Term: shortening: act of decreasing in length
Candidate hypernym: decrease: the act of decreasing or reducing something → 1
Candidate hypernym: psychology: the science of mental life → 0
Candidate hypernym: cracidae: curassows; guans; chachalacas → 0
Candidate hypernym: purple locoweed: tufted locoweed of southwestern United States having purple or pink to white flowers → 0
Candidate hypernym: cool jazz: jazz that is restrained and fluid and marked by intricate harmonic structures often lagging slightly behind the beat → 0
Candidate hypernym: rationalization: the cognitive process of making something seem consistent with or based on reason → 0
Candidate hypernym: dome: a concave shape whose distinguishing characteristic is that the concavity faces downward → 0
Candidate hypernym: day nursery: a nursery for the supervision of preschool children while the parents work → 0
Candidate hypernym: witch hazel: lotion consisting of an astringent alcoholic solution containing an extract from the witch hazel plant → 0
Candidate hypernym: commutation: a warrant substituting a lesser punishment for a greater one → 0
Candidate hypernym: small civet: a common civet of southeast Asia → 0