EXPLORATIONS Antonyms

• deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening

• doubt about the truth of something

• a rejection of belief

• tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement

• lack of interest

• a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth

• the deliberate act of failing to pay money

• nonperformance of something distasteful (as by deceit or trickery) that you are supposed to do

• the act of physically escaping from something (an opponent or a pursuer or an unpleasant situation) by some adroit maneuver

• the experience of becoming familiar with something

• the lack of knowledge or education

• (psychology) the conscious exclusion of unacceptable thoughts or desires

• the quality of being inhibited

• (physiology) the process whereby nerves can retard or prevent the functioning of an organ or part

• the action of prohibiting or inhibiting or forbidding (or an instance thereof)

• the act of rejecting something

• the state of being rejected

• (medicine) an immunological response that refuses to accept substances or organisms that are recognized as foreign

• the speech act of rejecting

• rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid

• refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities)

• the exposure of falseness or pretensions

• a body of people who settle far from home but maintain ties with their homeland; inhabitants remain nationals of their home state but are not literally under the home state's system of government

• a community of people smaller than a town

• a conclusive resolution of a matter and disposition of it

• the act of colonizing; the establishment of colonies

• something settled or resolved; the outcome of decision making

• an area where a group of families live together

• termination of a business operation by using its assets to discharge its liabilities