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appeasement
collapse
the act of appeasing (as by acceding to the demands of)
related words >
Eisenhower Doctrine
,
Monroe Doctrine
,
Nixon Doctrine
,
Truman Doctrine
,
United Nations troops
,
abatement
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
analgesia
,
anesthesia
,
anesthetizing
,
assuagement
,
atonement
,
balance of power
,
brinkmanship
,
calming
,
coexistence
,
colonialism
,
compromise
,
conciliation
,
containment
,
deadening
,
detente
,
deterrence
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
diplomacy
,
diplomatic
,
diplomatics
,
dollar diplomacy
,
dollar imperialism
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
ease
,
easement
,
easing
,
easing of relations
,
expansionism
,
foreign affairs
,
foreign policy
,
good-neighbor policy
,
imperialism
,
internationalism
,
isolationism
,
lessening
,
lulling
,
manifest destiny
,
mediation
,
militarism
,
mitigation
,
mollification
,
nationalism
,
neocolonialism
,
neutralism
,
nonresistance
,
numbing
,
open door
,
open-door policy
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
peace offensive
,
peace-keeping force
,
peaceful coexistence
,
peacemaking
,
peacemongering
,
placability
,
placation
,
preparedness
,
propitiation
,
reduction
,
relaxation of tension
,
relief
,
remedy
,
salving
,
shirt-sleeve diplomacy
,
shuttle diplomacy
,
softening
,
soothing
,
spheres of influence
,
subduement
,
the big stick
,
tough policy
,
tranquilization
,
world politics
letdown
collapse
related words >
abasement
,
abatement
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
arrest
,
assuagement
,
bafflement
,
balk
,
betrayed hope
,
blasted expectation
,
blighted hope
,
blow
,
blunting
,
buffet
,
calming
,
check
,
comedown
,
cruel disappointment
,
damping
,
dash
,
dashed hope
,
deadening
,
debasement
,
deceleration
,
defeat
,
deflation
,
delay
,
demulsion
,
descent
,
detention
,
diminution
,
disappointment
,
discomfiture
,
disgrace
,
disillusionment
,
dissatisfaction
,
drag
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
dump
,
ease-off
,
ease-up
,
easing
,
embarrassment
,
failure
,
fallen countenance
,
falling-off
,
fiasco
,
fizzle
,
flagging
,
foiling
,
forlorn hope
,
frustration
,
hangdog look
,
holdup
,
hope deferred
,
humbled pride
,
humiliation
,
hushing
,
lag
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letup
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lulling
,
minus acceleration
,
mirage
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
mortification
,
obstruction
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
put-down
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
remission
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
self-abasement
,
self-abnegation
,
self-diminishment
,
setback
,
setdown
,
shame
,
shamefacedness
,
shamefastness
,
slack-up
,
slackening
,
slowdown
,
slowing
,
slowing down
,
slowup
,
softening
,
soothing
,
sore disappointment
,
subduement
,
tantalization
,
tease
,
tempering
,
tranquilization
unrestraint
collapse
the quality of lacking restraint
related words >
abandon
,
abandonment
,
accessibility
,
approachability
,
artlessness
,
bluffness
,
bluntness
,
broadness
,
brusqueness
,
candidness
,
candor
,
carelessness
,
communicativeness
,
conversableness
,
crapulence
,
crapulency
,
crapulousness
,
directness
,
disobedience
,
drunkenness
,
ease
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
excess
,
excessiveness
,
extravagance
,
extroversion
,
forthrightness
,
frankness
,
freedom
,
freeness
,
genuineness
,
gluttony
,
immoderacy
,
immoderateness
,
immoderation
,
impotence
,
imprecision
,
impulsiveness
,
incontinence
,
indifference
,
indiscipline
,
indulgence
,
ingenuousness
,
inordinacy
,
inordinateness
,
insubordination
,
intemperance
,
intemperateness
,
interregnum
,
irrepressibility
,
irresponsibility
,
lawlessness
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
leniency
,
license
,
licentiousness
,
looseness
,
loosening
,
mutiny
,
naturalness
,
negligence
,
noncoercion
,
nonintimidation
,
openheartedness
,
openness
,
outgoingness
,
outspokenness
,
overdoing
,
overindulgence
,
overpermissiveness
,
permissiveness
,
plain dealing
,
plain speaking
,
plainness
,
plainspokenness
,
power vacuum
,
prodigality
,
rampant will
,
relaxation
,
relaxedness
,
remissness
,
riotousness
,
roundness
,
self-indulgence
,
sincerity
,
slackness
,
sloppiness
,
sociability
,
softness
,
straightforwardness
,
swinishness
,
talkativeness
,
too much
,
too-muchness
,
unaccountability
,
unconstraint
,
uncontinence
,
uncontrol
,
uninhibitedness
,
unrepression
,
unreserve
,
unreservedness
,
unrestriction
,
unreticence
,
unruliness
,
unsecretiveness
,
unstrictness
,
unsuppression
,
untaciturnity
,
wantonness
,
weakness
,
wildness
,
willfulness
abatement
collapse
the act of abating; "laws enforcing noise abatement"
related words >
abridgment
,
agio
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
allowance
,
analgesia
,
anesthesia
,
anesthetizing
,
appeasement
,
assuagement
,
attenuation
,
attrition
,
bank discount
,
blunting
,
breakage
,
calming
,
cash discount
,
chain discount
,
charge-off
,
concession
,
contraction
,
cut
,
dampening
,
damping
,
deadening
,
debilitation
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
deduction
,
deflation
,
demulsion
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
devitalization
,
dilution
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
discount
,
drawback
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
dying
,
dying off
,
ease
,
easement
,
easing
,
effemination
,
enervation
,
enfeeblement
,
evisceration
,
exhaustion
,
extenuation
,
fade-out
,
falling-off
,
fatigue
,
hushing
,
inanition
,
kickback
,
languishment
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lowering
,
lulling
,
miniaturization
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
numbing
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
penalty
,
penalty clause
,
percentage
,
premium
,
price reduction
,
price-cut
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
rebate
,
rebatement
,
reduction
,
refund
,
relaxation
,
relief
,
remedy
,
remission
,
rollback
,
sagging
,
salvage
,
salving
,
scaling down
,
setoff
,
simplicity
,
slackening
,
softening
,
soothing
,
subduement
,
subtraction
,
tare
,
tempering
,
thinning
,
time discount
,
trade discount
,
tranquilization
,
tret
,
underselling
,
weakening
,
write-off
sagging
collapse
related words >
abatement
,
abridgment
,
alleviation
,
attenuation
,
bagging
,
baggy
,
ballooning
,
collapsing
,
contraction
,
dampening
,
damping
,
debilitated
,
deciduous
,
declining
,
declivitous
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
decurrent
,
deduction
,
deflation
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
descendant
,
descending
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
down
,
down-reaching
,
downcoming
,
downfalling
,
downgoing
,
downhill
,
downsinking
,
downward
,
drooping
,
droopy
,
dropping
,
dying
,
dying off
,
enervated
,
enfeebled
,
extenuation
,
fade-out
,
fagged
,
faint
,
fainting
,
falling
,
fatigued
,
feeling faint
,
flagging
,
floppy
,
footsore
,
frazzled
,
good and tired
,
jaded
,
languid
,
languishment
,
lessening
,
letup
,
limp
,
loose
,
lop
,
lop-eared
,
loppy
,
lowering
,
miniaturization
,
mitigation
,
nodding
,
on the descendant
,
on the downgrade
,
plummeting
,
plunging
,
ready to drop
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
run ragged
,
run-down
,
sagging in folds
,
saggy
,
scaling down
,
seedy
,
setting
,
simplicity
,
sinking
,
submerging
,
subsiding
,
subtraction
,
swag
,
tired
,
tired-winged
,
toilworn
,
tottering
,
tumbledown
,
unrefreshed
,
unrestored
,
way-weary
,
wayworn
,
weak
,
weakened
,
weakening
,
wearied
,
weariful
,
weary
,
weary-footed
,
weary-laden
,
weary-winged
,
weary-worn
,
wilting
,
worn
,
worn-down
laxity
collapse
related words >
allowance
,
amorphousness
,
approximation
,
bagginess
,
blobbiness
,
blurriness
,
broadness
,
carelessness
,
chambering
,
culpa
,
culpable negligence
,
default
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
deviation
,
disconformity
,
disorder
,
disregard
,
easiness
,
easy virtue
,
easygoingness
,
failure
,
flabbiness
,
flaccidity
,
flaccidness
,
floppiness
,
fogginess
,
fuzziness
,
generality
,
haziness
,
ill-definedness
,
impotence
,
imprecision
,
inaccuracy
,
inaccurateness
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
inchoateness
,
incoherence
,
incorrectness
,
indecisiveness
,
indefinableness
,
indefiniteness
,
indeterminateness
,
indifference
,
indistinctness
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
inobservance
,
laches
,
laissez-faire
,
lapse
,
laxation
,
laxness
,
leniency
,
lightness
,
limpness
,
loose morals
,
looseness
,
loosening
,
mistiness
,
neglect
,
neglectfulness
,
negligence
,
nonadherence
,
noncompliance
,
nonconformance
,
nonconformity
,
nonfeasance
,
nonfulfillment
,
noninterference
,
nonobservance
,
nonperformance
,
nonrestriction
,
obscuration
,
obscurity
,
omission
,
overindulgence
,
overlooking
,
overpermissiveness
,
oversight
,
permissiveness
,
poor stewardship
,
predictable error
,
probable error
,
procrastination
,
promiscuity
,
relaxation
,
relaxedness
,
remissness
,
ricketiness
,
rubberiness
,
shakiness
,
shapelessness
,
slackness
,
sleeping around
,
slight
,
sloppiness
,
softness
,
standard deviation
,
sweepingness
,
swinging
,
tolerance
,
unclearness
,
uncorrectness
,
unfactualness
,
unobservance
,
unpreciseness
,
unrestraint
,
unrigorousness
,
vagueness
,
wantonness
,
waywardness
,
weakness
,
whorishness
softening
collapse
the process of becoming softer; "refrigeration delayed the softening of the fruit"; "he observed the softening of iron by heat"
related words >
abatement
,
abating
,
allaying
,
allayment
,
alleviating
,
alleviation
,
alleviative
,
allowance
,
altering
,
analgesia
,
analgesic
,
anesthesia
,
anesthetic
,
anesthetizing
,
anodyne
,
appeasement
,
assuagement
,
assuaging
,
assuasive
,
attenuation
,
attrition
,
balmy
,
balsamic
,
benumbing
,
blunting
,
bounding
,
calming
,
cathartic
,
chastening
,
cleansing
,
color
,
cushioning
,
dampening
,
damping
,
deadening
,
debilitation
,
decontamination
,
demulcent
,
demulsion
,
devitalization
,
dilution
,
diminishing
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
ease
,
easement
,
easing
,
effemination
,
emollient
,
enervation
,
enfeeblement
,
evisceration
,
exhaustion
,
extenuating
,
extenuating circumstances
,
extenuation
,
extenuative
,
extenuatory
,
falling-off
,
fatigue
,
gilding
,
gloss
,
hushing
,
inanition
,
languishment
,
laxation
,
leniency
,
lenitive
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
limitative
,
limiting
,
loosening
,
lulling
,
mellowing
,
mitigating
,
mitigation
,
mitigative
,
mitigatory
,
modificatory
,
modifying
,
modulation
,
modulatory
,
mollification
,
mollifying
,
numbing
,
pacification
,
padding
,
pain-killing
,
palliation
,
palliative
,
purgative
,
qualification
,
qualificative
,
qualificatory
,
qualifying
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
reducing
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
relaxing
,
relief
,
relieving
,
remedial
,
remedy
,
remission
,
restricting
,
restrictive
,
salving
,
slackening
,
softening-up
,
soothing
,
subduement
,
subduing
,
tempering
,
thinning
,
tranquilization
,
varnish
,
weakening
,
whitewash
,
whitewashing
modulation
collapse
the act of modifying or adjusting according to due measure and proportion (as with regard to artistic effect)
(electronics) the transmission of a signal by using it to vary a carrier wave; changing the carrier's amplitude or frequency or phase
a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
related words >
AM
,
FM
,
PM
,
abatement
,
about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
amplitude modulation
,
apostasy
,
arrangement
,
assuagement
,
betterment
,
blunting
,
break
,
calming
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
constructive change
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
damping
,
deadening
,
defection
,
degeneration
,
degenerative change
,
demulsion
,
deterioration
,
deviation
,
difference
,
diminution
,
discontinuity
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
double sideband
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
easing
,
falling-off
,
fitting
,
flip-flop
,
gradual change
,
harmonization
,
hushing
,
improvement
,
inflection
,
instrumentation
,
intonation
,
intonation pattern
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lulling
,
melioration
,
mitigation
,
modification
,
mollification
,
orchestration
,
overthrow
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
phrasing
,
pitch
,
pitch accent
,
preparation
,
qualification
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
radical change
,
re-creation
,
realignment
,
redesign
,
reduction
,
reform
,
reformation
,
relaxation
,
remaking
,
remission
,
renewal
,
reshaping
,
resolution
,
restructuring
,
reversal
,
revival
,
revivification
,
revolution
,
setting
,
shift
,
side frequency
,
sideband
,
slackening
,
softening
,
solution
,
soothing
,
speech tune
,
subduement
,
sudden change
,
suprasegmental
,
suspension
,
switch
,
tempering
,
tone
,
tone painting
,
total change
,
tranquilization
,
transcription
,
transition
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
upheaval
,
variation
,
variety
,
violent change
,
worsening
exhaustion
collapse
the act of exhausting something entirely
extreme fatigue
related words >
abatement
,
ablation
,
absorption
,
assimilation
,
attenuation
,
attrition
,
blunting
,
breakdown
,
burning up
,
cachexia
,
cachexy
,
chronic ill health
,
circulatory collapse
,
cleaning out
,
clearance
,
clearing
,
collapse
,
consumption
,
corrosion
,
crack-up
,
crackup
,
damping
,
deadening
,
debilitation
,
debility
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrepitude
,
defecation
,
delicacy
,
delicate health
,
deliquescence
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
devitalization
,
digestion
,
dilution
,
discharge
,
discharging cargo
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
drain
,
drainage
,
draining
,
drawing out
,
dulling
,
eating up
,
effemination
,
egress
,
elimination
,
emptying
,
enervation
,
enfeeblement
,
erosion
,
evacuation
,
evaporation
,
evisceration
,
excretion
,
exhaustedness
,
exhausting
,
expending
,
expenditure
,
extenuation
,
fatigue
,
feebleness
,
finishing
,
fragility
,
frailty
,
healthlessness
,
hypochondria
,
hypochondriasis
,
ill health
,
impoverishment
,
inanition
,
infirmity
,
ingestion
,
invalidism
,
invalidity
,
languishing
,
languishment
,
lassitude
,
leakage
,
loss
,
mitigation
,
morbidity
,
morbidness
,
nervous breakdown
,
nervous exhaustion
,
nervous prostration
,
neurasthenia
,
off-loading
,
peakedness
,
poor health
,
prostration
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
removal
,
shrinkage
,
sickliness
,
slackening
,
softening
,
spending
,
squandering
,
thinning
,
tiredness
,
unhealthiness
,
unloading
,
unsoundness
,
unwholesomeness
,
using
,
using up
,
valetudinarianism
,
venting
,
voidance
,
voiding
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wastefulness
,
wasting
,
wasting away
,
weakening
,
weakliness
,
wear and tear
,
weariness
,
wearing
,
wearing away
,
wearing down
pleasure
collapse
sexual gratification; "he took his pleasure of her"
an activity that affords enjoyment; "he puts duty before pleasure"
a formal expression; "he serves at the pleasure of the President"
a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure"
related words >
affability
,
agreeability
,
agreeableness
,
alternate choice
,
alternative
,
amenity
,
amiability
,
amicability
,
amusement
,
animus
,
appetence
,
appetency
,
appetite
,
ardor
,
behest
,
bidding
,
bliss
,
blissfulness
,
choice
,
comfort
,
command
,
commandment
,
compatibility
,
complaisance
,
conation
,
conatus
,
concupiscence
,
congeniality
,
contentment
,
cordiality
,
curiosity
,
decision
,
delectate
,
delectation
,
delight
,
desideration
,
desire
,
determination
,
dictate
,
dictation
,
direct order
,
discretion
,
disposition
,
diversion
,
divertisement
,
divertissement
,
drive
,
eagerness
,
enjoyableness
,
enjoyment
,
entertainment
,
fancy
,
fantasy
,
felicitousness
,
felicity
,
free choice
,
free will
,
fruition
,
geniality
,
gladden
,
goodliness
,
goodness
,
graciousness
,
gratification
,
gratify
,
happify
,
happiness
,
harmoniousness
,
hest
,
hope
,
horme
,
imperative
,
inclination
,
intellectual curiosity
,
intention
,
joy
,
joyance
,
kick
,
libido
,
liking
,
lust
,
lust for learning
,
mellifluousness
,
mellowness
,
mind
,
mirth
,
need
,
niceness
,
objective
,
option
,
optionality
,
order
,
passe-temps
,
passion
,
pastime
,
pleasance
,
pleasingness
,
pleasurability
,
pleasurableness
,
pleasure principle
,
pleasurefulness
,
possible choice
,
preference
,
rapport
,
recreation
,
regalement
,
relaxation
,
relish
,
resolution
,
satisfaction
,
say-so
,
sexual desire
,
solace
,
special order
,
sweetness
,
thirst for knowledge
,
thrill
,
urge
,
velleity
,
volition
,
want
,
wanting
,
welcomeness
,
will
,
will and pleasure
,
will power
,
wish
,
wish fulfillment
,
word
,
word of command
entertainment
collapse
an activity that is diverting and that holds the attention
related words >
Kaffeeklatsch
,
amusement
,
animal pleasure
,
ball
,
benefit
,
bill
,
blowout
,
board
,
bodily pleasure
,
carnal delight
,
cocktail party
,
coffee klatch
,
comfort
,
content
,
contentment
,
costume party
,
coziness
,
creature comforts
,
debut
,
dinner
,
dinner party
,
distraction
,
diversion
,
divertisement
,
divertissement
,
donation party
,
ease
,
endpleasure
,
enjoyment
,
euphoria
,
exhibit
,
exhibition
,
extravaganza
,
farewell performance
,
feed
,
festivity
,
flesh show
,
forepleasure
,
fruition
,
fun
,
garden party
,
gratification
,
great satisfaction
,
gusto
,
hearty enjoyment
,
hen party
,
house party
,
house-raising
,
housewarming
,
intellectual pleasure
,
joie de vivre
,
keen pleasure
,
kicks
,
lawn party
,
luxury
,
mask
,
masque
,
masquerade
,
masquerade party
,
meal
,
meat
,
mess
,
mirth
,
pageant
,
party
,
passe-temps
,
pastime
,
performance
,
physical pleasure
,
play
,
pleasure
,
premiere
,
presentation
,
presentment
,
production
,
quiet pleasure
,
recreation
,
refection
,
refreshment
,
regalement
,
relaxation
,
relief
,
relish
,
repas
,
repast
,
satisfaction
,
self-gratification
,
self-indulgence
,
sensual pleasure
,
sensuous pleasure
,
sexual pleasure
,
shindig
,
shindy
,
show
,
shower
,
smoker
,
solace
,
spectacle
,
spectacular
,
sport
,
spread
,
stag
,
stag party
,
stage presentation
,
surprise party
,
swan song
,
sweetness of life
,
table
,
theatrical performance
,
titillation
,
treat
,
tryout
,
voluptuousness
,
well-being
,
zest
remission
collapse
(law) the act of remitting (especially the referral of a law case to another court)
an abatement in intensity or degree (as in the manifestations of a disease); "his cancer is in remission"
related words >
abatement
,
abeyance
,
absolution
,
acquittal
,
acquittance
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
amnesty
,
assuagement
,
attrition
,
blunting
,
break
,
caesura
,
calming
,
catabasis
,
cease-fire
,
clearance
,
clearing
,
collapse
,
compurgation
,
crash
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
damping
,
day off
,
deadening
,
deceleration
,
declension
,
decline
,
decline and fall
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescendo
,
deliverance
,
demulsion
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
destigmatization
,
destigmatizing
,
detraction
,
diminuendo
,
diminution
,
dip
,
discharge
,
disculpation
,
dismissal
,
disparagement
,
dive
,
downtrend
,
downturn
,
drop
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
dwindling
,
easing
,
ebb
,
ebbing
,
exculpation
,
excuse
,
exemption
,
exoneration
,
extraction
,
fall
,
falling-off
,
forgiveness
,
grace
,
hesitation
,
holiday
,
hushing
,
immunity
,
impairment
,
indemnity
,
indulgence
,
interim
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
intermittence
,
interruption
,
interval
,
lapse
,
layoff
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lull
,
lulling
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
pardon
,
pause
,
plunge
,
purgation
,
purging
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
quietus
,
quittance
,
recess
,
redemption
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
release
,
remission of sin
,
reprieve
,
respite
,
rest
,
retraction
,
retreat
,
retrenchment
,
shortening
,
shrift
,
shrinkage
,
slackening
,
slowdown
,
slump
,
softening
,
soothing
,
sparing
,
stand-down
,
stay
,
subduement
,
subsidence
,
suspension
,
tempering
,
tranquilization
,
truce
,
truncation
,
vacation
,
verdict of acquittal
,
vindication
,
wane
impotence
collapse
an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate
related words >
absurdity
,
adynamia
,
aimlessness
,
anemia
,
aridity
,
atony
,
barrenness
,
birth control
,
blah feeling
,
bloodlessness
,
bootlessness
,
cachexia
,
cachexy
,
carelessness
,
carnality
,
coldness
,
contraception
,
cowardice
,
dearth
,
debilitation
,
debility
,
dry womb
,
dryness
,
dullness
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
emptiness
,
enervation
,
etiolation
,
faintness
,
family planning
,
famine
,
fatigue
,
fatuity
,
fecklessness
,
feebleness
,
flabbiness
,
flaccidity
,
flesh
,
fleshliness
,
forcelessness
,
frailty
,
frigidity
,
fruitlessness
,
futility
,
helplessness
,
hollowness
,
impotency
,
imprecision
,
inadequacy
,
inanity
,
incompetence
,
indifference
,
ineffectiveness
,
ineffectuality
,
ineffectualness
,
inefficaciousness
,
inefficacy
,
ineptness
,
infecundity
,
infertility
,
lack of force
,
lack of influence
,
lack of magnetism
,
lack of personality
,
lack of power
,
languishment
,
languor
,
lassitude
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
leniency
,
libido
,
listlessness
,
looseness
,
loosening
,
love
,
lovemaking
,
marriage
,
meaninglessness
,
negligence
,
no say
,
nugacity
,
otiosity
,
overindulgence
,
overpermissiveness
,
permissiveness
,
planned parenthood
,
pointlessness
,
potency
,
powerlessness
,
profitlessness
,
prostration
,
purposelessness
,
rat race
,
relaxation
,
relaxedness
,
remissness
,
sensuality
,
sex drive
,
sexiness
,
sexual instinct
,
sexual urge
,
sexualism
,
sexuality
,
slackness
,
sloppiness
,
sluggishness
,
softness
,
sterileness
,
sterility
,
strengthlessness
,
the absurd
,
triviality
,
unauthoritativeness
,
unfertileness
,
unfruitfulness
,
uninfluentiality
,
unpersuasiveness
,
unproductiveness
,
unprofitability
,
unprofitableness
,
unrestraint
,
valuelessness
,
vanity
,
vicious circle
,
voluptuousness
,
weakliness
,
weakness
,
weariness
,
withered loins
,
worthlessness
leniency
collapse
related words >
abatement
,
acceptance
,
accommodatingness
,
agreeableness
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
assuagement
,
attentiveness
,
benevolence
,
blunting
,
calming
,
carelessness
,
charitableness
,
charity
,
clemency
,
commiseration
,
compassion
,
complaisance
,
concern
,
condolence
,
condonation
,
considerateness
,
consideration
,
damping
,
deadening
,
delicacy
,
demulsion
,
diminution
,
downiness
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
easiness
,
easing
,
easygoingness
,
endurance
,
falling-off
,
favor
,
featheriness
,
feeling
,
flossiness
,
fluffiness
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forbearingness
,
forgiveness
,
fortitude
,
generousness
,
gentleness
,
grace
,
heedfulness
,
helpfulness
,
humanity
,
hushing
,
impotence
,
imprecision
,
indifference
,
indulgence
,
insolidity
,
kindness
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
lenity
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
long-sufferance
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
looseness
,
loosening
,
lulling
,
magnanimity
,
mellowness
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mindfulness
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
morbidezza
,
negligence
,
nonresistiveness
,
nonrigidity
,
obligingness
,
overindulgence
,
overpermissiveness
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
permissiveness
,
perseverance
,
pity
,
plushiness
,
pulpiness
,
quarter
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
reduction
,
regard
,
regardfulness
,
relaxation
,
relaxedness
,
relief
,
remission
,
remissness
,
reprieve
,
ruth
,
satininess
,
self-control
,
self-pity
,
silkiness
,
slackening
,
slackness
,
sloppiness
,
softening
,
softness
,
solicitousness
,
solicitude
,
soothing
,
sponginess
,
stoicism
,
subduement
,
sufferance
,
sweet reasonableness
,
sympathy
,
tact
,
tactfulness
,
tempering
,
tenderness
,
thought
,
thoughtfulness
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
tranquilization
,
unrestraint
,
unsolidity
,
velvetiness
,
waiting game
,
waiting it out
,
weakness
attrition
collapse
the act of rubbing together; wearing something down by friction
a wearing down to weaken or destroy; "a war of attrition"
sorrow for sin arising from fear of damnation
related words >
abatement
,
ablation
,
abrasion
,
abrasive
,
absorption
,
apologies
,
assimilation
,
atomization
,
attenuation
,
ayenbite of inwit
,
beating
,
bitterness
,
blunting
,
brecciation
,
buffing
,
burning up
,
burnishing
,
chafe
,
chafing
,
comminution
,
consumption
,
contriteness
,
contrition
,
corrosion
,
crumbling
,
crushing
,
curtailment
,
cut
,
cutting
,
damping
,
deadening
,
debilitation
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
deliquescence
,
depletion
,
depreciation
,
derogation
,
detraction
,
detrition
,
devitalization
,
digestion
,
dilution
,
diminution
,
dip
,
disintegration
,
disparagement
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
drain
,
dressing
,
dulling
,
eating up
,
effemination
,
enervation
,
enfeeblement
,
erasure
,
erosion
,
evisceration
,
exhaustion
,
expending
,
expenditure
,
extenuation
,
extraction
,
fatigue
,
filing
,
finishing
,
fragmentation
,
fretting
,
galling
,
granulation
,
granulization
,
grating
,
grazing
,
grief
,
grinding
,
impairment
,
impoverishment
,
inanition
,
ingestion
,
languishment
,
lessening
,
levigation
,
limation
,
loss
,
mashing
,
mitigation
,
penance
,
penitently
,
polishing
,
pounding
,
powdering
,
rasping
,
reduction
,
regret
,
regretfulness
,
regrets
,
regretting
,
relaxation
,
remission
,
remorse
,
remorse of conscience
,
remorsefulness
,
repentance
,
repining
,
retraction
,
retrenchment
,
rubbing away
,
rue
,
ruth
,
sandblasting
,
sanding
,
scouring
,
scrape
,
scraping
,
scratch
,
scratching
,
scrub
,
scrubbing
,
scuff
,
shame
,
shamefacedness
,
shamefastness
,
shamefulness
,
shining
,
shortening
,
shredding
,
shrinkage
,
slackening
,
smashing
,
smoothing
,
softening
,
sorriness
,
sorrow
,
spending
,
squandering
,
thinning
,
trituration
,
truncation
,
using up
,
wastage
,
waste
,
wastefulness
,
wasting away
,
weakening
,
wear
,
wear and tear
,
wearing away
,
wearing down
,
wistfulness
fade out
collapse
related words >
FCC
,
FM broadcasting
,
Federal Communications Commission
,
abatement
,
abridgment
,
alleviation
,
atmospherics
,
attenuation
,
be annihilated
,
be consumed
,
be destroyed
,
be gone
,
be no more
,
be wiped out
,
blackout
,
blanch
,
blaring
,
blasting
,
bleach
,
bleach out
,
blind spot
,
blocking
,
broadcasting
,
cease
,
cease to be
,
cease to exist
,
change color
,
contraction
,
crawling
,
creeping
,
dampening
,
damping
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
deduction
,
deflation
,
dematerialization
,
dematerialize
,
depart
,
departure
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
die
,
die away
,
die out
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
disappear
,
disappearance
,
disappearing
,
dispel
,
disperse
,
dispersion
,
dissipate
,
dissipation
,
dissolution
,
dissolve
,
dissolving
,
do a fade-out
,
drift
,
dwindle
,
dying
,
dying off
,
eclipse
,
elimination
,
erasure
,
erode
,
evanesce
,
evanescence
,
evaporate
,
evaporation
,
exit
,
expire
,
extenuation
,
extinction
,
fade
,
fade away
,
fadeaway
,
fadeout
,
fading
,
flee
,
fly
,
go
,
go away
,
going
,
grow pale
,
hide
,
interference
,
languishment
,
leave no trace
,
leave the scene
,
lessening
,
letup
,
lose color
,
lowering
,
melt
,
melt away
,
melting
,
miniaturization
,
mitigation
,
mixing
,
noise
,
occultation
,
pale
,
pass
,
pass away
,
pass out
,
passing
,
perish
,
peter out
,
radiobroadcasting
,
reception
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
retire from sight
,
sagging
,
scaling down
,
simplicity
,
sink
,
sink away
,
standard broadcasting
,
static
,
subtraction
,
suffer an eclipse
,
tone control
,
transmission
,
turn pale
,
turn white
,
vanish
,
vanish from sight
,
vanishing
,
vanishing point
,
vestigial transmission
,
volume control
,
wan
,
waste
,
waste away
,
weakening
,
wear away
,
whiten
,
wipe
letup
collapse
a pause during which things are calm or activities are diminished; "there was never a letup in the noise"
related words >
abatement
,
abeyance
,
abridgment
,
allayment
,
alleviation
,
arrest
,
assuagement
,
attenuation
,
blunting
,
breach
,
break
,
breath
,
breather
,
breathing place
,
breathing space
,
breathing spell
,
breathing time
,
caesura
,
calming
,
cease-fire
,
cessation
,
check
,
cigarette break
,
cocktail hour
,
coffee break
,
contraction
,
dampening
,
damping
,
day off
,
deadening
,
deceleration
,
decrease
,
decrement
,
decrescence
,
deduction
,
deflation
,
delay
,
demulsion
,
depreciation
,
depression
,
detention
,
diminishment
,
diminution
,
downtime
,
drag
,
drop
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
dying
,
dying off
,
ease-off
,
ease-up
,
easing
,
enforced respite
,
extenuation
,
fade-out
,
falling-off
,
fissure
,
flagging
,
gap
,
half time
,
half-time intermission
,
halt
,
happy hour
,
hesitation
,
hiatus
,
holdup
,
holiday
,
hushing
,
interim
,
interlude
,
intermezzo
,
intermission
,
intermittence
,
interregnum
,
interruption
,
interval
,
lacuna
,
lag
,
languishment
,
lapse
,
layoff
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
lightening
,
loosening
,
lowering
,
lull
,
lulling
,
miniaturization
,
minus acceleration
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
obstruction
,
off-time
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
pause
,
plateau
,
point of repose
,
quiet spell
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
recess
,
reduction
,
relaxation
,
relief
,
remission
,
respite
,
rest
,
resting point
,
retardation
,
retardment
,
sagging
,
scaling down
,
setback
,
simplicity
,
slack-up
,
slackening
,
slowdown
,
slowing
,
slowing down
,
slowup
,
softening
,
soothing
,
spell
,
stand-down
,
stay
,
subduement
,
subtraction
,
surcease
,
suspension
,
tea break
,
tempering
,
time off
,
time out
,
tranquilization
,
truce
,
vacation
,
weakening
tempering
collapse
moderating by making more temperate
related words >
abatement
,
abating
,
ability
,
aging
,
allaying
,
allayment
,
alleviating
,
alleviation
,
arteriosclerosis
,
assuagement
,
assuaging
,
atherosclerosis
,
background
,
blaseness
,
blunting
,
calcification
,
callusing
,
calming
,
capability
,
case hardening
,
chastening
,
chisel temper
,
competence
,
competency
,
concretion
,
condition
,
cornification
,
crystallization
,
cushioning
,
dampening
,
damping
,
dash
,
deadening
,
demulsion
,
development
,
die temper
,
diminishing
,
diminution
,
dulcification
,
dulling
,
easing
,
experience
,
falling-off
,
firming
,
fitness
,
fittedness
,
fortification
,
fossilization
,
granulation
,
hardening
,
hardness scale
,
heat treating
,
hint
,
hornification
,
hushing
,
indenter
,
induration
,
infusion
,
inkling
,
intimation
,
invigoration
,
lapidification
,
leniency
,
lessening
,
letdown
,
letup
,
lightening
,
lithification
,
loosening
,
lulling
,
mastery
,
maturation
,
maturescence
,
maturity
,
mellowing
,
mitigating
,
mitigation
,
modulation
,
mollification
,
ossification
,
pacification
,
palliation
,
past experience
,
petrifaction
,
petrification
,
practical knowledge
,
practice
,
precipitation hardening
,
preparedness
,
proficiency
,
qualification
,
quietening
,
quieting
,
razor temper
,
readiness
,
reducing
,
reduction
,
refreshment
,
reinforcement
,
reinvigoration
,
relaxation
,
relaxing
,
remission
,
restrengthening
,
revivification
,
ripeness
,
ripening
,
sagacity
,
sauce
,
saw file temper
,
sclerosis
,
seasoning
,
senescence
,
set temper
,
setting
,
shade
,
slackening
,
smack
,
softening
,
solidification
,
soothing
,
sophistication
,
soupcon
,
spice
,
spindle temper
,
sprinkling
,
steeling
,
stiffening
,
strengthening
,
subduement
,
subduing
,
suggestion
,
suitability
,
suitableness
,
suitedness
,
suspicion
,
taint
,
temper
,
thought
,
tinct
,
tincture
,
tinge
,
tint
,
tool temper
,
touch
,
toughening
,
trace
,
tranquilization
,
trim
,
vestige
,
vitrifaction
,
vitrification
,
worldly wisdom
looseness
collapse
movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"
the quality of movability by virtue of being free from attachment or other restraints
a lack of strict accuracy; laxity of practice; "misunderstandings can often be traced to a looseness of expression"
freedom from restraint; "the flexibility and looseness of the materials from which mythology is made"
related words >
Bohemianism
,
affability
,
allowance
,
amorphousness
,
approximation
,
bagginess
,
blobbiness
,
blowziness
,
blurriness
,
broadness
,
carelessness
,
casualness
,
chambering
,
chintziness
,
common touch
,
cordiality
,
culpa
,
culpable negligence
,
default
,
dereliction
,
deviation
,
disorder
,
disregard
,
dowdiness
,
ease
,
easiness
,
easy virtue
,
easygoingness
,
failure
,
familiarity
,
flabbiness
,
flaccidity
,
flaccidness
,
floppiness
,
fogginess
,
folksiness
,
frowziness
,
frumpishness
,
fuzziness
,
generality
,
graciousness
,
grubbiness
,
haziness
,
homeliness
,
homeyness
,
ill-definedness
,
impotence
,
imprecision
,
inaccuracy
,
inaccurateness
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
inchoateness
,
incoherence
,
incorrectness
,
indecisiveness
,
indefinableness
,
indefiniteness
,
indeterminateness
,
indifference
,
indistinctness
,
inexactitude
,
inexactness
,
informality
,
informalness
,
irregularity
,
laches
,
laissez-faire
,
lapse
,
laxation
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
leniency
,
lightness
,
limpness
,
loose morals
,
loosening
,
messiness
,
mistiness
,
naturalness
,
neglect
,
neglectfulness
,
negligence
,
nonfeasance
,
noninterference
,
nonperformance
,
nonrestriction
,
obscuration
,
obscurity
,
offhandedness
,
omission
,
overindulgence
,
overlooking
,
overpermissiveness
,
oversight
,
permissiveness
,
plainness
,
poor stewardship
,
predictable error
,
probable error
,
procrastination
,
promiscuity
,
relaxation
,
relaxedness
,
remissness
,
ricketiness
,
rubberiness
,
seediness
,
shabbiness
,
shakiness
,
shapelessness
,
shoddiness
,
simplicity
,
slackness
,
slatternliness
,
sleeping around
,
slight
,
slipshodness
,
sloppiness
,
slovenliness
,
slovenry
,
sluttishness
,
sociability
,
softness
,
sordidness
,
squalidness
,
squalor
,
standard deviation
,
sweepingness
,
swinging
,
tackiness
,
tawdriness
,
tolerance
,
unaffectedness
,
unceremoniousness
,
unclearness
,
unconstrainedness
,
unconstraint
,
unconventionality
,
uncorrectness
,
unfactualness
,
unneatness
,
unpreciseness
,
unpretentiousness
,
unrestraint
,
unrigorousness
,
untidiness
,
vagueness
,
wantonness
,
waywardness
,
weakness
,
whorishness
carelessness
collapse
the quality of not being careful or taking pains
related words >
abandon
,
absentmindedness
,
accidia
,
acedia
,
aloofness
,
apathy
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
blowziness
,
blunderheadedness
,
blundering
,
boggling
,
boredom
,
botchery
,
botching
,
bungling
,
caprice
,
careless abandon
,
casualness
,
chintziness
,
cursoriness
,
desperateness
,
detachment
,
devil-may-careness
,
disinterest
,
disinterestedness
,
dispassion
,
disregard
,
disregardfulness
,
distraction
,
dowdiness
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
flightiness
,
flippancy
,
forgetfulness
,
frivolousness
,
frowziness
,
frumpishness
,
fumbling
,
furiousness
,
giddiness
,
grubbiness
,
haste
,
hastiness
,
heedlessness
,
hotheadedness
,
hurriedness
,
impassiveness
,
impassivity
,
impetuosity
,
impetuousness
,
impotence
,
imprecision
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
inattentiveness
,
inconsiderateness
,
inconsideration
,
incuriosity
,
incuriousness
,
indifference
,
indifferentism
,
indifferentness
,
indiscrimination
,
inexcitability
,
inobservance
,
insouciance
,
intellectual inertia
,
lack of affect
,
lack of foresight
,
lack of interest
,
lackadaisicalness
,
laxity
,
laxness
,
laziness
,
leniency
,
levity
,
lightmindedness
,
listlessness
,
looseness
,
loosening
,
messiness
,
mindlessness
,
muffing
,
negligence
,
nonchalance
,
nonobservance
,
oblivion
,
obliviousness
,
offhandedness
,
overeagerness
,
overenthusiasm
,
overindulgence
,
overpermissiveness
,
overzealousness
,
perfunctoriness
,
permissiveness
,
pococurantism
,
precipitance
,
precipitancy
,
precipitateness
,
precipitation
,
precipitousness
,
recklessness
,
regardlessness
,
relaxation
,
relaxedness
,
remissness
,
seediness
,
shabbiness
,
shallowness
,
shoddiness
,
slackness
,
slatternliness
,
slipshodness
,
sloppiness
,
sloth
,
slovenliness
,
slovenry
,
sluttishness
,
softness
,
sordidness
,
sprezzatura
,
squalidness
,
squalor
,
stolidity
,
superficiality
,
tackiness
,
tactlessness
,
tawdriness
,
thoughtlessness
,
too many cooks
,
unalertness
,
unanxiousness
,
unawareness
,
unconcern
,
unconsciousness
,
unheedfulness
,
uninquisitiveness
,
unintentiveness
,
uninterestedness
,
unmindfulness
,
unneatness
,
unobservance
,
unpreparedness
,
unreadiness
,
unrestraint
,
unsolicitousness
,
unsolicitude
,
unthinkingness
,
unthoughtfulness
,
untidiness
,
unwariness
,
unwatchfulness
,
wantonness
,
weakness
,
wildness
,
withdrawal
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