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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | resisting, avoidance |
| Synonyms: | abstinence, endurance, fortitude, going easy on, living with, longanimity, moderation, patience, patientness, refraining, resignation, restraint, self-control, temperance, tolerance |
| Antonyms: | continuation, indulgence, involvement, pursual, use |
| Main Entry: | humility |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humbleness, modesty |
| Synonyms: | abasement, bashfulness, demureness, diffidence, docility, fawning, inferiority complex, lack of pride, lowliness, meekness, mortification, nonresistance, obedience, obsequiousness, passiveness, reserve, resignation, self-abasement, self-abnegation, servility, sheepishness, shyness, subjection, submissiveness, subservience, timidity, timorousness, unobtrusiveness, unpretentiousness |
| Antonyms: | arrogance, assertiveness, egoism, pretentiousness, pride, self-importance |
| Main Entry: | mortification |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | humiliation |
| Synonyms: | abasement, affront, bring down, chagrin, condescension, degradation, disgrace, dishonor, embarrassment, humbling, ignominy, loss of face, put-down, resignation, shame |
| Main Entry: | patience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | capacity, willingness to endure |
| Synonyms: | backbone*, bearing, calmness, composure, constancy, cool*, diligence, endurance, equanimity, even temper, forbearance, fortitude, grit, guts*, gutsiness, heart, humility, imperturbability, intestinal fortitude, legs, leniency, long-suffering, longanimity, moderation, moxie*, nonresistance, passiveness, passivity, perseverance, persistence, poise, resignation, restraint, self-control, serenity, starch, staying power, stoicism, submission, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, yielding |
| Notes: | patience means the capacity to endure waiting, delay, or provocation without becoming angry or upset; patients are people who requires medical care |
| Antonyms: | agitation, frustration, impatience, intolerance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | renunciation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment, rejection |
| Synonyms: | abdication, abjuration, abnegation, abstention, cancellation, denial, disavowal, disclaimer, eschewal, eschewing, forbearing, forswearing, giving up, rebuff, refusal, relinquishment, remission, renouncement, repeal, repudiation, resignation, sacrifice, self-abnegation, self-denial, self-sacrifice, spurning, surrender, veto, waiver, yielding |
| Antonyms: | allowance, approval, condonement |
| Main Entry: | submission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | compliance |
| Synonyms: | acquiescence, appeasement, assent, backing down, bowing, capitulation, cringing, defeatism, deference, docility, giving in, humbleness, humility, malleability, meekness, nonresistance, obedience, passivism, passivity, pliabilty, prostration, recreancy, resignation, servility, subjection, submissiveness, submitting, surrender, tractability, unassertiveness, yielding |
| Antonyms: | fight, resistance |
| Main Entry: | waiver |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | giving up; letting go |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, disclaimer, foregoing, postponement, refusal, rejection, relinquishment, remission, renunciation, reservation, resignation, setting aside, surrender, tabling |
| Notes: | waver is a verb meaning to vacillate or be indecisive; a waiver is a relinquishment of a claim, privilege, or right |
| Antonyms: | accept, claim, face |
| Main Entry: | withdrawal |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | removal; retraction |
| Synonyms: | abandonment, abdication, abjuration, alienation, departure, disavowal, disclaimer, disengagement, egress, egression, exit, exiting, exodus, extraction, marooning, palinode, recall, recantation, relinquishment, repudiation, rescission, resignation, retirement, retreat, revocation, revulsion, secession |
| Antonyms: | remainder, stay |
| Main Entry: | passiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | apathy |
| Synonyms: | disinterest, emotionlessness, indifference, passivity, resignation, unconcern |
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