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Manner

Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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Narrower term 21

Aristocratism 76% connected

The principles of aristocrats.

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Bearing 76% connected

of Bear

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Comportment 76% connected

Manner of acting; behavior; bearing.

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Courtesy 76% connected

Politeness; civility; urbanity; courtliness.

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Dandyism 76% connected

The manners and dress of a dandy; foppishness.

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Discourtesy 76% connected

Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.

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Drape 76% connected

To cover or adorn with drapery or folds of cloth, or as with drapery; as, to drape a bust, a building, etc.

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Fit 76% connected

imp. & p. p. of Fight.

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Formality 76% connected

The condition or quality of being formal, strictly ceremonious, precise, etc.

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Gentleness 76% connected

The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

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Idiom 76% connected

The syntactical or structural form peculiar to any language; the genius or cast of a language.

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Informality 76% connected

The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings.

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Mien 76% connected

Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

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Mildness 76% connected

The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

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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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Response 76% connected

The act of responding.

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Signature 76% connected

A sign, stamp, or mark impressed, as by a seal.

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Softness 76% connected

The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

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Touch 76% 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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Wise 76% connected

Having knowledge; knowing; enlightened; of extensive information; erudite; learned.

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Behavior 76% connected

Manner of behaving, whether good or bad; mode of conducting one's self; conduct; deportment; carriage; -- used also of inanimate objects; as, the beh…

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Behaviour 76% connected

(psychology) the aggregate of the responses or reactions or movements made by an organism in any situation

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Conduct 76% connected

The act or method of conducting; guidance; management.

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Demeanor 76% connected

Management; treatment; conduct.

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Deportment 76% connected

Manner of deporting or demeaning one's self; manner of acting; conduct; carriage; especially, manner of acting with respect to the courtesies and dut…

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form 76% connected

A suffix used to denote in the form / shape of, resembling, etc.; as, valiform; oviform.

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Kind 76% connected

Characteristic of the species; belonging to one's nature; natural; native.

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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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Sort 76% connected

Chance; lot; destiny.

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Variety 76% connected

The quality or state of being various; intermixture or succession of different things; diversity; multifariousness.

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Fashion 92% connected

The make or form of anything; the style, shape, appearance, or mode of structure; pattern, model; as, the fashion of the ark, of a coat, of a house,…

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Mode 92% connected

Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.

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Style 92% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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Way 92% connected

Away.

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