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Characteristic

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; distinctive.

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Diagnostic 84% connected

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

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Diagnostic 84% connected

Pertaining to, or furnishing, a diagnosis; indicating the nature of a disease.

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Distinctive 84% connected

Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

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Distinctive 84% connected

Marking or expressing distinction or difference; distinguishing; characteristic; peculiar.

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Peculiar 84% connected

One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not…

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Peculiar 84% connected

One's own; belonging solely or especially to an individual; not possessed by others; of private, personal, or characteristic possession and use; not…

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Symptomatic 84% connected

Alt. of Symptomatical

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Symptomatic 84% connected

Alt. of Symptomatical

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Typical 84% connected

Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

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Typical 84% connected

Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

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Narrower term 33

Aspect 76% connected

The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.

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Attracter 76% connected

One who, or that which, attracts.

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Attraction 76% connected

An invisible power in a body by which it draws anything to itself; the power in nature acting mutually between bodies or ultimate particles, tending…

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Attractor 76% connected

One who, or that which, attracts.

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Badge 76% connected

A distinctive mark, token, sign, or cognizance, worn on the person; as, the badge of a society; the badge of a policeman.

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Centerpiece 76% connected

Alt. of Centrepiece

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Centrepiece 76% connected

An ornament to be placed in the center, as of a table, ceiling, atc.; a central article or figure.

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Compatibility 76% connected

The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

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Contour 76% connected

The outline of a figure or body, or the line or lines representing such an outline; the line that bounds; periphery.

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Curability 76% connected

The state of being curable; curableness.

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Directness 76% connected

The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

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Earmark 76% connected

A mark on the ear of sheep, oxen, dogs, etc., as by cropping or slitting.

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Excellence 76% connected

The quality of being excellent; state of possessing good qualities in an eminent degree; exalted merit; superiority in virtue.

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Excellency 76% connected

Excellence; virtue; dignity; worth; superiority.

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External 76% connected

Outward; exterior; relating to the outside, as of a body; being without; acting from without; -- opposed to internal; as, the external form or surfac…

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Facet 76% connected

A little face; a small, plane surface; as, the facets of a diamond.

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Incompatibility 76% connected

The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

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Incurability 76% connected

The state of being uncurable; irremediableness.

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Incurableness 76% connected

The state of being incurable; incurability.

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Indirectness 76% connected

The quality or state of being indirect; obliquity; deviousness; crookedness.

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Invariant 76% connected

An invariable quantity; specifically, a function of the coefficients of one or more forms, which remains unaltered, when these undergo suitable linea…

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Magnet 76% connected

The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and,…

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Passport 76% connected

Permission to pass; a document given by the competent officer of a state, permitting the person therein named to pass or travel from place to place,…

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Peculiarity 76% connected

The quality or state of being peculiar; individuality; singularity.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Recommendation 76% connected

The act of recommending.

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Robustness 76% connected

The quality or state of being robust.

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Ruralism 76% connected

The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.

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Rurality 76% connected

The quality or state of being rural.

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Safeness 76% connected

The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or…

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Spot 76% connected

A mark on a substance or body made by foreign matter; a blot; a place discolored.

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Straightness 76% connected

The quality, condition, or state, of being straight; as, the straightness of a path.

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Streak 76% connected

To stretch; to extend; hence, to lay out, as a dead body.

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Broader term 5

Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Dimension 76% connected

Measure in a single line, as length, breadth, height, thickness, or circumference; extension; measurement; -- usually, in the plural, measure in leng…

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Integer 76% connected

A complete entity; a whole number, in contradistinction to a fraction or a mixed number.

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Property 76% connected

That which is proper to anything; a peculiar quality of a thing; that which is inherent in a subject, or naturally essential to it; an attribute; as,…

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Derivationally related 4

have 74% connected

of Have

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have 74% connected

of Have

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Quality 74% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Quality 74% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Containing whole 1

Nature 70% connected

The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

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See also 2

Typical 66% connected

Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

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Typical 66% connected

Of the nature of a type; representing something by a form, model, or resemblance; emblematic; prefigurative.

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Synonym 1

Feature 92% connected

The make, form, or outward appearance of a person; the whole turn or style of the body; esp., good appearance.

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