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A person who exhibits able-bodyism.
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(informal) Any country where absurdity is the norm, especially in its public authorities and government.
adj
(usually with a prepositional phrase) Having no firmly held opinions on an issue or matter of uncertainty.
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Of or relating to amoralism.
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(chaos theory) The deliberate promotion or increase of chaos in a system.
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Opposing or flouting the rules of grammar.
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Inconsistent with the principles of medical science.
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Style or fashion that rejects the usual conventions of style.
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One who has no feeling towards anything, or more specifically religion.
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(chiefly philosophy) One who, or that which, becomes.
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One who discriminates against people based on their caste.
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A catastrophist person: a person who subscribes to a catastrophist theory.
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(religion) contrary to Scripture
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Opposing or subverting the normal habit or custom.
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Discrimination against a group previously discriminated against.
adj
Contrary to what is normative; opposing or overthrowing norms.
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One who holds prejudices against a culture.
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The condition of being deletionist.
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The practice of rejecting propositions which are strongly supported by scientific or historical evidence, and often of seeking to influence policy processes and outcomes accordingly.
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A believer in destiny; a fatalist.
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Alternative form of dogmatic [(philosophy, medicine) Adhering only to principles which are true a priori, rather than truths based on evidence or deduction.]
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One who makes specious arguments; one who is disputatious.
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The practice of being exclusive; a mentality or policy that excludes others.
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The principles of a freethinker; free thought
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(rare) Synonym of heterodox
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The quality of being homodox.
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An adherent or practitioner of immoralism
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(of a person, somewhat rare) Advocating immoralism.
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(figuratively, philosophy) A spiritual emptiness or lack of purpose or will to live, akin to the Existentialist Philosophy state of "nausea".
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The moral stance, political philosophy, or social outlook that promotes independence and self-reliance of individual people, while opposing the interference with each person's choices by society, the state, or any other group or institution.
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The belief that certain developments are impossible to avoid; determinism.
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Insular (withdrawn) behavior.
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One who is irrational in their beliefs or ideas.
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A form of cognitive bias by which people believe that someone's actions are inherently inclined to bring morally fair and fitting consequences upon them, with good deeds rewarded and bad deeds punished.
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Someone who is materialistic, concerned only with material possessions.
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Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and UK standard spelling of meat scepter.
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One who is given to meditation.
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The view or doctrine that the world can be improved through human effort (often understood as an intermediate outlook between optimism and pessimism).
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Slavish adherence to research methods over other facets of research such as interpretation.
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A special police force in some conservative countries, such as Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Malaysia, that enforces religious laws by punishing sinners.
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The capacity of people to maintain belief in an institution or a goal, or even in oneself and others.
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A police force meant to enforce a specific moral code, especially a religious one.
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(uncountable, chiefly philosophy) nothingness, nonbeing
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(rare, archaic) nullness or negation
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(obsolete, countable) A nonexistent thing; nothing.
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(humorous or derogatory) The tendency of some Nobel laureates to advance pseudoscientific or fringe ideas, or to claim knowledge beyond their field of expertise.
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One whose opinions are ungrounded notions.
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Of or relating to obscurantism.
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a strong and rigid allegiance to a paradigm
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The belief that only the past is important, or that it is the best model to be emulated.
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(derogatory) Ignorant or uneducated; specifically, lacking appreciation for or antagonistic towards art or culture, and having pedestrian tastes.
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A person with an excessive interest in his/her own opinions.
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(derogatory) The tendency of academics in non-scientific subjects to introduce jargon and mathematics to make their work appear more rigorous.
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(uncountable) Avoidance of expressions or actions that can be perceived to exclude, marginalize or insult people who are socially disadvantaged or discriminated against.
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Synonym of affirmative action
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(psychology) A belief (sometimes regarded as irrational) that people conspire to do one good.
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One who is apparently, but not actually, a feminist.
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(politics) An entity that falsely purports or is purported to be a nation.
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(rare) In a punditic manner.
adj
Of, or relating to purism or purists.
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A form of mysticism involving quiet contemplation.
adj
Tending to reduce to a minimum or to simplify in an extreme way.
adj
Of or related to rejectionism.
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(law, ethics, public policy) The policy or practice of discriminating against members of a designated group which has in the past unfairly received preferential treatment in social, legal, educational, or employment situations, with the intention of benefiting one or more other groups (such as racial, disabled, or gender groups) that have previously been discriminated against.
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(politics, US politics) The ideal in which an individual is more successful by their own work without any outside assistance, especially from the government.
adj
Of or pertaining to Donald Rumsfeld's speech on known knowns, describing the Johari window.
n
skepticism; skeptical philosophy
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Britain standard spelling of skeptic.
adj
Britain standard spelling of skeptical.
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(British spelling) alternative form of skepticism [The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.]
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One who is skeptical; a sceptic.
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One who exhibits only superficial knowledge; a self-proclaimed expert with little real understanding.
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(neologism) An alleged movement in the United States with the ostensible goal of removing religion from the public sphere.
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The quality or state of being secular.
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(sociology) The separation of people (geographically, residentially, or in businesses, public transit, etc) into various categories which occurs due to social forces (culture, etc).
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(by extension) The conflation of sign and meaning.
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A proponent of self-determination
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One who believes or espouses the philosophy of sensationalism.
adj
(Christianity) Resistant to the lessons in morality conveyed by sermons; unregenerate.
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Alternative spelling of singlism [Discrimination against and negative perception of single people, and singlehood.]
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Alternative form of scepsis [skepticism; skeptical philosophy]
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Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.
adj
Of or relating to philosophical skepticism or the skeptics.
n
The practice or philosophy of being a skeptic.
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Obsolete form of skeptic. [Someone who doubts beliefs, claims, plans, etc that are accepted by others as true or appropriate, especially one who habitually does so.]
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One who is both skeptical and optimistic.
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Britain standard spelling of specter.
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Someone who makes speculative theories or deals in abstract ideas; a theorist.
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(sociology) A disadvantage that affects a person due to a stereotype about them held and acted upon by others.
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One who is highly superstitious.
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an advocate of theophilanthropism
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A realist; one who considers only things or objects.
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A tendency of nations to act on their own, or with only minimal consultation and involvement with other nations.
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(theology) A concept of God built up through negative statements about his nature.
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Rationality in accordance with moral demands instead of organizational and technical demands.
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One who engages in wishful thinking.
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