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Trait

A stroke; a touch.

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Activeness 76% connected

The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

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Activity 76% connected

The state or quality of being active; nimbleness; agility; vigorous action or operation; energy; active force; as, an increasing variety of human act…

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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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Character 76% connected

A distinctive mark; a letter, figure, or symbol.

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Cleanliness 76% connected

State of being cleanly; neatness of person or dress.

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Communicativeness 76% connected

The quality of being communicative.

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Conceit 76% connected

That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

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Conceitedness 76% connected

The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity.

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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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Discipline 76% connected

The treatment suited to a disciple or learner; education; development of the faculties by instruction and exercise; training, whether physical, menta…

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Distrust 76% connected

To feel absence of trust in; not to confide in or rely upon; to deem of questionable sufficiency or reality; to doubt; to be suspicious of; to mistru…

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Drive 76% connected

To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to;…

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Earnestness 76% connected

The state or quality of being earnest; intentness; anxiety.

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Egoism 76% connected

The doctrine of certain extreme adherents or disciples of Descartes and Johann Gottlieb Fichte, which finds all the elements of knowledge in the ego…

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Emotionalism 76% connected

The cultivation of an emotional state of mind; tendency to regard things in an emotional manner.

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Femininity 76% connected

The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.

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Fiber 76% connected

Alt. of Fibre

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Fibre 76% connected

One of the delicate, threadlike portions of which the tissues of plants and animals are in part constituted; as, the fiber of flax or of muscle.

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Firmness 76% connected

The state or quality of being firm.

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Flexibility 76% connected

The state or quality of being flexible; flexibleness; pliancy; pliability; as, the flexibility of strips of hemlock, hickory, whalebone or metal, or…

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Folly 76% connected

The state of being foolish; want of good sense; levity, weakness, or derangement of mind.

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Foolishness 76% connected

The quality of being foolish.

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Frivolity 76% connected

The condition or quality of being frivolous; also, acts or habits of trifling; unbecoming levity of disposition.

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Humbleness 76% connected

The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.

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Humility 76% connected

The state or quality of being humble; freedom from pride and arrogance; lowliness of mind; a modest estimate of one's own worth; a sense of one's own…

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Inactivity 76% connected

The state or quality of being inactive; inertness; as, the inactivity of matter.

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Indiscipline 76% connected

Want of discipline or instruction.

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Individualism 76% connected

The quality of being individual; individuality; personality.

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Individuality 76% connected

The quality or state of being individual or constituting an individual; separate or distinct existence; oneness; unity.

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Individuation 76% connected

The act of individuating or state of being individuated; individualization.

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Inertia 76% connected

That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direc…

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Intractability 76% connected

The quality of being intractable; intractableness.

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Irresolution 76% connected

Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillatio…

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Judgement 76% connected

the capacity to assess situations or circumstances shrewdly and to draw sound conclusions

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Judgment 76% connected

The act of judging; the operation of the mind, involving comparison and discrimination, by which a knowledge of the values and relations of thins, wh…

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Masculinity 76% connected

The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness.

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Mistrust 76% connected

Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.

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Muliebrity 76% connected

The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.

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Nature 76% connected

The existing system of things; the world of matter, or of matter and mind; the creation; the universe.

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Perspicacity 76% connected

The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment.

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Pride 76% connected

A small European lamprey (Petromyzon branchialis); -- called also prid, and sandpiper.

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Resoluteness 76% connected

The quality of being resolute.

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Resolution 76% connected

The act, operation, or process of resolving. Specifically: (a) The act of separating a compound into its elements or component parts. (b) The act of…

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Resolve 76% connected

To separate the component parts of; to reduce to the constituent elements; -- said of compound substances; hence, sometimes, to melt, or dissolve.

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Ruralism 76% connected

The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.

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Rurality 76% connected

The quality or state of being rural.

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Self-concern 76% connected

Concern for one's self.

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Self-interest 76% connected

Private interest; the interest or advantage of one's self.

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Sincerity 76% connected

The quality or state of being sincere; honesty of mind or intention; freedom from simulation, hypocrisy, disguise, or false pretense; sincereness.

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Stinginess 76% connected

The quality or state of being stingy.

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Tractability 76% connected

The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

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Trust 76% connected

Assured resting of the mind on the integrity, veracity, justice, friendship, or other sound principle, of another person; confidence; reliance; relia…

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Trustiness 76% connected

The quality or state of being trusty.

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Vanity 76% connected

The quality or state of being vain; want of substance to satisfy desire; emptiness; unsubstantialness; unrealness; falsity.

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Wisdom 76% connected

The quality of being wise; knowledge, and the capacity to make due use of it; knowledge of the best ends and the best means; discernment and judgment…

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Wiseness 76% connected

Wisdom.

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Attribute 76% connected

To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to…

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Personality 70% connected

That which constitutes distinction of person; individuality.

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