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Waking

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Awake 84% connected

To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Awake 84% connected

To rouse from sleep; to wake; to awaken.

oewn 2023 50% interchangeable

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Consciousness 76% connected

The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Wake 74% connected

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Wake 74% connected

The track left by a vessel in the water; by extension, any track; as, the wake of an army.

oewn 2023 15% interchangeable

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Wakeful 92% connected

Not sleeping; indisposed to sleep; watchful; vigilant.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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Abience noun · 71% connection

(psychology) an urge to withdraw or avoid a situation or an object

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Adience noun · 71% connection

(psychology) an urge to accept or approach a situation or an object

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Ambiversion noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a balanced disposition intermediate between extroversion and introversion

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Association theory noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a theory that association is the basic principle of mental activity

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Breaking point noun · 71% connection

(psychology) stress at which a person breaks down or a situation becomes crucial

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Chunking noun · 71% connection

(psychology) the configuration of smaller units of information into large coordinated units

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Configurationism noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties

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Constitutional psychology noun · 71% connection

(Psychology) a school of thought postulating that the personality of an individual is dependent on the type of their physique (somatot…

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Double bind noun · 71% connection

(psychology) an unresolvable dilemma; situation in which a person receives contradictory messages from a person who is very powerful

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Experimenter bias noun · 71% connection

(psychology) bias introduced by an experimenter whose expectations about the outcome of the experiment can be subtly communicated to t…

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Extravert noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings

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Extrovert noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a person concerned more with practical realities than with inner thoughts and feelings

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Generalisation noun · 71% connection

(psychology) transfer of a response learned to one stimulus to a similar stimulus

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Gestalt psychology noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a theory of psychology that emphasizes the importance of configurational properties

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Introjection noun · 71% connection

(psychology) unconscious internalization of aspects of the world (especially aspects of persons) within the self in such a way that th…

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Law of effect noun · 71% connection

(psychology) the principle that behaviors are selected by their consequences; behavior having good consequences tends to be repeated w…

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Mental condition noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic;…

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Mental state noun · 71% connection

(psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic;…

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Aftermath noun · 78% connection

the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how m…

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Awaken verb · 78% connection

To rouse from sleep or torpor; to awake; to wake.

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Backwash noun · 78% connection

the consequences of an event (especially a catastrophic event); "the aftermath of war"; "in the wake of the accident no one knew how m…

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Cuckoopint noun · 78% connection

A plant of the genus Arum (A. maculatum); the European wake-robin.

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Latewake noun · 78% connection

See Lich wake, under Lich.

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Lords and Ladies unknown · 78% connection

The European wake-robin (Arum maculatum), -- those with purplish spadix the lords, and those with pale spadix the ladies.

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Psychopannychism noun · 78% connection

The doctrine that the soul falls asleep at death, and does not wake until the resurrection of the body.

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Rewake v. t. & i. · 78% connection

To wake again.

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Rouse verb · 78% connection

To wake from sleep or repose; as, to rouse one early or suddenly.

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Track noun · 78% connection

A mark left by something that has passed along; as, the track, or wake, of a ship; the track of a meteor; the track of a sled or a whe…

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Waked imp. & p. p. · 78% connection

of Wake

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Waken verb · 78% connection

To wake; to cease to sleep; to be awakened.

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Watch verb · 78% connection

To be awake; to be or continue without sleep; to wake; to keep vigil.

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Woke unknown · 78% connection

of Wake

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