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tendentiousness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | bias |
| Synonyms: | bent*, bigotry, chauvinism, disposition, favoritism, flash*, head-set, illiberality, inclination, intolerance, leaning, mind trip, mind-set, narrowmindedness, one-sidedness, partiality, partisanship, penchant, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, spin, standpoint, tendency, tilt, turn, unfairness, viewpoint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | narrowness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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angustate, attenuated, barebone, brawn, close, contracted, delicate, décharné, emaciated, extenuated, fastigiate, fine, finespun, gaunt, gracilescent, hatchet, incapacious, lank, lanky, lantern, lean, lean as a rake, long, marcid, meager, narrow, narrowing, peened, rawboned, scant, scanty, shriveled, skin and bone, skinny, slender, slender as a thread, slight, spare, spectral, starved, starveling, tabid, taper, thin, thin as a lath, thin as a wafer, thin as a whipping, unexpanded, weedy, worn to a shadow
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| Concept: | [Results of comparison] Discrimination. |
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-nouns
discrimination, distinction, differentiation, diagnosis, diorism; nice perception; perception of difference, appreciation of difference; estimation; nicety, refinement; taste; critique, judgment; tact; discernment (intelligence); acuteness, penetration; nuances., dope, past performances.
-verbs
discriminate, distinguish, severalize; separate; draw the line, sift; separate the chaff from the wheat, winnow the chaff from the wheat; split hairs., estimate (measure); know which is which, know what is what, know a hawk from a handsaw [Hamlet]., take into account, take into consideration; give due weight to, allow due weight to; weigh carefully.
-adjectives
discriminating; dioristic, discriminative, distinctive; nice.
-phrases
il y a fagots et fagots; rem acu tetigisti; la critique est aisée et l'art est difficile.
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| Antonyms: | indiscrimination |
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| Concept: | Narrowness. Thinness. |
| Category: | 2. LINEAR DIMENSIONS |
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-nouns
narrowness; closeness, exility; exiguity (little)., line; hair's breadth, finger's breadth; strip, streak, vein., thinness; tenuity; emaciation, macilency, marcor., shaving, slip (filament); thread paper, skeleton, shadow, anatomy, spindleshanks, lantern jaws, mere skin and bone., middle constriction, stricture, neck, waist, isthmus, wasp, hourglass; ridge, ghaut, ghat, pass; ravine., narrowing, coarctation, angustation, tapering; contraction.
-verbs
be narrow; narrow, taper, contract; render narrow.
-adjectives
narrow, close; slender, thin, fine; thread-like (filament) [more]; finespun; taper, slim, slight-made; scant, scanty; spare, delicate, incapacious; contracted; unexpanded (expand [more]); slender as a thread., [in reference to people or animals] emaciated, lean, meager, gaunt, macilent; lank, lanky; weedy, skinny; scrawny [U.S.], slinky; starved, starveling; herring gutted; worn to a shadow, lean as a rake [Chaucer]; thin as a lath, thin as a whipping post, thin as a wafer; hatchet-faced; lantern-jawed., attenuated, shriveled, extenuated, tabid, marcid, barebone, rawboned.
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| Antonyms: | breadth |
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