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Narrower term 66

Affect 76% connected

To act upon; to produce an effect or change upon.

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Affection 76% connected

The act of affecting or acting upon; the state of being affected.

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Affectionateness 76% connected

The quality of being affectionate; fondness; affection.

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Agitation 76% connected

The act of agitating, or the state of being agitated; the state of being moved with violence, or with irregular action; commotion; as, the sea after…

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Amazement 76% connected

The condition of being amazed; bewilderment [Obs.]; overwhelming wonder, as from surprise, sudden fear, horror, or admiration.

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ambivalence 76% connected

The simultaneous presence of conflicting feelings or attitudes.

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Anchorage 76% connected

The act of anchoring, or the condition of lying at anchor.

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Apathy 76% connected

Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a…

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Astonishment 76% connected

The condition of one who is stunned. Hence: Numbness; loss of sensation; stupor; loss of sense.

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Bravery 76% connected

The quality of being brave; fearless; intrepidity.

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Calmness 76% connected

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

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Complex 76% connected

Composed of two or more parts; composite; not simple; as, a complex being; a complex idea.

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Constriction 76% connected

The act of constricting by means of some inherent power or by movement or change in the thing itself, as distinguished from compression.

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Creepiness 76% connected

An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

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Desire 76% connected

To long for; to wish for earnestly; to covet.

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Despair 76% connected

To be hopeless; to have no hope; to give up all hope or expectation; -- often with of.

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Devastation 76% connected

The act of devastating, or the state of being devastated; a laying waste.

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Disinterest 76% connected

Disinterested.

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Dislike 76% connected

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

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Effect 76% connected

Execution; performance; realization; operation; as, the law goes into effect in May.

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Emotion 76% connected

A moving of the mind or soul; excitement of the feelings, whether pleasing or painful; disturbance or agitation of mind caused by a specific exciting…

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Enthusiasm 76% connected

Inspiration as if by a divine or superhuman power; ecstasy; hence, a conceit of divine possession and revelation, or of being directly subject to som…

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Expectation 76% connected

The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.

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Faintness 76% connected

The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

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Fondness 76% connected

The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.

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Glow 76% connected

To shine with an intense or white heat; to give forth vivid light and heat; to be incandescent.

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Gratitude 76% connected

The state of being grateful; warm and friendly feeling toward a benefactor; kindness awakened by a favor received; thankfulness.

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Gravity 76% connected

The state of having weight; beaviness; as, the gravity of lead.

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Happiness 76% connected

Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

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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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Hope 76% connected

A sloping plain between mountain ridges.

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Humbleness 76% connected

The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.

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Humility 76% connected

The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own…

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Humor 76% connected

Moisture, especially, the moisture or fluid of animal bodies, as the chyle, lymph, etc.; as, the humors of the eye, etc.

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Humour 76% connected

the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"

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Hunch 76% connected

A hump; a protuberance.

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Ingratitude 76% connected

Want of gratitude; insensibility to, forgetfulness of, or ill return for, kindness or favors received; unthankfulness; ungratefulness.

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Intuition 76% connected

A looking after; a regard to.

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Levity 76% connected

The quality of weighing less than something else of equal bulk; relative lightness, especially as shown by rising through, or floating upon, a contig…

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Liking 76% connected

of Like

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Mood 76% connected

Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

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Pain 76% connected

Punishment suffered or denounced; suffering or evil inflicted as a punishment for crime, or connected with the commission of a crime; penalty.

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Pang 76% connected

A paroxysm of extreme pain or anguish; a sudden and transitory agony; a throe; as, the pangs of death.

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Passion 76% connected

A suffering or enduring of imposed or inflicted pain; any suffering or distress (as, a cardiac passion); specifically, the suffering of Christ betwee…

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Passionateness 76% connected

The state or quality of being passionate.

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Pleasance 76% connected

Pleasure; merriment; gayety; delight; kindness.

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Pleasure 76% connected

The gratification of the senses or of the mind; agreeable sensations or emotions; the excitement, relish, or happiness produced by the expectation or…

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Presence 76% connected

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

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Pride 76% connected

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

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Sadness 76% connected

Heaviness; firmness.

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Sensitivity 76% connected

The quality or state of being sensitive; -- used chiefly in science and the arts; as, the sensitivity of iodized silver.

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Sentiment 76% connected

A thought prompted by passion or feeling; a state of mind in view of some subject; feeling toward or respecting some person or thing; disposition pro…

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Sex 76% connected

The distinguishing peculiarity of male or female in both animals and plants; the physical difference between male and female; the assemblage of prope…

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Shame 76% connected

A painful sensation excited by a consciousness of guilt or impropriety, or of having done something which injures reputation, or of the exposure of t…

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Solemnity 76% connected

A rite or ceremony performed with religious reverence; religious or ritual ceremony; as, the solemnity of a funeral, a sacrament.

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Soul 76% connected

Sole.

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Stab 76% connected

To pierce with a pointed weapon; to wound or kill by the thrust of a pointed instrument; as, to stab a man with a dagger; also, to thrust; as, to sta…

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Suspicion 76% connected

The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very sl…

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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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Temper 76% connected

To mingle in due proportion; to prepare by combining; to modify, as by adding some new element; to qualify, as by an ingredient; hence, to soften; to…

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Tenderness 76% connected

The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

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Thing 76% connected

Whatever exists, or is conceived to exist, as a separate entity, whether animate or inanimate; any separable or distinguishable object of thought.

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Tightness 76% connected

The quality or condition of being tight.

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Twinge 76% connected

To pull with a twitch; to pinch; to tweak.

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Unconcern 76% connected

Want of concern; absence of anxiety; freedom from solicitude; indifference.

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Warmness 76% connected

Warmth.

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Atmosphere 76% connected

The whole mass of aeriform fluid surrounding the earth; -- applied also to the gaseous envelope of any celestial orb, or other body; as, the atmosphe…

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Idea 76% connected

The transcript, image, or picture of a visible object, that is formed by the mind; also, a similar image of any object whatever, whether sensible or…

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Intuition 76% connected

A looking after; a regard to.

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Perception 76% connected

The act of perceiving; cognizance by the senses or intellect; apperhension by the bodily organs, or by the mind, of what is presented to them; discer…

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State 76% connected

The circumstances or condition of a being or thing at any given time.

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Thought 76% connected

of Think

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Experience 74% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Experience 74% connected

Trial, as a test or experiment.

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Feel 74% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Feel 74% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Find 74% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Find 74% connected

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a per…

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Belief 92% connected

Assent to a proposition or affirmation, or the acceptance of a fact, opinion, or assertion as real or true, without immediate personal knowledge; rel…

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Feel 92% connected

To perceive by the touch; to take cognizance of by means of the nerves of sensation distributed all over the body, especially by those of the skin; t…

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Flavor 92% connected

That quality of anything which affects the smell; odor; fragrances; as, the flavor of a rose.

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Flavour 92% connected

(physics) the six kinds of quarks

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Impression 92% connected

The act of impressing, or the state of being impressed; the communication of a stamp, mold, style, or character, by external force or by influence.

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Look 92% connected

To direct the eyes for the purpose of seeing something; to direct the eyes toward an object; to observe with the eyes while keeping them directed; --…

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Notion 92% connected

Mental apprehension of whatever may be known or imagined; an idea; a conception; more properly, a general or universal conception, as distinguishable…

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Opinion 92% connected

That which is opined; a notion or conviction founded on probable evidence; belief stronger than impression, less strong than positive knowledge; sett…

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Smell 92% connected

To perceive by the olfactory nerves, or organs of smell; to have a sensation of, excited through the nasal organs when affected by the appropriate ma…

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Spirit 92% connected

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

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Tone 92% connected

Sound, or the character of a sound, or a sound considered as of this or that character; as, a low, high, loud, grave, acute, sweet, or harsh tone.

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Touch 92% connected

To come in contact with; to hit or strike lightly against; to extend the hand, foot, or the like, so as to reach or rest on.

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