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• impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
Example sentence • Her poetry is filled with romanticisms and dream-like imagery.
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• a short pithy instructive saying
Example sentence • The book is filled with insightful aphorisms about life and love.
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• a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
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• extravagant and conspicuous behavior intended to attract attention to yourself
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• a religious orientation of doubt; a denial of ultimate knowledge of the existence of God
Example sentence • Many philosophers throughout history have explored various agnosticisms and their implications.
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Example sentence • She found an old journal filled with atticisms from the 19th century.
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• (philosophy) the doctrine that knowledge derives from experience
Example sentence • The scientist's theories were based on a combination of empirical evidence and empiricisms .
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• a state of anticipation of sexuality
Example sentence • She explored her own eroticisms through writing explicit stories.
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Example sentence • His erraticisms made it difficult for others to trust his judgment.
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• the quality of being exotic
Example sentence • His writing is filled with many exoticisms from various cultures.
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Example sentence • Her freneticisms at work often left her exhausted.
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• a religious orientation advocating gnosis as the way to release a person's spiritual element; considered heresy by Christian churches
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Example sentence • The novel is packed with gothicisms , from its eerie setting to its dark and mysterious characters.
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• a theory that social and cultural events are determined by history
Example sentence • Some historicisms argue that historical events should be understood in relation to the social and political conditions of the time.
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• asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience
Example sentence • The book discusses various monasticisms practiced in different cultures.
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• a mental or personality disturbance not attributable to any known neurological or organic dysfunction
Example sentence • His constant worrying and anxious behavior are clear neuroticisms .
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• the disbelief in any claims of ultimate knowledge
Example sentence • His repeated successes in the competition have finally silenced all scepticisms .
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• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
Example sentence • The medieval scholars engaged in intense debates about scholasticisms .
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• doubt about the truth of something
Example sentence • Many scientists have expressed their skepticisms about the validity of the research findings.
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• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
Example sentence • The article was filled with unnecessary academicisms that made it difficult for the average reader to understand.
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Example sentence • Some people find comfort in apocalypticisms and believe that the end of the world is near.
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• using your own body as a sexual object
Example sentence • Some individuals engage in autoeroticisms as a form of self-pleasure.
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• a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex
Example sentence • The film contains several homoeroticisms throughout the storyline.
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• revival of a classical style (in art or literature or architecture or music) but from a new perspective or with a new motivation
Example sentence • Many art scholars argue that neoclassicisms sought to revive the principles and forms of ancient Greek and Roman art.
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• dominance through threat of punishment and violence
Example sentence • The book discusses the dangers of absolutisms in political ideologies.
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• orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
Example sentence • The professor criticized the paper for its excessive academisms .
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Example sentence • Many scholars argue that the early church was influenced by various adoptianisms .
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• discrimination on the basis of a person's age
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• the congenital absence of pigmentation in the eyes and skin and hair
Example sentence • People with albinisms have very light-colored or white hair.
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• habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms
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• an obsolete term for the study and treatment of mental illness
Example sentence • The book is filled with strange alienisms that are difficult to understand.
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Example sentence • The presence of multiple alleles for the same gene leads to allelisms .
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• mountain climbing (not restricted to the Alps)
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• the conviction that people should participate in sports as a hobby (for the fun of it) rather than for money
Example sentence • His amateurisms in the kitchen often resulted in burnt meals.
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• the doctrine that moral distinctions are invalid
Example sentence • His amoralisms shocked his conservative parents.
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• a Protestant movement in the 16th century that believed in the primacy of the Bible, baptised only believers, not infants, and believed in complete separation of church and state
Example sentence • The history of anabaptisms goes back to the 16th century.
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Example sentence • He is known for his creative use of analogisms .
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• the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature
Example sentence • The study of animalisms is an important field in biology.
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• the doctrine that all natural objects and the universe itself have souls
Example sentence • Different cultures practice various forms of animisms .
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• a state of deep-seated ill-will
Example sentence • There were deep antagonisms between the two political parties.
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Example sentence • We need to address the issue of antiblackisms in our society.
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• (mineralogy) a star-shaped figure with six rays that is seen in some crystal structures under reflected or transmitted light
Example sentence • The Big Dipper and the Little Dipper are two well-known asterisms in the night sky.
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• (ophthalmology) impaired eyesight resulting usually from irregular conformation of the cornea; common in nearsighted people
Example sentence • She has astigmatisms in both of her eyes.
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• the relation that exists when things occur at unrelated times
Example sentence • There were several asynchronisms in the performance that disrupted the flow of the play.
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• the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system
Example sentence • Many composers experimented with atonalisms in the early 20th century.
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Example sentence • She exhibited atropisms in her behavior, consistently moving away from social interactions.
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Example sentence • The director's signature style was evident in the film's use of auteurisms .
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• any reaction that occurs automatically without conscious thought or reflection (especially the undirected behavior seen in psychomotor epilepsy)
Example sentence • Certain automatisms can occur during sleep, such as sleepwalking and sleep talking.
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Example sentence • The automorphisms of a group form a mathematical structure.
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Example sentence • The assignment explores the phenomenon of binarisms in language and literature.
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