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Synonym of eureka effect
n
A disaster; a cataclysmic event; destruction or ruin.
adj
Evoking a particular emotional or aesthetic quality.
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(phonetics) Quality of being a back vowel.
n
Interference or obstruction of cognitive processes.
adj
Characterized by, or suitable for, casual reading or browsing.
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Of or pertaining to a cataclysm; causing great destruction or upheaval; catastrophic.
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(narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot; the dénouement.
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(archaeology, paleontology) The process by which individuals in a population die off in large numbers as part of a single event (rather than one by one, from a variety of causes).
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The practice or tendency of catastrophizing, regarding bad things as catastrophic.
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(now rare) Alternative spelling of catastrophe [Any large and disastrous event of great significance.]
adj
(rare) Chasmal (of or like a chasm).
adv
(rare) In a circumventive manner.
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Dying together or at the same time.
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(psychology) A traumatic or stressful change in a person's life.
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Alternative form of dead ringer [(idiomatic) Someone or something that very closely resembles another; someone or something easily mistaken for another.]
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Of global consequence or importance.
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(rare) quality or character of electricity.
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(biology) The extinction of an organism (usually microorganisms) due to excessive RNA mutations.
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(literature) A catastrophe (dramatic event leading to plot resolution) that results in the protagonist's well-being.
adv
In the manner of a eucatastrophe.
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A hypothetical future event which could cause human extinction or permanently and severely curtail humanity's potential.
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A facial appearance usually associated with an emotion.
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Of or pertaining to fatalism.
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Any cataclysmic downfall or momentous, apocalyptic event, especially of a regime or an institution.
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(in combination) In the specified headed manner
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(informal) One's mental state.
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The act of imbruing or state of being imbrued.
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characterized by incursion; invasive
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The point at which a person's unique memories and individual personality traits are no longer present in a form that could be read or inferred by future technologies; the complete loss of the information that defines an individual.
adj
Synonym of intimidating
v
Seek to dispel ill-will before a day’s end, and not to act upon desires for vengeance.
adj
(informal) Tending to lisp when speaking.
adj
(rare) Catastrophic on a very large scale.
n
Very large-scale destruction, especially resulting from nuclear warfare.
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(euphemistic) Taking care of those who have memory disorders.
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(archaic) Conveying thought; telepathic.
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Contemplation of or meditation upon one's navel; navel-gazing.
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The quality of being sonorescent.
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(rare) A very severe, widespread catastrophe.
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Not thorough, deep, or complete; concerned only with the obvious or apparent.
adv
In a supralethal manner
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The sound of the voice of a person about to die, heard supernaturally by somebody not present at the scene.
adj
Alternative form of through the looking-glass. [(idiomatic) Disconcertingly bizarre; surreal; weird; strange; topsy-turvy; beyond the reasonable limits of normality.]
n
(psychology) A cognitive system with a limited capacity that can hold information temporarily.
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