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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | personal choice |
| Synonyms: | aim, appetite, attitude, character, conviction, craving, decision, decisiveness, decree, design, desire, determination, discipline, discretion, disposition, fancy, feeling, hankering, heart's desire, inclination, intention, liking, longing, mind, option, passion, pining, pleasure, power, preference, prerogative, purpose, resolution, resolve, self-control, self-discipline, self-restraint, temperament, urge, velleity, volition, willfulness, willpower, wish, wishes, yearning |
| Main Entry: | significancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea |
| Synonyms: | abstraction, aim, approximation, belief, brainstorm*, clue, concept, conception, conclusion, conviction, design, doctrine, end, essence, estimate, fancy, feeling, flash*, form, guess, hint, hypothesis, import, impression, inkling, intention, interpretation, intimation, judgment, meaning, notion, object, objective, opinion, pattern, perception, plan, point, purport, purpose, reason, scheme, sense, significance, solution, suggestion, suspicion, teaching, theory, thought, understanding, view, viewpoint |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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| Main Entry: | aim |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aligned with, bound for, direct, directed, directed towards, easterly, point towards, straight, straightforward, undeviating, unswerving
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| Main Entry: | cause |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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aboriginal, agnogenic, ambiotic, cacestogenous, causal, connate, efficacious, embryonic, embryotic, germinal, original, originated, primary, primitive, primordial, princeps, radical, seminal, subjacent
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| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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about to be, about to happen, at hand, brewing, close at hand, coming, destined, forthcoming, going to happen, hanging over one's head, imminent, impending, in embryo, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the wind, in the womb of futurity, in the womb of time, instant, looming in the distance, looming in the future, looming in the horizon, near, near at hand, on the cards, overhanging, pregnant, preparing, that is to be, that will be, to come, unborn
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| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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abeyant, absolute, agape, allowable, allowed, astonished at nothing, authorized, becoming, befitting, chartered, claiming, common, condign, constitutional, correct, creditable, curious, decorous, deserved, deserving, due, due to, enfranchised, entitled to, equitable, expectant, expected, expecting, fit, fitting, foreseen, gaping, having a right to, impending, imprescriptible, inalienable, indefeasible, inviolable, just, just the thing, lawful, legal, legalized, legitimate, licit, lochetic, meet, merited, meriting, ordained, ordinary, peremptory, prescribed, prescriptive, presumptive, privileged, proleptic, proper, prospective, quite the thing, ready, richly deserved, right, right as a trivet, sanctioned, seemly, spectabundal, speratory, square, unalienable, unamazed, unchallenged, unexceptionable, unimpeachable, up to the mark, warranted, worthy of
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| Main Entry: | mind |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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branular, cacophrenic, cerebral, conative, endowed with reason, ghostly, hyperactive, ideogenous, immaterial, intellectual, mental, meshuge, metaphysical, multanimous, nooscopic, philonoetic, preconscious, primal, psychagogic, psychal, psychical, psychogenic, psychological, psychotropic, rational, self, spirituel, strung, subjective, subliminal, unbalanced, unstable, wud
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| Main Entry: | plan |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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| Main Entry: | thought |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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alembicated, catoptric, cogitabund, contemplative, deep, idiotropic, in the mind, introspective, lost in thought, meditative, museful, pensive, philosophastering, philosophical, platonic, reflective, refrangible, sedate, specular, speculative, studious, subvocal, thinking, thought of, thoughtful, under consideration, uppermost in the mind, wistful
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