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Disposition

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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Narrower term 63

Abandonment 76% connected

The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.

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Agreeability 76% connected

Easiness of disposition.

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Agreeableness 76% connected

The quality of being agreeable or pleasing; that quality which gives satisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses.

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Aloneness 76% connected

A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness.

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Animalism 76% connected

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

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Appointment 76% connected

The act of appointing; designation of a person to hold an office or discharge a trust; as, he erred by the appointment of unsuitable men.

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Aptness 76% connected

Fitness; suitableness; appropriateness; as, the aptness of things to their end.

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Bent 76% connected

of Bend

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Blood 76% connected

The fluid which circulates in the principal vascular system of animals, carrying nourishment to all parts of the body, and bringing away waste produc…

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Bloodiness 76% connected

The state of being bloody.

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Call 76% connected

To command or request to come or be present; to summon; as, to call a servant.

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Calm 76% connected

Freedom from motion, agitation, or disturbance; a cessation or absence of that which causes motion or disturbance, as of winds or waves; tranquility;…

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Calmness 76% connected

The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.

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Composure 76% connected

The act of composing, or that which is composed; a composition.

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Denominationalism 76% connected

A denominational or class spirit or policy; devotion to the interests of a sect or denomination.

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Direction 76% connected

The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public…

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Disagreeableness 76% connected

The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.

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Disapproval 76% connected

Disapprobation; dislike; censure; adverse judgment.

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Discomposure 76% connected

The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.

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Disfavor 76% connected

Want of favor of favorable regard; disesteem; disregard.

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Dislike 76% connected

To regard with dislike or aversion; to disapprove; to disrelish.

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Dogmatism 76% connected

The manner or character of a dogmatist; arrogance or positiveness in stating opinion.

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Drift 76% connected

A driving; a violent movement.

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Epicurism 76% connected

The doctrines of Epicurus.

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Equanimity 76% connected

Evenness of mind; that calm temper or firmness of mind which is not easily elated or depressed; patience; calmness; composure; as, to bear misfortune…

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Favor 76% connected

Kind regard; propitious aspect; countenance; friendly disposition; kindness; good will.

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Favoritism 76% connected

The disposition to favor and promote the interest of one person or family, or of one class of men, to the neglect of others having equal claims; part…

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Favour 76% connected

an inclination to approve; "that style is in favor this season"

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Friendliness 76% connected

The condition or quality of being friendly.

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Giving 76% connected

of Give

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Heart 76% connected

A hollow, muscular organ, which, by contracting rhythmically, keeps up the circulation of the blood.

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Impartiality 76% connected

The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatme…

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Involuntariness 76% connected

The quality or state of being involuntary; unwillingness; automatism.

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Leaning 76% connected

of Lean

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Lending 76% connected

of Lend

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Literalism 76% connected

That which accords with the letter; a mode of interpreting literally; adherence to the letter.

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Loaning 76% connected

of Loan

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Loneliness 76% connected

The condition of being lonely; solitude; seclusion.

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Moodiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

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Morale 76% connected

The moral condition, or the condition in other respects, so far as it is affected by, or dependent upon, moral considerations, such as zeal, spirit,…

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Mordacity 76% connected

The quality of being mordacious; biting severity, or sarcastic quality.

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Movement 76% connected

The act of moving; change of place or posture; transference, by any means, from one situation to another; natural or appropriate motion; progress; ad…

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Nervousness 76% connected

State or quality of being nervous.

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Optimism 76% connected

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature, being the work of God, is ordered for the best, or that the ordering of things in the universe is…

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Partiality 76% connected

The quality or state of being partial; inclination to favor one party, or one side of a question, more than the other; undue bias of mind.

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Partisanship 76% connected

The state of being a partisan, or adherent to a party; feelings or conduct appropriate to a partisan.

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Perfectionism 76% connected

The doctrine of the Perfectionists.

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Pessimism 76% connected

The opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is ordered for or tends to the worst, or that the world is wholly evil; -- opposed to optimism.

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Predisposition 76% connected

The act of predisposing, or the state of being predisposed; previous inclination, tendency, or propensity; predilection; -- applied to the mind; as,…

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Proclivity 76% connected

Inclination; propensity; proneness; tendency.

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Proneness 76% connected

The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

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Propensity 76% connected

The quality or state of being propense; natural inclination; disposition to do good or evil; bias; bent; tendency.

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Separatism 76% connected

The character or act of a separatist; disposition to withdraw from a church; the practice of so withdrawing.

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Set 76% connected

of Set

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Solitariness 76% connected

Condition of being solitary.

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Spirit 76% connected

Air set in motion by breathing; breath; hence, sometimes, life itself.

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Sympathy 76% connected

Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if…

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Tendency 76% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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Tolerance 76% connected

The power or capacity of enduring; the act of enduring; endurance.

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Trend 76% connected

To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest.

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Unsociability 76% connected

The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.

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Willingness 76% connected

The quality or state of being willing; free choice or consent of the will; freedom from reluctance; readiness of the mind to do or forbear.

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Act 76% connected

That which is done or doing; the exercise of power, or the effect, of which power exerted is the cause; a performance; a deed.

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Attitude 76% connected

The posture, action, or disposition of a figure or a statue.

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Deed 76% connected

Dead.

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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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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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Dispose 74% connected

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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Dispose 74% connected

To distribute and put in place; to arrange; to set in order; as, to dispose the ships in the form of a crescent.

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Incline 74% connected

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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Incline 74% connected

To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to…

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Cheer 70% connected

The face; the countenance or its expression.

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Cheerfulness 70% connected

Good spirits; a state of moderate joy or gayety; alacrity.

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Sunniness 70% connected

The quality or state of being sunny.

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Sunshine 70% connected

The light of the sun, or the place where it shines; the direct rays of the sun, the place where they fall, or the warmth and light which they give.

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Attribute 4

Unwilling 66% connected

Not willing; loath; disinclined; reluctant; as, an unwilling servant.

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Unwilling 66% connected

Not willing; loath; disinclined; reluctant; as, an unwilling servant.

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Synonym 3

Disposal 92% connected

The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.

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Temperament 92% connected

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

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Tendency 92% connected

Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

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