| illiberality | (noun) a disposition not to be liberal (generous) with money | - |
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| illiberally | (adverb) in a manner that isn't broad-minded | Synonyms: intolerantly |
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| illicit | (adjective) contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention | - |
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| (adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
| illicitly | (adverb) in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom | Synonyms: illegitimately |
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| (adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illegally, lawlessly |
| illicitness | (noun) the quality of not conforming strictly to law | - |
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| illimitable | (adjective) without limits in extent or size or quantity | Synonyms: limitless, measureless, unmeasured |
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| illiquidity | (noun) the quality of being illiquid; a lack of liquidity; difficulty in selling out an asset. | - |
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| illiteracy | (noun) an inability to read | Synonyms: analphabetism |
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| (noun) ignorance resulting from not reading | - |
| illiterate | (adjective) not able to read or write | - |
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| (adjective) lacking culture, especially in language and literature | - |
| (adjective) uneducated in the fundamentals of a given art or branch of learning; lacking knowledge of a specific field | Synonyms: ignorant |
| (noun) a person unable to read | Synonyms: illiterate person, nonreader |
| illness | (noun) impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism | Synonyms: malady, sickness, unwellness |
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| illogic | (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogicality, illogicalness, inconsequence |
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| illogical | (adjective) lacking in correct logical relation | Synonyms: unlogical |
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| (adjective) lacking orderly continuity | Synonyms: confused, disconnected, disjointed, disordered, garbled, scattered, unconnected |
| illogicality | (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicalness, inconsequence |
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| illogically | (adverb) in an illogical manner | - |
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| illogicalness | (noun) invalid or incorrect reasoning | Synonyms: illogic, illogicality, inconsequence |
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| illume | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illuminate, illumine, light, light up |
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| illuminance | (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illumination |
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| illuminant | (noun) something that can serve as a source of light | - |
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| illuminate | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illumine, light, light up |
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| (verb) make free from confusion or ambiguity; make clear | Synonyms: clear, clear up, crystalise, crystalize, crystallise, crystallize, elucidate, enlighten, shed light on, sort out, straighten out |
| (verb) add embellishments and paintings to (medieval manuscripts) | - |
| illuminated | (adjective) provided with artificial light | Synonyms: lighted, lit, well-lighted |
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| illuminating | (adjective) tending to increase knowledge or dissipate ignorance | Synonyms: enlightening, informative |
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| illumination | (noun) painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts) | Synonyms: miniature |
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| (noun) the luminous flux incident on a unit area | Synonyms: illuminance |
| (noun) an interpretation that removes obstacles to understanding | Synonyms: clarification, elucidation |
| (noun) the degree of visibility of your environment | - |
| (noun) a condition of spiritual awareness; divine illumination | Synonyms: light |
| illumine | (verb) introduce light into | Synonyms: illume, illuminate, light, light up |
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| illusion | (noun) the act of deluding; deception by creating illusory ideas | Synonyms: delusion, head game |
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| (noun) an illusory feat; considered magical by naive observers | Synonyms: conjuration, conjuring trick, deception, legerdemain, magic, magic trick, thaumaturgy, trick |
| (noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fancy, fantasy, phantasy |
| (noun) an erroneous mental representation | Synonyms: semblance |
| illusional | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusionary |
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| illusionary | (adjective) marked by or producing illusion | Synonyms: illusional |
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| illusionist | (noun) a person with unusual powers of foresight | Synonyms: seer, visionary |
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| (noun) someone who performs magic tricks to amuse an audience | Synonyms: conjurer, conjuror, magician, prestidigitator |
| illusive | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusory |
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| illusoriness | (noun) The quality of resulting from an illusion; of being deceptive, imaginary, unreal. | - |
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| illusory | (adjective) based on or having the nature of an illusion | Synonyms: illusive |
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| illustrate | (verb) clarify by giving an example of | Synonyms: exemplify, instance |
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| (verb) depict with an illustration | - |
| (verb) supply with illustrations | - |
| illustration | (noun) a visual representation (a picture or diagram) that is used to make some subject more pleasing or easier to understand | - |
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| (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, instance, representative |
| (noun) artwork that helps make something clear or attractive | - |
| (noun) showing by example | Synonyms: exemplification |
| illustrative | (adjective) clarifying by use of examples | Synonyms: exemplifying |
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| (adjective) serving to demonstrate | Synonyms: demonstrative |
| illustrator | (noun) an artist who makes illustrations (for books or magazines or advertisements etc.) | - |
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| illustrious | (adjective) having or conferring glory | - |
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| (adjective) widely known and esteemed | Synonyms: celebrated, famed, famous, far-famed, notable, noted, renowned |
| illustriously | (adverb) in an illustrious manner | - |
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| illustriousness | (noun) the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance or eminence | Synonyms: greatness |
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| ilmenite | (noun) a weakly magnetic black mineral found in metamorphic and plutonic rocks; an iron titanium oxide in crystalline form; a source of titanium | - |
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| ilx | (adjective) being nine more than fifty | Synonyms: 59, fifty-nine |
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| ilxx | (adjective) being nine more than sixty | Synonyms: 69, sixty-nine |
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| ilxxx | (adjective) being nine more than seventy | Synonyms: 79, seventy-nine |
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| image | (noun) a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface | Synonyms: icon, ikon, picture |
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| (noun) a representation of a person (especially in the form of sculpture) | Synonyms: effigy, simulacrum |
| (noun) (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world | Synonyms: persona |
| (noun) the general impression that something (a person or organization or product) presents to the public | - |
| (noun) an iconic mental representation | Synonyms: mental image |
| (noun) a standard or typical example | Synonyms: epitome, paradigm, prototype |
| (noun) language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, trope |
| (noun) (mathematics) the set of values of the dependent variable for which a function is defined | Synonyms: range, range of a function |
| (noun) someone who closely resembles a famous person (especially an actor) | Synonyms: double, look-alike |
| (verb) imagine; conceive of; see in one's mind | Synonyms: envision, fancy, figure, picture, project, see, visualise, visualize |
| (verb) render visible, as by means of MRI | - |
| imagery | (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagination, imaging, mental imagery |
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| imaginable | (adjective) capable of being imagined | Synonyms: conceivable |
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| imaginary | (adjective) not based on fact; existing only in the imagination | Synonyms: fanciful, notional |
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| (noun) (mathematics) a number of the form a+bi where a and b are real numbers and i is the square root of -1 | Synonyms: complex number, complex quantity, imaginary number |
| imagination | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imaginativeness, vision |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imaging, mental imagery |
| (noun) the ability to deal resourcefully with unusual problems | Synonyms: resource, resourcefulness |
| imaginative | (adjective) (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action | Synonyms: inventive |
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| imaginatively | (adverb) with imagination | - |
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| imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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| imagine | (verb) expect, believe, or suppose | Synonyms: guess, opine, reckon, suppose, think |
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| (verb) form a mental image of something that is not present or that is not the case | Synonyms: conceive of, envisage, ideate |
| imaging | (noun) (medicine) obtaining pictures of the interior of the body | Synonyms: tomography |
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| (noun) the ability to form mental images of things or events | Synonyms: imagery, imagination, mental imagery |
| imagism | (noun) a movement by American and English poets early in the 20th century in reaction to Victorian sentimentality; used common speech in free verse with clear concrete imagery | - |
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| imago | (noun) an adult insect produced after metamorphosis | - |
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| (noun) (psychoanalysis) an idealized image of someone (usually a parent) formed in childhood | - |
| imam | (noun) (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide | Synonyms: imaum |
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| imaret | (noun) a hostel for pilgrims in Turkey | - |
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| imaum | (noun) (Islam) the man who leads prayers in a mosque; for Shiites an imam is a recognized authority on Islamic theology and law and a spiritual guide | Synonyms: imam |
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| imbalance | (noun) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something | Synonyms: disproportion, dissymmetry |
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| (noun) a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium | Synonyms: instability, unbalance |
| imbalanced | (adjective) being or thrown out of equilibrium | Synonyms: unbalanced |
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| imbauba | (noun) tropical American tree with large peltate leaves and hollow stems | Synonyms: Cecropia peltata, snake wood, trumpet-wood, trumpet tree, trumpetwood |
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| imbecile | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecilic |
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| (noun) a person of subnormal intelligence | Synonyms: changeling, cretin, half-wit, idiot, moron, retard |
| imbecilic | (adjective) having a mental age of three to seven years | Synonyms: idiotic, imbecile |
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| imbecility | (noun) a stupid mistake | Synonyms: betise, folly, foolishness, stupidity |
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| (noun) retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot | - |
| imbed | (verb) fix or set securely or deeply | Synonyms: embed, engraft, implant, plant |
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| imbibe | (verb) receive into the mind and retain | - |
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| (verb) take in liquids | Synonyms: drink |
| (verb) take (gas, light or heat) into a solution | Synonyms: assimilate |
| (verb) take in, also metaphorically | Synonyms: absorb, draw, soak up, sop up, suck, suck up, take in, take up |
| imbiber | (noun) a person who drinks alcoholic beverages (especially to excess) | Synonyms: drinker, juicer, toper |
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| imbibing | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibition |
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| imbibition | (noun) the act of consuming liquids | Synonyms: drinking, imbibing |
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| (noun) (chemistry) the absorption of a liquid by a solid or gel | - |
| imbricate | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricated |
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| (verb) overlap | - |
| (verb) place so as to overlap | - |
| imbricated | (adjective) used especially of leaves or bracts; overlapping or layered as scales or shingles | Synonyms: imbricate |
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| imbrication | (noun) covering with a design in which one element covers a part of another (as with tiles or shingles) | Synonyms: lapping, overlapping |
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| imbroglio | (noun) a very embarrassing misunderstanding | - |
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| (noun) an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation | Synonyms: embroilment |
| imbrue | (verb) permeate or impregnate | Synonyms: drench |
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| imbue | (verb) suffuse with color | Synonyms: hue |
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| (verb) fill, soak, or imbue totally | Synonyms: soak |
| (verb) spread or diffuse through | Synonyms: diffuse, interpenetrate, penetrate, permeate, pervade, riddle |
| imbued | (adjective) (followed by `with') deeply filled or permeated | Synonyms: instinct, replete |
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| imidazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, iminazole |
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| imide | (noun) any of a class of organic compounds that contain the divalent radical -CONHCO- | - |
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| iminazole | (noun) an organic base C3H4N2; a histamine inhibitor | Synonyms: glyoxaline, imidazole |
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| imipramine | (noun) a tricyclic antidepressant (trade names Imavate and Tofranil) used to treat clinical depression | Synonyms: Imavate, impramine hydrochloride, Tofranil |
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| imitate | (verb) reproduce someone's behavior or looks | Synonyms: copy, simulate |
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| (verb) make a reproduction or copy of | - |
| (verb) appear like, as in behavior or appearance | - |
| imitation | (adjective) not genuine or real; being an imitation of the genuine article | Synonyms: fake, false, faux, simulated |
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| (noun) copying (or trying to copy) the actions of someone else | - |
| (noun) something copied or derived from an original | - |
| (noun) the doctrine that representations of nature or human behavior should be accurate imitations | - |
| (noun) a representation of a person that is exaggerated for comic effect | Synonyms: caricature, impersonation |
| imitative | (adjective) marked by or given to imitation | - |
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| (adjective) (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound | Synonyms: echoic, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic |
| (adjective) not genuine; imitating something superior | Synonyms: counterfeit |
| imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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| imitator | (noun) someone who copies the words or behavior of another | Synonyms: ape, aper, copycat, emulator |
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| (noun) someone who (fraudulently) assumes the appearance of another | Synonyms: impersonator |
| immaculacy | (noun) The characteristic of having no stain or blemish; of being spotless, undefiled, clear, pure. | - |
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| immaculate | (adjective) completely neat and clean | Synonyms: speckless, spic-and-span, spic, spick-and-span, spick, spotless |
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| (adjective) without fault or error | Synonyms: faultless, impeccable, incorrupted |
| (adjective) free from stain or blemish | Synonyms: undefiled |
| immaculately | (adverb) in an immaculate manner | - |
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| immaculateness | (noun) the state of being spotlessly clean | Synonyms: spotlessness |
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| immanence | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanency |
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| immanency | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanence |
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| immanent | (adjective) of a mental act performed entirely within the mind | Synonyms: subjective |
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| (adjective) of qualities that are spread throughout something | - |
| immaterial | (adjective) not consisting of matter | Synonyms: nonmaterial |
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| (adjective) of no importance or relevance especially to a law case | - |
| (adjective) without material form or substance | Synonyms: incorporeal |
| (adjective) not pertinent to the matter under consideration | Synonyms: extraneous, impertinent, orthogonal |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other | Synonyms: indifferent |
| immaterialise | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialize, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immateriality | (noun) the quality of not being physical; not consisting of matter | Synonyms: incorporeality |
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| (noun) complete irrelevance requiring no further consideration | - |
| immaterialize | (verb) render immaterial or incorporeal | Synonyms: immaterialise, unsubstantialise, unsubstantialize |
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| immature | (adjective) not yet mature | - |
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| (adjective) characteristic of a lack of maturity | - |
| (adjective) (used of living things especially persons) in an early period of life or development or growth | Synonyms: young |
| (adjective) (of birds) not yet having developed feathers | Synonyms: unfledged |
| (adjective) not fully developed or mature; not ripe | Synonyms: green, unripe, unripened |
| immaturely | (adverb) in an immature manner | Synonyms: jejunely |
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| immatureness | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immaturity |
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| immaturity | (noun) not having reached maturity | Synonyms: immatureness |
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| immeasurability | (noun) the quality of being immeasurable. | - |
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| immeasurable | (adjective) impossible to measure | Synonyms: immensurable, unmeasurable |
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| (adjective) beyond calculation or measure | Synonyms: incomputable, inestimable |