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  • 101insipidity — n 1. flatness, uninterestingness, jejuneness, jejunity, colorlessness, inexpressiveness, unimagi nativeness, lack of imagination or expression, insipidness; lifelessness, saplessness, spiritlessness, zestlessness, lack of vitality or animation,… …

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  • 102meekness — n 1. humility, humbleness, modesty, unpretentiousness, unassumingness, unpresumptuousness, unobtrusiveness, freedom from pride or arrogance, reserve, restraint. 2. submissiveness, deference, compliance, complaisance, willingness, acquiescence;… …

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  • 103mildness — n 1. gentleness, tenderness, softness; amiability, affability, geniality, cordiality, graciousness, kindheartedness, benignity, benignancy, mansue tude, kindliness, warmth, milk of human kindness, sweetness; forbearance, patience, toleration,… …

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  • 104passiveness — n 1. unresponsiveness, undemonstrativeness, dispassion, stoicism, philosophi calness; impassiveness, impassivity, stolidity, stolidness, bovinity; imperturbability, unprovokability; cool, coolness, composure. 2. inactivity, nonparticipation,… …

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  • 105passivity — n 1. unresponsiveness, undemonstrativeness, dispassion, stoicism, philosophi calness; impassiveness, impassivity, stolidity, stolidness, bovinity; imperturbability, unprovokability; cool, coolness, composure. 2. inactivity, nonparticipation,… …

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  • 106mansuetude — man•sue•tude [[t]ˈmæn swɪˌtud, ˌtyud[/t]] n. mildness; gentleness • Etymology: 1350–1400; ME < L mānsuētūdō tameness, mildness …

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  • 107noddy — nod•dy [[t]ˈnɒd i[/t]] n. pl. dies 1) orn any of several small, usu. dark bodied terns of the genus Anous, frequenting warm oceanic waters 2) a fool or simpleton • Etymology: 1520–30; perh. n. use of obs. noddy (adj.) silly (alluding to the bird… …

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  • 108tame — /teɪm / (say taym) adjective (tamer, tamest) 1. changed from the wild or savage state; domesticated: a tame bear. 2. gentle, fearless, or without shyness, as if domesticated, as an animal. 3. tractable, docile, or submissive, as a person, the… …

  • 109tamō- — *tamō , *tamōn, *tama , *taman germ.?, schwach Maskulinum (n): nhd. Zahmheit; ne. tameness; Rekontruktionsbasis: ae.; Hinweis: s. *tama ; Etymologie: s. ing. *demə , *domə …

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  • 110obedience — [n] good behavior; submissiveness accordance, acquiescence, agreement, compliance, conformability, conformity, deference, docility, duteousness, dutifulness, duty, manageability, meekness, observance, orderliness, quietness, respect, reverence,… …

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