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  • 51optimism and pessimism — The term ‘optimism’ is first used in English in 1759, in reference to the work of Leibniz . The term ‘pessimism’ is recorded as first used by Coleridge in 1795. The best known and certainly the starkest expression of pessimism is from the Greek… …

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  • 52delicacy — Synonyms and related words: absoluteness, accommodatingness, accuracy, acquired taste, affectivity, agreeableness, airiness, airy texture, allergy, ambrosia, amiable weakness, anaphylaxis, appreciation, appreciation of differences, appreciation… …

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  • 53give — Synonyms and related words: abalienate, abandon, abstain from, accommodate, accord, act, adaptability, administer, afford, agreeability, aid, air, alien, alienate, allocate, allot, allow, amenability, amortize, announce, apply, apportion,… …

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  • 54soft spot — Synonyms and related words: a thing for, affinity, aptitude, aptness, assailability, bent, bias, cast, chink, conatus, conduciveness, delight, diathesis, disposition, eagerness, exposed nerve, feeling for, fondness, heel of Achilles, inclination …

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  • 55turn — Synonyms and related words: Charybdis, Platonic form, Platonic idea, S curve, a thing for, aberrancy, aberration, about ship, about face, access, acciaccatura, accommodation, accomplished fact, accomplishment, achievement, act, act of grace, act… …

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  • 56softness — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Quality of yielding readily to pressure Nouns 1. softness, pliableness, pliancy, pliability, flexibility; malleability; ductility, tractility; extendability, extensibility; plasticity; flaccidity,… …

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  • 57sensibility — n. 1. Feeling, sensitiveness, susceptibility, impressibility. 2. Delicacy of feeling, tender feeling, quick emotion …

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  • 58feeling — I. a. 1. Affecting, moving, touching, melting, pathetic. 2. Sensitive, tender, sympathetic. II. n. 1. Sense of touch. 2. Sensation, perception by touch. 3. Sensibility, emotion, sentiment, passion, affection, impression. 4 …

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  • 59feeling — n 1 sensibility, *sensation, sense Analogous words: reacting or reaction, behaving or behavior (see corresponding verbs at ACT): responsiveness (see corresponding adjective at TENDER): sensitiveness, susceptibility (see corresponding adjectives… …

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  • 60sensitivity — n 1. impressionability, susceptibility, receptiveness, receptivity, susceptiveness, susceptivity; responsiveness, reactiveness, sentience; sensibility, consciousness, aliveness; feeling, intuition, perception, perceptivity, awareness, insight,… …

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