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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence, happening |
| Synonyms: | accident, act, action, advent, adventure, affair, appearance, business, calamity, case, catastrophe, celebration, ceremony, chance, circumstance, coincidence, conjuncture, crisis, deed, development, emergency, episode, experience, exploit, fact, function, holiday, incident, juncture, marvel, matter, milestone, miracle, misfortune, mishap, mistake, occasion, occurrence, pass, phase, phenomenon, predicament, proceeding, shift, situation, story, thing*, tide, transaction, triumph, turn, wonder |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | incident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | occurrence |
| Synonyms: | adventure, circumstance, episode, event, fact, happening, matter, milestone, occasion, scene, trip |
| Notes: | the primary meaning of incident is that of occurrence or event; the primary meaning of incidence is that of the rate or number of times at which something occurs |
| Main Entry: | object |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thing able to be seen/felt/perceived |
| Synonyms: | article, body, bulk, commodity, doodad, doohickey, entity, fact, gadget, gizmo, item, mass, matter, phenomenon, reality, something, substance, thingamajig, volume, whatchamacallit, widget |
| Main Entry: | particular |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detail |
| Synonyms: | ABC's, article, bottom line, brass tacks, case, chapter and verse, circumstance, clue, cue, element, fact, facts of life, feature, gospel, item, know*, lowdown, nitty-gritty, nuts and bolts, picture, point, rundown, scoop*, score*, speciality, specific, specification, story, thing*, what's what, whole story |
| Antonyms: | generality |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | phenomenon |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rare occurrence; wonder |
| Synonyms: | abnormality, actuality, anomaly, appearance, aspect, circumstance, curiosity, episode, event, exception, experience, fact, happening, incident, marvel, miracle, nonpareil, one for the books, paradox, peculiarity, portent, prodigy, rara avis, rarity, reality, sensation, sight, something else, spectacle, stunner, uniqueness |
| Antonyms: | normality, regularity |
| Main Entry: | thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something felt, seen, perceived |
| Synonyms: | affair, anything, apparatus, article, being, body, business, circumstance, commodity, concept, concern, configuration, contrivance, corporeality, creature, device, element, entity, everything, existence, existent, fact, figure, form, gadget, goods, implement, individual, information, instrument, item, machine, material, materiality, matter, means, mechanism, object, part, person, phenomenon, piece, point, portion, shape, situation, stuff, subject, substance, tool, word |
| Main Entry: | truth |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | reality, validity |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, authenticity, axiom, case, certainty, correctness, dope*, exactitude, exactness, fact, facts, factualism, factuality, factualness, genuineness, gospel truth, gospel, honest truth, infallibility, inside track, legitimacy, maxim, naked truth, nitty-gritty, perfection, picture, plain talk, precision, principle, rectitude, rightness, scoop, score, trueness, truism, truthfulness, unvarnished truth, veracity, verisimilitude, verity, whole story |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, invention, untruth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | veracity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | truth |
| Synonyms: | accuracy, actuality, authenticity, candor, correctness, credibility, exactitude, exactness, fact, fairness, fidelity, frankness, genuineness, gospel, honest-to-god truth, honesty, honor, impartiality, integrity, like it is, openness, precision, probity, real McCoy, reality, rectitude, rightness, sincerity, straight stuff, trueness, truism, trustworthiness, truthfulness, uprightness, verisimilitude, verity, word* |
| Antonyms: | falsehood, falsity |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | what's what |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | the way things are |
| Synonyms: | fact, truth of the matter, where it's at, whole story |
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