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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, guess |
| Synonyms: | admiration, appraisal, appreciation, arithmetic, assessment, calculating, ciphering, computation, consideration, considered opinion, credit, esteem, estimate, estimating, evaluation, favor, figuring, impression, judgment, opinion, predicting, reckoning, regard, respect, stock, valuation, veneration, view |
| Notes: | estimate implies a calculation has been performed and it is on that basis that a judgment or valuation is being made, while estimation implies that an on-the-spot evaluation is being performed and that it is an opinion based on that evaluation; an estimate conveys a more reasoned or impersonal judgment than an estimation |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | reverence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | high opinion of something |
| Synonyms: | admiration, adoration, apotheosis, approbation, approval, awe, bow, deference, deification, devotion, devoutness, esteem, fealty, fear, genuflection, high esteem, homage, honor, love, loyalty, obeisance, obsequiousness, piety, praise, prostration, religiousness, respect, veneration, worship |
| Antonyms: | disdain, disregard, disrespect, scorn |
| Main Entry: | wonder |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | amazement |
| Synonyms: | admiration, astonishment, awe, bewilderment, concern, confusion, consternation, curiosity, doubt, fascination, fear, incredulity, jar, jolt, marveling, perplexity, perturbation, puzzlement, reverence, shock, skepticism, start, stupefaction, stupor, surprise, suspicion, uncertainty, wondering, wonderment |
| Antonyms: | expectation |
| Main Entry: | veneration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | honoring |
| Synonyms: | admiration, adoration, awe, devotion, esteem, honor, repayment, respect, reverence, vengeance, worship, wrath |
| Antonyms: | disrespect |
| Main Entry: | veneration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reverence |
| Synonyms: | admiration, adoration, esteem, honor, idolization, respect |
| Main Entry: | good turn |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favor |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, benignity, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation |
| Main Entry: | idolization |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | adoration |
| Synonyms: | admiration, amore, ardor, attachment, crush, devotion, esteem, estimation, exaltation, glorification, hankering, honor, idolatry, infatuation, pash, passion, puppy love, reverence, shine*, veneration, weakness*, worship, worshipping, yen* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | prurience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | admiration, amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, eroticism, erotism, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, liking, love, lust, lustfulness, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, pruriency, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | pruriency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | desire |
| Synonyms: | admiration, amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, aspiration, attraction, avidity, concupiscence, covetousness, craving, craze, cupidity, devotion, doting, eagerness, eroticism, erotism, fancy, fascination, fervor, fondness, frenzy, greed, hankering*, hunger, inclination, infatuation, itch, lasciviousness, lechery, libidinousness, libido, liking, love, lust, lustfulness, mania, motive, need, passion, predilection, proclivity, propensity, prurience, rapaciousness, rapture, ravenousness, relish, salacity, solicitude, thirst, urge, voracity, will, wish, yearning |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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