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  2. Honne and tatemae - Wikipedia

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    In Japan, honne and tatemae are Japanese terms relating to a person's feelings and outward behaviors. [1] Honne refers to a person's true feelings and desires (本音, hon'ne, "true sound"), and tatemae refers contrastingly to the behavior and opinions one displays in public (建前, tatemae, "built in front", "façade").

  3. Heteronym (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    one who ties transfer / ˈ t r æ n s f ər / noun a movement of something from one place to another / t r æ n s ˈ f ɜːr / verb to move something from one place to another (the verb can be accented on either syllable) use / ˈ j uː s / noun function, benefit / ˈ j uː z / verb employ, utilize unionized / ˈ j uː n i ə n aɪ z d ...

  4. List of words having different meanings in American and ...

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    many figurative senses derived from baseball, e.g. off one's base (crazy), to get to first base (esp. in neg. constr., to get a first important result); more recently (slang), a metaphor for one of three different stages in making out (q.v.) – see baseball metaphors for sex; more s.v. home run: bash

  5. Distinction without a difference - Wikipedia

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    It is particularly used when a word or phrase has connotations associated with it that one party to an argument prefers to avoid. For example, a person might say "I did not lie; I merely stretched the truth a little bit." [2]

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...

  7. Emotional lability - Wikipedia

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    Potential triggers of emotional lability include excessive tiredness, stress or anxiety, overstimulated senses (too much noise, being in large crowds, etc.), being around others exhibiting strong emotions, very sad or funny situations (such as jokes, movies, certain stories or books), death of a loved one, or other situations that elicit stress ...

  8. Emotional detachment - Wikipedia

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    Despair by Edvard Munch (1894) captures emotional detachment seen in Borderline Personality Disorder. [1] [2]In psychology, emotional detachment, also known as emotional blunting, is a condition or state in which a person lacks emotional connectivity to others, whether due to an unwanted circumstance or as a positive means to cope with anxiety.

  9. Semantic change - Wikipedia

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    Permutation: non-intentional shift of one referent to another due to a reinterpretation of a situation, e.g., bead "prayer" → "pearl in a rosary") Adequation: Change in the attitude of a concept; distinction from substitution is unclear. This classification does not neatly distinguish between processes and forces/causes of semantic change.