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animalism
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n 1: the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature
and lacking a spiritual nature
2: preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and
appetites [syn: animalism, physicality]
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bosom
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n 1: the chest considered as the place where secret thoughts are
kept; "his bosom was bursting with the secret"
2: a person's breast or chest
3: cloth that covers the chest or breasts
4: a close affectionate and protective acceptance; "his willing
embrace of new ideas"; "in the bosom of the family" [syn:
embrace, bosom]
5: the locus of feelings and intuitions; "in your heart you know
it is true"; "her story would melt your bosom" [syn: heart,
bosom]
6: either of two soft fleshy milk-secreting glandular organs on
the chest of a woman [syn: breast, bosom, knocker,
boob, tit, titty]
v 1: hide in one's bosom; "She bosomed his letters"
2: squeeze (someone) tightly in your arms, usually with
fondness; "Hug me, please"; "They embraced"; "He hugged her
close to him" [syn: embrace, hug, bosom, squeeze]
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botulism
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n 1: food poisoning from ingesting botulin; not infectious;
affects the CNS; can be fatal if not treated promptly
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cabalism
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n 1: the doctrines of the Kabbalah [syn: Kabbalism,
Cabalism]
2: adherence to some extreme traditional theological concept or
interpretation [syn: kabbalism, cabalism]
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cannibalism
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n 1: the practice of eating the flesh of your own kind
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cataclysm
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n 1: a sudden violent change in the earth's surface [syn:
catastrophe, cataclysm]
2: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole
city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the
earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe,
disaster, tragedy, cataclysm]
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centralism
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n 1: the political policy of concentrating power in a central
organization
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chasm
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n 1: a deep opening in the earth's surface
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classicalism
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n 1: a movement in literature and art during the 17th and 18th
centuries in Europe that favored rationality and restraint
and strict forms; "classicism often derived its models from
the ancient Greeks and Romans" [syn: classicism,
classicalism] [ant: Romantic Movement, Romanticism]
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commercialism
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n 1: transactions (sales and purchases) having the objective of
supplying commodities (goods and services) [syn:
commerce, commercialism, mercantilism]
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communalism
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n 1: the practice of communal living and common ownership
2: loyalty and commitment to the interests of your own minority
or ethnic group rather than to society as a whole
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conventionalism
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n 1: orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn:
conventionality, convention, conventionalism] [ant:
unconventionality]
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cytoplasm
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n 1: the protoplasm of a cell excluding the nucleus; is full of
proteins that control cell metabolism [syn: cytoplasm,
cytol]
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dualism
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n 1: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing
elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and
body), or good and evil
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somnambulism
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n 1: walking by a person who is asleep [syn: sleepwalking,
somnambulism, somnambulation, noctambulism,
noctambulation]
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spasm
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n 1: a painful and involuntary muscular contraction [syn:
spasm, cramp, muscle spasm]
2: (pathology) sudden constriction of a hollow organ (as a blood
vessel)
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structuralism
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n 1: linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in
a text or discourse [syn: structuralism, structural
linguistics]
2: an anthropological theory that there are unobservable social
structures that generate observable social phenomena [syn:
structuralism, structural anthropology]
3: a sociological theory based on the premise that society comes
before individuals [syn: structuralism, structural
sociology]
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supernaturalism
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n 1: a belief in forces beyond ordinary human understanding
2: the quality of being attributed to power that seems to
violate or go beyond natural forces [syn: supernaturalism,
supernaturalness]
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symbolism
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n 1: a system of symbols and symbolic representations
2: the practice of investing things with symbolic meaning [syn:
symbolism, symbolization, symbolisation]
3: an artistic movement in the late 19th century that tried to
express abstract or mystical ideas through the symbolic use
of images
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syndicalism
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n 1: a radical political movement that advocates bringing
industry and government under the control of labor unions
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teetotalism
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n 1: abstaining from alcohol [syn: teetotaling, teetotalism]
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traditionalism
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n 1: strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings [syn:
traditionalism, traditionality]
2: adherence to tradition (especially in cultural or religious
matters)
3: the doctrine that all knowledge was originally derived by
divine revelation and that it is transmitted by traditions
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tribalism
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n 1: the state of living together in tribes
2: the beliefs of a tribal society
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universalism
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n 1: the theological doctrine that all people will eventually be
saved
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plasm
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n 1: the protoplasm of the germ cells that contains chromosomes
and genes [syn: germ plasm, plasm]
2: the colorless watery fluid of the blood and lymph that
contains no cells, but in which the blood cells
(erythrocytes, leukocytes, and thrombocytes) are suspended
[syn: plasma, plasm, blood plasma]
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unbosom
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v 1: relieve oneself of troubling information [syn: unbosom,
relieve]
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embosom
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imbosom
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disembosom
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