Exact Match:
- Cynicism
- a cynical feeling of distrust
Related Words:
- gloominess
collapse - the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness related words >
- pessimism
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- a general disposition to look on the dark side and to expect the worst in all things
- the feeling that things will turn out badly related words >
- Schmerz,
- Slough of Despond,
- anxiety,
- apprehension,
- blank despondency,
- cliff-hanging,
- cynicism,
- death wish,
- defeatism,
- dejectedness,
- dejection,
- depression,
- despair,
- despondency,
- despondentness,
- discouragement,
- disheartenment,
- dismalness,
- dispiritedness,
- down trip,
- downcastness,
- downer,
- downheartedness,
- dread,
- drooping spirits,
- expectant waiting,
- gloominess,
- gloomy outlook,
- heartlessness,
- hopelessness,
- low spirits,
- lowness,
- lowness of spirit,
- malaise,
- malism,
- negativism,
- nihilism,
- oppression,
- retreatism,
- self-destructive urge,
- sinking heart,
- spiritlessness,
- suicidal despair,
- suspense,
- taedium vitae,
- uncertainty,
- uncheerfulness,
- waiting,
- weariness of life
- sarcasm
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- witty language used to convey insults or scorn; "he used sarcasm to upset his opponent"; "irony is wasted on the stupid"; "Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own"--Jonathan Swift related words >
- Atticism,
- acerbity,
- acridity,
- acridness,
- acrimony,
- agile wit,
- asperity,
- bitterness,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- contumely,
- corrosiveness,
- cynicism,
- derision,
- disdain,
- dry wit,
- esprit,
- farce,
- gibe,
- harshness,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- jest,
- lampoon,
- malevolence,
- malice,
- maliciousness,
- mockery,
- nimble wit,
- parody,
- pleasantry,
- poison,
- poisonousness,
- pretty wit,
- quick wit,
- raillery,
- rancor,
- ready wit,
- repartee,
- ridicule,
- salt,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- scorn,
- sharpness,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sneering,
- spite,
- spitefulness,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- venom,
- venomousness,
- virulence,
- visual humor,
- wit
- nihilism
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- a revolutionary doctrine that advocates destruction of the social system for its own sake
- complete denial of all established authority and institutions related words >
- Jacobinism,
- New Left,
- Old Left,
- agnosia,
- anarchism,
- anarcho-syndicalism,
- anarchy,
- antinomianism,
- block,
- blocking,
- chaos,
- confusion,
- criminal syndicalism,
- cynicism,
- defeatism,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusion of persecution,
- dismalness,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- disorientation,
- disruption,
- extreme left,
- extreme left wing,
- extremism,
- flight of ideas,
- gloominess,
- gloomy outlook,
- hallucination,
- hallucinosis,
- left-wing extremism,
- lynch law,
- malism,
- mental block,
- mental confusion,
- misrule,
- mob law,
- mob rule,
- mobocracy,
- negativism,
- nihilistic delusion,
- ochlocracy,
- paralogia,
- pessimism,
- primal chaos,
- psychological block,
- radicalism,
- radicalization,
- rebellion,
- retreatism,
- revolution,
- revolutionism,
- sans-culotterie,
- sans-culottism,
- syndicalism,
- tohubohu,
- turmoil,
- ultraconservatism,
- ultraism,
- uncheerfulness,
- unruliness
- irony
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- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs related words >
- Atticism,
- Janus,
- agile wit,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- antinomy,
- biformity,
- bifurcation,
- black humor,
- burlesque,
- caricature,
- causticity,
- comedy,
- complexity of meaning,
- conjugation,
- cynicism,
- dichotomy,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- doubleness,
- doublethink,
- doubling,
- dry wit,
- dualism,
- duality,
- duplexity,
- duplication,
- duplicity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- equivocation,
- esprit,
- farce,
- halving,
- humor,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- lampoon,
- levels of meaning,
- multivocality,
- nimble wit,
- oxymoron,
- pairing,
- paradox,
- parody,
- paronomasia,
- pleasantry,
- polarity,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- pretty wit,
- punning,
- quick wit,
- ready wit,
- richness of meaning,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- savor of wit,
- self-contradiction,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- squib,
- subtle wit,
- travesty,
- twinning,
- two-facedness,
- twoness,
- uncertainty,
- visual humor,
- wit
- abuse,
- abusive,
- address,
- after-dinner speech,
- allocution,
- assailing,
- assault,
- attack,
- berating,
- billingsgate,
- bitter words,
- blackening,
- blameful,
- calumny,
- causticity,
- censorious,
- chalk talk,
- condemnatory,
- contemptuous,
- contumelious,
- contumely,
- cynicism,
- damnatory,
- debate,
- declamation,
- denunciatory,
- deprecative,
- deprecatory,
- depreciative,
- derisive,
- diatribe,
- disparaging,
- eulogy,
- execrating,
- execration,
- execrative,
- execratory,
- exhortation,
- filibuster,
- forensic,
- forensic address,
- formal speech,
- funeral oration,
- harangue,
- hard words,
- hortatory address,
- inaugural,
- inaugural address,
- innuendo,
- inveighing,
- irony,
- jawing,
- jeremiad,
- judgmental,
- objurgatory,
- obloquy,
- onslaught,
- opprobrious,
- opprobrium,
- oration,
- pep talk,
- peroration,
- philippic,
- pitch,
- prepared speech,
- prepared text,
- priggish,
- public speech,
- rating,
- reading,
- recital,
- recitation,
- reproachful,
- reprobative,
- revilement,
- reviling,
- ridiculing,
- sales talk,
- salutatory,
- salutatory address,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- say,
- scoffing,
- screed,
- scurrile,
- scurrility,
- scurrilous,
- set speech,
- speech,
- speechification,
- speeching,
- talk,
- talkathon,
- tirade,
- tongue-lashing,
- truculent,
- valediction,
- valedictory,
- valedictory address,
- vilification,
- vilifying,
- vituperation,
- vituperative
- accusal,
- accusation,
- accusing,
- allegation,
- allegement,
- allegory,
- allusion,
- animadversion,
- arcane meaning,
- arraignment,
- aspersion,
- assumption,
- bill of particulars,
- blame,
- bringing of charges,
- bringing to book,
- broad hint,
- causticity,
- charge,
- clue,
- coloration,
- complaint,
- connotation,
- count,
- cue,
- cynicism,
- delation,
- denouncement,
- denunciation,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- hint,
- impeachment,
- implication,
- implied meaning,
- import,
- imputation,
- index,
- indication,
- indictment,
- indirect,
- inference,
- information,
- inkling,
- insinuation,
- intimation,
- invective,
- ironic suggestion,
- irony,
- kick,
- lawsuit,
- laying of charges,
- look,
- meaning,
- metaphorical sense,
- nod,
- nuance,
- nudge,
- occult meaning,
- overtone,
- personal remark,
- personality,
- plaint,
- presumption,
- presupposition,
- prompt,
- prosecution,
- reference,
- reflection,
- reproach,
- sarcasm,
- satire,
- satiric wit,
- scent,
- sign,
- signal,
- slur,
- sly suggestion,
- spoor,
- subsense,
- subsidiary sense,
- suggestion,
- suit,
- supposition,
- suspicion,
- symbolism,
- symptom,
- taxing,
- telltale,
- tinge,
- touch,
- track,
- true bill,
- uncomplimentary remark,
- undercurrent,
- undermeaning,
- undertone,
- unspoken accusation,
- veiled accusation,
- whisper,
- whispering campaign,
- wink
- atomism
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- (chemistry) any theory in which all matter is composed of tiny discrete finite indivisible indestructible particles; "the ancient Greek philosophers Democritus and Epicurus held atomic theories of the universe"
- (psychology) a theory that reduces all mental phenomena to simple elements (sensations and feelings) that form complex ideas by association related words >
- Aristotelianism,
- Berkeleianism,
- Bohr theory,
- Bradleianism,
- Cynicism,
- Cyrenaic hedonism,
- Cyrenaicism,
- Dirac theory,
- Epicureanism,
- Fichteanism,
- Hegelianism,
- Heideggerianism,
- Heracliteanism,
- Herbartianism,
- Humism,
- Kantianism,
- Leibnizianism,
- Marxism,
- Mimamsa,
- Neo-Hegelianism,
- Neo-Pythagoreanism,
- Neoplatonism,
- Peripateticism,
- Platonism,
- Purva Mimamsa,
- Pyrrhonism,
- Pythagoreanism,
- Sankhya,
- Schellingism,
- Scotism,
- Socratism,
- Sophism,
- Sophistry,
- Spencerianism,
- Stoicism,
- Thomism,
- acosmism,
- agnosticism,
- animalism,
- animatism,
- animism,
- behaviorism,
- commonsense realism,
- correspondence principle,
- cosmotheism,
- criticism,
- deism,
- dialectical materialism,
- dualism,
- earthliness,
- eclecticism,
- egoism,
- empiricism,
- epiphenomenalism,
- ethics,
- eudaemonism,
- existentialism,
- hedonism,
- historical materialism,
- humanism,
- hylomorphism,
- hylotheism,
- hylozoism,
- idealism,
- immaterialism,
- individualism,
- intuitionism,
- law of parity,
- materialism,
- mechanism,
- mentalism,
- monism,
- mysticism,
- natural realism,
- naturalism,
- neocriticism,
- new realism,
- nominalism,
- octet theory,
- ontologism,
- ontology,
- optimism,
- organic mechanism,
- organicism,
- panpsychism,
- pantheism,
- pessimism,
- physicalism,
- physicism,
- pluralism,
- positive philosophy,
- positivism,
- pragmaticism,
- pragmatism,
- psychism,
- psychological hedonism,
- quantum theory,
- rationalism,
- realism,
- representative realism,
- secular humanism,
- secularism,
- semiotic,
- semiotics,
- sensationalism,
- skepticism,
- substantialism,
- syncretism,
- temporality,
- theism,
- transcendentalism,
- utilitarianism,
- voluntarism,
- worldliness
- abnegation,
- alienation,
- arrest,
- arrestation,
- arrestment,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- blame-shifting,
- blockage,
- blocking,
- challenge,
- check,
- clogging,
- closing up,
- closure,
- combative reaction,
- compensation,
- complaint,
- constriction,
- counteraction,
- cramp,
- cynicism,
- decompensation,
- defeatism,
- defense mechanism,
- defiance,
- delay,
- demur,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- detainment,
- detention,
- dismalness,
- displacement,
- dispute,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissociation,
- emotional insulation,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- fixation,
- flight,
- foot-dragging,
- fractiousness,
- gloominess,
- gloomy outlook,
- hampering,
- hindering,
- hindrance,
- holdback,
- holdup,
- impediment,
- inhibition,
- interference,
- interruption,
- isolation,
- let,
- malism,
- nay,
- naysaying,
- negation,
- negative,
- negative attitude,
- negativeness,
- negativity,
- nihilism,
- nix,
- no,
- noncooperation,
- nuisance value,
- objection,
- obstinacy,
- obstruction,
- obstructionism,
- occlusion,
- opposition,
- overcompensation,
- passive resistance,
- pessimism,
- projection,
- protest,
- psychotaxis,
- rationalization,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- recalcitrance,
- recalcitrancy,
- recalcitration,
- refractoriness,
- reluctance,
- remonstrance,
- renitence,
- renitency,
- repellence,
- repellency,
- repression,
- repulse,
- repulsion,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- restriction,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retreatism,
- revolt,
- setback,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- squeeze,
- stand,
- stranglehold,
- stricture,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- suppression,
- uncheerfulness,
- uncooperativeness,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawal,
- withstanding
- Atticism,
- English sonnet,
- Goliardic verse,
- Horatian ode,
- Hudibrastic verse,
- Italian sonnet,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- Pindaric ode,
- Rabelaisian,
- Sapphic ode,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- agile wit,
- alba,
- amoebean verse,
- anacreontic,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- banter,
- black humor,
- bucolic,
- burlesque,
- canso,
- caricature,
- cartoon,
- causticity,
- chaffing,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- comedy,
- concrete poetry,
- cubist poetry,
- cynicism,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- dramatic poetry,
- dry wit,
- eclogue,
- elegiac poetry,
- elegy,
- epic,
- epic poetry,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- erotic poetry,
- esprit,
- exaggeration,
- farce,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- hatchet job,
- heroic poetry,
- humor,
- idyll,
- imagist verse,
- imitation,
- innuendo,
- invective,
- irony,
- jingle,
- lampoon,
- light verse,
- limerick,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- malicious parody,
- melic poetry,
- metaphysical poetry,
- mock-heroic poetry,
- mockery,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- narrative poetry,
- nimble wit,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- oral poetry,
- palinode,
- parody,
- pasquil,
- pasquin,
- pasquinade,
- pastiche,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- persiflage,
- pleasantry,
- poem,
- poison pen,
- polyphonic prose,
- pretty wit,
- prose poetry,
- prothalamium,
- quick wit,
- raillery,
- ready wit,
- rhyme,
- ridicule,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- runic verse,
- salt,
- sarcasm,
- satiric wit,
- satirical poetry,
- savor of wit,
- sestina,
- slapstick,
- slapstick humor,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- spoof,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- squib,
- stichomythia,
- subtle wit,
- symbolist verse,
- take-off,
- takeoff,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- threnody,
- travesty,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- vers de societe,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- visual humor,
- wicked imitation,
- wit
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