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  2. Oxymoron - Wikipedia

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    Listing of antonyms, such as "good and evil", "great and small", etc., does not create oxymorons, as it is not implied that any given object has the two opposing properties simultaneously. In some languages, it is not necessary to place a conjunction like and between the two antonyms; such compounds (not necessarily of antonyms) are known as ...

  3. WordNet - Wikipedia

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    WordNet is a lexical database of semantic relations between words that links words into semantic relations including synonyms, hyponyms, and meronyms.The synonyms are grouped into synsets with short definitions and usage examples.

  4. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  5. Laziness - Wikipedia

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    It is often used as a pejorative; terms for a person seen to be lazy include "couch potato", "slacker", and "bludger". Related concepts include sloth , a Christian sin, abulia , a medical term for reduced motivation, and lethargy , a state of lacking energy.

  6. Here's why being lazy can be a good thing, according to science

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    Turns out, being lazy can be a good thing. Although it may feel counterintuitive to slow down and take a step back from your usual grind, science shows there are many physical, mental and ...

  7. Being lazy is a sign of high intelligence, study shows - AOL

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    Being lazy is a sign of high intelligence, study says That's because lazy people have more time to think. People who fill their day with a lot of physical activity are described as "non-thinkers."

  8. List of English back-formations - Wikipedia

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    amaze from Middle English amased [1] ambivalent from ambivalence [1] ameliorate perhaps from amelioration in some cases [1] annunciate perhaps from annunciation in some cases [1] anticline from anticlinal [5] antipode from antipodes (non-standard) appeal (n.) from Old French apel, back-formation from apeler [1] apperceive (in modern ...

  9. 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.