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afflatus collapse: a strong creative impulse; divine inspiration; "divine afflatus"

truth collapse: a fact that has been verified; "at last he knew the truth"; "the truth is that he didn't want to do it"; a true statement; "he told the truth"; "he thought of answering with the truth but he knew they wouldn't believe it"; United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883); conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities"

torrent collapse: a violently fast stream of water (or other liquid); "the houses were swept away in the torrent"

restraint of trade collapse: any act that tends to prevent free competition in business

facile collapse: performing adroitly and without effort; "a facile hand"; arrived at without due care or effort; lacking depth; "too facile a solution for so complex a problem"

pleasure principle collapse: (psychoanalysis) the governing principle of the id; the principle that an infant seeks gratification and fails to distinguish fantasy from reality

concentration collapse: strengthening the amount of a substance in a unit amount of another substance (as of a solute in a mixture) by removing the other substance; bringing together military forces; (chemistry) the strength of a solution; number of molecules of a substance in a given volume (expressed as moles/cubic meter); the spatial property of being crowded together; complete attention; intense mental effort; increase in density

adultery collapse: extramarital sex that willfully and maliciously interferes with marriage relations; "adultery is often cited as grounds for divorce"

glare collapse: an angry stare; great brightness; "a glare of sunlight"; "the flowers were a blaze of color"; shine intensely; "The sun glared down on us"; be sharply reflected; "The moon glared back at itself from the lake's surface"

fantasy collapse: imagination unrestricted by reality; "a schoolgirl fantasy"; fiction with a large amount of imagination in it; "she made a lot of money writing romantic fantasies"; indulge in fantasies; "he is fantasizing when he says he plans to start his own company"

innocence collapse: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence"

think of collapse: look on as or consider; "she looked on this affair as a joke"; "He thinks of himself as a brilliant musician"; "He is reputed to be intelligent"; choose in one's mind; "Think of any integer between 1 and 25"; intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!"

conceptual collapse: being or characterized by concepts or their formation; "conceptual discussions"; "the schizophrenic loses ability to abstract or do conceptual thinking"; "sex is a notional category, gender is a grammatical category"

tabula rasa collapse: a young mind not yet affected by experience (according to John Locke)

monition collapse: a summons issued after the filing of a libel or claim directing all parties concerned to show cause why the judgment asked for should not be granted

understand collapse: know and comprehend the nature or meaning of; "She did not understand her husband"; "I understand what she means"; perceive (an idea or situation) mentally; "Now I see!"; "I just can't see your point"; "Does she realize how important this decision is?"; "I don't understand the idea"; believe to be the case; "I understand you have no previous experience?"; make sense of a language; "She understands French"; "Can you read Greek?"

preoccupation collapse: the mental state of being preoccupied by something; an idea that preoccupies the mind and holds the attention

blue book collapse: a blue booklet used in universities for writing examinations; a register of persons who are socially prominent; a report published by the British government; bound in blue

terrorism collapse: the calculated use of violence (or threat of violence) against civilians in order to attain goals that are political or religious or ideological in nature; this is done through intimidation or coercion or instilling fear

deceleration collapse: the act of decelerating; decreasing the speed; "he initiated deceleration by braking"; a decrease in rate of change; "the deceleration of the arms race"; (physics) a rate of decrease in velocity

willing collapse: disposed or inclined toward; "a willing participant"; "willing helpers"

mystique collapse: an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing

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