Oppressiveness

  • 71humidity — (Roget s IV) n. Syn. moisture, wetness, dampness, mugginess, dankness, heaviness, sogginess, thickness, fogginess, wet, sultriness, steaminess, steam, vaporization, dankness, evaporation, sweatiness, humectation, dewiness, humidification,… …

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  • 72grief — [13] ‘Oppressiveness’ is the link between modern English grief and Latin gravis (source of English gravity). The Latin adjective meant ‘heavy, weighty’, and it formed the basis of a verb gravāre ‘weigh upon, oppress’. This passed into Old French… …

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  • 73aggravation — (n.) late 15c., from M.Fr. aggravation, from L.L. aggravationem (nom. aggravatio), noun of action from pp. stem of L. aggravare make heavier, figuratively to embarrass further, increase in oppressiveness, from ad to (see AD (Cf. ad )) + gravare… …

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  • 74oppressive — (adj.) 1641, from M.L. oppressivus, from pp. stem of opprimere (see OPPRESS (Cf. oppress)). Related: Oppressively; oppressiveness …

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  • 75hardhandedness — n. brutality, despotism, tyranny, oppressiveness …

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  • 76heaviness — heav·i·ness || hevɪnɪs n. condition of being heavy; weightiness, seriousness; oppressiveness …

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  • 77onerosities — n. being burdensome, oppressiveness …

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  • 78onerosity — n. being burdensome, oppressiveness …

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  • 79onerousness — on·er·ous·ness || É‘nÉ™rÉ™snɪs / É’n n. quality of being onerous; state of being burdensome; oppressiveness …

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  • 80Anxiety —    Anxiety and phobic thinking may be normal emotions, distinct clusters of symptoms ( syndromes *), or diseases in the sense of distinct illness entities.    In psychoanalysis, anxiety is used as a theoretical term, the presumed unconscious… …

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