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  2. Importance - Wikipedia

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    Importance is a property of entities that make a difference in the world. [1] [2] So for something to be important, it has to impact the world around it.For example, World War II was an important event in history both because of the suffering it caused and because of the long-term political changes it affected. [3]

  3. Endosex - Wikipedia

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    Endosex has been used to identify the importance of storytelling by intersex youth in their own words, and without being recontextualized or rewritten by non-intersex people. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The term can be distinguished from cisgender , an antonym of transgender , which is used to describe someone whose gender identity matches their sex assigned ...

  4. Unity of opposites - Wikipedia

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    We have in the latter part of the above paragraph referred to the philosophical importance of the antinomies of reason, and shown how the recognition of their existence helped largely to get rid of the rigid dogmatism of the metaphysic of understanding, and to direct attention to the Dialectical movement of thought. But here too Kant, as we ...

  5. Opposite - Wikipedia

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    An antonym is one of a pair of words with opposite meanings. Each word in the pair is the antithesis of the other. A word may have more than one antonym. There are three categories of antonyms identified by the nature of the relationship between the opposed meanings.

  6. Intrinsic value (ethics) - Wikipedia

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    As "ultimate importance" it is what a sentient being relates to in order to constitute a life stance. It is synonymous with the meaning of life, as this may be expressed as what is meaningful or valuable [8] in life. However, meaning of life is more vague, with other uses as well. Summum bonum is basically its equivalent in medieval philosophy.

  7. 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.

  8. Importance (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Importance is a property of things that matter or make a difference. Importance or Important may also refer to: Social status, the measurement of importance within society; Value (ethics), degree of importance of some thing or action

  9. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.