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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation |
| Synonyms: | apartheid, discrimination, dissociation, disunion, division, exlusion, isolation, partition, seclusion, splitting up |
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| Main Entry: | dissociation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detachment, separation |
| Synonyms: | break, disconnection, disengagement, disjunction, distancing, disunion, division, divorce, isolation, segregation, severance |
| Antonyms: | association, attachment, connection, union |
| Main Entry: | exclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion; forbiddance |
| Synonyms: | ban, bar, blackball, blockade, boycott, coventry, cut, debarment, debarring, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, interdict, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, occlusion, omission, ostracism, ousting, preclusion, prevention, prohibition, proscription, refusal, rejection, relegation, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, addition, admittance, allowance, inclusion, incorporation, welcome |
| Main Entry: | isolation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | seclusion |
| Synonyms: | aloneness, aloofness, beleaguerment, concealment, confinement, desolation, detachment, exile, hiding, monkhood, privacy, privateness, quarantine, reclusion, reclusiveness, remoteness, retreat, seclusiveness, segregation, sequestration, solitude, withdrawal |
| Main Entry: | partition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | divider, division |
| Synonyms: | allotment, apportionment, barrier, detachment, disconnection, dissolution, distribution, disunion, dividing, hindrance, obstruction, parting, portion, rationing, rupture, screen, segregation, separation, severance, share, splitting, wall |
| Antonyms: | attachment, juncture, union, unity |
| Main Entry: | quarantine |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | isolation |
| Synonyms: | detention, lazaretto, seclusion, segregation, separation, sequestration |
| Main Entry: | racism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prejudice against an ethnic group |
| Synonyms: | apartheid, bias, bigotry, discrimination, illiberality, one-sidedness, partiality, racialism, sectarianism, segregation, unfairness |
| Main Entry: | separation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being apart; break-up |
| Synonyms: | break, dedomiciling, departure, detachment, dialysis, disconnection, disengagement, disjunction, disrelation, dissociation, dissolution, disunion, division, divorce, divorcement, embarkation, estrangement, farewell, gap, leave-taking, parting, parting of the ways, partition, pffft, rift, rupture, segregation, severance, split, split-up |
| Antonyms: | togetherness |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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| Concept: | Comparison. |
| Synonyms: |
-nouns
comparison, collation, contrast; identification; comparative estimate, relative estimate., simile, similitude, analogy (similarity); allegory (metaphor).
-verbs
compare to, compare with; collate, confront; place side by side (near); set against one another, pit against one another; contrast, balance., identify, draw a parallel, parallel., compare notes; institute a comparison; parva componere magnis [Lat].
-adjectives
comparative; metaphorical., compared with; comparable; judged by comparison.
-adverbs
relatively (relation); as compared with
-phrases
comparisons are odious; "comparisons are odorous" [Much Ado about Nothing].
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