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brutality
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n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness,
brutality, viciousness, savagery]
2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity,
barbarism, savagery]
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fatality
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n 1: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a
decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn:
fatality, human death]
2: the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
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hospitality
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n 1: kindness in welcoming guests or strangers [syn: cordial
reception, hospitality] [ant: inhospitality]
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immortality
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n 1: the quality or state of being immortal [ant: mortality]
2: perpetual life after death
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inhospitality
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n 1: unkind and inconsiderate welcome; "he was taken aback by
such inhospitality" [ant: cordial reception,
hospitality]
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instrumentality
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n 1: a subsidiary organ of government created for a special
purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local
governments adequate?"; "he studied the French
instrumentalities for law enforcement"
2: the quality of being instrumental for some purpose
3: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in
accomplishing some end [syn: instrumentality,
instrumentation]
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legality
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n 1: lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute [ant:
illegality]
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lethality
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n 1: the quality of being deadly [syn: deadliness,
lethality]
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liberality
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n 1: an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom
[syn: liberality, liberalness]
2: the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament [syn:
liberality, liberalness] [ant: illiberality]
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locality
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n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood";
"I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of
the woods" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood,
neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
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materiality
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n 1: relevance requiring careful consideration [ant:
immateriality]
2: the quality of being physical; consisting of matter [syn:
materiality, physicalness, corporeality, corporality]
[ant: immateriality, incorporeality]
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mentality
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n 1: a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that
determines how you will interpret and respond to situations
[syn: mentality, outlook, mindset, mind-set]
2: mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common
sense" [syn: brain, brainpower, learning ability,
mental capacity, mentality, wit]
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modality
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n 1: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether
they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn:
modality, mode]
2: verb inflections that express how the action or state is
conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality]
3: a particular sense [syn: modality, sense modality,
sensory system]
4: a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical
therapeutic treatment
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morality
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n 1: concern with the distinction between good and evil or right
and wrong; right or good conduct [ant: immorality]
2: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong [syn: ethical
motive, ethics, morals, morality]
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mortality
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n 1: the quality or state of being mortal [ant: immortality]
2: the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that
area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: deathrate, death
rate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality rate]
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municipality
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n 1: an urban district having corporate status and powers of
self-government
2: people living in a town or city having local self-government
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musicality
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n 1: the property of sounding like music [syn: musicality,
musicalness]
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mutuality
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n 1: a reciprocality of sentiments; "the mutuality of their
affection was obvious" [syn: mutuality, mutualness]
2: a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities
(objects or individuals or groups) [syn: mutuality,
interdependence, interdependency]
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nationality
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n 1: people having common origins or traditions and often
comprising a nation; "immigrants of the same nationality
often seek each other out"; "such images define their sense
of nationality"
2: the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or
naturalization
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neutrality
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n 1: nonparticipation in a dispute or war
2: tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn:
disinterest, neutrality]
3: pH value of 7
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rationality
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n 1: the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his
rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less
on reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn:
rationality, reason, reasonableness]
2: the quality of being consistent with or based on logic [syn:
rationality, rationalness]
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reality
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n 1: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to
you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different
worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as
trees were" [syn: world, reality]
2: the state of being actual or real; "the reality of his
situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: reality, realness,
realism] [ant: irreality, unreality]
3: the state of the world as it really is rather than as you
might want it to be; "businessmen have to face harsh
realities"
4: the quality possessed by something that is real [ant:
unreality]
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sensuality
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n 1: desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality,
sensualness, sensualism]
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sentimentality
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n 1: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness,
sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness,
sloppiness]
2: extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
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sexuality
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n 1: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of
their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex
of the foetus" [syn: sex, gender, sexuality]
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speciality
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n 1: an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his
forte" [syn: forte, strong suit, long suit, metier,
specialty, speciality, strong point, strength]
[ant: weak point]
2: a distinguishing trait [syn: peculiarity, specialness,
specialty, speciality, distinctiveness]
3: the special line of work you have adopted as your career;
"his specialization is gastroenterology" [syn:
specialization, specialisation, specialty,
speciality, specialism]
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spirituality
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n 1: property or income owned by a church [syn: spiritualty,
spirituality, church property]
2: concern with things of the spirit [syn: spirituality,
spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness] [ant:
worldliness]
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totality
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n 1: the state of being total and complete; "he read the article
in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the
destruction" [syn: entirety, entireness, integrality,
totality]
2: the quality of being complete and indiscriminate; "the
totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing
totality of the state"
3: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality,
aggregate]
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universality
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n 1: the quality of being universal; existing everywhere [syn:
universality, catholicity]
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unreality
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n 1: the quality possessed by something that is unreal [ant:
reality]
2: the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing
objectively or in fact [syn: unreality, irreality] [ant:
realism, reality, realness]
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venality
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n 1: prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
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vitality
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n 1: an energetic style [syn: vitality, verve]
2: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off
my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn:
energy, vim, vitality]
3: (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical)
once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and
development of organisms [syn: life force, vital force,
vitality, elan vital]
4: the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality
of a seed" [syn: animation, vitality]
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natality
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n 1: the ratio of live births in an area to the population of
that area; expressed per 1000 population per year [syn:
birthrate, birth rate, fertility, fertility rate,
natality]