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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kiss |
| Synonyms: | osculation, peck, smack*, smooch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gob |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lump |
| Synonyms: | agglomeration, ball, bit, block, bulge, bulk, bump, bunch, cake, chip, chunk, clod, clump, cluster, crumb, dab, group, growth, handful, hunch, hunk, knot, knurl, lot, morsel, mountain, much, nugget, part, peck, piece, pile, portion, protrusion, protuberan |
| Main Entry: | osculation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kiss |
| Synonyms: | buss, butterfly, caress, embrace, endearment, peck, salutation, salute, smack*, smacker, smooch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plenitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenteousness, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth |
| Notes: | plenitude is indicated when the amount in question is of something abstract, whereas concrete amounts motivate the use of 'plenty' (both from Latin plenus 'full') |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | plenteousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | plenty |
| Synonyms: | abundance, affluence, avalanche, bounteousness, bountifulness, capacity, copiousness, cornucopia, deluge*, enough, flood*, fruitfulness, full house, fund, good deal, great deal, heaps, loads, lots, luxury, mass, masses, mine*, mountains, oodles*, opulence, peck, piles, plenitude, plethora, profusion, prosperity, quantity, stacks, store, sufficiency, torrent*, volume, wealth |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | smacker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | kiss |
| Synonyms: | buss, butterfly, caress, embrace, endearment, osculation, peck, salutation, salute, smack*, smooch |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | tactility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | touch |
| Synonyms: | blow*, brush, caress, collision, communication, contact, contingence, crash*, cuddling, embrace, feel, feeling, fondling, graze, grope, handling, hit*, hug, impact, junction, kiss, lick*, manipulation, nudge, palpation, pat, peck, perception, percussion, petting, push*, rub, rubbing, scratch, shock, stroke, stroking, taction, tap, taste, touching |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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| Main Entry: | touch |
| Part of Speech: | noun, verb |
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attingent, close to, contactual, conterminous, contiguous, end to end, hand to hand, haptic, in contact, intractible, itching, lambent, libant, osculatory, palpable, pertingent, tactile, tactual, tangential, tangible, touching, with no interval
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| Concept: | [Sensation of pressure] Touch. |
| Category: | 2. Sensation; special sensation; touch |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
touch; tact, taction, tactility; feeling; palpation, palpability; contrectation; manipulation; massage., [Organ of touch] hand, finger, forefinger, thumb, paw, feeler, antenna; palpus.
-verbs
touch, feel, handle, finger, thumb, paw, fumble, grope, grabble; twiddle, tweedle; pass the fingers over, run the fingers over; manipulate, wield; throw out a feeler.
-adjectives
tactual, tactile; tangible, palpable; lambent. [more]
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