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state: the way something is with respect to its main attributes; "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"; a politically organized body of people under a single government; "the state has elected a new president"; "African nations"; "students who had come to the nation's capitol"; "the country's largest manufacturer"; "an industrialized land"; the group of people comprising the government of a sovereign state; "the state has lowered its income tax"; the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation; "his state is in the deep south"; a state of depression or agitation; "he was in such a state you just couldn't reason with him"; express in words; "He said that he wanted to marry her"; "tell me what is bothering you"; "state your opinion"; "state your name"

spinsterhood collapse: the state of being a spinster (usually an elderly unmarried woman)

bachelorhood collapse: the state of being an unmarried man; the time of a man's life prior to marriage

monasticism collapse: asceticism as a form of religious life; usually conducted in a community under a common rule and characterized by celibacy and poverty and obedience

amnesia collapse: partial or total loss of memory; "he has a total blackout for events of the evening"

singleness collapse: the quality of concentrating on one central objective; "his singleness of purpose"; without hypocrisy; "the singleness of his motives could not be questioned"

fugue collapse: a musical form consisting of a theme repeated a fifth above or a fourth below its first statement; a dreamlike state of altered consciousness that may last for hours or days; dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state

homeostasis collapse: (physiology) metabolic equilibrium actively maintained by several complex biological mechanisms that operate via the autonomic nervous system to offset disrupting changes

materialism collapse: (philosophy) the philosophical theory that matter is the only reality; a desire for wealth and material possessions with little interest in ethical or spiritual matters

animalism collapse: preoccupation with satisfaction of physical drives and appetites; the doctrine that human beings are purely animal in nature and lacking a spiritual nature

republic collapse: a form of government whose head of state is not a monarch; "the head of state in a republic is usually a president"

monarchy collapse: an autocracy governed by a monarch who usually inherits the authority

democracy collapse: the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives; a political system in which the supreme power lies in a body of citizens who can elect people to represent them

theocracy collapse: the belief in government by divine guidance; a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided)

police state collapse: a country that maintains repressive control over the people by means of police (especially secret police)

alderman collapse: a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council); "aldermen usually represent city wards"

premier collapse: preceding all others in time; "the premiere showing"; perform a work for the first time; be performed for the first time; "We premiered the opera of the young composer and it was a critical success"