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apostasy
collapse
the act of abandoning a party or cause
the state of having rejected your religious beliefs or your political party or a cause (often in favor of opposing beliefs or causes)
related words >
Evangelicalism
,
Protestantism
,
Reform
,
Zwinglianism
,
about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
agreement to disagree
,
alienation
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
atheism
,
backsliding
,
betrayal
,
betterment
,
bolt
,
break
,
breakaway
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
constructive change
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
counter-culture
,
crossing-over
,
defection
,
degeneration
,
degenerative change
,
dereliction
,
deserter
,
desertion
,
deterioration
,
deviation
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disagreement
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
discontinuity
,
disloyalty
,
disparity
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissidence
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
dropping out
,
faithlessness
,
fall from grace
,
falseness
,
fitting
,
flip-flop
,
going over
,
gradual change
,
impiety
,
impiousness
,
improvement
,
irreligion
,
irreverence
,
lapse
,
lapse from grace
,
melioration
,
minority opinion
,
mitigation
,
modification
,
modulation
,
new theology
,
nonagreement
,
nonassent
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
opposition
,
overthrow
,
perfidy
,
qualification
,
radical change
,
ratting
,
re-creation
,
realignment
,
recidivation
,
recidivism
,
recreancy
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
redesign
,
reform
,
reformation
,
rejection
,
remaking
,
renewal
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
reshaping
,
restructuring
,
reversal
,
revival
,
revivification
,
revolution
,
schism
,
secession
,
shift
,
sudden change
,
switch
,
tergiversation
,
total change
,
transition
,
treacherousness
,
treason
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
turning traitor
,
underground
,
undutifulness
,
upheaval
,
variance
,
variation
,
variety
,
violent change
,
walkout
,
withdrawal
,
worsening
crossing
collapse
traveling across
a voyage across a body of water (usually across the Atlantic Ocean)
a path (often marked) where something (as a street or railroad) can be crossed to get from one side to the other
a point where two lines (paths or arcs etc.) intersect
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
approach
,
asymptote
,
bottleneck
,
bucking
,
carrefour
,
challenge
,
cloverleaf
,
collision course
,
commutation
,
concentralization
,
concentration
,
concourse
,
concurrence
,
confluence
,
conflux
,
congress
,
contention
,
contradiction
,
contraposition
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
contraversion
,
controversion
,
convergence
,
converging
,
counteraction
,
countering
,
counterworking
,
course
,
crossbreeding
,
crosscurrent
,
crosspoint
,
crossroad
,
crosswalk
,
crossway
,
crosswise
,
cruise
,
denial
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disownment
,
disproof
,
flyover
,
focalization
,
focus
,
forswearing
,
funnel
,
gainsaying
,
globe-trotting
,
going
,
grade crossing
,
head wind
,
hub
,
hybridism
,
hybridization
,
impugnation
,
impugnment
,
interbreeding
,
intercrossing
,
intersection
,
journeying
,
leg
,
level crossing
,
locomotion
,
meeting
,
miscegenation
,
mongrelism
,
motion
,
movement
,
moving
,
mutual approach
,
narrowing gap
,
negation
,
nullification
,
ocean trip
,
opposing
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnation
,
overcrossing
,
overpass
,
passage
,
progress
,
radius
,
rebutment
,
rebuttal
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
resistance
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
rotary
,
run
,
sail
,
sea trip
,
shakedown cruise
,
spokes
,
standing against
,
tangent
,
thwart
,
tourism
,
touristry
,
traffic circle
,
traject
,
trajet
,
transit
,
transversal
,
travel
,
traveling
,
traversal
,
traverse
,
undercrossing
,
undercurrent
,
viaduct
,
voyage
dispensation
collapse
the act of dispensing (giving out in portions)
an exemption from some rule or obligation
a share that has been dispensed or distributed
related words >
OK
,
abandonment
,
abjuration
,
administration
,
admission
,
allowance
,
attenuation
,
blank check
,
broadcast
,
broadcasting
,
carte blanche
,
cession
,
charter
,
circumfusion
,
civil government
,
command function
,
consent
,
copyright
,
courtesy
,
creation
,
decision-making
,
diffraction
,
diffusion
,
dilution
,
direction
,
disbursal
,
disbursement
,
discipline
,
dispersal
,
dispersion
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
dissemination
,
dissipation
,
distribution
,
divergence
,
dole
,
doling
,
doling out
,
dumping
,
empery
,
empire
,
evaporation
,
executive function
,
expansion
,
favor
,
forgoing
,
form of government
,
forswearing
,
fragmentation
,
franchise
,
freedom
,
getting rid of
,
giving out
,
giving up
,
governance
,
government
,
grant
,
immunity
,
indulgence
,
issuance
,
kindness
,
leave
,
letting go
,
liberty
,
license
,
management
,
officiation
,
okay
,
oversight
,
passing around
,
patent
,
paying out
,
peppering
,
permission
,
permission to enter
,
political organization
,
polity
,
preservation
,
privilege
,
propagation
,
providence
,
publication
,
radiation
,
recantation
,
regime
,
regimen
,
regnancy
,
regulation
,
reign
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renunciation
,
resignation
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
rule
,
sacrifice
,
scattering
,
scatterment
,
service
,
shotgun pattern
,
sovereignty
,
sowing
,
spattering
,
special favor
,
special permission
,
splay
,
spread
,
spreading
,
sprinkling
,
strewing
,
supervision
,
surrender
,
sway
,
swearing off
,
system of government
,
ticket
,
ticket of admission
,
visitations of providence
,
volatilization
,
vouchsafement
,
waiver
,
warrant
,
yielding
forbearance
collapse
a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
related words >
abandonment
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
acceptance
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
benevolence
,
cessation
,
charitableness
,
charity
,
circumvention
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
cold storage
,
commiseration
,
compassion
,
condolence
,
condonation
,
constraint
,
defense mechanism
,
denial
,
desistance
,
discontinuance
,
disregard
,
dodge
,
duck
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
endurance
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
favor
,
feeling
,
forbearing
,
forbearingness
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
forgiveness
,
forgivingness
,
fortitude
,
frugality
,
generousness
,
gentleness
,
getting around
,
golden mean
,
grace
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
indulgence
,
jink
,
kindness
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
long-sufferance
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
magnanimity
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
mitigation
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
neutrality
,
nonexercise
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
nothing in excess
,
overlooking
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
permissiveness
,
perseverance
,
pity
,
prevention
,
quarter
,
refraining
,
relief
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
reprieve
,
resignation
,
restraint
,
ruth
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-pity
,
self-restraint
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
softness
,
sophrosyne
,
stoicism
,
sufferance
,
suspension
,
sweet reasonableness
,
sympathy
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tenderness
,
the runaround
,
thoughtful
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
uncomplainingness
,
unrevengefulness
,
waiting game
,
waiting it out
,
waiver
,
zigzag
abstinence
collapse
act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
related words >
Albigensianism
,
Catharism
,
Encratism
,
Franciscanism
,
Friday
,
Lenten fare
,
Platonic love
,
Pythagoreanism
,
Pythagorism
,
Rechabitism
,
Sabbatarianism
,
Shakerism
,
Spartan fare
,
Stoicism
,
Trappism
,
Waldensianism
,
Yoga
,
abnegation
,
abstainment
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence from food
,
anchoritic monasticism
,
anchoritism
,
asceticism
,
austerity
,
avoidance
,
banyan day
,
calm
,
calmness
,
celibacy
,
chastity
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
continency
,
control
,
cool
,
desuetude
,
dispassion
,
disuse
,
eremitism
,
eschewal
,
evenness
,
fast
,
fasting
,
fish day
,
flagellation
,
fruitarianism
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
gymnosophy
,
happy medium
,
impartiality
,
intactness
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
maceration
,
maidenhead
,
maidenhood
,
meden agan
,
mendicantism
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
monachism
,
monasticism
,
mortification
,
nephalism
,
neutrality
,
nonemployment
,
nonprevalence
,
nonuse
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
obsolescence
,
obsoleteness
,
obsoletion
,
obsoletism
,
pacifism
,
pensioning off
,
plain living
,
prudence
,
punishment of Tantalus
,
puritanism
,
refraining
,
refrainment
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
restraint
,
restriction of intake
,
retirement
,
rigor
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-mortification
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sexual abstinence
,
simple diet
,
sobriety
,
spare diet
,
stability
,
starvation
,
steadiness
,
superannuation
,
teetotalism
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
the pledge
,
total abstinence
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unprevalence
,
vegetarianism
,
via media
,
virginity
,
voluntary poverty
resignation
collapse
a formal document giving notice of your intention to resign; "he submitted his resignation as of next month"
the act of giving up (a claim or office or possession etc.)
acceptance of despair
related words >
Quakerism
,
abandonment
,
abdication
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
acceptance
,
acclimation
,
acclimatization
,
acedia
,
acquiescence
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
aloofness
,
amenability
,
apathy
,
assent
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
benumbedness
,
blah
,
blahs
,
capitulation
,
cessation
,
cession
,
cold storage
,
comatoseness
,
comfort
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
composure
,
conformity
,
consent
,
content
,
contentedness
,
contentment
,
deference
,
desistance
,
detachment
,
discontinuance
,
disinterest
,
dispassion
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
dropping out
,
dullness
,
dumping
,
ease
,
entire satisfaction
,
euphoria
,
forbearance
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
fulfillment
,
getting rid of
,
giving up
,
handing over
,
happiness
,
heartlessness
,
hebetude
,
homage
,
hopelessness
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
inappetence
,
indifference
,
insouciance
,
kneeling
,
lack of appetite
,
languidness
,
lethargicalness
,
lethargy
,
letting go
,
listlessness
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
lowliness
,
meekness
,
modesty
,
nonchalance
,
nonexercise
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolent resistance
,
notice
,
numbness
,
obedience
,
obeisance
,
passive resistance
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
patientness
,
peace of mind
,
phlegm
,
phlegmaticalness
,
phlegmaticness
,
plucklessness
,
quietism
,
recantation
,
reconcilement
,
reconciliation
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
resignedness
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
satisfaction
,
sloth
,
sluggishness
,
sopor
,
soporifousness
,
spiritlessness
,
spunklessness
,
stupefaction
,
stupor
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
submittal
,
supineness
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
torpidity
,
torpidness
,
torpor
,
uncomplainingness
,
unconcern
,
waiver
,
well-being
,
withdrawing
,
withdrawnness
,
yielding
defection
collapse
related words >
abandonment
,
about-face
,
accommodation
,
adaptation
,
adjustment
,
alienation
,
alteration
,
amelioration
,
apostasy
,
backsliding
,
bad debt
,
betrayal
,
betterment
,
blemish
,
bolt
,
break
,
breakaway
,
bug
,
catch
,
change
,
change of heart
,
changeableness
,
constructive change
,
continuity
,
conversion
,
crack
,
crossing-over
,
default
,
defect
,
deficiency
,
degeneration
,
degenerative change
,
delinquence
,
delinquency
,
dereliction
,
deserter
,
desertion
,
deterioration
,
deviation
,
difference
,
disaffection
,
discontinuity
,
dishonor
,
dishonoring
,
disloyalty
,
disownment
,
divergence
,
diversification
,
diversion
,
diversity
,
divorce
,
drawback
,
estrangement
,
failing
,
failure
,
faithlessness
,
falseness
,
fault
,
faute
,
fitting
,
flaw
,
flip-flop
,
foible
,
forsaking
,
frailty
,
going over
,
gradual change
,
hole
,
imperfection
,
improvement
,
inadequacy
,
infirmity
,
kink
,
little problem
,
melioration
,
mitigation
,
modification
,
modulation
,
nondischarge of debts
,
nonpayment
,
nonremittal
,
overthrow
,
parting
,
problem
,
protest
,
protested bill
,
qualification
,
radical change
,
ratting
,
re-creation
,
realignment
,
recidivation
,
recidivism
,
recreancy
,
redesign
,
reform
,
reformation
,
rejection
,
remaking
,
renewal
,
renunciation
,
repudiation
,
reshaping
,
restructuring
,
reversal
,
revival
,
revivification
,
revolution
,
rift
,
runout
,
schism
,
secession
,
separation
,
shift
,
shortcoming
,
snag
,
something missing
,
sudden change
,
switch
,
taint
,
tergiversation
,
total change
,
transition
,
treason
,
turn
,
turnabout
,
turning traitor
,
uncollectible
,
upheaval
,
variation
,
variety
,
violent change
,
vulnerable place
,
walkout
,
weak link
,
weak point
,
weakness
,
worsening
disposal
collapse
the act or means of getting rid of something
a kitchen appliance for disposing of garbage
the power to use something or someone; "used all the resources at his disposal"
related words >
abalienation
,
abandonment
,
abjuration
,
administration
,
alienation
,
allocation
,
allotment
,
amortization
,
amortizement
,
apportionment
,
arrangement
,
array
,
arraying
,
assignation
,
assignment
,
bargain and sale
,
barter
,
bequeathal
,
castaway
,
castoff
,
cession
,
chucking
,
clearance
,
collation
,
collocation
,
command function
,
concord
,
conferment
,
conferral
,
consignation
,
consignment
,
constitution
,
conveyance
,
conveyancing
,
decision-making
,
deeding
,
deep six
,
deliverance
,
delivery
,
demise
,
demolishing
,
demolition
,
deployment
,
deportation
,
destroying
,
destruction
,
detachment
,
disbursal
,
disbursement
,
discard
,
discarding
,
disjunction
,
dispensation
,
dispersion
,
disposition
,
distribution
,
dole
,
doling
,
doling out
,
dumping
,
ejection
,
elimination
,
enfeoffment
,
eradication
,
exchange
,
executive function
,
exile
,
expatriation
,
expulsion
,
forgoing
,
form
,
formation
,
formulation
,
forswearing
,
getting rid of
,
giving
,
giving out
,
giving up
,
harmony
,
issuance
,
jettison
,
junking
,
layout
,
lease and release
,
letting go
,
lineup
,
liquidation
,
marshaling
,
officiation
,
order
,
ordering
,
organization
,
ostracism
,
outlawing
,
outlawry
,
passing around
,
paying out
,
peace
,
placement
,
proportion
,
purge
,
quiet
,
quietude
,
recantation
,
refuse
,
regimentation
,
regularity
,
reject
,
rejectamenta
,
rejection
,
release
,
relegation
,
relinquishment
,
removal
,
renunciation
,
resignation
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
routine
,
sacrifice
,
sale
,
scrapping
,
sequence
,
settlement
,
settling
,
setup
,
severance
,
structure
,
structuring
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
symmetry
,
syntax
,
system
,
throwaway
,
trading
,
tranquillity
,
transfer
,
transference
,
transmission
,
transmittal
,
uniformity
,
vesting
,
withdrawal
,
yielding
repudiation
collapse
the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
refusal to acknowledge or pay a debt or honor a contract (especially by public authorities); "the repudiation of the debt by the city"
rejecting or disowning or disclaiming as invalid; "Congressional repudiation of the treaty that the President had negotiated"
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
agreement to disagree
,
alienation
,
annulment
,
apostasy
,
bad debt
,
ban
,
bar
,
barring
,
blockade
,
boycott
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
circumscription
,
contempt
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
counter-culture
,
countering
,
crossing
,
debarment
,
debarring
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
default
,
defection
,
delinquence
,
delinquency
,
demarcation
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
despisal
,
despising
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapprobation
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discounting
,
dishonor
,
dishonoring
,
dismissal
,
disobedience
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
disparity
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissatisfaction
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissentience
,
dissidence
,
diversity
,
dropping out
,
embargo
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
expatriation
,
forswearing
,
gainsaying
,
holding back
,
ignoring
,
impugnment
,
inadmissibility
,
injunction
,
lockout
,
minority opinion
,
narrowing
,
nay
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
nonadmission
,
nonagreement
,
nonapproval
,
nonassent
,
noncompliance
,
nonconcurrence
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsent
,
nonconsideration
,
nondischarge of debts
,
nonobservance
,
nonpayment
,
nonremittal
,
nullification
,
omission
,
opposition
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
passing by
,
preclusion
,
prohibition
,
protest
,
protested bill
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
rebuff
,
recantation
,
recusance
,
recusancy
,
refusal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
relegation
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repulse
,
restriction
,
retention
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
scouting
,
secession
,
spurning
,
taboo
,
throwing out
,
thumbs-down
,
turndown
,
turning out
,
uncollectible
,
underground
,
unsaying
,
unwillingness
,
variance
,
withdrawal
,
withholding
self-control
collapse
the trait of resolutely controlling your own behavior
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
acceptance
,
aplomb
,
arrest
,
arrestation
,
assurance
,
balance
,
calm
,
calmness
,
check
,
composure
,
confidence
,
conservatism
,
constancy
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
cooling
,
cooling down
,
cooling off
,
coolness
,
curb
,
curtailment
,
deceleration
,
denial
,
determination
,
dignity
,
discipline
,
dispassion
,
doggedness
,
endurance
,
equability
,
equanimity
,
equilibrium
,
even temper
,
evenness
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forbearingness
,
fortitude
,
frugality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
hindrance
,
impartiality
,
imperturbability
,
independence
,
indulgence
,
inhibition
,
injunction
,
interdict
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
legal restraint
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenity
,
level head
,
level-headedness
,
levelheadedness
,
long-sufferance
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
meden agan
,
mettle
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
monopoly
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
obduracy
,
pacifism
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
perseverance
,
persistence
,
placidity
,
poise
,
possession
,
presence of mind
,
prohibition
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
protective tariff
,
prudence
,
rationing
,
rein
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
reserve
,
resoluteness
,
resolve
,
restraint
,
restraint of trade
,
retardation
,
retrenchment
,
self-abnegation
,
self-assurance
,
self-command
,
self-confidence
,
self-conquest
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-government
,
self-mastery
,
self-possession
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
slowing down
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stability
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
stoicism
,
sufferance
,
sweet reasonableness
,
tariff wall
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
thought control
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
via media
,
waiting game
,
waiting it out
,
well-regulated mind
,
will
,
willpower
yielding
collapse
tending to give in or surrender or agree; "too yielding to make a stand against any encroachments"- V.I.Parrington
lacking stiffness and giving way to pressure; "a deep yielding layer of foam rubber"
inclined to yield to argument or influence or control; "a timid yielding person"
related words >
abandonment
,
abatement of differences
,
abdication
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
acceptance
,
accommodating
,
accommodation
,
acquiescence
,
acquiescent
,
adaptable
,
adjustment
,
agreeable
,
amenable
,
arrangement
,
assent
,
bargain
,
bearing
,
bendable
,
bending
,
biddable
,
bouncy
,
cession
,
complaisance
,
compliance
,
compliant
,
composition
,
compromise
,
concession
,
consent
,
convenient
,
cop-out
,
deal
,
deference
,
desertion of principle
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
docile
,
dropping out
,
ductile
,
dumping
,
elastic
,
evasion of responsibility
,
extensible
,
extensile
,
fabricable
,
facile
,
feasible
,
fictile
,
flexible
,
flexile
,
flexuous
,
foolproof
,
forgoing
,
formable
,
formative
,
forswearing
,
fructiferous
,
fructification
,
fruitbearing
,
fruiting
,
fruition
,
getting rid of
,
give-and-take
,
giving
,
giving up
,
giving way
,
handing over
,
handy
,
homage
,
impressible
,
impressionable
,
kneeling
,
letting go
,
like putty
,
limber
,
lissome
,
lithe
,
lithesome
,
malleable
,
manageable
,
maneuverable
,
manipulable
,
moldable
,
mushy
,
mutual concession
,
nonopposal
,
nonopposition
,
nonresistance
,
nonresistant
,
nonresisting
,
obedience
,
obedient
,
obeisance
,
obliging
,
pappy
,
passiveness
,
passivity
,
plastic
,
pliable
,
pliant
,
practical
,
producing
,
pulpy
,
quaggy
,
recantation
,
receptive
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
resignation
,
resigned
,
resignedness
,
resilient
,
responsive
,
retraction
,
riddance
,
rubbery
,
sacrifice
,
sensitive
,
sequacious
,
settlement
,
shapable
,
soft
,
spongy
,
springy
,
squashy
,
squelchy
,
squishy
,
squushy
,
subjection
,
submission
,
submissive
,
submittal
,
supineness
,
supple
,
surrender
,
susceptible
,
swearing off
,
tractable
,
tractile
,
unaustere
,
undemanding
,
understanding
,
unexacting
,
unharsh
,
unresistant
,
unresisting
,
unsevere
,
unstrict
,
untroublesome
,
waiver
,
whippy
,
wieldable
,
wieldy
,
willowy
,
withdrawing
contradiction
collapse
the speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction"
opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
related words >
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
answer
,
antagonism
,
antipathy
,
antithesis
,
argumentation
,
backlash
,
bucking
,
challenge
,
chucking
,
chucking out
,
clashing
,
collision
,
complete answer
,
conflict
,
confounding
,
confrontation
,
confutation
,
contempt
,
contention
,
contradistinction
,
contraindication
,
contraposition
,
contrariety
,
contrary assertion
,
contrast
,
contravention
,
contraversion
,
controversion
,
controversy
,
counteraction
,
countering
,
counterposition
,
counterworking
,
crankiness
,
cross-purposes
,
crosscurrent
,
crossing
,
crotchetiness
,
declination
,
declining
,
demolition
,
denial
,
despisal
,
despising
,
difference
,
disaccord
,
disaccordance
,
disaffirmation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disapproval
,
disavowal
,
discard
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discord
,
discordance
,
discordancy
,
discounting
,
discrediting
,
discrepancy
,
disharmony
,
dismissal
,
disownment
,
disparity
,
disproof
,
disregard
,
dissension
,
dissent
,
dissidence
,
dissonance
,
disunion
,
disunity
,
divergence
,
diversity
,
effective rejoinder
,
exception
,
exclusion
,
faction
,
forswearing
,
friction
,
gainsaying
,
head wind
,
hostility
,
ignoring
,
impugnation
,
impugnment
,
inaccordance
,
inconsistency
,
inequality
,
inimicalness
,
interference
,
jarring
,
kick
,
negation
,
nonacceptance
,
nonapproval
,
nonconformity
,
nonconsideration
,
nullification
,
opposing
,
oppositeness
,
opposition
,
opposure
,
oppugnance
,
oppugnancy
,
oppugnation
,
overthrow
,
overthrowal
,
passing by
,
perverseness
,
perversity
,
polarity
,
putting away
,
putting out
,
reaction
,
rebuff
,
rebutment
,
rebuttal
,
recalcitrance
,
recantation
,
recoil
,
refusal
,
refutal
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
renitency
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repercussion
,
repudiation
,
repugnance
,
repulse
,
resistance
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
revocation
,
revolt
,
scouting
,
showdown
,
spurning
,
squelch
,
standing against
,
subversion
,
swimming upstream
,
throwing out
,
traversal
,
turning out
,
undercurrent
,
undermining
,
unharmoniousness
,
upset
,
upsetting
,
variance
sobriety
collapse
abstaining from excess
moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs
related words >
abnegation
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence
,
augustness
,
balance
,
blackishness
,
calm
,
calmness
,
common sense
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
contact with reality
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
cool head
,
coolheadedness
,
coolness
,
courtliness
,
darkishness
,
darkness
,
darksomeness
,
decorousness
,
demureness
,
denial
,
dignifiedness
,
dignity
,
dispassion
,
due sense of
,
duskiness
,
duskness
,
earnestness
,
evenness
,
forbearance
,
formality
,
frugality
,
funereality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
good sense
,
grandeur
,
graveness
,
gravity
,
grimness
,
happy medium
,
healthy mind
,
horse sense
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
kingliness
,
lenity
,
level head
,
levelheadedness
,
loftiness
,
long face
,
lordliness
,
lucid interval
,
lucidity
,
majesty
,
meden agan
,
mental balance
,
mental equilibrium
,
mental health
,
mental hygiene
,
mental poise
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutrality
,
nobility
,
nonviolence
,
normalcy
,
normality
,
normalness
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
plain sense
,
practical mind
,
practical wisdom
,
practicality
,
pride of bearing
,
pride of place
,
princeliness
,
proud bearing
,
prudence
,
rationality
,
reason
,
reasonableness
,
regality
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
restraint
,
right mind
,
sadness
,
sanemindedness
,
saneness
,
sanity
,
sedateness
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-restraint
,
sense
,
senses
,
sensibleness
,
serenity
,
seriousness
,
sober senses
,
sober-mindedness
,
soberness
,
sobersidedness
,
sobersides
,
solemnity
,
solemnness
,
somberness
,
sophrosyne
,
sound mind
,
soundness
,
soundness of mind
,
stability
,
staidness
,
stateliness
,
steadiness
,
straight face
,
swarth
,
swarthiness
,
swartness
,
teetotalism
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
thoughtfulness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
venerability
,
via media
,
weightiness
,
wholesomeness
,
worthiness
constraint
collapse
the act of constraining; the threat or use of force to control the thoughts or behavior of others
the state of being physically constrained; "dogs should be kept under restraint"
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
aloofness
,
aplomb
,
arrest
,
arrestation
,
backwardness
,
bashfulness
,
blankness
,
caging
,
calm
,
calmness
,
check
,
chilliness
,
circumscription
,
coaction
,
coercion
,
coldness
,
composure
,
compulsion
,
compulsiveness
,
confinement
,
conservatism
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
cooling
,
cooling down
,
cooling off
,
coolness
,
cramp
,
curb
,
curtailment
,
deceleration
,
denial
,
detachment
,
discipline
,
discreetness
,
discretion
,
dispassion
,
distance
,
drive
,
driving
,
duress
,
enforcement
,
evenness
,
exigency
,
expressionlessness
,
forbearance
,
forcing
,
frigidity
,
frostiness
,
frugality
,
gentleness
,
goad
,
golden mean
,
guardedness
,
happy medium
,
hindrance
,
iciness
,
impartiality
,
impassiveness
,
impassivity
,
impelling
,
impersonality
,
impoundment
,
impulse
,
impulsion
,
inaccessibility
,
independence
,
inevitability
,
inhibition
,
injunction
,
interdict
,
introversion
,
irresistibility
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
legal restraint
,
lenity
,
lockup
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
modesty
,
monopoly
,
motive
,
necessity
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
obligation
,
obligement
,
pacifism
,
penning
,
pinch
,
possession
,
press
,
pressure
,
prohibition
,
protection
,
protectionism
,
protective tariff
,
prudence
,
push
,
rash impulse
,
rationing
,
rein
,
remoteness
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
repression
,
reserve
,
reservedness
,
restraint
,
restraint of trade
,
restriction
,
retardation
,
reticence
,
reticency
,
retirement
,
retiring disposition
,
retrenchment
,
self-abnegation
,
self-command
,
self-conquest
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-government
,
self-mastery
,
self-possession
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
slowing down
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
spring
,
spur
,
stability
,
standoffishness
,
steadiness
,
stress
,
subduedness
,
suppression
,
tariff wall
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
thought control
,
tranquillity
,
unaffability
,
unapproachability
,
uncongeniality
,
undemonstrativeness
,
unexcessiveness
,
unexpansiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
urge
,
urgency
,
via media
,
violence
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawnness
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