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(semantics) The condition of a sign which has an empty, absent, non-existent, paradoxical, hypothetical, supernatural, or undefined referent, such as nothing, null, vacuum, or void.
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The tendency to ascribe agency to an event where none exists.
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(yoga) A state of no action in which one refrains from seeking any outcomes.
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A deficiency in understanding, processing, or describing emotions.
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(medicine, psychiatry) The inability to feel pleasure from activities usually found enjoyable, such as exercise, hobbies, music, sexual activities or social interactions.
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Lack of love for humankind.
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(figuratively) Devoid of value.
n
The property of being barren; the property of not supporting life.
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Consciousness conceived as a lack of being, a desire for being, a relation to being.
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The role of being a bystander, not taking any active part.
adj
(grammar) Of words or endings that express a lack of something, for example English homeless/-less or unsalted/un-, Finnish koditon, suolaton, -ton.
n
Failure to attend a church.
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(rare) The condition of being condomless.
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The property of being cordless; absence of a cord.
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(now chiefly historical) The fact of not wearing a corset.
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The property of lacking extent or measure.
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The lack of something one sought to acquire.
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The condition of being eventless; a lack of events
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mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised
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(of a young adult) Inability to leave home and begin a self-supported life.
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Lack of feeling or emotion.
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Alternative form of fervourlessness [Lack of fervour.]
n
(rare) Freedom from fetters.
n
The state or condition of being footless.
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(psychoanalysis) The absence of a symbolic father for a fatherless child, as a cause for psychosis.
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Without spirit, soul, or life; dead.
n
(rare) Lack or absence of good
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Failure to mortify the passions.
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A lack of direction; deviousness or aimlessness.
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(nonce use) Absence of distinction or eminence; obscurity.
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(pathology) Lack of pain in a tumour.
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Absence of occupation; lack of anything to do.
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(informal, rare) childlessness
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(rare) Absence of friends or acquaintances.
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(obsolete, stock market) A person who has no money in stocks and shares.
adj
(politics, euphemistic) Ignorant, out of the loop, acting without an extensive or sophisticated understanding of the political situation. Used especially in the term "low-information voter".
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(archaic) Meaninglessness.
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Inadequate, imperfect, or misdirected love.
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(Zen Buddhism) Nothingness; nonexistence; the illusory nature of reality.
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(Indian philosophy) Something that is absent.
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(slang) Absence of calm; acting without regard to how others feel or see one.
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Alternative form of nonstardom [Lack of stardom or fame.]
n
Absence of belonging; the state of not being (recognised as) a member of a community, etc.
n
The quality of not being broody.
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Absence of confidence (especially politically, as in a vote of no confidence).
n
(uncountable) Avoidance of confrontation.
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The condition of not being famous.
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Lack of secrecy; openness.
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State of not being sentient.
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Lack of stardom or fame.
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Lack of pay; the condition of going unpaid.
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(rare) Lack of permission.
adj
The state of lacking a substantial plot or scheme.
n
(rare) Absence of pluck or courage; timidity.
n
A lack of centralised political authority, especially following a conflict, revolution, change of power, etc.
adj
Having not yet experienced an orgasm (especially of a woman).
adj
lacking quality or qualities
n
(microbiology) The period when a cell is in a term of no growth and no division.
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Empty and tiresome speculation.
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the characteristic of lacking remorse
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(theology) An unregenerate person.
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Someone who has not yet been tattooed.
adj
Unconcerned about the adverse consequences of one's actions on others.
n
Lack of substance; insubstantiality.
adj
(ceramics) Untempered.
n
The property of being ticketless; not having a ticket.
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(rare) Lack of tips or gratuities.
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(rare) The avoidance of the hesitating interjection um in speech.
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(rare) Lack of buoyancy.
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(rare) Absence of conceit; an unconceited attitude.
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(rare) Absence of condescension; an uncondescending manner.
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Absence of connection; disconnection.
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Absence or lack of devotion.
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Lack or absence of fame; negative fame; infamy
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(fantasy) magical water with the property of harming or cursing that which is good
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Absence of law; lawlessness.
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Lack or absence of magic; magiclessness
n
(obsolete) Absence or lack of manhood.
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Absence or lack of motivation
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Absence of personality; the quality of being impersonal.
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(archaic) Absence of prejudice; unprejudicedness.
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The property of being victimless.
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Lack of vigilance; failure to keep watch.
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originally a white spot on 19th century geographical maps, indicating lack of knowledge, from the German expression "weißer Fleck auf der Landkarte", also known as "blank spot"
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One who is outwardly attractive, but unclean or vile on the inside; a hypocrite.
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The state of being wordless, speechlessness.
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(informal) Lack of any good qualities.
n
A refusal to act or take a stance; extreme passivity.
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