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Animalism

The state, activity, or enjoyment of animals; mere animal life without intellectual or moral qualities; sensuality.

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Disposition 76% connected

The act of disposing, arranging, ordering, regulating, or transferring; application; disposal; as, the disposition of a man's property by will.

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Doctrine 76% connected

Teaching; instruction.

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Ism 76% connected

A doctrine or theory; especially, a wild or visionary theory.

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Philosophy 76% connected

Literally, the love of, including the search after, wisdom; in actual usage, the knowledge of phenomena as explained by, and resolved into, causes an…

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Temperament 76% connected

Internal constitution; state with respect to the relative proportion of different qualities, or constituent parts.

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Diplomatic immunity noun · 85% connection

exemption from taxation or normal processes of law that is offered to diplomatic personnel in a foreign country

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Immunity noun · 84% connection

the state of not being susceptible; "unsusceptibility to rust"

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Indemnity noun · 84% connection

legal exemption from liability for damages

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Liability noun · 84% connection

the state of being legally obliged and responsible

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Exemption noun · 84% connection

immunity from an obligation or duty

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Freedom noun · 84% connection

immunity from an obligation or duty

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Ratability noun · 84% connection

the state of being liable to assessment or taxation

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Taxability noun · 84% connection

liability to taxation

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Amnesty noun · 83% connection

a period during which offenders are exempt from punishment

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Impunity noun · 83% connection

exemption from punishment or loss

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Conservation noun · 78% connection

the preservation and careful management of the environment and of natural resources

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Law noun · 78% connection

a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

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Natural law noun · 78% connection

a rule or body of rules of conduct inherent in human nature and essential to or binding upon human society

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Philosophical system noun · 78% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Rule of law noun · 78% connection

a state of order in which events conform to the law

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School of thought noun · 78% connection

a belief (or system of beliefs) accepted as authoritative by some group or school

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Area noun · 78% connection

a particular environment or walk of life; "his social sphere is limited"; "it was a closed area of employment"; "he's out of my orbit"

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Biodiversity noun · 78% connection

the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole); "a high level of biodiversity is desirabl…

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-ist unknown · 78% connection

A noun suffix denoting an agent, or doer, one who practices, a believer in; as, theorist, one who theorizes; socialist, one who holds…

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Azoic adjective · 78% connection

Destitute of any vestige of organic life, or at least of animal life; anterior to the existence of animal life; formed when there was…

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Communicating noun · 78% connection

the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow"

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Communication noun · 78% connection

the activity of communicating; the activity of conveying information; "they could not act without official communication from Moscow"

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Concentrativeness noun · 78% connection

The faculty or propensity which has to do with concentrating the intellectual the intellectual powers.

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Corruption noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Debauchery noun · 78% connection

Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust; intemperance; sensuality; habitual lewdness.

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Degeneracy noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Depravation noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Depravity noun · 78% connection

moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles; "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy fo…

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Edification noun · 78% connection

The act of edifying, or the state of being edified; a building up, especially in a moral or spiritual sense; moral, intellectual, or s…

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Eutrophication noun · 78% connection

excessive nutrients in a lake or other body of water, usually caused by runoff of nutrients (animal waste, fertilizers, sewage) from t…

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