Mass (Uncountable) Group ACTIVE
Denotes an indefinitely divisible substance or an abstract notion.
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Apprenticeship
Apprenticeship Act of working for another in order to learn a trade, profession or skill. Pupilage, tutelage, novitiate.
Ascetic
Ascetic Essive of asceticism. Anchoret or anchorite; hermit (recluse) [See Seclusion. Exclusion]; puritan, sabbatarian, cynic; bhikshu, sannyasi or sanyasi, yogi [all Hindu]; dervish, fakir.
Cauterant
Cauterant (agent of destructive calefaction) Scorifier; match (fuel) [See Fuel]; caustic, lunar caustic, apozem, moxa; catheretic, nitric acid, nitrochlorohydric acid, nitromuriatic acid, radium.
Coition
Coition, copulation; sexual congress, sexual conjunction, sexual intercourse.
Compensation
COMPENSATION, equation; commutation; indemnification; compromise [See Compromise]; neutralization, nullification; counteraction [See Counteraction]; reaction; measure for measure; retaliation [See Retaliation]; equalization [See Equality]; redemption, recoupment.
SET-OFF, offset; makeweight, casting weight; counterpoise, ballast; indemnity, equivalent, quid pro quo [L.]; bribe, hush money; gift, donation [See Giving]; amends (atonement) [See Atonement]; counterbalance, counterclaim, countervailing; cross debt, cross demand.
PAY, payment, reward [See Reward].
Conciseness
Expressing or covering much in few words. Brevity, laconicism or laconism; ellipsis; syncope.
(Act of generation) Abridgment (shortening); compression.
Epitome [See Compendium]; monostich.
Courage synonyms
Bravery, valor or valour; resoluteness, boldness &c. adj.; spirit, daring, gallantry, intrepidity, prowess, heroism, chivalry; contempt -, defiance- of danger; derring-do [pseudo-archaic]; audacity; rashness [See Rashness]; dash; defiance [See Defiance]; confidence, self-reliance.
manhood, manliness, nerve, pluck, mettle, game; heart, - of grace; spunk [colloq.], grit, virtue, hardihood, fortitude; firmness (stability) [See Stability]; heart of oak; bottom, backbone (preseverance) [See Resolution]a; resolution (determination) [See Resolution]; tenacity, bulldog courage.
Credulity
Credulity Willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence. Credulousness; gullibility, cullibility [obs.]; gross credulity, infatuation; self-delusion, self-deception; superstition; one’s blind side; bigotry (obstinacy); [[[thesaurus:Heterodoxy|hyperorthodoxy].
Cuticle
Cuticle Biological secondary tegmen. Cutis, dermis, corium, scarfskin, epidermis, derm [rare], derma; ectoderm, epithelium, ecderon, ecteron, enderon.
Deliverance
Deliverance Transitive transference from danger to safety. Extrication, rescue, ransom; reprieve, reprieval [rare], respite; armistice, truce; liberation [See Liberation]; emancipation; redemption, redeemableness, salvation; exemption; day of grace; riddance.
Delusion
Delusion Deception with the hands. Gullery [archaic]; juggling, jugglery; sleight of hand, legerdemain; prestigiation [obs.], prestidigitation; magic [See Sorcery]; conjuring, conjuration.
Demonstration
Demonstration Reasoning validated with evidence or experiment. Proof, irrefragability; conclusiveness &c. adj.; apodeixis or apodixis, probation, comprobation [obs.].
Dentifrice
Dentifrice Causative instrument of cleanness. Toothpaste, mouthwash.
Deodorant
Deodorant Ablative or decrementative agent of odor. Causative agent of inodorousness.
Dereliction of Duty
Nonobservance, nonperformance, noncoöperation; indolence, neglect, relaxation, infraction, violation, transgression, failure, evasion; eyeservice; dead letter.
Slacker (essive), loafer, time-killer; eyeserver, eyeservant; striker; noncoöperator.
Diffuseness
Expressing or covering little in many words. Amplification &c. v.; dilating &c. v.; verbosity, wordiness; verbiage, cloud of words, copia verborum [L.]; flow of words (loquacity) [See Loquacity]; looseness.
Discrimination
Discrimination Response to comparison. Distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception; perception -, appreciation- of difference; estimation [See Measurement]; nicety, refinement; taste [See Taste]; critique, judgment; tact; discernment (intelligence) [See Intelligence. Wisdom]; acuteness, penetration; nuances [F.].
Dishabille
Dishabille State of being dressed in a careless, disheveled, or disorderly style or manner. Morning dress, tea gown, wrapper, negligee or négligé [F.], dressing gown, undress; kimono; shooting coat; smoking jacket; mufti [chiefly Eng.]; rags, tatters, old clothes; mourning, weeds; duds [colloq. or slang]; slippers.
Disobedience
Noncompliance with authority.
Insubordination, contumacy; infraction, infringement; violation, noncompliance; nonobservance [See Nonobservance].
mutinousness &c. adj.; mutineering; sedition, treason; high -, petty -, misprision of- treason; præmunire or premunire; lèse-majesté [F.]; violation of law [See Illegality]; defection, secession, revolution; overthrow -, overturn- of -government, - authority; sabotage [F.], sans-culottism, bolshevism.
Insurgent, mutineer, rebel, revolter, rioter, traitor, sansculotte, red republican, bonnet rouge [F.], communist, Fenian, frondeur [F.], seceder, Secessionist [esp., U. S. hist.] or Secesh [colloq. or slang, U. S.]; apostate, renegade, runaway, runagate; brawler, anarchist, demagogue; ring-leader.
Revolt, rebellion, mutiny, outbreak, rising, uprising, insurrection, émeute [F.], riot, tumult (disorder) [See Disorder]; strike (resistance) [See Resistance]; barring out; defiance [See Defiance].
Displacement
Removal of placement.
Elocation [obs.], heterotopy, transposition.
Ejectment [See Ejection]; exile (banishment) [See Seclusion. Exclusion].
Removal (transference) [See Transference]; unshipment, transshipment or transhipment, unplacement [rare], moving, shift.
Misplacement, dislocation [See Derangement]; fish out of water.
Excitability
Excitability Capacity for excitation.
Impetuosity, vehemence; boisterousness &c. adj.; turbulence; impatience, intolerance, non-endurance; irritability (irascibility) [See Irascibility]; itching (desire) [See Desire]; wincing; disquiet, disquietude; restlessness; fidgets, fidgetiness; agitation &c. (irregular motion) [See Agitation].
Monomania; fascination, infatuation, fanaticism."
Fire Worship
pyrolatr* Fire Worship, pyrolatry, sun worship, heliolatry, Sabæanism or Sabeanism or Sabeism, Parsiism or Parseeism, Zoroastrianism; pyrolator, heliolator, Sabæan or Sabean, Parsi or Parsee, Zoroastrian.
Fluency (in language)
Flippancy, volubility; verbosity (diffuseness) [See Diffuseness]; gift of the gab (eloquence) [See Speech].
Heraldry
Heraldry Indication of genealogy, honor or precedence. Crest; arms, coat of arms; armorial bearings, hatchment; escutcheon or scutcheon, achievement, shield, supporters; livery, uniform; cockade, brassard, epaulet, chevron; garland, chaplet, favor.
Jewelry
Jewelry, bijouterie [F.] or bijoutry.
Jewel (instance), bijou [F.], trinket, locket, necklace, bracelet, bangle.
Armlet, anklet, earring, nose-ring, carcanet [archaic], chain, chatelaine, brooch, torque.
Manner
Manner, description, denomination, persuasion, connection, designation, character, stamp; predicament; indication, particularization, selection, specification.
Philanthropy
Altruistic concern for human welfare and advancement, usually manifested by donations of money, property, or work to needy persons, by endowment of institutions of learning and hospitals, and by generosity to other socially useful purposes.
Altruism, humanity, humanitarianism, universal benevolence, eudæmonism or eudemonism, deliciæ humani generis [L.].
Public Welfare, commonwealth [now rare], commonweal or common weal [now rare]; socialism, communism; Fourierism, phalansterism or phalansterianism, Saint Simonianism; cosmopolitanism, utilitarianism, the greatest happiness of the greatest number, social science, sociology.
Public spirit, patriotism, civism, nationality, love of country, amor patriæ [L.].
Chivalry, knight errantry; generosity [See Disinterestedness].
Philanthropist (generator of philanthropy) Eudæmonist or eudemonist, utilitarian, Benthamite, socialist, communist, cosmopolite, citizen of the world, amicus humani generis [L.]; altruist [See Benevolence]; “little friend of all the world” [Kipling]; knight errant; patriot.
Quantitative Supergroup
The groups of the Quantitative supergroup are mutually exclusive.
Recumbency
prokumb* Recumbency (horizontality with purpose); lying down &c. v.; reclination, decumbence or decumbency, discumbency [obs.]; proneness &c. adj.; accubation, supination, resupination, prostration; azimuth.
Seasoning
Seasoning Dative agent of savoriness.
Tautology
Battology, polylogy [obs.], perissology [obs.]; pleonasm, exuberance, redundance; thrice-told tale; prolixity, longiloquence, longsomeness, circumlocution, ambages [rare], periphrase, periphrasis, roundabout phrases; episode; expletive; penny-a-lining; richness [See Ornament]; padding [editor’s cant]; drivel, twaddle, drool.
Thesaurus
Name | Gloss |
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Absence of Motive | |
Absurdity | Contrarity to reason. |
Abuse | Harmful or injurious use. |
Acclivity | Upward obliquity with respect to a base horizontal. |
Addition | |
Aggravation | Increase in severity, bitterness, or violence. |
Agitation | Irregular motion. |
Annihilation | Rendering inexistent. |
Anxiety | |
Apportionment | |
Arbitrary Power | |
Arborescence | Treelike in size and form. |
Ascent | Motion upwards. |
Asceticism | Doctrine that a person can attain a high spiritual and moral state through moral practice. |
Assemblage | Generation of coherence. |
Assent | Judgment in the positive. |
Atonement | Satisfaction or reparation for a wrong or injury. |
Augmentation | Expansion by adding external material. |
Baldness | Lack of hair. |
Benevolence |
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