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Impression

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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Broader term 16

Appearance 76% connected

The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye; as, his sudden appearance surprised me.

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Characterization 76% connected

The act or process of characterizing.

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Concavity 76% connected

A concave surface, or the space bounded by it; the state of being concave.

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Enactment 76% connected

The passing of a bill into a law; the giving of legislative sanction and executive approval to a bill whereby it is established as a law.

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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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Image 76% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Imprint 76% connected

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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Incurvation 76% connected

The act of bending, or curving.

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Personation 76% connected

The act of personating, or conterfeiting the person or character of another.

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Portrayal 76% connected

The act or process of portraying; description; delineation.

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Press 76% connected

An East Indian insectivore (Tupaia ferruginea). It is arboreal in its habits, and has a bushy tail. The fur is soft, and varies from rusty red to mar…

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Pressing 76% connected

of Press

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Pressure 76% connected

The act of pressing, or the condition of being pressed; compression; a squeezing; a crushing; as, a pressure of the hand.

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Publication 76% connected

The act of publishing or making known; notification to the people at large, either by words, writing, or printing; proclamation; divulgation; promulg…

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Symbol 76% connected

A visible sign or representation of an idea; anything which suggests an idea or quality, or another thing, as by resemblance or by convention; an emb…

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Thought 76% connected

of Think

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Narrower term 36

Channel 76% connected

The hollow bed where a stream of water runs or may run.

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Chap 76% connected

To cause to open in slits or chinks; to split; to cause the skin of to crack or become rough.

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Crack 76% connected

To break or burst, with or without entire separation of the parts; as, to crack glass; to crack nuts.

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Cranny 76% connected

A small, narrow opening, fissure, crevice, or chink, as in a wall, or other substance.

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Crease 76% connected

See Creese.

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Crevice 76% connected

A narrow opening resulting from a split or crack or the separation of a junction; a cleft; a fissure; a rent.

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Crinkle 76% connected

To form with short turns, bends, or wrinkles; to mold into inequalities or sinuosities; to cause to wrinkle or curl.

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Dent 76% connected

A stroke; a blow.

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Dimple 76% connected

A slight natural depression or indentation on the surface of some part of the body, esp. on the cheek or chin.

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Dip 76% connected

To plunge or immerse; especially, to put for a moment into a liquid; to insert into a fluid and withdraw again.

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Droop 76% connected

To hang bending downward; to sink or hang down, as an animal, plant, etc., from physical inability or exhaustion, want of nourishment, or the like.

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Edition 76% connected

A literary work edited and published, as by a certain editor or in a certain manner; as, a good edition of Chaucer; Chalmers' edition of Shakespeare.

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Effect 76% connected

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

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Embossment 76% connected

The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.

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Figure 76% connected

The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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Fissure 76% connected

A narrow opening, made by the parting of any substance; a cleft; as, the fissure of a rock.

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Furrow 76% connected

A trench in the earth made by, or as by, a plow.

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Groove 76% connected

A furrow, channel, or long hollow, such as may be formed by cutting, molding, grinding, the wearing force of flowing water, or constant travel; a dep…

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Hunch 76% connected

A hump; a protuberance.

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Image 76% connected

An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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Imprint 76% connected

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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Incision 76% connected

The act of incising, or cutting into a substance.

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Intuition 76% connected

A looking after; a regard to.

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Line 76% connected

Flax; linen.

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Mackle 76% connected

Same Macule.

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Mark 76% connected

A license of reprisals. See Marque.

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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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Prick 76% connected

That which pricks, penetrates, or punctures; a sharp and slender thing; a pointed instrument; a goad; a spur, etc.; a point; a skewer.

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Proof 76% connected

Any effort, process, or operation designed to establish or discover a fact or truth; an act of testing; a test; a trial.

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Sag 76% connected

To sink, in the middle, by its weight or under applied pressure, below a horizontal line or plane; as, a line or cable supported by its ends sags, th…

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Scratch 76% connected

To rub and tear or mark the surface of with something sharp or ragged; to scrape, roughen, or wound slightly by drawing something pointed or rough ac…

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Seal 76% connected

Any aquatic carnivorous mammal of the families Phocidae and Otariidae.

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Seam 76% connected

Grease; tallow; lard.

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Slit 76% connected

3d. pers. sing. pres. of Slide.

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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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Wrinkle 76% connected

A winkle.

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Derivationally related 10

Believe 74% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Believe 74% connected

To exercise belief in; to credit upon the authority or testimony of another; to be persuaded of the truth of, upon evidence furnished by reasons, arg…

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Fancy 74% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Fancy 74% connected

The faculty by which the mind forms an image or a representation of anything perceived before; the power of combining and modifying such objects into…

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Impress 74% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Impress 74% connected

To press, stamp, or print something in or upon; to mark by pressure, or as by pressure; to imprint (that which bears the impression).

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Impressionistic 74% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

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Impressionistic 74% connected

Pertaining to, or characterized by, impressionism.

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Stamp 74% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Stamp 74% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Synonym 10

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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Depression 92% connected

The act of depressing.

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Effect 92% connected

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

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Feeling 92% connected

of Feel

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Imprint 92% connected

To impress; to mark by pressure; to indent; to stamp.

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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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Picture 92% connected

The art of painting; representation by painting.

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Printing 92% connected

of Print

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Stamp 92% connected

To strike beat, or press forcibly with the bottom of the foot, or by thrusting the foot downward.

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Near synonym 1

Idea 80% 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…

general 54% interchangeable

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