Abstract Ideas

Truth, freedom, meaning, values, and the vocabulary of thought.

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# Abstract Ideas

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**Words:** 459

## About
Truth, freedom, meaning, values, and the vocabulary of thought.

## Words by Level

### A1
- idea - A thought or suggestion about what to do.
- point - An idea or fact that someone wants to express in an argument or discussion.
- important - Having great value or meaning; mattering a lot.

### A2
- ideal - The best possible; perfect for a particular purpose.
- truth - The real facts about something, rather than what is imagined or invented.
- sake - The benefit, good, or advantage of someone or something.
- empty - Containing nothing or no one
- beauty - The quality of being very pleasing to look at or experience.
- freedom - The state of being free and able to do what you want.
- meaning - What a word, sign, or action expresses or stands for.
- purpose - The reason why something is done or made.
- value - How much something is worth in money.
- ability - the fact of being able to do something
- useful - Helpful or able to be used for a practical purpose.
- symbol - A thing that stands for or represents an idea, quality, or feeling.
- wisdom - The ability to make good decisions using knowledge and experience.

### B1
- reality - The way things really are, as opposed to how they are imagined or hoped to be.
- useless - Not useful; having no practical value or purpose.
- advance - To move forward, or to make progress in a positive way.
- teaching - The job or activity of giving lessons to students.
- impression - The effect or feeling that someone or something leaves in your mind.
- existence - The fact or state of being real or present.
- intention - what you plan or mean to do.
- abandon - to leave a person or place forever, especially someone who needs you
- concept - an abstract idea or general notion
- foundation - The solid structure built underground that supports a building.
- basis - The main idea or fact that something is built on or developed from.
- misunderstanding - A failure to understand something correctly; a mistaken idea about its meaning.
- accidentally - By chance and not on purpose.
- principle - A basic truth or rule that explains how something works or guides how you act.
- philosophy - The study of ideas about life, knowledge, truth, and the meaning of existence.
- logic - A sensible way of thinking that uses clear reasons.
- essence - The most basic and important quality that makes something what it is.
- notion - An idea or belief about something.
- inquiry - A question or request for information.
- phenomenon - Something that happens or exists and can be seen, especially something studied or noticed.
- philosopher - A person who studies or teaches ideas about life, knowledge, and the meaning of existence.
- significance - The importance or value of something.
- meaningful - Having real importance, value, or purpose.
- intentionally - on purpose; deliberately.
- superstition - A belief that is not based on reason, often involving luck, magic, or fear of the unknown.
- construct - To build something by putting parts together.
- mislead - To give someone a false idea or impression, often on purpose.
- unify - To bring people or things together to form a single unit.
- involuntarily - Without meaning to or without conscious control.
- specifically - In a clear and exact way, naming one particular thing.
- unaccountable - impossible to explain or account for

### B2
- found - To start or set up an institution, company, or organization.
- absurd - completely unreasonable or silly; ridiculous
- conspiracy - A secret plan by a group of people to do something harmful or illegal.
- creation - The act of making or bringing something into existence.
- consciousness - The state of being awake and able to think and notice things.
- illusion - A false idea or belief about something.
- pointless - Having no purpose; not worth doing because it achieves nothing.
- virtue - A good moral quality in a person.
- equivalent - Equal in value, meaning, or effect.
- morality - Beliefs and standards about what is right and wrong behavior.
- indication - A sign that something exists, is true, or may happen.
- necessity - Something you must have; an essential thing.
- seldom - not often; rarely
- competent - Having enough skill, knowledge, or ability to do something well.
- satisfactory - Good enough for a particular purpose; acceptable.
- faulty - Not working correctly because of a defect.
- paradox - A statement that seems to contradict itself but may still be true.
- interruption - something that stops an activity for a while.
- philosophical - Relating to philosophy or the study of ideas about life and knowledge.
- relativity - (physics) The scientific theory that space and time are not fixed but depend on the observer's motion.
- knowingly - In a way that shows you are fully aware of what you are doing; on purpose.
- trusty - Reliable and able to be depended on, often used jokingly of a familiar object.
- misconception - A wrong idea or belief based on a misunderstanding.
- adequately - enough or well enough for a particular purpose
- availability - The fact that something can be obtained or used.
- eloquence - The skill of speaking or writing in a powerful and persuasive way.
- humanist - A person who believes in human values and reason rather than in religion.
- transitive - (of a verb) Needing a direct object to complete its meaning.
- virtual reality
- starting-point - the place, time, or idea from which something begins
- invalidity - the state of lacking legal, formal, or factual validity
- unproven - not demonstrated to be true, valid, or effective
- unimportance - the state or quality of having little or no importance, influence, or consequence
- separability - the capacity or property of being separated

### C1
- ego - A person's sense of their own importance or value.
- meaningless - Having no meaning or sense.
- harassment - Repeated, deliberate behaviour that pesters, threatens, or intimidates someone.
- commence - To begin or start.
- suffice - to be enough for a particular purpose
- anesthesia - loss of bodily sensation with or without loss of consciousness
- fanatic - A person with extreme, often unreasonable enthusiasm for a cause or belief.
- justification - A good reason or explanation that makes an action or belief seem acceptable.
- occurrence - Something that happens; an event.
- premise - A statement or idea that is accepted as true and used as the basis for an argument.
- cynicism - A distrustful attitude that assumes people act only out of selfishness.
- realist - A person who accepts situations as they truly are and deals with them in a practical way.
- omission - something that has been omitted
- incidence - How often something happens, especially something unwanted.
- ornamental - Used for decoration rather than for any practical purpose.
- cessation - The stopping or ending of something, whether for a while or for good.
- abstraction - A general idea formed from specific examples, rather than a concrete thing.
- modulation - in electronics, the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave
- meaninglessly - In a way that has no meaning or purpose.
- baldly - In a plain, blunt way, without softening the meaning.
- inculcate - to instill an idea or habit by persistent instruction
- propound - to put forward an idea or theory for consideration by others
- seer - a person who is able to predict the future or has insight into future events
- underpinning - a foundation, support, or basic idea that holds something up
- interdependent - depending on each other; mutually reliant
- self-contradictory - containing claims or ideas that contradict one another
- self-evident - clear or obvious without needing proof
- pertain - to relate to or be relevant to a particular subject or situation
- typify - to be a characteristic example of a person, thing, quality, or class
- finality - the quality or state of being final, conclusive, and not open to further change
- particularity - the quality of belonging to a specific case or individual rather than applying generally
- undercurrent - a feeling, opinion, or influence that is present but not openly expressed
- entanglement - the state or process of becoming twisted together, trapped, or caught
- mastership - the office, status, or authority of a master
- applicability - the quality or degree of being relevant, suitable, or capable of being applied to a particular situation
- discordance - disagreement, inconsistency, or lack of harmony between people, ideas, or facts
- disproof - the act or process of showing that a claim, theory, or belief is false
- unrealized - not yet achieved, fulfilled, or made real
- compatibility - the ability of people, ideas, or things to exist or work together without conflict
- touchstone - a standard, principle, or criterion by which the quality or truth of something is tested
- commonality - a feature or quality shared by two or more people or things
- unsought - not desired
- materiality - the quality of having physical or material existence

### C2
- proposition - An idea, plan, or suggestion that is offered for consideration.
- calamity - An event that causes great harm, loss, or suffering; a disaster.
- vigilance - vigilant attentiveness
- monstrosity - something hideous or frightful
- sensibility - refined sensitivity to pleasurable or painful impressions
- superfluous - More than is needed; unnecessary.
- bastion - a group that defends a principle
- testy - easily irritated or annoyed
- skepticism - doubt about the truth of something
- catty - marked by or arising from malice
- disintegration - a loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system
- fruition - The point at which a plan or effort is finally achieved and produces results.
- denote - To be a sign of something; to indicate.
- individualism - The belief that the freedom and self-reliance of each person matter more than the group or the state.
- pithy - concise and full of meaning
- happenstance - A chance event; something that happens by luck rather than planning.
- connotation - A feeling or idea that a word suggests, beyond its literal meaning.
- schism - division of a group into opposing factions
- convulsion - a violent disturbance
- oration - an instance of oratory
- disparagement - The act of criticizing someone or something in a way that lowers their value; belittlement.
- ostensible - Stated or appearing to be the reason or purpose, though the real one may be different.
- marketability - How easily something can be sold; its appeal to buyers.
- totemic - Treated as a powerful symbol that represents a group or idea.
- prurience - An excessive or unhealthy interest in sexual matters.
- aphoristic - relating to or characterized by a concise statement or principle expressing a general truth; terse and pithy
- eidos - the ideal form or essence of something, especially in philosophical contexts
- platonist - a follower or adherent of Plato's philosophy, emphasizing ideal forms and abstract concepts
- quine - a self-replicating program or statement that outputs its own source code
- conveniency - Convenience.
- immutability - the quality of being incapable of mutation
- interpenetration - mutual penetration or overlapping presence within the same space or system
- metaphysic - a system or branch of metaphysical thought
- self-evidence - the quality of being evident without proof
- phenomenalist - a philosopher who treats physical objects as constructions from possible or actual experiences
- object-matter - the object or material under consideration in an inquiry
- preeminence - the state of being more important, powerful, skilled, or respected than others
- atomism - the doctrine that matter or reality is composed of discrete, ultimately indivisible units
- unanimity - complete agreement among everyone involved
- empiricist - a philosopher or thinker who holds that knowledge comes chiefly from experience and observation
- metaphysician - a philosopher who studies or develops theories about metaphysics
- antinomy - a contradiction between two principles or conclusions that each appear reasonable or justified
- inexplicability - the quality or state of being impossible or very difficult to explain
- inferability - the quality of being capable of being inferred or deduced from available evidence
- rationalist - a follower of rationalism, especially one who regards reason as a principal source of knowledge
- contradistinction - a distinction made by directly contrasting one thing with another
- vitalist - an adherent of vitalism, the doctrine that life cannot be explained entirely by physical and chemical processes
- atomist - an adherent of atomism, especially the doctrine that matter or reality consists of indivisible elementary particles
- futility - the quality of being pointless or incapable of producing a useful result
- practicability - the quality of being feasible, workable, or capable of being put into practice
- subsumption - the act or process of including a particular case, concept, or proposition under a broader category or principle
- refutable - capable of being disproved or shown to be false
- transcend - to go beyond the ordinary limits, range, or physical constraints of something
- disembody - to separate a spirit, voice, idea, or consciousness from a physical body
- organon - an instrument of thought or a systematic body of principles used in scientific or philosophical inquiry
- conjuncture - a combination of events or circumstances, especially one creating a critical situation
- transcendentalism - a nineteenth-century American philosophical and literary movement that emphasized spiritual intuition, individual conscience, and the inherent goodness of people and nature
- heterodox - not conforming to accepted or orthodox beliefs, doctrines, or methods, especially in religion, economics, or scholarship
- rationalism - in philosophy, the view that reason can provide at least some substantive knowledge independently of sensory experience, often through innate ideas or a priori reasoning
- reciprocity - the practice or expectation of exchanging comparable actions, help, feelings, or advantages for mutual benefit
- technicality - a small or specialized rule or detail that can have an important practical consequence
- incommensurability - the absence of a common standard by which two things can be measured, compared, or evaluated
- predominance - the state of having greater power, influence, importance, or quantity than others
- inexpediency - the quality of being unsuitable, unwise, or unlikely to achieve the intended result
- indispensability - the quality of being absolutely necessary and impossible to do without
- nonmaterial - not composed of physical matter; immaterial
- catholicity - the quality of being broad, universal, or inclusive in range or sympathies
- circumscription - the act of drawing a boundary around something or limiting its extent
- fixity - the state of being firmly fixed in position or kept stable
- colligation - the act of binding, joining, or connecting things together
- mainstay - a person or thing on which something chiefly depends for support or stability
- evidential - serving as evidence or relating to the evidence available for a claim
- lacuna - a gap, omission, or missing part in a text, argument, record, or body of knowledge
- berkeleian - relating to George Berkeley or to his philosophy of subjective idealism
- predominancy - the state of having greater power, influence, importance, or quantity than others; predominance
- Darapti - in traditional logic, the AAI mood of the third figure: two universal affirmative premises followed by a particular affirmative conclusion, valid only when the middle-term class is assumed to have at least one member
- unshackle - to free a person, activity, or system from restrictions, restraints, or control
- ontology - the branch of metaphysics concerned with being, existence, and the fundamental kinds of things that exist
- sublimity - the quality of inspiring awe through exceptional beauty, grandeur, or nobility
- perfectibility - the capacity to improve progressively, especially toward moral, intellectual, or social excellence
- desideratum - something considered necessary or highly desirable
- espousal - formal: the act of adopting, supporting, or becoming committed to a belief, cause, policy, or practice
- infinitude - the state or quality of having no limit or end; boundlessness
- extensional - in logic and semantics, relating to or determined by the extension of an expression: the objects to which it applies rather than its meaning or intension
- intensional - in logic and semantics, relating to or determined by intension: the meaning, properties, or conditions associated with an expression rather than the objects it denotes
- schema - an organized pattern, framework, or abstract form that can be applied to particular cases
- reducibility - the property of being reducible to a simpler, more basic, or formally equivalent form
- deducibility - the property of being logically derivable from stated premises, axioms, or other accepted propositions
- finitude - the state or quality of being finite, bounded, or limited
- relatum - one of the terms or entities that stand in a relation; plural relata
- ontological - relating to ontology or to the nature, categories, and conditions of being and existence
- unproved - not demonstrated, established, or confirmed by proof or sufficient evidence
- postulation - the act of proposing or assuming a claim, entity, or principle as a basis for reasoning
- sublunary - literary: belonging to this earthly world rather than to heaven or a spiritual realm
- conglomeration - a mixed mass or collection made up of many different things or previously separate parts
- indiscernible - impossible or extremely difficult to perceive clearly
- promethean - daringly creative, inventive, or defiant of accepted limits
- seminal - strongly influencing later ideas, work, or developments; formative and original
- anthropomorphic - attributing human form, emotions, motives, or behavior to a god, animal, object, or natural process
- Aristotelian - relating to Aristotle, his writings, or the philosophical and logical tradition based on them
- determinist - a person who holds that events, including human actions, are determined by prior causes or conditions
- Eleatic - relating to the ancient Greek philosophical school that held reality to be one, continuous, and unchanging
- finalism - the doctrine that natural processes are directed toward ends, purposes, or final causes
- interrelatedness - the state or quality of being mutually related or connected
- logistic - relating to the detailed organization and movement of people, materials, or equipment
- monadology - a metaphysical doctrine or study of monads, especially Leibniz's theory that reality consists of simple immaterial substances
- monistic - relating to monism, the view that reality is ultimately one or consists of a single kind of substance
- pragmatism - a philosophical tradition that evaluates ideas partly through their practical consequences and role in inquiry
- rationalistic - relating to rationalism or emphasizing reason as the primary source of knowledge
- subjectivism - the doctrine that knowledge, value, or reality depends fundamentally on the experiencing subject
- syllogistic - relating to syllogisms or reasoning through syllogisms
- teleology - explanation of phenomena by the ends, purposes, or goals they are said to serve
- anthropocentric - regarding human beings as the central or most important element of existence, especially when interpreting nature or assigning value
- anthropocentrism - the belief or tendency to treat human beings, human interests, or human values as central or uniquely important
- arcanum - a secret, mystery, or piece of knowledge known only to initiates or specialists
- ascription - the act of attributing a quality, cause, statement, or work to a person or thing
- formalism - strict adherence to prescribed forms, rules, or procedures, sometimes at the expense of substance
- occasionalism - philosophy: the doctrine that created things do not directly cause events but merely provide occasions on which God produces the corresponding effects
- evanescence - the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight
- plenum - a meeting attended by all members of a committee, legislature, or other body
- representationalism - the use or support of recognizable, realistic subjects in art
- impassivity - apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions
- incomprehensibility - the quality of being incomprehensible
- irrevocability - The state or condition of being irrevocable
- supererogatory - more than is needed, desired, or required
- undistributed - not divided, allocated, or spread among recipients or locations
- unembodied - not having a material body
- unperturbed - free from emotional agitation or nervous tension
- foreknowable - capable of being known in advance
- impassibility - the condition of being incapable of suffering, feeling, or being emotionally affected
- simpliciter - philosophy and law: absolutely or without qualification, rather than only in some respect
- supposable - capable of being supposed, imagined, or assumed
- differentia - a distinguishing feature that separates a species, class, or concept from other members of the same genus
- substantialize - to treat an abstraction, relation, or quality as an independently existing substance or thing
- abstractedness - the state of being absorbed in thought and inattentive to one's surroundings
- individuation - the process or principle by which an individual is distinguished from other individuals or from a universal kind
- uncontestable - not open to reasonable dispute or challenge; undeniable
- unextended - lacking spatial extension; not occupying measurable space

### C2+
- otiose - serving no practical purpose; futile or idle
- earmark - to set aside funds or resources for a particular purpose
- intentional - done on purpose; deliberate
- nonsensical - having no meaning or making no sense
- potentiality - latent capacity for development or achievement
- abnormality - an abnormal feature, characteristic, or occurrence
- entirety - the whole of something; completeness
- manifestation - an event or sign that shows something clearly
- ornamentation - decorative details added to something for adornment
- postulate - to assume the existence of something as a basis for reasoning
- booty - valuable goods seized as plunder; loot
- butty - a sandwich (British, dialectal)
- conformance - compliance with rules, standards, or specifications
- forsooth - indeed; in truth (archaic, now often used ironically)
- rendition - a performance or interpretation of something, or a translation
- abnegation - the renunciation or denial of something, especially self-interest
- afterlife - existence believed to follow death
- devastation - severe and widespread destruction or ruin
- intimacy - close familiarity or personal closeness
- mannerism - a habitual and distinctive gesture or way of speaking
- peculiarity - an odd or distinctive trait or characteristic
- purposive - having or showing conscious purpose; deliberate
- substantive - having a firm basis in reality; important and meaningful
- aggravation - a worsening of something, or a source of annoyance
- animadversion - a critical or censorious remark
- assortment - a varied collection of different items or kinds
- audacity - bold daring, often combined with impudence
- dearth - a scarcity or lack of something
- defunction - death; the ending of life or function
- dubious - hesitating or doubting; of questionable value or truth
- emergent - arising or coming into existence; newly forming or urgent
- equivalence - the state of being equal in value, function, or meaning
- felicity - intense happiness; an apt and pleasing manner of expression
- footpath - a path for pedestrians, especially in the countryside
- fulth - fullness or abundance (archaic, dialectal)
- impairment - a weakening or damaging of a function, faculty, or value
- incantation - a series of words said as a magic spell or charm
- innocence - freedom from guilt, sin, or worldly knowledge
- invaluable - extremely useful; too precious to be measured in value
- moderation - the avoidance of excess or extremes; restraint
- nicety - a fine or subtle point of detail or distinction
- nonconformity - failure or refusal to conform to accepted rules or conventions
- opportune - well-chosen or timely; suitable for a particular purpose
- origination - the act of bringing something into existence; a beginning
- privation - a lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life
- protuberance - a rounded part that sticks out from a surface
- truthfully - in a manner that conveys the truth; honestly
- valuate - to estimate the worth or value of something; to appraise
- veracity - conformity to truth; habitual truthfulness or accuracy
- abstractive - tending to form abstractions or to separate qualities by abstraction
- aggregation - the gathering of separate elements into a collective whole
- alacrity - brisk and cheerful readiness or eagerness
- animalism - preoccupation with physical appetites; the doctrine that humans are merely animals
- apothegm - a terse, pointed saying expressing a general truth
- arrogance - an offensive display of superiority or self-importance
- avidity - keen eagerness or greedy enthusiasm
- batty - crazy or eccentric (informal)
- cecity - (archaic) blindness, literal or figurative
- circumspection - wariness and prudence; careful consideration of consequences
- coition - sexual intercourse; copulation
- consecution - a logical sequence or succession of things
- continence - self-restraint, especially regarding bodily appetites
- controvert - to deny or dispute the truth of something
- creational - relating to creation or the act of bringing into existence
- cultism - devotion to or the practices of a cult
- demarcation - the marking or setting of boundaries or limits
- destinate - to appoint or set apart for a particular purpose or destiny
- desultory - lacking a plan or purpose; passing aimlessly from one thing to another
- diffusion - the spreading of something more widely; the intermingling of particles
- discerp - archaic term meaning to tear apart, pluck off, or divide forcibly
- discontinuity - a break, gap, or lack of continuity in something
- disuniformity - lack of uniformity; inconsistency or unevenness
- falsehood - an untrue statement; a lie
- fealty - a feudal vassal's sworn loyalty to a lord
- fidelity - faithfulness or loyalty; accuracy of reproduction
- heroism - great bravery or noble self-sacrifice
- hilarity - exuberant merriment or boisterous laughter
- impudence - bold, shameless disrespect or insolence
- inanition - exhaustion from lack of nourishment; emptiness
- ingeniosity - cleverness or inventive skill; ingenuity
- interment - the burial of a corpse in a grave or tomb
- intolerance - unwillingness to accept differing views; bodily inability to endure something
- inutile - useless; serving no practical purpose
- loath - reluctant or unwilling
- malediction - a curse or the utterance of a curse
- moisty - slightly moist or damp
- overbalance - to lose balance and topple, or to outweigh in importance
- overstatement - an exaggerated or excessive statement of something
- parlance - a particular way of speaking or the vocabulary of a group
- perchance - perhaps; by chance (archaic or literary)
- physicalism - the philosophical doctrine that everything is physical or supervenes on the physical
- precognition - supposed foreknowledge of an event through extrasensory means
- prodigality - wasteful or extravagant spending; lavishness
- protestation - an emphatic declaration or objection
- pruriency - excessive interest in sexual matters
- reoccurrence - a repeated happening of an event
- resiliency - the ability to recover quickly from difficulty
- sapient - wise or showing great wisdom and sagacity
- steadfast - firmly fixed in purpose or loyalty; unwavering
- subtext - an underlying meaning not stated explicitly in what is said
- tenet - a principle or belief held as part of a doctrine
- thoughty - dialectal term for thoughtful, attentive, or careful
- transcription - a written or printed representation of something said or recorded
- uneath - with difficulty; scarcely (archaic)
- unhearty - lacking warmth, vigor, or sincerity
- univocally - in a way that has only one meaning; unambiguously
- valuation - an estimation of the worth or monetary value of something
- abearance - behavior or conduct; demeanor
- abomination - a thing that causes disgust or hatred
- adulation - excessive flattery or admiration
- advertency - attentiveness or heed to something
- amenity - a desirable or useful feature that adds comfort or convenience
- atheism - disbelief in or denial of the existence of any deity
- atomization - the reduction of something into tiny particles or fragmented units
- benignity - kindness, gentleness, or harmlessness
- botheration - informal annoyance or trouble; also used as a mild exclamation
- brilliance - intense brightness of light; exceptional talent or splendor
- carnality - preoccupation with bodily, especially sexual, desires
- clemency - mercy or leniency, especially toward an offender
- coinheritance - joint inheritance of property or traits shared among heirs
- coloration - the arrangement or pattern of colors on something
- complaisance - willingness to please others; obliging agreeableness
- conceptional - relating to a concept or to conception
- conniption - a fit of rage, hysteria, or excitement
- connotative - conveying or implying an additional meaning beyond the literal one
- constellation - a recognized pattern of stars, or any grouping of related things
- conventionality - conformity to accepted standards or customs
- cryptic - having a hidden or obscure meaning; mysterious
- dao - the Tao; the guiding principle or path in Chinese philosophy
- designedly - intentionally; on purpose
- despecification - the removal or loss of specific detail or specification
- determinism - the doctrine that all events are determined by prior causes
- discouragement - a loss of confidence or enthusiasm; dispiritedness
- dissonance - a harsh or inharmonious combination of sounds or ideas
- enticement - something that attracts or tempts; an allurement
- extermination - the complete destruction or eradication of something
- fatty - containing or resembling fat; greasy
- fulfillment - the achievement of something desired or promised; satisfaction
- hinderance - something that impedes or obstructs (variant of hindrance)
- hylicism - the philosophical doctrine that matter is the ultimate reality; materialism
- hylism - the doctrine that matter is the first principle of all things; materialism
- idealize - to regard or represent as perfect or better than reality
- implosion - a violent collapse inward; a sudden internal failure
- imprecision - lack of exactness or accuracy
- impulsivity - the trait of acting quickly on impulse without weighing consequences
- inconsistency - lack of consistency, or a detail that conflicts with another
- indemnification - compensation for loss or harm, or security against it
- inexertion - lack of exertion or effort
- insinuation - an indirect, often unpleasant suggestion or hint
- institutionalism - emphasis on established institutions, or the effects of prolonged institutional life
- insularism - narrowness of outlook arising from isolation; insularity
- intimation - an indirect suggestion or hint; an announcement
- irrelation - absence of relation or connection
- liberality - generosity in giving; broad-mindedness
- metaphorical - using figurative comparison rather than literal meaning
- modality - a particular mode, method, or manner in which something exists or is done
- monotheism - the belief in the existence of only one god
- nonextinction - the fact of not becoming extinct or not being extinguished
- overrate - to value or assess too highly
- pessimism - a tendency to expect the worst outcome
- pretension - a claim or assertion of importance; pretentious display
- rapacity - aggressive greed or grasping acquisitiveness
- resoluteness - firmness of purpose; unwavering determination
- senseless - without meaning or purpose; lacking consciousness or sensation
- seriation - the arrangement of items into a sequence by a shared attribute
- slutty - sexually provocative or promiscuous (slang, derogatory)
- snobbism - snobbish attitudes or behavior; snobbery
- sooth - truth or reality (archaic)
- sublation - in Hegelian philosophy, the simultaneous canceling and preserving of a thing at a higher level
- subordination - the placing or treating of something as of lower rank or importance
- summity - the highest point or summit; the topmost part
- swith - quickly or instantly; archaic and dialectal for swiftly
- tao - in Chinese philosophy, the absolute principle underlying the universe; the way
- toom - dialectal Scots and northern English term meaning empty
- travesty - a grotesque or absurd imitation or distortion of something
- unability - lack of ability; inability
- uncouth - lacking good manners, refinement, or grace
- unhasty - not hurried; deliberate and measured
- unperpetuated - not continued or kept in existence
- viscosity - a fluid's resistance to flow; thickness or stickiness
- vouch - to assert or guarantee the truth, reliability, or worth of something
- weighty - heavy, or of great seriousness, importance, or influence
- zenith - the highest point reached; the point in the sky directly overhead
- vera causa - a real, independently established cause invoked to explain a phenomenon
- metaphysics - the branch of philosophy studying being and reality
- monadism - the metaphysical doctrine that monads are the ultimate units of reality, especially the theory developed by Leibniz
- logico-aesthetic - involving or judged by both logical coherence and aesthetic qualities such as simplicity, symmetry, or elegance
- occasionalist - a supporter of occasionalism, the doctrine that apparent causal interaction between created things occurs only through divine intervention
- pre-Socratic - relating to Greek philosophy before Socrates or independent of his influence
- aliorelative - in logic, a relation that no term bears to itself; an irreflexive relation
- mistakenness - the state or quality of being mistaken, erroneous, or based on a false belief
- logicize - to make something logical or bring it within the domain of formal logic
- deteriorationist - A proponent of deteriorationism; one who believes that things tend to grow worse
- matter-of-factness - The state or quality of being matter-of-fact
- nonplus - be a mystery or bewildering to
- inartificial - not produced by artifice, convention, or deliberate human design; natural
- inhesion - inherence; the state or act of existing in something as a quality exists in a substance

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