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• the atomic process that occurs during a chemical reaction
Example sentence • Evolution is driven by various mechanisms , such as natural selection.
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• an exceptional interest in and admiration for yourself
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• similarity by virtue of corresponding
Example sentence • The author uses parallelisms to emphasize his main points.
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• a polyhedron with two congruent and parallel faces (the bases) and whose lateral faces are parallelograms
Example sentence • He carefully aligned the prisms to create a beautiful display of colors.
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Example sentence • The concept of biracialisms acknowledges the diversity within the biracial community.
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• A term formed from the initial letters of several words or parts of words, but which is itself pronounced letter by letter.
Example sentence • Some common initialisms in everyday conversation include LOL (laugh out loud) and OMG (oh my god).
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Example sentence • The draft of the bill was filled with unnecessary officialisms .
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• a lack of sophistication
Example sentence • Some regional dishes have become provincialisms , only found in specific areas.
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• a political theory advocating state ownership of industry
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• (philosophy) a 20th-century philosophical movement chiefly in Europe; assumes that people are entirely free and thus responsible for what they make of themselves
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Example sentence • The philosopher was known for his promotion of immaterialisms .
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Example sentence • The manorialisms of medieval Europe included the lord's control over peasants and their labor.
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Example sentence • The study of multiracialisms is an important field of research.
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• control by a powerful country of its former colonies (or other less developed countries) by economic pressures
Example sentence • The country's politicians criticized neocolonialisms in international trade.
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Example sentence • The author's frequent use of pictorialisms added depth and vividness to the descriptions in the novel.
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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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• 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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• 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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• a short pithy instructive saying
Example sentence • The book is filled with insightful aphorisms about life and love.
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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 • She found an old journal filled with atticisms from the 19th century.
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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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• use of biological principles in explaining human especially social behavior
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Example sentence • I love reading articles that are filled with bogyisms .
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• involuntarily or unconsciously clenching or grinding the teeth, typically during sleep
Example sentence • My dentist told me I have bruxisms .
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• the manner and dress of a fop or dandy
Example sentence • His dandyisms and flamboyant style made him stand out in the crowd.
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• acceptance of the inevitability of defeat
Example sentence • His repeated failures have led him to develop defeatisms .
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