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noun
- a severe psychiatric condition, often associated with schizophrenia, characterized by a tendency to remain in a rigid state of stupor for long periods which give way to short periods of extreme agitation
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| cathect |
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verb
- To focus one's emotional energies on something.
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| circumstantiality |
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noun (circumstantialities)
- minute, Minute detail.
- An irrelevant detail that disturbs one's thought process.
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| claustrophobia |
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noun
- The fear of closed, tight places.
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| claustrophobic |
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noun
- Someone with claustrophobia
adjective
- (psychology) Suffering from claustrophobia; being scared of being enclosed in a confined space.
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noun - (dated) alternative spelling of kleptomania
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| compulsive |
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adjective
- with an uncontrolled need to do things, obsessive
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verb (confabulat, ing)
- (intransitive) To speak casually with; to chat.
- (intransitive) To confer.
- (context, intransitive, psychology) To fabricate memories in order to fill gaps in one's memory.
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| confabulation |
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noun
- A casual conversation; a chat.
- (context, psychology) A fabricated memory believed to be true.
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| conscious |
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adjective ((compar): more conscious, (superl): most conscious)
- alert, awake.
- The noise woke me, but it was another few minutes before I was fully .
- aware.
- I was of a noise behind me.
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| conversion |
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noun
- The act of having converted something or someone.
- His to Christianity
- The of the database from ASCII to Unicode
- (chemistry) A chemical reaction wherein a substrate is transformed into a product.
- (rugby) A free-kick, after scoring a try, worth two points
- (American football) extra point scored by kicking a field goal after scoring a touchdown.
- (marketing) An online advertising performance metric representing a visitor performing whatever the intended result of an ad is defined to be. This can be a purchase or a download of a whitepaper.
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noun (plural cycloids)
- (geometry) The locus of a point on the circumference of a circle that rolls without slipping on a fixed straight line.
- (zoology) A fish having cycloid scales.
adjective
- resemble, Resembling a circle; cycloidal.
- (zoology) (of fish scales) Thin and rounded, with smooth edges.
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| cyclothymia |
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noun - (medicine) a chronic mental disturbance characterized by mood swings and depression
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