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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | temporary unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | collapse, faint, fainting, fainting fit, knockout, swoon, syncope |
| Main Entry: | coma |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deep unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | blackout, dullness, faint, hebetude, insensibility, lethargy, oblivion, sleep, slumber, somnolence, stupor, swoon, syncope, torpidity, torpor, trance |
| Antonyms: | alertness, consciousness, wakefulness |
| Main Entry: | darkness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place, time that is unlit |
| Synonyms: | Cimmerian shade, black, blackness, blackout, brownout, calignosity, cloudiness, crepuscule, dark, dimness, dusk, duskiness, eclipse, gloom, lightlessness, murk, murkiness, nightfall, obscurity, pitch darkness, shade, shadiness, shadows, smokiness, tenebrosity, twilight |
| Antonyms: | brightness, day, daylight, daytime, illumination, light, lightness, morning |
| Main Entry: | faint |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unconsciousness |
| Synonyms: | blackout, collapse, dizziness, grayout, insensibility, knockout, stupor, swoon, syncope, vertigo |
| Notes: | faint (verb) means to pass out from weakness or to lose consciousness - faint (adjective) means barely perceptible or lacking clarity or distinctness; feint (noun) means any distracting or deceptive maneuver - feint (verb) means to deceive by a mock action |
| Antonyms: | consciousness |
| Main Entry: | forgetfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | consistent inability to remember |
| Synonyms: | absentmindedness, abstraction, amnesia, blackout, blank, blockout, carelessness, dreaminess, fugue, heedlessness, hypomnesia, inattention, lapse of memory, laxness, lethe, limbo, loss of memory, negligence, nirvana, oblivion, obliviousness, paramnesia, repression, short memory, suppression |
| Antonyms: | attentiveness, heed, mindfulness, remembering |
| Main Entry: | interruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break; interference |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, abeyancy, arrest, blackout, breach, break-off, cessation, check, cutoff, delay, disconnection, discontinuance, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, disuniting, division, doldrums, dormancy, gap, halt, hiatus, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interim, intermission, interval, intrusion, lacuna, latency, layoff, letup, obstacle, obstruction, parenthesis, pause, quiescence, rift, rupture, separation, severance, split, stop, stoppage, suspension |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
| Main Entry: | scene |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | setting of a performance or event |
| Synonyms: | arena, backdrop, background, blackout, display, exhibition, flat, flats, landscape, locale, locality, location, mise en scène, outlook, pageant, picture, place, representation, scenery, seascape, set, setting, show, sight, site, spectacle, spot, stage, tableau, theater, view |
| Notes: | an act is the main dramatic unit and a scene is a division within an act |
| Main Entry: | silence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | absence of sound, speech |
| Synonyms: | blackout, calm, censorship, dead air, death, dumbness, hush, hush-hush, inarticulateness, iron curtain, laconism, lull, muteness, noiselessness, peace, quiescence, quiet, quietness, quietude, quietus, reserve, reticence, saturninity, secrecy, sleep, speechlessness, still, stillness, sulk, sullenness, taciturnity, uncommunicativeness |
| Antonyms: | clamor, communication, noise, talk |
| Main Entry: | amnesia |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | memory loss |
| Synonyms: | blackout, fugue, stupor |
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