Term: nominalism: (philosophy) the doctrine that the various objects labeled by the same term have nothing in common but their name
Candidate hypernym: philosophical doctrine: a doctrine accepted by adherents to a philosophy → 1
Candidate hypernym: false pregnancy: physiological state in which a woman exhibits symptoms of pregnancy but is not pregnant → 0
Candidate hypernym: babassu: tall feather palm of northern Brazil with hard-shelled nuts yielding valuable oil and a kind of vegetable ivory → 0
Candidate hypernym: tosser: someone who throws lightly (as with the palm upward) → 0
Candidate hypernym: bight: a broad bay formed by an indentation in the shoreline → 0
Candidate hypernym: ice: the frozen part of a body of water → 0
Candidate hypernym: headset: receiver consisting of a pair of headphones → 0
Candidate hypernym: structuralism: linguistics defined as the analysis of formal structures in a text or discourse → 0
Candidate hypernym: church father: (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom → 0
Candidate hypernym: cause celebre: an incident that attracts great public attention → 0
Candidate hypernym: selloff: a sale of a relatively large number of assets (stocks or bonds or commodities) at a low price typically done to dispose of them rather than as normal trade → 0