succulence | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulency |
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sufferance | (noun) patient endurance especially of pain or distress | - |
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(noun) a disposition to tolerate or accept people or situations | Synonyms: acceptance, toleration |
superabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness |
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superintelligence | (noun) Remarkable intelligence, intelligence at or above and beyond the level of a genius. | Synonyms: hyperintelligence |
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superintendence | (noun) management by overseeing the performance or operation of a person or group | Synonyms: oversight, supervising, supervision |
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surveillance | (noun) close observation of a person or group (usually by the police) | - |
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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 |
tapdance | (verb) dance and make rhythmic clicking sounds by means of metal plates nailed to the sole of the dance shoes | Synonyms: tap |
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tarriance | (noun) the act of tarrying | Synonyms: lingering |
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teleconference | (noun) a conference of people who are in different locations that is made possible by the use of such telecommunications equipment as closed-circuit television | Synonyms: teleconferencing |
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temperance | (noun) abstaining from excess | Synonyms: sobriety |
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(noun) the act of tempering | - |
(noun) the trait of avoiding excesses | Synonyms: moderation |
tenpence | (noun) a decimal coin worth ten pennies | - |
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thence | (adverb) (used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result | Synonyms: hence, so, therefore, thus |
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(adverb) from that place or from there | Synonyms: therefrom |
(adverb) from that circumstance or source | Synonyms: therefrom, thereof |
threepence | (noun) former cupronickel coin of the United Kingdom equal to three pennies | - |
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tolerance | (noun) the act of tolerating something | - |
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(noun) a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits | Synonyms: allowance, leeway, margin |
(noun) the power or capacity of an organism to tolerate unfavorable environmental conditions | - |
(noun) a disposition to allow freedom of choice and behavior | Synonyms: permissiveness |
(noun) willingness to recognize and respect the beliefs or practices of others | - |
totipotence | (noun) the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part | Synonyms: totipotency |
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trance | (noun) a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing; a state resembling deep sleep | - |
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(noun) A genre of electronic dance music with a fast tempo, repetitive phrasing, and often a hypnotic effect. | - |
(noun) a psychological state induced by (or as if induced by) a magical incantation | Synonyms: enchantment, spell |
(verb) attract; cause to be enamored | Synonyms: becharm, beguile, bewitch, captivate, capture, catch, charm, enamor, enamour, enchant, entrance, fascinate |
transcendence | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendency |
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(noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendency |
transference | (noun) transferring ownership | Synonyms: transfer |
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(noun) the act of transferring something from one form to another | Synonyms: transfer |
(noun) (psychoanalysis) the process whereby emotions are passed on or displaced from one person to another; during psychoanalysis the displacement of feelings toward others (usually the parents) is onto the analyst | - |
transience | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transiency, transitoriness |
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(noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: brevity, briefness |
translucence | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucency |
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transmittance | (noun) the fraction of radiant energy that passes through a substance | Synonyms: transmission |
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transparence | (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparency, transparentness |
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(noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparency |
trounce | (verb) censure severely or angrily | Synonyms: bawl out, berate, call down, call on the carpet, chew out, chew up, chide, dress down, have words, jaw, lambast, lambaste, lecture, rag, rebuke, remonstrate, reprimand, scold, take to task |
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(verb) come out better in a competition, race, or conflict | Synonyms: beat, beat out, crush, shell, vanquish |
(verb) beat severely with a whip or rod | Synonyms: flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, welt, whip |
truculence | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculency |
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tumescence | (noun) tumidity resulting from the presence of blood or other fluid in the tissues | - |
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tuppence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: twopence |
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turbulence | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulency |
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(noun) a state of violent disturbance and disorder (as in politics or social conditions generally) | Synonyms: Sturm und Drang, upheaval |
(noun) instability in the atmosphere | - |
twopence | (noun) a former United Kingdom silver coin; United Kingdom bronze decimal coin worth two pennies | Synonyms: tuppence |
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unbalance | (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: imbalance, instability |
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(noun) a state of mental disturbance and disorientation | Synonyms: derangement, mental unsoundness |
(verb) derange mentally, throw out of mental balance; make insane | Synonyms: derange |
(verb) throw out of balance or equilibrium | - |
unimportance | (noun) the quality of not being important or worthy of note | - |
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(noun) the state of being humble and unimportant | Synonyms: humbleness, lowliness, obscureness |
usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
(noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |
utterance | (noun) the use of uttered sounds for auditory communication | Synonyms: vocalization |
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valance | (noun) a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing | Synonyms: cornice, pelmet, valance board |
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valence | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valency |
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(noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valency |
valiance | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiancy, valor, valorousness, valour |
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variance | (noun) an activity that varies from a norm or standard | Synonyms: variation |
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(noun) an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation) | - |
(noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, discrepancy, divergence |
(noun) the quality of being subject to variation | Synonyms: variability, variableness |
(noun) the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value | - |
(noun) discord that splits a group | Synonyms: division |
(noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: discrepancy, variant |
vehemence | (noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, violence, wildness |
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(noun) intensity or forcefulness of expression | Synonyms: emphasis |
vengeance | (noun) the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life | Synonyms: payback, retribution |
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vigilance | (noun) vigilant attentiveness | Synonyms: watchfulness, weather eye |
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(noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: alertness, wakefulness, watchfulness |
violence | (noun) an act of aggression (as one against a person who resists) | Synonyms: force |
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(noun) the property of being wild or turbulent | Synonyms: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, wildness |
(noun) a turbulent state resulting in injuries and destruction etc. | - |
virulence | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulency |
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(noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulency |
voidance | (noun) the act of removing the contents of something | Synonyms: emptying, evacuation |
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whence | (adverb) from what place, source, or cause | - |
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wince | (noun) a reflex response to sudden pain | Synonyms: flinch |
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(noun) the facial expression of sudden pain | - |
(verb) make a face indicating disgust or dislike | - |
(verb) draw back, as with fear or pain | Synonyms: cringe, flinch, funk, quail, recoil, shrink, squinch |