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| provisionally | (adverb) temporarily and conditionally | - |
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| provisionary | (adjective) under terms not final or fully worked out or agreed upon | Synonyms: probationary, provisional, tentative |
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| provisioner | (noun) a supplier of victuals or supplies to an army | Synonyms: sutler, victualer, victualler |
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| provisions | (noun) a stock or supply of foods | Synonyms: commissariat, provender, viands, victuals |
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| proviso | (noun) a stipulated condition | Synonyms: provision |
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| provisory | (adjective) subject to a proviso | - |
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| ravish | (verb) hold spellbound | Synonyms: delight, enchant, enrapture, enthral, enthrall, transport |
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| (verb) force (someone) to have sex against their will | Synonyms: assault, dishonor, dishonour, outrage, rape, violate |
| ravisher | (noun) someone who assaults others sexually | Synonyms: debaucher, violator |
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| (noun) a very attractive or seductive looking woman | Synonyms: beauty, dish, knockout, looker, lulu, mantrap, peach, smasher, stunner, sweetheart |
| ravishing | (adjective) stunningly beautiful | - |
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| ravishingly | (adverb) in a ravishing manner or to a ravishing degree | - |
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| ravishment | (noun) the crime of forcing a person to submit to sexual intercourse against his or her will | Synonyms: assault, rape, violation |
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| (noun) a feeling of delight at being filled with wonder and enchantment | Synonyms: entrancement |
| recidivism | (noun) habitual relapse into crime | - |
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| recidivist | (noun) someone who lapses into previous undesirable patterns of behavior | Synonyms: backslider, reversionist |
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| (noun) someone who is repeatedly arrested for criminal behavior (especially for the same criminal behavior) | Synonyms: habitual criminal, repeater |
| reductivism | (noun) an art movement in sculpture and painting that began in the 1950s and emphasized extreme simplification of form and color | Synonyms: minimal art, minimalism |
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| relativisation | (noun) the act or result of making relative or regarding as relative rather than absolute. | Synonyms: relativization |
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| relativise | (verb) consider or treat as relative | Synonyms: relativize |
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| relativism | (noun) (philosophy) the philosophical doctrine that all criteria of judgment are relative to the individuals and situations involved | - |
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| relativistic | (adjective) relating or subject to the special or the general theory of relativity | - |
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| (adjective) of or relating to the philosophical doctrine of relativism | - |
| relativistically | (adverb) by the theory of relativity | - |
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| reservist | (noun) a member of a military reserve | - |
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| retrovision | (noun) a vision of events in the distant past | - |
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| revisal | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revise, revision |
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| revise | (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revision |
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| (verb) make revisions in | - |
| (verb) revise or reorganize, especially for the purpose of updating and improving | Synonyms: retool |
| revised | (adjective) improved or brought up to date | - |
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| (adjective) altered or revised by rephrasing or by adding or deleting material | - |
| reviser | (noun) someone who puts text into appropriate form for publication | Synonyms: redact, redactor, rewrite man, rewriter |
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| revising | (noun) editing that involves writing something again | Synonyms: rewriting |
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| revision | (noun) the act of revising or altering (involving reconsideration and modification) | Synonyms: alteration |
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| (noun) something that has been written again | Synonyms: rescript, rewrite |
| (noun) the act of rewriting something | Synonyms: rescript, revisal, revise |
| revisionism | (noun) a moderate evolutionary form of Marxism | - |
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| (noun) any dangerous departure from the teachings of Marx | - |
| revisionist | (noun) a Communist who tries to rewrite Marxism to justify a retreat from the revolutionary position | - |
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| revisit | (verb) visit again | - |
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| slavish | (adjective) abjectly submissive; characteristic of a slave or servant | Synonyms: submissive, subservient |
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| (adjective) blindly imitative | - |
| slavishly | (adverb) in a slavish manner | - |
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| subdivision | (noun) the act of subdividing; division of something previously divided | - |
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| (noun) a section of a section; a part of a part; i.e., a part of something already divided | Synonyms: subsection |
| (noun) a self-contained part of a larger composition (written or musical) | Synonyms: section |
| (noun) a division of some larger or more complex organization | Synonyms: arm, branch |
| (noun) an area composed of subdivided lots | - |
| subjectivism | (noun) the quality of being subjective | - |
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| (noun) (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge and value are dependent on and limited by your subjective experience | - |
| subjectivist | (noun) a person who subscribes to subjectivism | - |
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| supervise | (verb) keep tabs on; keep an eye on; keep under surveillance | Synonyms: monitor |
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| (verb) watch and direct | Synonyms: manage, oversee, superintend |
| supervised | (adjective) under observation or under the direction of a superintendent or overseer | - |
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| supervising | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervision |
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| supervision | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, superintendence, supervising |
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| supervisor | (noun) a program that controls the execution of other programs | Synonyms: executive program, supervisory program |
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| (noun) one who supervises or has charge and direction of | - |
| supervisory | (adjective) of or limited to or involving supervision | - |
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| televise | (verb) broadcast via television | Synonyms: telecast |
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| television | (noun) a telecommunication system that transmits images of objects (stationary or moving) between distant points | Synonyms: television system |
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| (noun) an electronic device that receives television signals and displays them on a screen | Synonyms: boob tube, goggle box, idiot box, television receiver, television set, telly, tv, tv set |
| (noun) broadcasting visual images of stationary or moving objects | Synonyms: telecasting, TV, video |
| televisuality | (noun) Quality of being of, relating to, or being suitable for broadcast by television. | - |
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| thievish | (adjective) given to thievery | Synonyms: thieving |
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| thievishly | (adverb) in a manner characteristic of a thief | - |
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| thievishness | (noun) having a disposition to steal | Synonyms: larcenous |
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| transitivise | (verb) make transitive | Synonyms: transitivize |
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| unadvisable | (adjective) not prudent or wise; not recommended | Synonyms: inadvisable |
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| unadvised | (adjective) without careful prior deliberation or counsel | Synonyms: ill-advised |
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| (adjective) having received no information | - |
| unadvisedly | (adverb) in an unadvised manner | - |
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| unrevised | (adjective) not improved or brought up to date | - |
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| unsupervised | (adjective) not supervised or under constant observation | - |
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| visa | (noun) an endorsement made in a passport that allows the bearer to enter the country issuing it | - |
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| (verb) provide (a passport) with a visa | - |
| (verb) approve officially | - |
| visage | (noun) the appearance conveyed by a person's face | Synonyms: countenance |
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| (noun) the human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) | Synonyms: countenance, kisser, mug, phiz, physiognomy, smiler |
| visaged | (adjective) having a face or visage as specified | - |
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| viscacha | (noun) gregarious burrowing rodent larger than the chinchillas | Synonyms: chinchillon, Lagostomus maximus |
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| viscera | (noun) internal organs collectively (especially those in the abdominal cavity) | Synonyms: entrails, innards, insides |
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| visceral | (adjective) relating to or affecting the viscera | Synonyms: splanchnic |
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| (adjective) obtained through intuition rather than from reasoning or observation | Synonyms: intuitive, nonrational |
| viscerally | (adverb) in the viscera | - |
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| (adverb) in an unreasoning visceral manner | Synonyms: unreasoningly |
| viscid | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscous |
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| viscidity | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidness |
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| viscidly | (adverb) in a sticky viscid manner | Synonyms: stickily |
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| viscidness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: cohesiveness, glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity |
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| viscoelastic | (adjective) having viscous as well as elastic properties | - |
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| viscometer | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimeter |
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| viscometric | (adjective) of or relating to the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimetric |
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| viscometry | (noun) the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscosimetry |
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| viscose | (noun) a rayon fabric made from viscose (cellulose xanthate) fibers | Synonyms: viscose rayon |
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| (noun) a cellulose ester obtained by treating cellulose with caustic soda | Synonyms: cellulose xanthate |
| viscosimeter | (noun) a measuring instrument for measuring viscosity | Synonyms: viscometer |
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| viscosimetric | (adjective) of or relating to the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscometric |
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| viscosimetry | (noun) the measurement of viscosity | Synonyms: viscometry |
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| viscosity | (noun) resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) | Synonyms: viscousness |
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| viscount | (noun) a British peer who ranks below an earl and above a baron | - |
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| (noun) (in various countries) a son or younger brother or a count | - |
| viscountcy | (noun) the title of a viscount | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | Synonyms: viscounty |
| viscountess | (noun) a noblewoman holding the rank of viscount in her own right | - |
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| (noun) a wife or widow of a viscount | - |
| viscounty | (noun) the domain controlled by a viscount or viscountess | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | Synonyms: viscountcy |
| viscous | (adjective) having the sticky properties of an adhesive | Synonyms: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid |
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| (adjective) having a relatively high resistance to flow | Synonyms: syrupy |
| viscousness | (noun) resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) | Synonyms: viscosity |
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| viscus | (noun) a main organ that is situated inside the body | Synonyms: internal organ |
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| vise | (noun) a holding device attached to a workbench; has two jaws to hold workpiece firmly in place | Synonyms: bench vise, vice |
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| viselike | (adjective) clamped as in a vise | - |
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| visibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye | Synonyms: visibleness |
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| (noun) capability of providing a clear unobstructed view | - |
| (noun) degree of exposure to public notice | Synonyms: profile |
| visible | (adjective) capable of being seen; or open to easy view | Synonyms: seeable |
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| (adjective) present and easily available | - |
| (adjective) obvious to the eye | - |
| visibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being visible; perceptible by the eye or obvious to the eye | Synonyms: visibility |
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| visibly | (adverb) in a visible manner | - |
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| (adverb) so as to be visible | - |
| vision | (noun) the ability to see; the visual faculty | Synonyms: sight, visual modality, visual sense |
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| (noun) the perceptual experience of seeing | Synonyms: visual sensation |
| (noun) a vivid mental image | - |
| (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, imaginativeness |
| (noun) a religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance | - |
| visionariness | (noun) The state or condition of being imaginary or illusory. | - |
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| visionary | (adjective) not practical or realizable; speculative | Synonyms: airy, impractical, Laputan, windy |
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| (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: illusionist, seer |
| (noun) a person given to fanciful speculations and enthusiasms with little regard for what is actually possible | - |