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  2. Negative affectivity - Wikipedia

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    In psychology, negative affectivity (NA), or negative affect, is a personality variable that involves the experience of negative emotions and poor self-concept. [1] Negative affectivity subsumes a variety of negative emotions, including anger , contempt , disgust , guilt , fear , [ 2 ] and nervousness .

  3. List of disability-related terms with negative connotations

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    The following is a list of terms, used to describe disabilities or people with disabilities, which may carry negative connotations or be offensive to people with or without disabilities. Some people consider it best to use person-first language , for example "a person with a disability" rather than "a disabled person."

  4. Foreign-language writing aid - Wikipedia

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    Foreign language learners can make use of thesaurus to find near synonyms of a word to expand their vocabulary skills and add variety to their writing. Many word processors are equipped with a basic function of thesaurus, allowing learners to change a word to another similar word with ease.

  5. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  6. Graphorrhea - Wikipedia

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    Graphorrhea can be distinguished in several ways. The patients' writing has a tendency to look 'scrawled' and it does not abide usual grammar regulations. The content produced is, for the most part, meaningless and hard to understand. In recent years, there have been developments in determining the presence of graphorrhoea.

  7. Anacoluthon - Wikipedia

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    The word anacoluthon is a transliteration of the Greek ἀνακόλουθον (anakólouthon), which derives from the privative prefix ἀν-an-'not', and the root adjective ἀκόλουθος akólouthos 'following'. This, incidentally, is precisely the meaning of the Latin phrase non sequitur in logic.

  8. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples. It can thus be seen as a combination and extension of a dictionary and thesaurus . While it is accessible to human users via a web browser , [ 2 ] its primary use is in automatic text analysis and artificial intelligence applications.

  9. List of commonly misused English words - Wikipedia

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    affect and effect. The verb affect means "to influence something", and the noun effect means "the result of". Effect can also be a verb that means "to cause [something] to be", while affect as a noun has technical meanings in psychology, music, and aesthetic theory: an emotion or subjectively experienced feeling. [10] [11] [12]