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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | satiation |
| Synonyms: | concentration, imbibition, impregnation, intensity, interpenetration, permeation, satiety, surfeit |
| Main Entry: | absorption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assimilation, incorporation |
| Synonyms: | consumption, digestion, drinking in, exhaustion, fusion, imbibing, impregnation, ingestion, inhalation, intake, osmosis, penetration, reception, retention, saturation, soaking up, suction, taking in |
| Main Entry: | color |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | pigment, shade |
| Synonyms: | blush, cast, chroma, chromaticity, chromatism, chromism, colorant, coloration, coloring, complexion, dye, glow, hue, intensity, iridescence, luminosity, paint, pigmentation, polychromasia, saturation, stain, tinct, tincture, tinge, tint, undertone, value, wash |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color |
| Main Entry: | fullness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abundance, breadth |
| Synonyms: | adequateness, ampleness, amplitude, broadness, completeness, completion, comprehensiveness, congestion, copiousness, curvaceousness, dilation, distension, enlargement, entirety, extensiveness, fill, glut, plenitude, plenty, plenum, profusion, repletion, roundness, satiation, satiety, saturation, scope, sufficiency, surfeit, swelling, totality, tumescence, vastness, voluptuousness, wealth, wholeness, wideness |
| Antonyms: | emptiness, incompleteness, need, void, want |
| Main Entry: | glut |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overabundance |
| Synonyms: | excess, nimiety, oversupply, plenitude, saturation, superfluity, surfeit, surplus, too much* |
| Antonyms: | insufficiency, lack, need, want |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | mix/mixture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | assortment, combination |
| Synonyms: | admixture, adulteration, alloy, amalgam, amalgamation, assimilation, association, batter, blend, brew, combine, combo, commixture, composite, compound, concoction, confection, conglomeration, cross, crossing, dough, fusion, goulash, grab bag, hodgepodge, hybrid, hybridization, incorporation, infiltration, interfusion, jumble, mash, medley, merger, mingling, miscellany, mishmash, mixed bag, mosaic, mélange, package, patchwork, potpourri, salmagundi, saturation, soup, stew, transfusion, union, variety |
| Antonyms: | disconnection, division, separation |
| Main Entry: | shade |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | color, hue |
| Synonyms: | brilliance, cast, saturation, stain, tinge, tint, tone |
| Notes: | color refers to the wavelength composition of light, shade is a gradation of color referring to its degree of darkness, tint is a gradation referring to its degree of lightness, and hue indicates a modification of a basic color hue is the quality of a color that makes it possible to call it bluish green, etc. (the color of a color); shade is a color variation having to do with the value of a hue (lightness or darkness), and tint is a pale variation of a color |
| Main Entry: | surfeit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excess |
| Synonyms: | bellyful, glut, overabundance, overflow, overfullness, overindulgence, overkill, overmuch, overplus, plenitude, plethora, profusion, remainder, repletion, satiety, satisfaction, saturation, superabundance, superfluity, surplus, up to here |
| Notes: | plethora is too many of a good or bad thing and surfeit is too much of a good thing |
| Antonyms: | base, core, lack, main, necessity, need, want |
| Main Entry: | mixture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | combination |
| Synonyms: | admixture, adulteration, alloy, amalgam, amalgamation, assimilation, association, batter, blend, brew, combine, combo, commixture, composite, compound, concoction, confection, conglomeration, cross, crossing, dough, fusion, goulash, grab bag, hodgepodge, hybrid, hybridization, incorporation, infiltration, interfusion, jumble, mash, medley, merger, mingling, miscellany, mishmash, mix, mixed bag, mosaic, mélange, package, patchwork, potpourri, salmagundi, saturation, soup, stew, transfusion, union, variety |
| Notes: | in a mixture, the combined elements lose their individual identities and are fused, blended, or compounded in the result; in a mix, the elements, though combined, retain their individual identities |
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