Related Words:
- lucubration
collapse - laborious cogitation
- a solemn literary work that is the product of laborious cogitation related words >
- advisement,
- application,
- article,
- autograph,
- boning,
- brainchild,
- brainwork,
- brooding,
- causerie,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- conning,
- consideration,
- contemplation,
- copy,
- counsel,
- cram,
- cramming,
- deliberation,
- descant,
- discourse,
- discussion,
- disquisition,
- dissertation,
- document,
- draft,
- drill,
- edited version,
- engrossment,
- essay,
- etude,
- examination,
- excursus,
- exercise,
- exposition,
- extensive study,
- fair copy,
- feature,
- fiction,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first approach,
- first draft,
- flimsy,
- grind,
- grinding,
- headwork,
- holograph,
- homily,
- inspection,
- introductory study,
- letter,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- manuscript,
- matter,
- meditation,
- memoir,
- mental labor,
- monograph,
- morceau,
- musing,
- opus,
- original,
- outline,
- pandect,
- paper,
- paragraph,
- parchment,
- penscript,
- perusal,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- play,
- poem,
- pondering,
- practice,
- preliminary study,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- production,
- prolegomenon,
- reading,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- reflection,
- research paper,
- restudy,
- restudying,
- review,
- revolving,
- rumination,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- sketch,
- special article,
- speculation,
- study,
- studying,
- subject,
- survey,
- swotting,
- term paper,
- the written word,
- theme,
- thesis,
- tract,
- tractate,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- treatise,
- treatment,
- typescript,
- version,
- weighing,
- wide reading,
- work,
- writing
- Masan,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- astral,
- astral spirit,
- bamboozlement,
- banshee,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- control,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- departed spirit,
- disembodied spirit,
- dupery,
- duppy,
- dybbuk,
- eidolon,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fiction,
- figment,
- figure,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- form,
- ghost,
- grateful dead,
- guide,
- hallucination,
- hant,
- haunt,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- idolum,
- illusion,
- image,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- immateriality,
- incorporeal,
- incorporeal being,
- incorporeity,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- larva,
- lemures,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- manes,
- materialization,
- mirage,
- myth,
- oni,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- phantasma,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- poltergeist,
- presence,
- putting on,
- revenant,
- romance,
- self-deception,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shape,
- shrouded spirit,
- sick fancy,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- specter,
- spectral ghost,
- spirit,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- spook,
- sprite,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- theophany,
- thick-coming fancies,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unsubstantiality,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- waking dream,
- walking dead man,
- wandering soul,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dream,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- wraith,
- zombie
- illusion
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- something many people believe that is false; "they have the illusion that I am very wealthy"
- an erroneous mental representation related words >
- aberrancy,
- aberration,
- air,
- airy nothing,
- apparition,
- appearance,
- bamboozlement,
- bedevilment,
- befooling,
- bewitchery,
- bewitchment,
- bluffing,
- brainchild,
- bubble,
- calculated deception,
- captivation,
- chimera,
- circumvention,
- conning,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defectiveness,
- defrauding,
- delirium,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- deviancy,
- distortion,
- dream,
- dupery,
- eidolon,
- enchantment,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrancement,
- entrapment,
- errancy,
- erroneousness,
- error,
- ether,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- falsity,
- fancy,
- fantasque,
- fantasy,
- fascination,
- fault,
- faultiness,
- fiction,
- figment,
- flaw,
- flawedness,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fooling,
- hallucination,
- hamartia,
- heresy,
- heterodoxy,
- hoodwinking,
- idle fancy,
- ignis fatuus,
- imagery,
- imagination,
- imagining,
- insubstantial image,
- invention,
- kidding,
- maggot,
- make-believe,
- maya,
- mirage,
- misapplication,
- misapprehension,
- misconception,
- misconstruction,
- misdoing,
- misfeasance,
- misinterpretation,
- misjudgment,
- mist,
- mistake,
- myth,
- obsession,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- peccancy,
- perversion,
- phantasm,
- phantasmagoria,
- phantom,
- pipe,
- pipe dream,
- possession,
- putting on,
- rainbow,
- romance,
- seeming,
- self-contradiction,
- self-deception,
- semblance,
- shadow,
- sick fancy,
- sin,
- sinfulness,
- smoke,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spirit,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- thick-coming fancies,
- thin air,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trip,
- unorthodoxy,
- untrueness,
- untruth,
- untruthfulness,
- vapor,
- victimization,
- vision,
- whim,
- whimsy,
- wildest dreams,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking,
- witchery,
- wrong,
- wrongness
- Klaxon,
- Mayday,
- SOS,
- Texas tower,
- air-raid alarm,
- alarm,
- alarm bell,
- alarm clock,
- alarm signal,
- alarum,
- alert,
- all clear,
- antenna tower,
- barbican,
- beacon,
- belfry,
- bell tower,
- belvedere,
- bench mark,
- bleachers,
- blinking light,
- bookmark,
- bridge,
- burglar alarm,
- buzzer,
- cairn,
- campanile,
- catstone,
- colossus,
- column,
- conning tower,
- crostarie,
- cupola,
- derrick,
- direction,
- dome,
- fiery cross,
- fire alarm,
- fire bell,
- fire flag,
- fire tower,
- five-minute gun,
- flashing light,
- fog bell,
- fog signal,
- foghorn,
- gale warning,
- gallery,
- gazebo,
- grandstand,
- guidance,
- hooter,
- horn,
- hue and cry,
- hurricane warning,
- landmark,
- lantern,
- lightship,
- lookout,
- loophole,
- mark,
- marker,
- martello,
- martello tower,
- mast,
- menhir,
- milepost,
- milestone,
- minaret,
- monument,
- note of alarm,
- obelisk,
- observation post,
- observation tower,
- observatory,
- occulting light,
- outlook,
- overlook,
- pagoda,
- peanut gallery,
- peephole,
- pharos,
- pilaster,
- pillar,
- pinnacle,
- platform,
- pole,
- police whistle,
- pylon,
- pyramid,
- ringside,
- ringside seat,
- seamark,
- shaft,
- sighthole,
- signal of distress,
- siren,
- skyscraper,
- small-craft warning,
- spire,
- standpipe,
- steeple,
- still alarm,
- storm cone,
- storm flag,
- storm warning,
- stupa,
- television mast,
- tocsin,
- top gallery,
- tope,
- tour,
- tower,
- turret,
- two-minute gun,
- upside-down flag,
- watchtower,
- water tower,
- whistle,
- windmill tower
- Pecksniffery,
- Tartuffery,
- Tartuffism,
- adulation,
- advocate,
- allurement,
- artful endearments,
- be hypocritical,
- bill and coo,
- blandish,
- blandishment,
- blandishments,
- blandness,
- blarney,
- bunkum,
- butter,
- cajole,
- cajolement,
- cajolery,
- call on,
- call upon,
- cant,
- caress,
- coax,
- coaxing,
- compliment,
- conning,
- copulate,
- dally,
- empty gesture,
- endearment,
- engagement,
- enlistment,
- exhort,
- exhortation,
- eyewash,
- fair words,
- false piety,
- fawning,
- flattery,
- fulsomeness,
- give lip service,
- give mouth honor,
- glibness,
- grease,
- high-pressure,
- honeyed phrases,
- honeyed words,
- hortation,
- hypocrisy,
- hypocriticalness,
- importune,
- incense,
- inducement,
- insist,
- insist upon,
- jawbone,
- jawboning,
- lip service,
- lobby,
- lobbying,
- lollygag,
- make love,
- make out,
- mealymouthedness,
- mouth,
- mouthing,
- mummery,
- nag,
- neck,
- oil,
- oiliness,
- ostentatious devotion,
- palaver,
- pat,
- persuasion,
- pet,
- pharisaism,
- play the hypocrite,
- plead with,
- praise,
- preaching,
- preachment,
- press,
- pressure,
- pretty lies,
- push,
- recommend,
- reek of piety,
- religiosity,
- render lip service,
- sales talk,
- salesmanship,
- sanctimoniousness,
- sanctimony,
- selling,
- smooch,
- smoothness,
- smugness,
- snivel,
- snow job,
- snuffle,
- snuffling,
- soap,
- soft soap,
- soft words,
- soft-soap,
- solicitation,
- spoon,
- suasion,
- suaveness,
- suavity,
- sweet nothings,
- sweet words,
- sycophancy,
- tokenism,
- toy,
- trifle,
- unctuousness,
- urge,
- wanton,
- wheedle,
- wheedling,
- whisper sweet nothings,
- work on,
- working on
- grinding
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- a harsh and strident sound (as of the grinding of gears)
- matter resulting from the process of grinding; "vegetable grindings clogged the drain"
- the wearing down of rock particles by friction due to water or wind or ice related words >
- ablation,
- ablative,
- abradant,
- abrasion,
- abrasive,
- absolute,
- absolutist,
- absolutistic,
- application,
- arbitrary,
- aristocratic,
- arrogant,
- atomization,
- attrition,
- attritive,
- authoritarian,
- authoritative,
- autocratic,
- beating,
- boning,
- bossy,
- brainwork,
- brecciation,
- buffing,
- burdensome,
- burnishing,
- chafe,
- chafing,
- comminution,
- conning,
- contemplation,
- cram,
- cramming,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- despotic,
- detrition,
- dictatorial,
- disintegration,
- domineering,
- dressing,
- drill,
- drudging,
- engrossment,
- erasure,
- erosion,
- erosive,
- exercise,
- exhausting,
- extensive study,
- feudal,
- filing,
- fragmentation,
- fretting,
- galling,
- gnawing,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grazing,
- grind,
- grubbing,
- hardworking,
- harsh,
- headwork,
- heavy,
- high-handed,
- imperative,
- imperial,
- imperious,
- inspection,
- irritant,
- irritating,
- irritative,
- jangling,
- jangly,
- jarring,
- laboring,
- levigation,
- limation,
- lordly,
- lucubration,
- magisterial,
- magistral,
- mashing,
- masterful,
- mental labor,
- monocratic,
- onerous,
- oppressive,
- overbearing,
- overburdensome,
- overruling,
- pegging,
- peremptory,
- perusal,
- plodding,
- plugging,
- polishing,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- practice,
- rasping,
- raspy,
- reading,
- repressive,
- restudy,
- restudying,
- review,
- rubbing away,
- sandblasting,
- sanding,
- scouring,
- scrape,
- scraping,
- scrapy,
- scratch,
- scratching,
- scratchy,
- scrub,
- scrubbing,
- scuff,
- severe,
- shining,
- shredding,
- slaving,
- slogging,
- smashing,
- smoothing,
- stinging,
- straining,
- strict,
- striving,
- struggling,
- study,
- studying,
- subject,
- suppressive,
- sweating,
- swotting,
- toiling,
- trituration,
- tyrannical,
- tyrannous,
- wear,
- wearing,
- wearing away,
- wearying,
- weighty,
- wide reading,
- working
- wishful thinking
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- the illusion that what you wish for is actually true related words >
- alienation,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- bamboozlement,
- befooling,
- blame-shifting,
- blind faith,
- bluffing,
- calculated deception,
- circumvention,
- compensation,
- conning,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- daydream,
- daydreaming,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- decompensation,
- defense mechanism,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- displacement,
- disposition to believe,
- dissociation,
- dotage,
- dreamery,
- dupery,
- ease of belief,
- emotional insulation,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- flight of fancy,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- fond illusion,
- fondness,
- fooling,
- gross credulity,
- hallucination,
- hoodwinking,
- ideal,
- idealism,
- ideality,
- idealization,
- illusion,
- imaginative exercise,
- impracticality,
- infatuation,
- isolation,
- kidding,
- mirage,
- negativism,
- nostalgia,
- outwitting,
- overcompensation,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overreaching,
- overtrustfulness,
- phantasm,
- play of fancy,
- projection,
- psychotaxis,
- putting on,
- quixotism,
- quixotry,
- rash conviction,
- rationalization,
- resistance,
- romance,
- romanticism,
- self-deception,
- snow job,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unpracticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unrealism,
- unreality,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- utopianism,
- victimization,
- vision,
- visionariness,
- will to believe,
- willful misconception,
- willingness to believe,
- wish fulfillment,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful belief,
- wishfulness,
- wistful eye,
- wistfulness,
- withdrawal,
- yearnfulness
- fooling
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- characterized by a feeling of irresponsibility; "a broken back is nothing to be casual about; it is no fooling matter" related words >
- badinage,
- bamboozlement,
- banter,
- bantering,
- befooling,
- bluffing,
- booing,
- buffoonery,
- calculated deception,
- catcalling,
- chaff,
- chaffing,
- circumvention,
- clownishness,
- conning,
- coquetry,
- dabbling,
- dalliance,
- dallying,
- deceiving,
- deception,
- deceptiveness,
- defrauding,
- delusion,
- delusiveness,
- derision,
- derisive,
- derisory,
- dupery,
- enmeshment,
- ensnarement,
- entanglement,
- entrapment,
- exchange,
- fallaciousness,
- fallacy,
- falseness,
- fiddling,
- fleering,
- flimflam,
- flimflammery,
- flippancy,
- flippant,
- flirtation,
- fond illusion,
- foolery,
- fooling around,
- give-and-take,
- good-natured banter,
- grinning,
- hallucination,
- harlequinade,
- harmless teasing,
- hazing,
- high jinks,
- hissing,
- hoodwinking,
- hooting,
- horseplay,
- idling,
- illusion,
- jape,
- jeering,
- jerking off,
- jest,
- jesting,
- jive,
- joke,
- joking,
- jollying,
- josh,
- joshing,
- kidding,
- kidding around,
- leering,
- levity,
- loitering,
- messing around,
- mirage,
- mockery,
- mocking,
- monkeying,
- monkeying around,
- monkeyshines,
- outwitting,
- overreaching,
- panning,
- persiflage,
- phantasm,
- piddling,
- playing,
- playing around,
- pleasantry,
- pottering,
- puttering,
- putting on,
- quizzical,
- ragging,
- railing,
- raillery,
- rallying,
- razzing,
- ribbing,
- ridicule,
- ridiculing,
- roasting,
- roughhouse,
- rowdiness,
- scoffing,
- self-deception,
- shenanigans,
- skylarking,
- smart,
- smart-aleckiness,
- smart-alecky,
- smart-ass,
- smartness,
- smattering,
- smirking,
- sneering,
- snickering,
- sniggering,
- snorting,
- snow job,
- song and dance,
- spoofery,
- spoofing,
- sport,
- subterfuge,
- swindling,
- taunting,
- teasing,
- tinkering,
- tomfoolery,
- toying,
- trickiness,
- tricking,
- trifling,
- twit,
- twitting,
- victimization,
- vision,
- willful misconception,
- wishful thinking
- loophole
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- a small hole in a fortified wall; for observation or discharging weapons
- an ambiguity (especially one in the text of a law or contract) that makes it possible to evade a difficulty or obligation related words >
- Texas tower,
- abatis,
- advanced work,
- air hole,
- alternative,
- armhole,
- avenue,
- balistraria,
- bank,
- banquette,
- barbed-wire entanglement,
- barbican,
- barricade,
- barrier,
- bartizan,
- bastion,
- battlement,
- beacon,
- belvedere,
- bleachers,
- blowhole,
- breastwork,
- bridge,
- bullet-hole,
- bulwark,
- bunghole,
- casemate,
- channel,
- cheval-de-frise,
- choice,
- chute,
- circumvallation,
- conning tower,
- contravallation,
- counterscarp,
- cringle,
- curtain,
- deadeye,
- debouch,
- demibastion,
- dike,
- dodge,
- door,
- drawbridge,
- earthwork,
- egress,
- emunctory,
- enclosure,
- entanglement,
- escape,
- escape clause,
- escape hatch,
- escarp,
- escarpment,
- estuary,
- evasion,
- exhaust,
- exit,
- eye,
- eyelet,
- fence,
- fieldwork,
- floodgate,
- flume,
- fortalice,
- fortification,
- gallery,
- gasket,
- gazebo,
- glacis,
- grandstand,
- grommet,
- guide,
- keyhole,
- knothole,
- lighthouse,
- lookout,
- loop,
- lunette,
- machicolation,
- manhole,
- mantelet,
- merlon,
- mound,
- mousehole,
- observation post,
- observatory,
- opening,
- out,
- outcome,
- outfall,
- outgate,
- outgo,
- outlet,
- outlook,
- outwork,
- overlook,
- palisade,
- parados,
- parapet,
- peanut gallery,
- peephole,
- pharos,
- pigeonhole,
- pinhole,
- placket,
- placket hole,
- pore,
- port,
- portcullis,
- porthole,
- postern gate,
- pretext,
- punch-hole,
- quibble,
- rampart,
- ravelin,
- redan,
- redoubt,
- ringside,
- ringside seat,
- sally port,
- saving clause,
- scarp,
- sconce,
- sighthole,
- sluice,
- spiracle,
- spout,
- stockade,
- subterfuge,
- tap,
- tenaille,
- top gallery,
- tower,
- vallation,
- vallum,
- vent,
- ventage,
- venthole,
- vomitory,
- watchtower,
- way of escape,
- way out,
- weir,
- work
- lookout
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- the act of looking out
- a structure commanding a wide view of its surroundings
- an elevated post affording a wide view
- a person employed to watch for something to happen related words >
- Argus,
- Cassandra,
- Charley,
- Jeremiah,
- Texas tower,
- activities,
- activity,
- admonisher,
- affair,
- affairs,
- airplane spotter,
- airscape,
- alert,
- bag,
- beacon,
- belvedere,
- bleachers,
- bridge,
- business,
- cautioner,
- cityscape,
- cloudscape,
- commerce,
- concern,
- concernment,
- conning tower,
- cupola,
- custodianship,
- custody,
- difficulty,
- eagle eye,
- employ,
- employment,
- enterprise,
- espial,
- espionage,
- fire patrolman,
- fire warden,
- fireguard,
- flagman,
- forward observer,
- function,
- gallery,
- gazebo,
- grandstand,
- guard,
- guardedness,
- guardianship,
- headache,
- interest,
- invigilation,
- labor,
- landscape,
- lighthouse,
- lighthouse keeper,
- looking,
- lookout man,
- loophole,
- matter,
- monitor,
- monitoring,
- night watchman,
- note,
- notice,
- observance,
- observation,
- observation post,
- observatory,
- occupation,
- outlook,
- overlook,
- palaver,
- panorama,
- patrol,
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- work
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