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(context, mostly, US) a policy of favoring native-born inhabitants over immigrants
- the policy of perpetuating the culture of the natives of a colonised country
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(philosophy) the doctrine that some skills or abilities are innate and not learned
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- The essential characteristics
Albert Camus' book Le Mythe de Sisyphe is of philosophical nature.
- A wild primitive state of being
- The summary of everything that has to do with biological and geographical states and events on earth
- The environment, the outdoors
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noun (necessities)
- The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.
- The condition of being needy or necessitous; pressing need; indigence; want.
- That which is necessary; a necessary; a requisite; something indispensable; -- often in the plural.
Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive. - q:Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso
- That which makes an act or an event unavoidable; irresistible force; overruling power; compulsion, physical or moral; fate; fatality.
- The negation of freedom in voluntary action; the subjection of all phenomena, whether material or spiritual, to inevitable causation; necessitarianism.
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(photography) an image in which dark areas represent light ones, and the converse
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(grammar) a word that indicates negation
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(mathematics) a negative quantity
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(weightlifting): A rep performed with weight in which the muscle begins at maximum contraction and is slowly extended; a movement performed using only the eccentric phase of muscle movement.
adjective
- not positive or neutral
- inherently damaging; undesirable
- electrical charge of an electron and related particles
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nounNeoplatonism
- a school of philosophy based on the teachings of Plato and, subsequently, Plotinus; it was the foundation for paganism
category:English eponyms
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- The consciousness side to duality of noesis and noema.
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(logic) An invalid argument; one in which the conclusion cannot be logically deduced from the premises.
The argument "All ravens are black; this object is black; therefore, this object is a raven" is a .
- Any abrupt and inexplicable transition or occurrence.
Having a costumed superhero abduct the vicar was an utter in the novel.
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(context, humor) A kind of pun that uses a change of word, subject, or meaning to make a joke of the listener's expectation:
"Take my wife - please." -- Henny Youngman
"If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised." -- Dorothy Parker
"A fool and his money are soon partying." -- Steven Wright
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noun (noumena)
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(philosophy) In the philosophy of w:Immanuel_Kant, Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) and those whom he influenced, a thing as it is independently of any conceptualization or perception by the human mind; a thing-in-itself, postulated by practical reason but existing in a condition which is in principle unknowable and unexperienceable.
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noun (wikipedia, Nous)
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(philosophy) The mind or intellect.
- Common sense; practical intelligence.
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