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hap collapse: an accidental happening; "he recorded all the little haps and mishaps of his life"

conscience collapse: conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience"; a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"; motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions

enchantress collapse: a female sorcerer or magician; a woman who is considered to be dangerously seductive

idealization collapse: a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"; something that exists only as an idea; (psychiatry) a defense mechanism that splits something you are ambivalent about into two representations--one good and one bad

academic collapse: hypothetical or theoretical and not expected to produce an immediate or practical result; "an academic discussion"; "an academic question"; marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects; associated with academia or an academy; "the academic curriculum"; "academic gowns"

infallible collapse: incapable of failure or error; "an infallible antidote"; "an infallible memory"; "the Catholic Church considers the Pope infallible"; "no doctor is infallible"

persona collapse: (Jungian psychology) a personal facade that one presents to the world; "a public image is as fragile as Humpty Dumpty"

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"

romanticism collapse: impractical romantic ideals and attitudes; an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure); a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization; "Romanticism valued imagination and emotion over rationality"

self collapse: your consciousness of your own identity; a person considered as a unique individual; "one's own self"; (used as a combining form) relating to--of or by or to or from or for--the self; "self-knowledge"; "self-proclaimed"; "self-induced"

exemplary collapse: worthy of imitation; "exemplary behavior"; "model citizens"

chimera collapse: a grotesque product of the imagination; (Greek mythology) fire-breathing female monster with a lion's head and a goat's body and a serpent's tail; daughter of Typhon

masterpiece collapse: an outstanding achievement; the most outstanding work of a creative artist or craftsman

quintessential collapse: representing the perfect example of a class or quality

dream collapse: a state of mind characterized by abstraction and release from reality; "he went about his work as if in a dream"; a series of mental images and emotions occurring during sleep; "I had a dream about you last night"; imaginative thoughts indulged in while awake; "he lives in a dream that has nothing to do with reality"; someone or something wonderful; "this dessert is a dream"; have a daydream; indulge in a fantasy; experience while sleeping; "She claims to never dream"; "He dreamt a strange scene"

polished collapse: perfected or made shiny and smooth; "his polished prose"; "in a freshly ironed dress and polished shoes"; "freshly polished silver"; showing a high degree of refinement and the assurance that comes from wide social experience; "his polished manner"; "maintained an urbane tone in his letters"

ego collapse: (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind; an inflated feeling of pride in your superiority to others

utopian collapse: an idealistic (but usually impractical) social reformer; "a Utopian believes in the ultimate perfectibility of man"; characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"; of or pertaining to or resembling a utopia; "a Utopian novel"

pat collapse: the sound made by a gentle blow; exactly suited to the occasion; "a pat reply"; completely or perfectly; "he has the lesson pat"; "had the system down pat"

perfect collapse: precisely accurate or exact; "perfect timing"; being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"; make perfect or complete; "perfect your French in Paris!"

notional collapse: not based on fact or investigation; "a notional figure of cost helps in determining production costs"; "speculative knowledge"

typical collapse: conforming to a type; "the typical (or normal) American"; "typical teenage behavior"; exhibiting the qualities or characteristics that identify a group or kind or category; "a typical American girl"; "a typical suburban community"; "the typical car owner drives 10,000 miles a year"; "a painting typical of the Impressionist school"; "a typical romantic poem"; "a typical case of arteritis"

pipe dream collapse: a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"

lodestar collapse: something that serves as a model or guide; guiding star; a star that is used as a reference point in navigation of astronomy

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

go off collapse: be discharged or activated; "the explosive devices went off"; happen in a particular manner; "how did your talk go over?"; stop running, functioning, or operating; "Our power went off during the hurricane"

utopia collapse: an imaginary place considered to be perfect or ideal; a work of fiction describing a utopia; a book written by Sir Thomas More (1516) describing the perfect society on an imaginary island; ideally perfect state; especially in its social and political and moral aspects

unreality collapse: the quality possessed by something that is unreal; the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact

transcendent collapse: beyond and outside the ordinary range of human experience or understanding; "philosophers...often explicitly reject the notion of any transcendent reality beyond thought...and claim to be concerned only with thought itself..."- W.P.Alston; "the unknowable mysteries of life"; exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence

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