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  2. 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.

  3. Acatalepsy - Wikipedia

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    Acatalepsy (from the Greek α̉-' privative ' and καταλαμβάνειν ' to seize '), in philosophy, is incomprehensibleness, or the impossibility of comprehending or conceiving some [1] or all things.

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    Synonyms often express a nuance of meaning or are used in different registers of speech or writing. Various technical domains may employ synonyms to convey precise technical nuances. Some writers avoid repeating the same word in close proximity, and prefer to use synonyms: this is called elegant variation. Many modern style guides criticize this.

  5. Onomasiology - Wikipedia

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    The first ones are Sprachatlas des Deutschen Reiches by Georg Wenker and Ferdinand Wrede, published beginning in 1888, the Atlas Linguistique de la France (ALF) by Jules Gilliéron (1902–1920), the Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz (AIS) by Karl Jaberg and Jakob Jud (1928–1940), the Deutscher Sprachatlas (DSA) by Ferdinand ...

  6. OpenThesaurus - Wikipedia

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    The cause for the start of the project was the arrival of OpenOffice.org in 2002, which was missing the thesaurus of its parent, StarOffice, due to its licensing.. OpenThesaurus filled that gap by importing possible synonyms from a freely available German/English dictionary and refining and updating these in crowdsourced work through the use of a web ap

  7. The Free Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The site cross-references the contents of dictionaries such as The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, the Collins English Dictionary; encyclopedias such as the Columbia Encyclopedia, the Computer Desktop Encyclopedia, the Hutchinson Encyclopedia (subscription), and Wikipedia; book publishers such as McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin, HarperCollins, as well as the Acronym Finder ...

  8. Google Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    Google Dictionary is an online dictionary service of Google that can be accessed with the "define" operator and other similar phrases [note 1] in Google Search. [2] It is also available in Google Translate and as a Google Chrome extension.

  9. Retronym - Wikipedia

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    The term retronym, a neologism composed of the combining forms retro-(from Latin retro, [3] "before") + -nym (from Greek ónoma, "name"), was coined by Frank Mankiewicz in 1980 and popularized by William Safire in The New York Times Magazine.