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Originality

The quality or state of being original.

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Ability 76% connected

The quality or state of being able; power to perform, whether physical, moral, intellectual, conventional, or legal; capacity; skill or competence in…

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Power 76% connected

Same as Poor, the fish.

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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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Freshness 76% connected

The state of being fresh.

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Heterodoxy 76% connected

An opinion or doctrine, or a system of doctrines, contrary to some established standard of faith, as the Scriptures, the creed or standards of a chur…

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Novelty 76% connected

The quality or state of being novel; newness; freshness; recentness of origin or introduction.

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Original 74% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Original 74% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Original 66% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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Original 66% connected

Pertaining to the origin or beginning; preceding all others; first in order; primitive; primary; pristine; as, the original state of man; the origina…

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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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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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Believability noun · 86% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Concept noun · 86% connection

an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

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Conception noun · 86% connection

an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

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Construct noun · 86% connection

an abstract or general idea inferred or derived from specific instances

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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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Evidence noun · 86% connection

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

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Good noun · 86% connection

that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self…

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Grounds noun · 86% connection

your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compellin…

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Hardness noun · 86% connection

a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that prevent soap from lathering; "the costs of reducing hardness depend on t…

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Humour noun · 86% connection

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

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Linear perspective noun · 86% connection

the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer

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Morbidity noun · 86% connection

the quality of being unhealthful and generally bad for you

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Aboriginal adjective · 78% connection

First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America.

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Aborigines n. pl. · 78% connection

The original fauna and flora of a geographical area

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Abstract adjective · 78% connection

A powdered solid extract of a vegetable substance mixed with sugar of milk in such proportion that one part of the abstract represents…

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Adam noun · 78% connection

"Original sin;" human frailty.

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Agree verb · 78% connection

To be conformable; to resemble; to coincide; to correspond; as, the picture does not agree with the original; the two scales agree exa…

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Analysis noun · 78% connection

A resolution of anything, whether an object of the senses or of the intellect, into its constituent or original elements; an examinati…

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Andromeda noun · 78% connection

A genus of ericaceous flowering plants of northern climates, of which the original species was found growing on a rock surrounded by w…

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Atavism noun · 78% connection

The recurrence, or a tendency to a recurrence, of the original type of a species in the progeny of its varieties; resemblance to remot…

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Backup noun · 78% connection

(computer science) a copy of a file or directory on a separate storage device; "he made a backup in case the original was accidentally…

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Best evidence rule noun · 78% connection

a rule of evidence requiring that to prove the content of a writing or recording or photograph the original is required

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Bosonic string theory noun · 78% connection

the original version of string theory, developed in the late 1960s.; "Although bosonic string theory has many attractive features, it…

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Catathymia noun · 78% connection

A state in which mental processes are under the control of the emotions.; "The original idea of catathymia forwarded by Maier (1912),…

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Chemical decomposition reaction noun · 78% connection

(chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance

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