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Dramatica Dictionary
Dramatica
Synonyms
Ability
-- [Element] -- innate capacity, capability, talent for, inherent
proficiency
Ability --
[Variation] -- talent, knack, capability, capacity, faculty
Acceptance
-- [Element] -- acquiescence, tolerance, allowance for, consent,
submission
Accurate --
[Element] -- within tolerance, sufficient, adequate, acceptable,
passable
Activity --
[Class] -- (Physics) an activity, an enterprise, an initiative,
an endeavor, an operation
Actuality --
[Element] -- the true state of things, objective reality, factuality,
demonstrable existence, demonstrable reality
Analysis --
[Variation] -- evaluation, examination, breakdown of situation,
close investigation, scrutinization
Appraisal --
[Variation] -- first impression, preliminary understanding, initial
approach, initial assimilation
Approach --
[Variation] -- method, procedure, style, manner, manner of doing,
one's own way
Attempt --
[Variation] -- try, uncertain undertaking, speculative endeavor,
dubious effort, endeavor, unlikely venture
Attitude --
[Variation] -- demeanor, manner of approach, countenance, behavioral
outlook, perspective on doing
Attraction
-- [Variation] -- allure, enticement, charm, captivate, appeal,
draw, lure
Avoid -- [Element]
-- evade, dodge, elude, escape, steer clear of, prevent
Aware -- [Element]
-- outward perceptiveness, external sensitivity, consciousness of the
external, responsive
Becoming --
[Type] -- changing one's nature, embodying, manifesting, personifying,
incarnating, transforming
Being -- [Type]
-- playing a role, pretending, appearing, acting like, seeming as, fulfilling
a role
Cause -- [Element]
-- engender, induce, elicit, determinant, reason for, factor, effector,
source, agent, antecedent
Certainty --
[Element] -- sureness, definiteness, having no doubts, total reliability,
indisputability, irrefutability, unmistakability, certitude, conviction
Change -- [Element]
-- altering, altering force, modify, reshape, adjust, adapt
Changing One's
Nature -- [Type] -- becoming, embodying, manifesting, personifying,
incarnating, transforming
Chaos -- [Element]
-- randomness, anarchy, disorder, formlessness, noncohesion
Choice -- [Variation]
-- decision, selection, determination, pick
Circumstances
-- [Variation] -- how things stand emotionally, emotional evaluation
of the environment, value of existing conditions, relationship to others
Closure --
[Variation] -- finishing, completion, resolution, recursive
Commitment
-- [Variation] -- dedication, devotion, steadfastness, zeal
Conceiving (An
Idea) -- [Type] -- originating, inventing, devising, engendering,
hatching ideas
Conceptualizing
-- [Type] -- developing a plan, visualizing, imagining, envisioning,
visualizing implementation
Conditioning
-- [Variation] -- habituation, trained response, accustomed response,
adaptive adjustments
Confidence
-- [Variation] -- hopeful prospects, positive expectations, faithful
anticipation, optimism
Conscience
-- [Element] -- forgoing for fear of consequences, forgo, forbearance,
temperance, abstinence, restraining oneself
Conscious --
[Type] -- considerations, sensibilities, cognizant, ability to
consider, sensible, informed contemplation, contemplation
Consider --
[Element] -- deliberate, contemplate, ponder, weigh in the mind,
mull
Contemplation
-- [Type] -- conscious considerations, sensibilities, cognizant,
ability to consider, sensible, informed contemplation
Control --
[Element] -- regulate, organized management, steer, conduct, guide,
manipulate, focused organization
Deduction --
[Element] -- drawing a conclusion, process of elimination, demonstrative
reasoning, narrowing to a single point
Deficiency
-- [Variation] -- inadequacy, insufficiency, deficit, unfulfilled
need
Delay -- [Variation]
-- put off, retard, postpone, defer, suspend, prolong, procrastinate
Denial -- [Variation]
-- not accepting, refusal to end, unwillingness to let go, refusal to
back down, stubbornness, uncompliant
Desire -- [Element]
-- drive, motivational goal, unfulfillment, source of discontent, essence
of motivation
Desire -- [Variation]--
want, favor, like, covet, prefer, wish, aspire
Destiny --
[Variation] -- inescapable path, predetermined trajectory, set
direction of the future, inevitable path, unavoidable trajectory
Determination
-- [Element] -- ascertaining causes, discovering causes, finding
the reasons why, figuring out factors, discerning antecedents
Developing A Plan
-- [Type] -- conceptualizing, visualizing, imagining, envisioning,
visualizing implementation
Disbelief
-- [Element] -- refusal to accept, distrust, find unconvincing,
find false, unpersuadability
Doing -- [Type]
-- performing, executing, effecting action, acting
Doubt -- [Variation]
-- pessimism, uninformed misgivings, uncertainty, trepidation, distrust
Dream -- [Variation]
-- aspire, desiring the unlikely, pulling for the doubtful, airy hope,
glimmer, far fetched desire
Effect -- [Element]
-- result, consequence, outcome, culmination, the ensuing
Ending -- [Element]
-- conclusion, finish, completion, termination, close
Enlightenment
-- [Variation] -- insight, illumination, intuitive discernment,
transcendent comprehension
Equity -- [Element]
-- balance, fairness, parity, equilibrium, level, even
Evaluation
-- [Element] -- appraisal, analysis, assessment, survey, examination
Evidence --
[Variation] -- proof, indicator, supporting information, corroborating
facts, grounds for belief, substantiation
Expectation
-- [Element] -- anticipated results, eventual outcome, presumed
prospects, probable denouement, likely consequences
Expediency
-- [Variation] -- advisability, convenience, prudent efficiency
Experience
-- [Variation] -- familiarization, level of practice, seasoning,
accumulated feelings, accumulated dealings with
Fact -- [Variation]
-- belief in the genuine, ultimately real beliefs, truly real beliefs,
authentic notion, authentic idea, correct knowledge, correct beliefs
Faith -- [Element]
-- acceptance without proof, steadfast belief, confidence in unproven,
credence, unquestioned trust
Falsehood --
[Variation] -- erroneousness, untruth, erroneous notion, mistaken,
astray, dishonest
Fantasy --
[Variation] -- false belief, faith in the imaginary, delusion,
erroneous conviction
Fate -- [Variation]
-- inevitable events, unpreventable incidents, eventual events, destined
occurrence, destined events, unavoidable situations
Feeling --
[Element] -- empathy, emotional sensibility, affective outlook,
sentiment, emotional assessment
Fixed Attitude
-- [Class] -- mind, attitude, fixation, position on an issue, fixed
point of view, disposition
Future -- [Type]
-- what is to come, what will be, prospect, prospective
Help -- [Element]
-- aid, assist, support, bolster, abet
Hinder -- [Element]
-- retard, obstruct, impede, fetter, undermine, block, burden, encumber,
thwart
Hope -- [Variation]
-- desired expectation, optimistic anticipation, confident aspiration,
promise, encouraging outlook
How Things Are
Going -- [Type] -- progress, flowing, advancing, proceeding,
moving forward, developing step by step, graduated, staging, successive,
procession, the way things are going
Hunch -- [Element]
-- intuition, premonition, impression, suspicion
Impulsive Responses
-- [Type] -- preconscious, unthinking responses, immediate responses,
impulse, impulsive response, instinctive response, innate response, reflex
Inaction --
[Element] -- passive reaction, inactive response, achieve through
not doing
Induction --
[Element] -- postulate, predicate, conjecture, infer, hypothesize,
determine possibility
Inequity --
[Element] -- imbalance, unfair, disparity, unequal, uneven, disproportionate
Inertia --
[Element] -- tendency to continue, a change resistant pattern,
continuation, following an established direction
Innermost Desires
-- [Type] -- subconscious, libido, id, basic motivations, basic
drives, anima
Instinct --
[Variation] -- involuntary drive, innate impulse, unconditioned
response, automatic response, unconditioned motivation
Interdiction
-- [Variation] -- altering the future, interfering with the predetermined,
hindering the inevitable, escaping the predestined
Interpretation
-- [Variation] -- construe, rendition, rendering meaning, elucidate,
translating meaning
Investigation
-- [Variation] -- inquiry, research, probe, sleuthing, delving,
query
Knowledge --
[Element] -- learnedness, held truths, authoritative certainty,
generally agreed upon truths
Knowledge --
[Variation] -- held truth, maintained information, presumed facts,
accepted ideas
Learning --
[Type] -- cultivating experience, acquiring information, collecting
data, gathering knowledge
Logic -- [Element]
-- linear reasoning, rationality, structural sensibility, syllogistics
Manipulation
-- [Class] -- psychology, ways of thinking, thinking process, activity
of the psyche, manipulation of others
Memory -- [Type]
-- remembering, recollections, reminiscence, recalling, retention
Mind -- [Class]
-- attitude, fixed attitude, fixation, position on an issue, fixed point
of view, disposition
Morality --
[Variation] -- selflessness, altruism, benevolence, generosity
Need -- [Variation]
-- subjective necessity, urge, demand, imperative
Non-Acceptance
-- [Element] -- run counter to, reject, decline, repudiate, resist,
refusal to compromise
Non-Accurate
-- [Element] -- not within tolerance, insufficiency, inadequacy,
deviancy, deficient to the purpose
Obligation
-- [Variation] -- agreement, pledge, contract, accepted compulsion,
emotional contract
Obtaining --
[Type] -- controlling for oneself, possessing, having, keeping
Openness --
[Variation] -- broad mindedness, tolerance, willingness to reevaluate,
receptiveness
Oppose -- [Element]
-- object to, speak out against, argue against, protest, dispute, show
disapproval of, detract from
Order -- [Element]--
structure, patterned arrangement, organization, patterned formation, formation,
configuration, patterned sequence
Past -- [Type]
-- history, what has happened, former times, retrospective
Perception
-- [Element] -- appearance, how things seem to be, discernment,
a particular reading of things, a point of view on reality, a way of seeing
Permission
-- [Variation] -- constrained ability, limited capability, restricted
capacity, hindered performance, allowed limitations, restrained utility
Physics --
[Class] -- an activity, an enterprise, an initiative, an endeavor,
an operation
Playing A Role
-- [Type] -- being, pretending, appearing, acting like, seeming
as, fulfilling a role
Possibility
-- [Element] -- plausibility, viability, conceivable eventualities,
open assessment
Potentiality
-- [Element] -- chance, precariousness, focusing on the uncertain,
going with the improbable
Preconception
-- [Variation] -- prejudice, closed mindedness, narrow mindedness,
intolerance, stubbornness, unwillingness to reevaluate
Preconditions
-- [Variation] -- provision, prescribed specification, imposed
stipulation, limiting parameters, imposed limitations
Preconscious
-- [Type] -- unthinking responses, immediate responses, impulse,
impulsive response, instinctive response, innate response, reflex
Prediction
-- [Variation] -- foresight, foreseeing, anticipation, envisioning
one's future, prophecy, forecast, foretell, prognosticate
Prerequisites
-- [Variation] -- essential steps, necessary requisites, compulsory
stipulation
Present --
[Type] -- how things stand, the here and now, current situation,
as of this moment
Proaction --
[Element] -- to initiate action, execute, undertake, commit, implement
Probability
-- [Element] -- likelihood, prospective, predictable, promising
Process --
[Element] -- chain of interactions, manner of procedure, cause/effect
relation, progression, ongoing pull or tendency
Production
-- [Element] -- determining potential, noticing possibilities,
ruling out future impossibilities, discovering of potential
Progress --
[Type] -- flowing, advancing, proceeding, moving forward, developing
step by step, graduated, staging, successive, procession, the way things
are going
Projection -- [Element]
-- anticipation, how things will be, most likely, probable
Protection
-- [Element] -- defense, safeguard, preservation, precaution
Proven -- [Element]
-- verified, confirmed, corroborated, established, demonstrated, shown
Psychology
-- [Class] -- ways of thinking, thinking process, activity of the
psyche, manipulation of others
Pursuit --
[Element] -- seek, go after, attempt to achieve, look for, directed
effort
Rationalization
-- [Variation] -- fabricated excuse, ulterior explanation, false
justification, artificial reason
Reaction --
[Element] -- response, reply, acting from stimulus, goaded to action
Re-appraisal
-- [Variation] -- reassess, rechecking, checking up, re-examining
a conclusion, re-evaluating a conclusion
Reconsider
-- [Element] -- re-examining conclusions, rethinking, to mull over
again, further deliberation, additional scrutiny
Reduction --
[Element] -- determining probability, comparisons of potentiality,
measurement of likelihood, judging probabilities
Re-evaluation
-- [Element] -- re-appraisal, further assessment, subsequent analysis,
scrutiny of first impressions
Repulsion --
[Variation] -- unattractive, repellent, foreboding, unsavory, pushing
away, forcing back
Responsibility
-- [Variation] -- assumed propriety, believed appropriateness,
self designated aptness, accepted suitability
Result -- [Element]
-- ramifications of an effect, consequence, repercussion, impact, end
product
Security --
[Variation] -- evaluation of safety, measure of safeguards, appraisal
of one's protections, gauge of defenses
Self-Aware
-- [Element] -- self-conscious, conscious of one's existence, self-perceiving,
self-appreciating, self-cognizant
Self-Interest
-- [Variation] -- self-serving, self-centered, narcissistic, selfishness,
self-absorbed, egocentric
Sense of Self
-- [Variation] -- perception of self, self image, self identity,
self attribution
Senses -- [Variation]
-- perceptual data, raw sensations, sensory impressions, immediate impressions,
perceptions
Situation ·
[Class] · (Universe) a situation, a set of circumstances,
state of affairs, predicament, environment, milieu
Situation --
[Variation] -- how things stand rationally, a reasoned evaluation
of environment, arranged context, environmental state, surroundings, predicament
Skill -- [Variation]
-- proficiency, aptitude, competence, adeptness, degree of expertise,
practiced ability, honed ability
Speculation
-- [Element] -- prognostication, surmising possibilities, conjecturing
State-of-Being
-- [Variation] -- essence, one's true self, true self, essential
nature, core being
Strategy --
[Variation] -- scheme, tactic, plan, ploy, decided approach
Subconscious·
[Type] -- innermost desires, libido, id, basic motivations, basic
drives, anima
Support --
[Element] -- commend, extol, endorse, back, compliment, laud
Suspicion --
[Variation] -- wary approach, partially justified apprehension,
informed doubt, doubt based on evidence, sensible caution
Temptation
-- [Element] -- indulge, embracing immediate benefits, intemperance,
immoderation
Test -- [Element]
-- trial of validity, examination, audit, inspection, scrutinization
Theory -- [Element]
-- structured explanation, concrete hypothesis, systematized descriptive
knowledge, description of linear connections
Thought --
[Element] -- the process of consideration, thinking, contemplation,
mental attention, running over in your mind
Thought --
[Variation] -- consideration, contemplation, ponderence, musing,
reflection
Threat -- [Variation]
-- perceived danger, indication of peril, perceived vulnerability, warning,
detected hazard
Trust -- [Element]
-- untried acceptance, untested belief in, accept implicitly, assumed
dependability, unquestioned reliance on
Truth -- [Variation]
-- honesty, correct information, correct notion, verity
Unending --
[Element] -- continual, ongoing, perpetual, ceaseless, interminable,
incessant, perennial
Uncontrolled
-- [Element] -- unregulated, disorganized, unfocused, rampant,
unguided, open, frenzy
Understanding
-- [Type] -- comprehending, grasping, appreciating, obtaining meaning,
acquiring meaning
Universe ·
[Class] · a situation, a set of circumstances, state of affairs,
predicament, environment, milieu
Unproven ·
[Element] · unverified, unconfirmed, unestablished, undemonstrated,
untried
Value ·
[Variation] · utility, objective appraisal, general usefulness
Wisdom ·
[Variation] · mental mastery, integrated understanding, seasoned
understanding, comprehension, astute cogency
Work ·
[Variation] · appropriate undertaking, suitable task, manageable
labor, a performable activity
Worry ·
[Variation] · anxiety, concern, apprehension, misgivings
Worth ·
[Variation] · subjective value, individual appraisal, personal
importance
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