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Minutia

A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.

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Detail 76% connected

A minute portion; one of the small parts; a particular; an item; -- used chiefly in the plural; as, the details of a scheme or transaction.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Item 76% connected

Also; as an additional article.

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Point 76% connected

To appoint.

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Quality 76% connected

The condition of being of such and such a sort as distinguished from others; nature or character relatively considered, as of goods; character; sort;…

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Ability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 86% connection

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…

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Adequacy noun · 86% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Air noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Appearance noun · 86% connection

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

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Aridity noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Asset noun · 86% connection

a useful or valuable quality

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Atmosphere noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Attraction noun · 86% connection

the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"

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Aura noun · 86% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Bad noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Badness noun · 86% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Barrenness noun · 86% connection

the quality of yielding nothing of value

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Believability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Brachycephalism noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Brachycephaly noun · 86% connection

the quality of being brachycephalic

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Credibility noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Credibleness noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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-en unknown · 78% connection

A suffix from AS. -an, formerly used to form the plural of many nouns, as in ashen, eyen, oxen, all obs. except oxen. In some cases, s…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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A unknown · 78% connection

The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the sca…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Abbreviator noun · 78% connection

One of a college of seventy-two officers of the papal court whose duty is to make a short minute of a decision on a petition, or reply…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Britt noun · 78% connection

The minute marine animals (chiefly Entomostraca) upon which the right whales feed.

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Capillary adjective · 78% connection

Resembling a hair; fine; minute; very slender; having minute tubes or interspaces; having very small bore; as, the capillary vessels o…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Cleistogamous adjective · 78% connection

Having, beside the usual flowers, other minute, closed flowers, without petals or with minute petals; -- said of certain species of pl…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Confine noun · 78% connection

Common boundary; border; limit; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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D unknown · 78% connection

The nominal of the second tone in the model major scale (that in C), or of the fourth tone in the relative minor scale of C (that in A…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Datum noun · 78% connection

Something given or admitted; a fact or principle granted; that upon which an inference or an argument is based; -- used chiefly in the…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Dual adjective · 78% connection

a grammatical number category referring to two items or units as opposed to one item (singular) or more than two items (plural); "anci…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Finish noun · 78% connection

The labor required to give final completion to any work; hence, minute detail, careful elaboration, or the like.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: minute, small, minor, detail, chiefly.
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Fretwork noun · 78% connection

Work adorned with frets; ornamental openwork or work in relief, esp. when elaborate and minute in its parts. Hence, any minute play of…

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