Term: dimness: the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity
Candidate hypernym: dullness: a lack of visual brightness → 1
Candidate hypernym: stria: any of a number of tiny parallel grooves such as: the scratches left by a glacier on rocks or the streaks or ridges in muscle tissue → 0
Candidate hypernym: evangelicalism: stresses the importance of personal conversion and faith as the means of salvation → 0
Candidate hypernym: boykinia: genus of perennial rhizomatous herbs with flowers in panicles; North America; Japan → 0
Candidate hypernym: sanctimoniousness: the quality of being hypocritically devout → 0
Candidate hypernym: mechanical engineer: a person trained to design and construct machines → 0
Candidate hypernym: sticherus: umbrella ferns; warm regions of Australia and New Zealand → 0
Candidate hypernym: hole: one playing period (from tee to green) on a golf course → 0
Candidate hypernym: extenuation: a partial excuse to mitigate censure; an attempt to represent an offense as less serious than it appears by showing mitigating circumstances → 0
Candidate hypernym: surveyor's level: surveying instrument consisting basically of a small telescope with an attached spirit level rotating around a vertical axis; for measuring relative heights of land → 0
Candidate hypernym: collateral damage: (euphemism) inadvertent casualties and destruction inflicted on civilians in the course of military operations → 0