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Hunch

A hump; a protuberance.

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Broader term 6

Belief 76% 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…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bending 76% connected

of Bend

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Feeling 76% connected

of Feel

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Impression 76% 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.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Notion 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Opinion 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Bosom 76% connected

The breast of a human being; the part, between the arms, to which anything is pressed when embraced by them.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Heart 76% connected

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

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hump 74% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Hump 74% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Jut 74% connected

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Jut 74% connected

To shoot out or forward; to project beyond the main body; as, the jutting part of a building.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Bend 72% connected

To strain or move out of a straight line; to crook by straining; to make crooked; to curve; to make ready for use by drawing into a curve; as, to ben…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Flex 72% connected

To bend; as, to flex the arm.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Synonym 3

Hump 92% connected

A protuberance; especially, the protuberance formed by a crooked back.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

Open English WordNet places these words in at least one shared synset. They share a lexicalised sense, but context, register and collocation should still be checked before substitution.

Intuition 92% connected

A looking after; a regard to.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Suspicion 92% 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…

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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