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reducing
collapse
loss of excess weight (as by dieting); becoming slimmer; "a doctor supervised her reducing"
related words >
abating
,
allaying
,
alleviating
,
assuaging
,
blunting
,
calorie-counting
,
chastening
,
cushioning
,
dampening
,
damping
,
deadening
,
diminishing
,
dulling
,
easing
,
lessening
,
mitigating
,
relaxing
,
slenderizing
,
slimming
,
softening
,
subduing
,
tempering
,
weight-watching
malingering
collapse
evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated; "they developed a test to detect malingering"
related words >
cagey
,
clock-watching
,
dodging
,
ducking
,
elusive
,
elusory
,
evasive
,
goofing off
,
shifty
,
shirking
,
skulking
,
slacking
,
slippery
,
soldiering
,
tax dodging
,
tax evasion
,
truancy
,
welshing
not surprised
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
confident
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
optimistic
,
prepared
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
sure
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
forewarned
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
confident
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
gaping
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
not surprised
,
optimistic
,
prepared
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
sure
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
forearmed
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
confident
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
not surprised
,
optimistic
,
prepared
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
sure
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
vigilance
collapse
related words >
alertness
,
attentiveness
,
caution
,
circumspection
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
eagle eye
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
invigilation
,
lookout
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
peeled eye
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
sharp eye
,
stewardship
,
surveillance
,
tout
,
vigil
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
sharp eye
collapse
related words >
X-ray eye
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
eagle eye
,
gimlet eye
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
invigilation
,
keen eye
,
lookout
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
peeled eye
,
penetrating eye
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
stewardship
,
surveillance
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
eagle eye
collapse
related words >
X-ray eye
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
eye
,
gimlet eye
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
invigilation
,
keen eye
,
lookout
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
peeled eye
,
penetrating eye
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
scrutiny
,
sharp eye
,
stewardship
,
surveillance
,
tab
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
spying
collapse
the act of keeping a secret watch for intelligence purposes
keeping a secret or furtive watch
related words >
bugging
,
cloak-and-dagger work
,
counterespionage
,
counterintelligence
,
detection
,
electronic surveillance
,
espial
,
espionage
,
following
,
intelligence
,
intelligence work
,
looking
,
lookout
,
military intelligence
,
note
,
notice
,
observance
,
observation
,
regard
,
respect
,
secret police
,
secret service
,
shadowing
,
stakeout
,
surveillance
,
tailing
,
trailing
,
viewing
,
watch
,
watching
,
wiretap
,
wiretapping
,
witnessing
monitoring
collapse
the act of observing something (and sometimes keeping a record of it); "the monitoring of enemy communications plays an important role in war times"
related words >
custodianship
,
custody
,
eagle eye
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
interlaced scanning
,
invigilation
,
lookout
,
mixing
,
observance
,
peeled eye
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
scanning
,
shading
,
sharp eye
,
stewardship
,
surveillance
,
switching
,
telecasting
,
televising
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
on the lookout for
collapse
related words >
after
,
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
confident
,
delving
,
digging
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
fishing
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
in search of
,
loaded for bear
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
nosy
,
not surprised
,
optimistic
,
out for
,
out for bear
,
poking
,
prepared
,
probing
,
prying
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
searching
,
sure
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
espionage
collapse
the systematic use of spies to get military or political secrets
related words >
bugging
,
cloak-and-dagger work
,
counterespionage
,
counterintelligence
,
electronic surveillance
,
espial
,
following
,
intelligence
,
intelligence work
,
looking
,
lookout
,
military intelligence
,
note
,
notice
,
observance
,
observation
,
reconnaissance
,
regard
,
respect
,
secret police
,
secret service
,
shadowing
,
sleuthing
,
spying
,
stakeout
,
surveillance
,
tailing
,
trailing
,
viewing
,
watch
,
watching
,
wiretap
,
wiretapping
,
witnessing
weather eye
collapse
related words >
X-ray eye
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
eagle eye
,
gimlet eye
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
invigilation
,
keen eye
,
lookout
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
peeled eye
,
penetrating eye
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
sea legs
,
seamanlikeness
,
seamanliness
,
seamanship
,
sharp eye
,
shipmanship
,
stewardship
,
surveillance
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
unsurprised
collapse
not surprised or expressing surprise; "that unsuprised obstinate look on his face"
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
awaiting
,
aweless
,
calm
,
certain
,
composed
,
confident
,
cool
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expected
,
expecting
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
inexcitable
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
not surprised
,
optimistic
,
prepared
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
sure
,
unamazed
,
unastonished
,
unastounded
,
unawed
,
unbewildered
,
undazed
,
undazzled
,
undumbfounded
,
unimpressed
,
unmarveling
,
unmoved
,
unwondering
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
wonderless
dodging
collapse
related words >
bickering
,
boggling
,
captiousness
,
caviling
,
chicane
,
chicanery
,
clock-watching
,
ducking
,
equivocation
,
evasion
,
fencing
,
goofing off
,
hairsplitting
,
hedging
,
logic-chopping
,
malingering
,
nit-picking
,
paltering
,
parrying
,
pettifoggery
,
prevarication
,
pussyfooting
,
quibbling
,
shifting
,
shirking
,
shuffle
,
shuffling
,
sidestepping
,
skulking
,
slacking
,
soldiering
,
subterfuge
,
suppressio veri
,
tax dodging
,
tax evasion
,
tergiversation
,
trichoschistism
,
truancy
,
weasel words
,
welshing
watchful eye
collapse
related words >
X-ray eye
,
cover
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
defense
,
eagle eye
,
eye
,
gimlet eye
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
invigilation
,
keen eye
,
lee
,
lookout
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
peeled eye
,
penetrating eye
,
preservation
,
proctoring
,
protection
,
protective custody
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
refuge
,
safekeeping
,
safety
,
shade
,
shadow
,
sharp eye
,
shelter
,
stewardship
,
surveillance
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
truancy
collapse
failure to attend (especially school)
related words >
AWOL
,
French leave
,
abscondence
,
absence
,
absence without leave
,
absentation
,
absenteeism
,
absenting
,
clock-watching
,
cut
,
day off
,
default
,
departure
,
disappearance
,
dodging
,
ducking
,
escape
,
excused absence
,
fleeing
,
furlough
,
goofing off
,
holiday
,
hooky
,
leave
,
leave of absence
,
leaving
,
malingering
,
nonappearance
,
nonattendance
,
running away
,
sabbatical leave
,
shirking
,
sick leave
,
skulking
,
slacking
,
soldiering
,
tax dodging
,
tax evasion
,
truantism
,
unexcused absence
,
vacation
,
welshing
anticipating
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
awaiting
,
big with child
,
big-laden
,
breeding
,
carrying
,
carrying a fetus
,
certain
,
confident
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
gestating
,
gravid
,
great
,
heavy
,
heavy with child
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
knocked up
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
not surprised
,
optimistic
,
parturient
,
preggers
,
pregnant
,
prepared
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
superfetate
,
superimpregnated
,
sure
,
teeming
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
with child
expectant
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
alert
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
anxious
,
apprehensive
,
aspiring
,
assured
,
atiptoe
,
awaiting
,
big
,
certain
,
confident
,
eager
,
expecting
,
fond
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
full of hope
,
gaping
,
gone
,
gravid
,
heavy
,
hopeful
,
hoping
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
in good heart
,
in hopes
,
looking
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
not surprised
,
of good cheer
,
of good hope
,
open-eyed
,
openmouthed
,
optimistic
,
parturient
,
prepared
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
sure
,
undespairing
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watchful
,
watching for
,
with bated breath
nonparticipation
collapse
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
meditation
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
vegetation
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
anticipatory
collapse
in anticipation
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
antecedent
,
anterior
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
atiptoe
,
awaiting
,
beforetime
,
bright and early
,
certain
,
ci-devant
,
clairvoyant
,
confident
,
divinatory
,
eager
,
earlier
,
early
,
elder
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
farseeing
,
farsighted
,
first
,
fore
,
forearmed
,
foregoing
,
forehand
,
forehanded
,
foreknowing
,
foreseeing
,
foresighted
,
forestalling
,
forethoughted
,
forethoughtful
,
forewarned
,
former
,
gaping
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
in good time
,
intuitive
,
longsighted
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
not surprised
,
older
,
optimistic
,
preceding
,
precognitive
,
precognizant
,
precurrent
,
preexistent
,
prepared
,
prescient
,
prevenient
,
previous
,
prime
,
prior
,
provident
,
providential
,
prudent
,
ready
,
sagacious
,
sanguine
,
senior
,
sure
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
expecting
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
atiptoe
,
awaiting
,
aweless
,
big
,
big with child
,
big-laden
,
breeding
,
calm
,
carrying
,
carrying a fetus
,
certain
,
composed
,
confident
,
cool
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expected
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
gestating
,
gone
,
gravid
,
great
,
heavy
,
heavy with child
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
inexcitable
,
knocked up
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
not surprised
,
optimistic
,
parturient
,
preggers
,
pregnant
,
prepared
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
superfetate
,
superimpregnated
,
sure
,
teeming
,
unamazed
,
unastonished
,
unastounded
,
unawed
,
unbewildered
,
undazed
,
undazzled
,
undumbfounded
,
unimpressed
,
unmarveling
,
unmoved
,
unsurprised
,
unwondering
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
with child
,
wonderless
espial
collapse
related words >
bringing to light
,
bugging
,
casual discovery
,
catching
,
chance discovery
,
cloak-and-dagger work
,
counterespionage
,
counterintelligence
,
detection
,
determination
,
determining
,
disclosure
,
discovery
,
distinguishment
,
electronic surveillance
,
espionage
,
excavation
,
exhumation
,
exposure
,
find
,
finding
,
finding out
,
following
,
intelligence
,
intelligence work
,
invention
,
locating
,
location
,
looking
,
lookout
,
lucky strike
,
military intelligence
,
note
,
notice
,
observance
,
observation
,
recognition
,
rediscovery
,
regard
,
respect
,
revelation
,
secret police
,
secret service
,
serendipity
,
shadowing
,
spotting
,
spying
,
stakeout
,
strike
,
surveillance
,
tailing
,
trailing
,
treasure trove
,
trouvaille
,
trove
,
uncovering
,
unearthing
,
viewing
,
watch
,
watching
,
wiretap
,
wiretapping
,
witnessing
stewardship
collapse
the position of steward
related words >
administration
,
auspices
,
captainship
,
care
,
chairmanship
,
charge
,
convenership
,
cure
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
dictatorship
,
directorate
,
directorship
,
eagle eye
,
foremanship
,
generalship
,
governance
,
government
,
governorship
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
guidance
,
handling
,
hands
,
headship
,
intendancy
,
invigilation
,
jurisdiction
,
keeping
,
leadership
,
lookout
,
management
,
managership
,
mastership
,
means of dealing
,
ministry
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
overseership
,
oversight
,
pastorage
,
pastorate
,
pastorship
,
patronage
,
peeled eye
,
presidency
,
proctoring
,
proctorship
,
protectorship
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
safe hands
,
sharp eye
,
sovereignty
,
superintendence
,
superintendency
,
supervisorship
,
surveillance
,
treatment
,
tutelage
,
usage
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
ward
,
wardenship
,
wardship
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
,
wing
optimistic
collapse
expecting the best in this best of all possible worlds; "in an optimistic mood"; "optimistic plans"; "took an optimistic view"
related words >
Leibnizian
,
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
awaiting
,
beaming
,
blithe
,
blithesome
,
bright
,
bright and sunny
,
buoyant
,
certain
,
cheerful
,
cheery
,
chiliastic
,
confident
,
couleur de rose
,
eager
,
elated
,
eupeptic
,
euphoric
,
exalted
,
exhilarated
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
flushed
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
genial
,
glad
,
gladsome
,
glowing
,
happy
,
high
,
hopeful
,
idealistic
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
in good spirits
,
in high spirits
,
irrepressible
,
laughing
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
millenarian
,
millennialistic
,
not surprised
,
of good cheer
,
perfectibilitarian
,
perfectionist
,
pleasant
,
positive
,
prepared
,
radiant
,
ready
,
riant
,
rose-colored
,
roseate
,
rosy
,
sanguine
,
sanguineous
,
smiling
,
sparkling
,
sunny
,
sure
,
unsurprised
,
upbeat
,
utopian
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
winsome
forestalling
collapse
related words >
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
arrestation
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
awaiting
,
certain
,
circumvention
,
confident
,
debarment
,
defense mechanism
,
determent
,
deterrence
,
deterrent
,
deterring
,
discouragement
,
discouraging
,
dodge
,
duck
,
eager
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
estoppel
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
expectant
,
expecting
,
forbearance
,
forbiddance
,
forbidding
,
forearmed
,
foreclosure
,
forestallment
,
forewarned
,
gaping
,
getting around
,
halt
,
hopeful
,
in anticipation
,
in expectation
,
jink
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
neutrality
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
not surprised
,
obviation
,
optimistic
,
preclusion
,
preclusive
,
prepared
,
preventative
,
prevention
,
preventive
,
prohibition
,
prohibitive
,
prophylactic
,
ready
,
refraining
,
sanguine
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
stay
,
stop
,
stoppage
,
stopping
,
sure
,
the runaround
,
unsurprised
,
waiting
,
waiting for
,
watching for
,
zigzag
waiting game
collapse
a strategy of delay
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
acceptance
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
endurance
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forbearingness
,
fortitude
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
indulgence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
long-sufferance
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
meditation
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
perseverance
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
self-control
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
stoicism
,
sufferance
,
sweet reasonableness
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
vegetation
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting it out
,
watching and waiting
surveillance
collapse
close observation of a person or group (usually by the police)
related words >
accountability
,
ambuscade
,
ambush
,
ambushment
,
auspices
,
blind
,
booby trap
,
bossing
,
bugging
,
care
,
charge
,
cloak-and-dagger work
,
counterespionage
,
counterintelligence
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
eagle eye
,
electronic surveillance
,
espial
,
espionage
,
eye
,
following
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
intelligence
,
intelligence work
,
intendance
,
invigilation
,
jurisdiction
,
lookout
,
lurking hole
,
military intelligence
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
observation
,
oversight
,
peeled eye
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
reconnaissance
,
responsibility
,
scrutiny
,
secret police
,
secret service
,
shadowing
,
sharp eye
,
spying
,
stakeout
,
stalking-horse
,
stewardship
,
superintendence
,
supervision
,
tab
,
tailing
,
tout
,
trailing
,
trap
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
,
wiretap
,
wiretapping
waiting
collapse
being and remaining ready and available for use; "waiting cars and limousines lined the curb"; "found her mother waiting for them"; "an impressive array of food ready and waiting for the guests"; "military forces ready and waiting"
related words >
about to be
,
agape
,
agog
,
all agog
,
already in sight
,
anticipant
,
anticipating
,
anticipative
,
anticipatory
,
anxiety
,
apprehension
,
approaching
,
at hand
,
attendant
,
attending
,
awaiting
,
brewing
,
certain
,
cliff-hanging
,
close
,
close at hand
,
coming
,
confident
,
dalliance
,
dallying
,
dawdling
,
dillydallying
,
dread
,
eager
,
expectant
,
expectant waiting
,
expecting
,
forearmed
,
forestalling
,
forewarned
,
forthcoming
,
future
,
gaping
,
gathering
,
going to happen
,
helping
,
hopeful
,
immediate
,
imminent
,
impendent
,
impending
,
in anticipation
,
in danger imminent
,
in expectation
,
in prospect
,
in reserve
,
in store
,
in the cards
,
in the offing
,
in the wind
,
in view
,
instant
,
lingering
,
looking for
,
looking forward to
,
looming
,
lowering
,
lurking
,
menacing
,
menial
,
ministering
,
near
,
near at hand
,
nearing
,
not surprised
,
on the horizon
,
optimistic
,
overhanging
,
pessimism
,
prepared
,
preparing
,
ready
,
sanguine
,
servile
,
serving
,
servitorial
,
sure
,
suspense
,
tarriance
,
tarrying
,
that will be
,
threatening
,
to come
,
uncertainty
,
unsurprised
,
upcoming
,
waiting for
,
watching for
dormancy
collapse
a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction; "the volcano erupted after centuries of dormancy"
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abeyance
,
apathy
,
catalepsy
,
catatonia
,
cold storage
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
deadliness
,
deathliness
,
delitescence
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
doldrums
,
entropy
,
hibernation
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactiveness
,
inactivity
,
indifference
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
intermission
,
interruption
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
languor
,
latency
,
latent content
,
latent meaningfulness
,
latentness
,
lotus-eating
,
lull
,
meditation
,
motionlessness
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
policy
,
possibility
,
potentiality
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quiescency
,
quietism
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
suspense
,
suspension
,
torpor
,
underactivity
,
vegetation
,
virtuality
,
vis inertiae
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
inactivity
collapse
being inactive; being less active
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
comfort
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
deliberateness
,
deliberation
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dolce far niente
,
dormancy
,
ease
,
fixation
,
fixity
,
hastelessness
,
hibernation
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactiveness
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
languidness
,
laziness
,
leisureliness
,
lethargy
,
lifelessness
,
listlessness
,
meditation
,
motionlessness
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
peace
,
peacefulness
,
placidity
,
placidness
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quiet
,
quietism
,
relaxation
,
relaxedness
,
repose
,
rest
,
restfulness
,
serenity
,
sleep
,
sloth
,
slothfulness
,
slowness
,
sluggishness
,
somnolence
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
stillness
,
torpor
,
tranquillity
,
unbuttoned ease
,
unhastiness
,
unhurriedness
,
vegetation
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
guardianship
collapse
the responsibility of a guardian or keeper; "he left his car in my keeping"
related words >
administration
,
auspices
,
captainship
,
care
,
chairmanship
,
charge
,
cold storage
,
conservation
,
convenership
,
cure
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
dead storage
,
dictatorship
,
directorate
,
directorship
,
dry storage
,
eagle eye
,
foremanship
,
generalship
,
governance
,
government
,
governorship
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guidance
,
handling
,
hands
,
headship
,
intendancy
,
invigilation
,
jurisdiction
,
keeping
,
leadership
,
lookout
,
management
,
managership
,
mastership
,
means of dealing
,
ministry
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
overseership
,
oversight
,
pastorage
,
pastorate
,
pastorship
,
patronage
,
peeled eye
,
preservation
,
presidency
,
proctoring
,
proctorship
,
protectorship
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
safe hands
,
safekeeping
,
sharp eye
,
shelf-room
,
sovereignty
,
stewardship
,
storage
,
storage space
,
stowage
,
superintendence
,
superintendency
,
supervisorship
,
surveillance
,
treatment
,
trust
,
tutelage
,
usage
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
ward
,
wardenship
,
wardship
,
warehousing
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
,
wing
noninvolvement
collapse
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abstention
,
anythingarianism
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
circumvention
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
cop-out
,
defense mechanism
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dodge
,
dormancy
,
duck
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
fence-sitting
,
forbearance
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
getting around
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
impartiality
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
independence
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
jink
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
meditation
,
mugwumpery
,
mugwumpism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
nonalignment
,
noncommitment
,
nonintervention
,
nonparticipation
,
nonpartisanism
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nothingarianism
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
policy
,
prevention
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
refraining
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
strict neutrality
,
the runaround
,
vegetation
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
,
zigzag
immobility
collapse
the quality of not moving
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abidingness
,
changelessness
,
constancy
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
durability
,
durableness
,
duration
,
endurance
,
firmness
,
fixation
,
fixedness
,
fixity
,
frozenness
,
hardening
,
hibernation
,
idleness
,
immobilization
,
immovability
,
immovableness
,
immutability
,
inaction
,
inactiveness
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
inextricability
,
inflexibility
,
invariability
,
invariableness
,
inveteracy
,
irremovability
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lastingness
,
long standing
,
lull
,
meditation
,
motionlessness
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
permanence
,
permanency
,
perpetualness
,
persistence
,
persistency
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
rigidity
,
solidity
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standing
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
steadfastness
,
suspension
,
torpor
,
unchangeability
,
unchangingness
,
underactivity
,
unmovability
,
unyieldingness
,
vegetation
,
vis inertiae
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
vigil
collapse
the rite of staying awake for devotional purposes (especially on the eve of a religious festival)
a period of sleeplessness
related words >
Mass
,
alertness
,
all-night vigil
,
bedtime prayer
,
camp meeting
,
church
,
church service
,
compline
,
consciousness
,
custodianship
,
custody
,
devotions
,
divine service
,
duty
,
eagle eye
,
evening devotions
,
evensong
,
exercises
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
insomnia
,
insomniac
,
insomnolence
,
insomnolency
,
invigilation
,
lauds
,
lidless vigil
,
liturgy
,
lookout
,
matins
,
meeting
,
monitoring
,
morning devotions
,
night song
,
none
,
nones
,
novena
,
observance
,
office
,
peeled eye
,
praise meeting
,
prayer
,
prayer meeting
,
prayers
,
prime
,
prime song
,
proctoring
,
prudence
,
public worship
,
qui vive
,
restlessness
,
revival
,
revival meeting
,
sentience
,
service
,
sext
,
sharp eye
,
sleeplessness
,
stewardship
,
surveillance
,
tent meeting
,
tierce
,
tossing and turning
,
undersong
,
vesper
,
vespers
,
vigilance
,
vigils
,
wake
,
wakefulness
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watch meeting
,
watch night
,
watch-night service
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
custody
collapse
holding by the police; "the suspect is in custody"
related words >
administration
,
auspices
,
captainship
,
care
,
chairmanship
,
charge
,
cold storage
,
confinement
,
conservation
,
convenership
,
cure
,
custodianship
,
dead storage
,
detention
,
dictatorship
,
directorate
,
directorship
,
dry storage
,
eagle eye
,
foremanship
,
generalship
,
governance
,
government
,
governorship
,
guard
,
guardedness
,
guardianship
,
guarding
,
guidance
,
hands
,
headship
,
hold
,
imprisonment
,
incarceration
,
intendancy
,
invigilation
,
jurisdiction
,
keep
,
keeping
,
leadership
,
lookout
,
management
,
managership
,
mastership
,
ministry
,
monitoring
,
observance
,
overseership
,
oversight
,
pastorage
,
pastorate
,
pastorship
,
patronage
,
peeled eye
,
preservation
,
presidency
,
preventive custody
,
proctoring
,
proctorship
,
protection
,
protective custody
,
protectorship
,
prudence
,
qui vive
,
safe hands
,
safekeeping
,
sharp eye
,
shelf-room
,
sovereignty
,
stewardship
,
storage
,
storage space
,
stowage
,
superintendence
,
superintendency
,
supervision
,
supervisorship
,
surveillance
,
trust
,
tutelage
,
vigil
,
vigilance
,
ward
,
wardenship
,
wardship
,
warehousing
,
wariness
,
watch
,
watch and ward
,
watchful eye
,
watchfulness
,
watching
,
weather eye
,
wing
stasis
collapse
inactivity resulting from a static balance between opposing forces
an abnormal state in which the normal flow of a liquid (such as blood) is slowed or stopped
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abeyance
,
abidingness
,
apathy
,
catalepsy
,
catatonia
,
changelessness
,
constancy
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
deadliness
,
deathliness
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
durability
,
durableness
,
duration
,
endurance
,
entropy
,
equilibrium
,
equipoise
,
firmness
,
fixedness
,
frozenness
,
hardening
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
immovability
,
immovableness
,
immutability
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indifference
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
invariability
,
invariableness
,
inveteracy
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
languor
,
lastingness
,
latency
,
long standing
,
lotus-eating
,
meditation
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
permanence
,
permanency
,
perpetualness
,
persistence
,
persistency
,
poise
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
rigidity
,
solidity
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standing
,
standpattism
,
steadfastness
,
suspense
,
torpor
,
unchangeability
,
unchangingness
,
vegetation
,
vis inertiae
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
pacifism
collapse
the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
evenness
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
impartiality
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
irenicism
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
meditation
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nothing in excess
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
peaceableness
,
peaceful coexistence
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
prudence
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
repose
,
restraint
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unpugnaciousness
,
vegetation
,
via media
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
nonviolence
collapse
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
evenness
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
impartiality
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
irenicism
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
meditation
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
peaceableness
,
peaceful coexistence
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
prudence
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
repose
,
restraint
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unpugnaciousness
,
vegetation
,
via media
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
vegetation
collapse
inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life; "their holiday was spent in sleep and vegetation"
an abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart)
all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
the process of growth in plants
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abeyance
,
apathy
,
botany
,
budding
,
burgeoning
,
catalepsy
,
catatonia
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
deadliness
,
deathliness
,
development
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
entropy
,
excrescence
,
flora
,
flowerage
,
gemmation
,
germination
,
greenery
,
greens
,
growth
,
herbage
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indifference
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
just being
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
languor
,
latency
,
lotus-eating
,
luxuriation
,
maturation
,
meditation
,
mere existence
,
mere tropism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
outgrowth
,
overgrowth
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
plant kingdom
,
plant life
,
plants
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
procreation
,
pullulation
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
reproduction
,
sloth
,
sprouting
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
suspense
,
torpor
,
upgrowth
,
vegetable kingdom
,
vegetable life
,
vegetation spirit
,
verdure
,
vis inertiae
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
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