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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: | fancy |
| Part of Speech: | adjective, noun, verb |
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air-built, air-drawn, bucolic, chimerical, chthonic, commentitious, creative, demiurgic, enthusiastic, excogitous, extravagant, fabulous, fairy, fairylike, fanatic, fanciful, fancy, fantastical, fertile, fictive, flighty, haptic, high-flown, ideal, illusory, imaginary, imaginative, imagined, imagining, implicit, in the clouds, inventive, legendary, mythic, mythological, notional, oneiric, oneirotic, original, pastoral, pretend, quixotic, romantic, supermundane, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, visile, visionary, whimsical
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| Main Entry: | habit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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accredited, accustomary, accustomed, acknowledged, admitted, besetting, common, commonplace, conformable, conventional, current, customary, devoted, established, everyday, familiar, fashionable, fixed, frequent, general, habitual, hackneyed, household, ingrafted, ingrained, inveterate, jog, ordinary, permanent, prescriptive, prevailing, prevalent, received, recognized, regular, rooted, seasoned, set, stereotyped, stock, trite, understood, usual, vernacular, wont, wonted
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| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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adynamic, aidless, amyous, armless, asthenic, bald, broken, careless, childish, cold, cranky, crazy, creachy, crippled, dead beat, debile, decayed, decrepit, defenseless, demoralized, diffuse, disabled, disjointed, disqualified, docile, done up, drooping, dry, dull, effeminate, effete, elumbated, emasculate, evanid, exhausted, faint, faintish, fatherless, feeble, feminate, flaccid, flatulent, flimsy, forcible, frail, frigid, gimcrack, gingerbread, good for nothing, graveled, harmless, helpless, hypophrenic, hyposthenic, imbecile, impotent, improcreant, inadequate, inapt, incapable, incompetent, indefensible, ineffective, ineffectual, inefficacious, inefficient, inept, inexact, infirm, inoperative, irrelevant, jejune, laid low, laid on one's back, laid on the shelf, lame, languid, languishing, lax, loose, lustless, marrowless, meable, meager, monotonous, nerveless, nervous, nugatory, null and void, on its last legs, palsied, paralytic, paralyzed, parvipotent, pithless, poor, powerless, pregnable, prosaic, prosing, prosy, puerile, pulled down, queachy, radiolucent, rambling, relaxed, rickety, rotten, rudderless, sapless, seedy, shaken, shaky, shattered, shattery, short, sinewless, sketchy, slack, slight, slip, soft, spent, strengthless, tame, the worse for wear, tottering, trashy, unable, unaided, unapt, unarmed, unassisted, unconducing, unconducive, unconducting to, unendowed, unfit, unfitted, unfortified, unfriended, unhinged, uninfluential, unnerved, unqualified, unstrengthened, unstrung, unsubstantial, unsupported, untenable, unvaried, vapid, vincible, washy, wasted, waterlogged, weak, weak as a baby, weak as a cat, weak as a chicken, weak as a child, weak as a rat, weak as gingerbread, weak as milk and water, weak as water, weak as water, weaponless, weather, withered, without a leg to stand upon, womanly, wommacky, worn
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| Concept: | Habit. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
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-nouns
habit, habitude; assuetude, assuefaction, wont; run, way., common state of things, general state of things, natural state of things, ordinary state of things, ordinary course of things, ordinary run of things; matter of course; beaten path, beaten track, beaten ground., prescription, custom, use, usage, immemorial usage, practice; prevalence, observance; conventionalism, conventionality; mode, fashion, vogue; etiquette (gentility); order of the day, cry; conformity; consuetude, dustoor., one's old way, old school, veteris vestigia flammae; laudator temporis acti., rule, standing order, precedent, routine; red-tape, red-tapism; pipe clay; rut, groove., cacoethes; bad habit, confirmed habit, inveterate habit, intrinsic habit; addiction, trick., training (education); seasoning, second nature, acclimatization; knack.
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be wont., fall into a rut, fall into a custom (conform to) [more]; tread the beaten track, follow the beaten track, tread the beaten path, follow the beaten path; stare super antiquas vias; move in a rut, run on in a groove, go round like a horse in a mill, go on in the old jog trot way., habituate, inure, harden, season, caseharden; accustom, familiarize; naturalize, acclimatize; keep one's hand in; train (educate)., get into the way, get into the knack of; learn; cling to, adhere to; repeat; acquire a habit, contract a habit, fall into a habit, acquire a trick, contract a trick, fall into a trick; addict oneself to, take to, get into., be habitual; prevail; come into use, become a habit, take root; gain upon one, grow upon one.
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habitual; accustomary; prescriptive, accustomed; of daily occurrence, everyday occurrence; consuetudinary; wonted, usual, general, ordinary, common, frequent, everyday, household, jog, trot; well-trodden, well-known; familiar, vernacular, trite, commonplace, conventional, regular, set, stock, established, stereotyped; prevailing, prevalent; current, received, acknowledged, recognized, accredited; of course, admitted, understood., conformable; according to use, according to custom, according to routine; in vogue, in fashion, in, with it; fashionable (genteel)., wont; used to, given to, addicted to, attuned to, habituated; in the habit of; habitue; at home in (skillful); seasoned; imbued with; devoted to, wedded to., hackneyed, fixed, rooted, deep-rooted, ingrafted, permanent, inveterate, besetting; naturalized; ingrained (intrinsic).
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habitually; always (uniformly)., as usual, as is one's wont, as things go, as the world goes, as the sparks fly upwards; more suo, more solito; ex more., as a rule, for the most part; usually, generally, typically; most often, most frequently.
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cela s'entend; abeunt studia in mores; adeo in teneris consuescere multum est; consuetudo quasi altera natura [Cicero]; hoc erat in more majorum; "How use doth breed a habit in a man!" [Two Gentlemen]; magna est vis consuetudinis; morent fecerat usus
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| Antonyms: | desuetude |
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| Concept: | [Good taste.] Taste. |
| Category: | 2. Discriminative Affections |
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taste; good taste, refined taste, cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto, tact, finesse; nicety (discrimination); ; polish, elegance, grace., virtu; delettanteism; fine art; culture, cultivation., [Science of taste] aesthetics., man of taste; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscent, virtuoso, amateur, dilettant, Aristarchus, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum, stagirite, euphemist., "caviare to the general" [Hamlet].
-adjectives
in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste, classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; aesthetic, artistic; elegant; euphemistic., to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut; tire a quatre epingles.
-adverbs
elegantly
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nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [from Johnson's epitaph on Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout; oculi pictura tenentur aures cantibus [Cicero].
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| Antonyms: | vulgarity |
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| Concept: | Tendency. |
| Category: | 4. Indirect Power |
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tendency; aptness, aptitude; proneness, proclivity, bent, turn, tone, bias, set, leaning to, predisposition, inclination, propensity, susceptibiliy; conatus, nisus; liability; quality, nature, temperament; idiocrasy, idiosyncrasy; cast, vein, grain; humor, mood; drift (direction); conduciveness, conducement; applicability (utility); subservience (instrumentality).
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tend, contribute, conduce, lead, dispose, incline, verge, bend to, trend, affect, carry, redound to, bid fair to, gravitate towards; promote (aid).
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tending; conducive, working towards, in a fair way to, calculated to; liable; subservient (instrumental); useful; subsidiary (helping).
-adverbs
for, whither.
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| Concept: | Weakness. |
| Category: | 2. CONNECTION BETWEEN CAUSE AND EFFECT |
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-nouns
weakness; debility, atony, relaxation, languor, enervation; impotence; infirmity; effeminacy, feminality; fragility, flaccidity; inactivity., anaemia, bloodlessness, deficiency of blood, poverty of blood., declension of strength, loss of strength, failure of strength; delicacy, invalidation, decrepitude, asthenia, adynamy, cachexy, cachexia, sprain, strain., reed, thread, rope of sand, house of cards., softling, weakling; infant; youth.
-verbs
be weak; drop, crumble, give way, totter, tremble, shake, halt, limp, fade, languish, decline, flag, fail, have one leg in the grave., render weak; weaken, enfeeble, debilitate, shake, deprive of strength, relax, enervate, eviscerate; unbrace, unnerve; cripple, unman (render powerless); cramp, reduce, sprain, strain, blunt the edge of; dilute, impoverish; decimate; extenuate; reduce in strength, reduce the strength of; mettre de l'eau dans son vin.
-adjectives
weak, feeble, debile; impotent; relaxed, unnerved, sapless, strengthless, powerless; weakly, unstrung, flaccid, adynamic, asthenic; nervous., frail, fragile, shattery; flimsy, unsubstantial, gimcrack, gingerbread; rickety, cranky; craichy; drooping, tottering; broken, lame, withered, shattered, shaken, crazy, shaky; palsied; decrepit.
-phrases
non sum qualis eram ["I am not as I used to be" (Latin)].
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| Antonyms: | strength |
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