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analyticity
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n 1: the property of being analytic
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audacity
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n 1: fearless daring [syn: audacity, audaciousness,
temerity]
2: aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the
audacity to question my decision" [syn: audacity,
audaciousness]
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authenticity
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n 1: undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness,
legitimacy]
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capacity
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n 1: capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his
capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a
great capacity for growth" [ant: incapacity]
2: the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
"the capability of a metal to be fused" [syn: capability,
capacity]
3: the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a
capacity of 12 gallons" [syn: capacity, content]
4: the maximum production possible; "the plant is working at 80
per cent capacity"
5: a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of
director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at
a higher salary"
6: (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that
can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk
drive is usually expressed in megabytes"
7: an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
[syn: capacitance, electrical capacity, capacity]
8: the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability
to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
[syn: capacity, mental ability] [ant: incapacity]
9: tolerance for alcohol; "he had drunk beyond his capacity"
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catholicity
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n 1: the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church [syn:
Catholicism, Catholicity]
2: the quality of being universal; existing everywhere [syn:
universality, catholicity]
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chromaticity
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n 1: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant
wavelength [syn: hue, chromaticity]
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city
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n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include
several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy
was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban
center]
2: an incorporated administrative district established by state
charter; "the city raised the tax rate"
3: people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the
city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city,
metropolis]
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complicity
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n 1: guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
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concentricity
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n 1: the quality of having the same center (as circles inside
one another) [ant: eccentricity]
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domesticity
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n 1: the quality of being domestic or domesticated; "a royal
family living in unpretentious domesticity"
2: domestic activities or life; "making a hobby of domesticity"
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duplicity
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n 1: a fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn:
fraudulence, duplicity]
2: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one
set of intentions while acting under the influence of another
[syn: duplicity, double-dealing]
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eccentricity
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n 1: strange and unconventional behavior
2: (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section;
the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of
the major axis; "a circle is an ellipse with zero
eccentricity"
3: a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a
circular path [ant: concentricity]
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edacity
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n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience,
ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness]
2: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience,
rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
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elasticity
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n 1: the tendency of a body to return to its original shape
after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband
had lost its snap" [syn: elasticity, snap] [ant:
inelasticity]
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electricity
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n 1: a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving
electrons and protons
2: energy made available by the flow of electric charge through
a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity"
[syn: electricity, electrical energy]
3: keen and shared excitement; "the stage crackled with
electricity whenever she was on it"
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ethnicity
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n 1: an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or
cultural ties; "ethnicity has a strong influence on
community status relations"
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felicity
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n 1: pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner
or style of expression) [syn: felicity, felicitousness]
[ant: infelicity]
2: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from
contentment to intense joy [syn: happiness, felicity]
[ant: unhappiness]
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fugacity
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n 1: the tendency of a gas to expand or escape
2: the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts)
[syn: fugacity, fugaciousness]
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hydroelectricity
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n 1: electricity produced by water power
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incapacity
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n 1: lack of intellectual power [ant: capacity, mental
ability]
2: lack of physical or natural qualifications [ant: capacity]
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inelasticity
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n 1: the lack of elasticity [ant: elasticity, snap]
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infelicity
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n 1: inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially
manner or style of expression) [ant: felicitousness,
felicity]
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loquacity
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n 1: the quality of being wordy and talkative [syn: garrulity,
garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity,
talkativeness]
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mendacity
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n 1: the tendency to be untruthful [ant: veracity]
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mordacity
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n 1: a disposition to biting
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multiplicity
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n 1: the property of being multiple
2: a large number [syn: numerousness, numerosity,
multiplicity]
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necessity
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n 1: the condition of being essential or indispensable
2: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of
life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to
buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place
where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be
obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement,
requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential,
nonessential]
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obesity
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n 1: more than average fatness [syn: fleshiness, obesity,
corpulency]
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opacity
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n 1: the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of
electromagnetic radiation [ant: transparence,
transparency]
2: incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning [syn:
opacity, opaqueness]
3: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which
something reduces the passage of light [syn: opacity,
opaqueness] [ant: clarity, clearness, uncloudedness]
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periodicity
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n 1: the quality of recurring at regular intervals [syn:
cyclicity, periodicity]
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perspicacity
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n 1: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business
dealings) [syn: shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity,
perspicaciousness]
2: the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly
and to draw sound conclusions [syn: judgment, judgement,
sound judgment, sound judgement, perspicacity]
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pertinacity
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n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness,
perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity,
tenaciousness, pertinacity]
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piezoelectricity
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n 1: electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain
crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively,
electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear
dimensions of the crystal [syn: piezoelectricity,
piezoelectric effect, piezo effect]
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plasticity
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n 1: the property of being physically malleable; the property of
something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without
breaking [syn: malleability, plasticity] [ant:
unmalleability]
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publicity
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n 1: a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea
or person or institution; "the packaging of new ideas"
[syn: promotion, publicity, promotional material,
packaging]
2: the quality of being open to public view; "the publicity of
the court room"
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pugnacity
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n 1: a natural disposition to be hostile [syn: aggressiveness,
belligerence, pugnacity]
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rapacity
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n 1: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience,
rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
(personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice,
greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia]
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rusticity
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n 1: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: rusticity,
gaucherie] [ant: urbanity]
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sagacity
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n 1: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between
relations [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment,
judgement, discernment]
2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and
evaluating [syn: judiciousness, sagacity,
sagaciousness]
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scarcity
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n 1: a small and inadequate amount [syn: scarcity,
scarceness] [ant: abundance, copiousness,
teemingness]
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simplicity
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n 1: the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the
simplicity of a crystal" [syn: simplicity, simpleness]
[ant: complexity, complexness]
2: a lack of penetration or subtlety; "they took advantage of
her simplicity" [syn: simplicity, simpleness, simple
mindedness]
3: absence of affectation or pretense [syn: simplicity,
simmpleness]
4: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose
through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into
containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of
the deed held her back" [syn: ease, easiness,
simplicity, simpleness] [ant: difficultness,
difficulty]
5: lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with
great restraint" [syn: chasteness, restraint,
simplicity, simpleness]
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smutty
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adj 1: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul
language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: cruddy, filthy,
foul, nasty, smutty]
2: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing
outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn:
black, smutty]
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sooty
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adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or
coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy,
sooty]
2: covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"
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specificity
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n 1: the quality of being specific rather than general; "add a
desirable note of specificity to the discussion"; "the
specificity of the symptoms of the disease"
2: the quality of being specific to a particular organism; "host
specificity of a parasite"
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suttee
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n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the
funeral pyre of her dead husband
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syllabicity
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n 1: the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language
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tenacity
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n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness,
perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity,
tenaciousness, pertinacity]
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thermoelectricity
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n 1: electricity produced by heat (as in a thermocouple)
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tonicity
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n 1: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that
facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my
tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant:
amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony]
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toxicity
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n 1: the degree to which something is poisonous
2: grave harmfulness or deadliness [syn: perniciousness,
toxicity]
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veracity
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n 1: unwillingness to tell lies [ant: mendacity]
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vivacity
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n 1: characterized by high spirits and animation
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voracity
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n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience,
ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness]
2: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience,
rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
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lubricity
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n 1: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
[syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness,
carnality, lubricity]
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mendicity
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n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were
reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy,
mendicity]
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sphericity
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n 1: the roundness of a 3-dimensional object [syn: sphericity,
sphericalness, globosity, globularness, rotundity,
rotundness]
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triplicity
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n 1: (astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each
group consists of three signs separated from each other by
120 degrees [syn: triplicity, trigon]
2: the property of being triple
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spasticity
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n 1: the quality of moving or acting in spasms
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salacity
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n 1: the trait of behaving in an obscene manner [syn:
obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness,
salacity]
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radiopacity
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n 1: opacity to X-rays or other radiation [syn: radiopacity,
radio-opacity]
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synchronicity
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n 1: the relation that exists when things occur at the same
time; "the drug produces an increased synchrony of the
brain waves" [syn: synchronism, synchrony,
synchronicity, synchroneity, synchronization,
synchronisation, synchronizing] [ant: asynchronism,
asynchrony, desynchronisation, desynchronization,
desynchronizing]
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atomicity
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canonicity
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carcinogenicity
0
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causticity
0
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centricity
0
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ecumenicity
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egocentricity
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ethnocentricity
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historicity
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iconicity
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impudicity
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overcapacity
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felicite
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citi
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basicity
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septicity
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vorticity
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endemicity
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pneumaticity
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volcanicity
0
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aromaticity
0
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automaticity
0
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isotonicity
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aperiodicity
0
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sequacity
0