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Creation

The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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Artefact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Artifact 76% connected

a man-made object taken as a whole

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Beginning 76% connected

of Begin

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Commencement 76% connected

The first existence of anything; act or fact of commencing; rise; origin; beginning; start.

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Start 76% connected

To leap; to jump.

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Art 76% connected

The second person singular, indicative mode, present tense, of the substantive verb Be; but formed after the analogy of the plural are, with the endi…

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Authorship 76% connected

The quality or state of being an author; function or dignity of an author.

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Classic 76% connected

Alt. of Classical

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Composition 76% connected

The act or art of composing, or forming a whole or integral, by placing together and uniting different things, parts, or ingredients.

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Fecundation 76% connected

The act by which, either in animals or plants, material prepared by the generative organs the female organism is brought in contact with matter from…

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Fertilization 76% connected

The act or process of rendering fertile.

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Impregnation 76% connected

The act of impregnating or the state of being impregnated; fecundation.

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Improvisation 76% connected

The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

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Innovation 76% connected

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

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Invention 76% connected

The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention…

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Master 76% connected

A vessel having (so many) masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master.

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Nature 76% connected

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

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Needlework 76% connected

Work executed with a needle; sewed work; sewing; embroidery; also, the business of a seamstress.

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Original 76% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Paternity 76% connected

The relation of a father to his child; fathership; fatherhood; family headship; as, the divine paternity.

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Piece 76% connected

A fragment or part of anything separated from the whole, in any manner, as by cutting, splitting, breaking, or tearing; a part; a portion; as, a piec…

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Pornography 76% connected

Licentious painting or literature; especially, the painting anciently employed to decorate the walls of rooms devoted to bacchanalian orgies.

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Product 76% connected

Anything that is produced, whether as the result of generation, growth, labor, or thought, or by the operation of involuntary causes; as, the product…

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Production 76% connected

The act or process or producing, bringing forth, or exhibiting to view; as, the production of commodities, of a witness.

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Re-creation 76% connected

A forming anew; a new creation or formation.

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Remake 76% connected

To make anew.

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Representation 76% connected

The act of representing, in any sense of the verb.

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Smut 76% connected

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

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Create 74% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Create 74% connected

Created; composed; begotten.

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Produce 74% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Produce 74% connected

To bring forward; to lead forth; to offer to view or notice; to exhibit; to show; as, to produce a witness or evidence in court.

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Galaxy 70% connected

The Milky Way; that luminous tract, or belt, which is seen at night stretching across the heavens, and which is composed of innumerable stars, so dis…

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Synonym 14

Conception 92% connected

The act of conceiving in the womb; the initiation of an embryonic animal life.

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Cosmos 92% connected

The universe or universality of created things; -- so called from the order and harmony displayed in it.

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Existence 92% connected

The state of existing or being; actual possession of being; continuance in being; as, the existence of body and of soul in union; the separate existe…

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Foundation 92% connected

The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.

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Founding 92% connected

of Found

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Initiation 92% connected

The act of initiating, or the process of being initiated or introduced; as, initiation into a society, into business, literature, etc.

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Innovation 92% connected

The act of innovating; introduction of something new, in customs, rites, etc.

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Instauration 92% connected

Restoration after decay, lapse, or dilapidation; renewal; repair; renovation; renaissance.

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Institution 92% connected

The act or process of instituting; as: (a) Establishment; foundation; enactment; as, the institution of a school.

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Introduction 92% connected

The act of introducing, or bringing to notice.

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Macrocosm 92% connected

The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.

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Origination 92% connected

The act or process of bringing or coming into existence; first production.

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Universe 92% connected

All created things viewed as constituting one system or whole; the whole body of things, or of phenomena; the / / of the Greeks, the mundus of the La…

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World 92% connected

The earth and the surrounding heavens; the creation; the system of created things; existent creation; the universe.

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