n
The tendency to pursue an alternative, especially when the previous solution is less available or less desirable.
n
(psychology) An individual difference (can be thought of as a personality variable) referring to the extent that an individual prefers complex explanations for behavior.
n
(psychology) The maintenance of learnt behaviour
n
The quality of being cocreative.
n
The state or quality of being cognate.
n
The quality of being conceptive.
n
the state or quality of being conceptual
n
(phrenology) Creativity, the capacity to invent.
n
The quality of being a contranym or including contranyms.
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The quality of being coreferential.
n
(theology) A pattern or organizing principle that forms the basis of moral judgements.
n
(uncountable, countable, sometimes with "against") Differential treatment of an individual or group to their disadvantage; treatment or consideration based on class or category rather than individual merit; partiality; prejudice; bigotry.
n
(behavioral psychology) A stimulus, associated with reinforcement or punishment, that exerts control over a particular form of behavior; the subject discriminates between closely related stimuli and elicits a specific behavior more frequently or less frequently only in the presence of that stimulus.
adj
Showing prejudice or bias.
n
(operations, philosophy) An individual item: the least quantitative unit in a grouping.
n
That which has a distinct existence as an individual unit. Often used for organisations which have no physical form.
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(psychology) The automatic, natural, habitual way in which a person explains events.
adj
Very comprehensive; pertaining or appropriate to large classes or groups (genera) as opposed to specific instances.
n
(of a person) the state of being controlled by old habits
adj
Related to habitual behavior.
adj
Obsolete form of identic. [(obsolete) Identical.]
n
The difference or character that marks off an individual or collective from the rest of the same kind; selfhood; the sense of who something or someone or oneself is, or the recurring characteristics that enable the recognition of such an individual or group by others or themself.
n
An object, be it a thing or an agent, as contrasted to a class.
v
To give something its own individuality; to characterize or differentiate.
adj
Obsolete form of individual. [Relating to a single person or thing as opposed to more than one.]
n
(philosophy) The distinction of the individual from the general or universal.
adj
Pertaining to individuation.
n
A single individual person or thing.
n
A distinct physical object.
n
(linguistics) the state, of a word or lexical item, of being a noun
n
The state or quality of being ordinal.
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(of inanimate or abstract things) A set of qualities that make something distinctive or interesting.
n
The quality of being reciprocal.
n
The condition of being referential.
adj
Relating to particular persons or things, each to each; particular; own.
adj
Resembling an outdated vision of the future.
adv
Done by rote or habit, as part of a routine, without attention or concern.
n
The state or condition of being same-blooded; consanguinity; homogeneity.
adj
(rare) Tending to keep oneself separate from others.
adj
(law) Each; individual.
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a class of phenomena that is a subset of a more general class
n
The quality of being systematic.
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