cstr/en-wiktionary-extracted-all huggingface dataset:
absolutely
Language: English
Part of speech: intj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌl(j)uːt.li/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈl(j)uːt.li/
ipa: /ˈap.səˌlʉʊt.lɪi/
ipa: /ˌap.səˈlʉʊt.lɪi/
ipa: /ab-/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈlut.li/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut.li/
Etymology: From late Middle English absolutly, equivalent to absolute + -ly.
First attested in 1425.
Senses: examples: text: Is Bob a good teacher?
Absolutely!
text: Do you want a free cookie with that coffee?
Absolutely!
glosses: Yes, certainly; expression indicating strong agreement.
Related terms: absitively posolutely
absoluteness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈab.sə.luːt.nəs/
ipa: /ab.səˈluːt.nəs/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlut.nəs/
Forms: form: absolutenesses
Etymology: From absolute + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The fact of being finished or perfected; completeness.
examples: text: the absoluteness of his sovereignty, the absoluteness of his convictions
glosses: The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope.
examples: text: I know no man that could produce more parts, both naturall and artificiall, fit to preserve his masterie, and to maintaine his absolutenesse, than he doth; yet is hee cleane falne from them like a childe.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 8, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 228:
glosses: Absolute authority, unlimited power; absolutism, despotism.
glosses: The fact of being without qualifications or conditions; certainty, unconditionality.
glosses: Independent autonomy.
Synonyms: unconditionality
unlimitedness
certainty
absolution
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æb.səˈljuː.ʃn̩/
ipa: /ˌæb.səˈl(j)u.ʃn̩/
rhymes: -uːʃən
Forms: form: absolutions
Etymology: From Middle English absolucion, absolucioun, from Old French absolution, from Latin absolūtiōnem, accusative singular of absolūtiō (“acquittal”), from absolvō (“absolve”). See also absolve.
Senses: topics: ecclesiastical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: An absolving of sins from ecclesiastical penalties by an authority.
glosses: The forgiveness of sins, in a general sense.
glosses: The form of words by which a penitent is absolved.
examples: text: Governments granting absolution to the nation.
text: The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices. The physician does not preach repentance; he offers absolution.
ref: 1919 August, H. L. Mencken, The Smart Set, pages 60–1:
glosses: An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense.
qualifier: civil law
glosses: An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring an accused person innocent.
examples: text: the words are chosen , their sound ample , the composition full , the absolution plenteous
ref: 1641, Ben Jonson, Discoveries Made upon Men and Matter:
glosses: Delivery, in speech.
Derived terms: absolutionary
Absolution Day
nonabsolution
Related terms: indulgence
absolutism
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sə.luː.tɪz.m̩/
ipa: /ˈæb.sə.ljuː.tɪz.m̩/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌluˌtɪz.m̩/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌljuˌtɪz.m̩/
Forms: form: absolutisms
Etymology: First attested in 1753 (in the theological sense); attested in 1830 in the political sense. From absolute + -ism, based after French absolutisme.
Senses: topics: lifestyle
religion
theology
glosses: Doctrine of preordination; doctrine of absolute decrees; doctrine that God acts in an absolute manner.
examples: text: The element of absolutism and prelacy was more controlling in the counsels of the rival corporation.
ref: 1859, John Gorham Palfrey, chapter IV, in History of New England, volume I, page 217:
text: As absolutism became more consolidated in Europe, and particularly in France, such nonabsolutist states tended to define themselves in opposition to their absolutist rivals: hence, those features of their government which differed from absolutism tended to be given special prominence.
ref: 2019, John Gascoigne, Science and the State, page 54:
topics: human-sciences
political-science
sciences
social-science
social-sciences
sociology
glosses: The principles or practice of absolute or arbitrary government; Synonym of despotism.
topics: human-sciences
philosophy
sciences
glosses: Belief in a metaphysical absolute; belief in Absolute.
glosses: Positiveness; the state of being absolute.
examples: text: It was the absolutism of his ambition to be a perfect writer (and perhaps also the perfect son) that imperiled him.
ref: 2003, Ruth R. Wisse, The Modern Jewish Canon: A Journey Through Language, →ISBN:
glosses: The characteristic of being absolute in nature or scope; absoluteness.
Derived terms: antiabsolutism
hyperabsolutism
nonabsolutism
Related terms: autocracy
dictatorship
strongman
absolutist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌluː.tɪst/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌljuː.tɪst/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlu.tɪst/
Forms: form: absolutists
form: absolutistic
Etymology: From absolute + -ist after French absolutiste.
Senses: glosses: One who is in favor of an absolute or autocratic government.
examples: text: the unitarian — whether materialist, idealist, or absolutist
ref: 1859–1860, William Hamilton, edited by H[enry] L[ongueville] Mansel and John Veitch, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC:
text: When absolutists reject humanism because they feel it to be untrue, that means that the whole habit of their mental needs is wedded already to a different view of reality, in comparison with which the humanistic world seems but the whim of a few irresponsible youths.
ref: 1909, William James, The Meaning of Truth:
qualifier: metaphysics
glosses: One who believes that it is possible to realize a cognition or concept of the Absolute.
examples: text: The billionaire tech mogul, who has described himself as a free speech absolutist, introduced a new red line this week after he claimed that a car carrying one of his children was accosted by a “crazy stalker.”
ref: 2022 December 16, Bernhard Warner, “Musk Faces Growing Anger Over Twitter Ban of Journalists”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
glosses: An uncompromising person; one who maintains certain principles to be absolute.
Derived terms: antiabsolutist
nonabsolutist
absolutist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌluː.tɪst/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌljuː.tɪst/
ipa: /ˈæb.səˌlu.tɪst/
Forms: form: more absolutist
form: most absolutist
form: absolutistic
Etymology: From absolute + -ist after French absolutiste.
Senses: examples: text: The best and the worst features of the communal regime are illustrated in the resistance of the Lombard cities to Frederic Barbarossa, the first Emperor who formulated and applied to Italy a scheme of absolutist government.
ref: 1911, H. W. Carless Davis, Medieval Europe:
glosses: Of or pertaining to absolutism; arbitrary; despotic; uncompromising.
Derived terms: absolutistic
absolutistical
absolutistically
absolutistic
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.səˌluˌtɪs.tɪk/
Forms: form: more absolutistic
form: most absolutistic
Etymology: From absolute + -istic.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of absolutist
Derived terms: absolutistical
absolutistically
absolutory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɑl.jəˌtɔɹ.i/
Forms: form: more absolutory
form: most absolutory
Etymology: From Latin absolūtōrius, from absolvō (“absolve”).
Senses: examples: text: Finally, in the self-absolutory strategy, a negative past is seen to have produced a negative present.
ref: 1997, Dan P. McAdams, The Stories We Live by: Personal Myths and the Making of the Self, page 107:
glosses: Serving to absolve; absolving; giving absolution.
absolvable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈzɑlv.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /əbˈzɑlv.ə.bl̩/
Etymology: From absolve + -able.
Senses: glosses: That may be absolved.
Derived terms: nonabsolvable
unabsolvable
absolvatory
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: more absolvatory
form: most absolvatory
Etymology: From absolve + -atory.
Senses: glosses: Conferring absolution; absolutory.
absolvent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈzɑlv.n̩t/
ipa: /əbˈzɑlv.n̩t/
ipa: /æbˈsɑlv.n̩t/
ipa: /əbˈsɑlv.n̩t/
Forms: form: more absolvent
form: most absolvent
Etymology: An adaptation of the Latin absolvēns (“absolving”, stem: absolvent-), from absolvō (“I absolve”).
Senses: examples: text: Patriotism, hounded-on by Prussian Terror, by Preternatural Suspicion, roars tumultuous round the Salle de Manége^([sic]), all day; insults many leading Deputies, of the absolvent Right-side[.]
ref: 1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VI, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume II (The Constitution), London: Chapman and Hall, →OCLC, book VI (The Marseillese), page 286:
glosses: Absolving.
absolvent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈzɑlv.n̩t/
ipa: /əbˈzɑlv.n̩t/
ipa: /æbˈsɑlv.n̩t/
ipa: /əbˈsɑlv.n̩t/
Forms: form: absolvents
Etymology: An adaptation of the Latin absolvēns (“absolving”, stem: absolvent-), from absolvō (“I absolve”).
Senses: glosses: An absolver.
absolver
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈzɑl.vɚ/
ipa: /əbˈzɑl.vɚ/
Forms: form: absolvers
Etymology: From absolve + -er.
Senses: examples: text: […] how hast thou the heart,
Being a divine, a ghostly confessor,
A sin-absolver, and my friend profess’d,
To mangle me with that word ‘banished’?
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene iii]:
text: […] few men dislike the Lay-Excommunicators and Absolvers more than I do […]
ref: 1684, Richard Baxter, Whether Parish Congregations Be True Christian Churches, London: Thomas Parkhurst, page 2:
glosses: Agent noun of absolve; one who absolves.
absonant
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sə.nn̩t/
ipa: /ˈæb.snn̩t/
Forms: form: more absonant
form: most absonant
Etymology: From ab- + sonant, from Latin sonans (“sound”).
Senses: examples: text: absonant to nature
ref: 1644-1646, Francis Quarles, “The Mourners Calamity”, in Boanerges and Barnabas—Wine and Oyle for ... afflicted Soules:
glosses: Discordant; harsh; contrary; unreasonable.
absonous
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.sə.nəs/
Forms: form: more absonous
form: most absonous
Etymology: From Latin absonus, from ab- (“away”) + sonus (“sound”).
Senses: examples: text: absonous to our reason
ref: 1665, Joseph Glanville, Scepsis Scientifica:
glosses: Discordant; inharmonious; incongruous.
absorbability
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˌsɔɹb.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /əbˌzɔɹb.əˈbɪl.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: absorbabilities
Etymology: From absorb + -ability.
Senses: glosses: The state or quality of being absorbable.
Derived terms: bioabsorbability
reabsorbability
absorbable
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɔɹb.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹb.ə.bl̩/
Forms: form: more absorbable
form: most absorbable
Etymology: From absorb + -able. First attested in the late 18th century.
Senses: glosses: Capable of being absorbed or swallowed up.
Derived terms: absorbably
bioabsorbable
inabsorbable
nonabsorbable
reabsorbable
unabsorbable
absorbable
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɔɹb.ə.bl̩/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹb.ə.bl̩/
Forms: form: absorbables
Etymology: From absorb + -able. First attested in the late 18th century.
Senses: examples: text: There is general agreement that nonabsorbable materials are better than absorbables. The most popular materials are polypropylene mesh and PTFE produced as a patch.
ref: 204, C. D. Johnson, I. Taylor, Recent Advances in Surgery (volume 27, page 46)
glosses: A material that can be absorbed.
absorbedly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹb.ɪd.li/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹb.ɪd.li/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹb.ɪd.li/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹb.ɪd.li/
Forms: form: more absorbedly
form: most absorbedly
Etymology: From absorbed + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Michael O’Shea continued absorbedly gazing on the picture, till the welcome smell of a tumbler of Mr. Hoolagan’s whisky suddenly restored him to comparative serenity.
ref: 1841, R. B. Peake, “The Bequeathed Heart”, in The New Monthly Magazine, Volume 62, 1841 part 2, p. 36:
text: Fanny, red-cheeked and bright-eyed from her recent mental struggles, listened interestedly, then intently, then absorbedly.
ref: 1917, Edna Ferber, Fanny Herself, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, pages 65–66:
text: Carey could see her expression. It was the face of one who was deeply and absorbedly interested.
ref: 1943, Mary Norton, chapter 8, in The Magic Bed-Knob, New York: Hyperion:
text: Treslove was no Finkler. He could not lose his heart to more than one woman at a time. He loved too absorbedly for that. But he always knew when he was about to be thrown over and was quick to make provision, where he could, to love absorbedly again.
ref: 2010, Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question, New York: Bloomsbury, Part One, Chapter Four, I, p. 86:
glosses: In a manner as if wholly engrossed or engaged.
Related terms: absorb
absorbably
absorbently
absorbingly
absorbing
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɔː.bɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔː.bɪŋ/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹ.bɪŋ/
ipa: /æbˈsɔɹ.bɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹ.bɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹ.bɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪŋ
Forms: form: more absorbing
form: most absorbing
Etymology: From absorb + -ing.
Senses: examples: text: an absorbing pursuit
text: It was a dramatic finish to an absorbing, fast-paced game but Blackburn will be deeply unhappy with referee Anthony Taylor as Nzonzi's handball was harsh.
ref: 2011 October 29, Neil Johnston, “Norwich 3 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC Sport:
glosses: Engrossing, that sustains someone's interest.
topics: mathematics
sciences
statistics
glosses: Allowing a process to enter it, but not to leave it.
raw_tags: of a state
Synonyms: engrossing
fascinating
Derived terms: absorbingly
nonabsorbing
unabsorbing
vibroabsorbing
absorbing
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈzɔː.bɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔː.bɪŋ/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹ.bɪŋ/
ipa: /æbˈsɔɹ.bɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹ.bɪŋ/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹ.bɪŋ/
rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)bɪŋ
Etymology: From absorb + -ing.
Senses: glosses: present participle and gerund of absorb
absorbition
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: absorbitions
Senses: examples: text: […] empty into this Valley; but where to place that concurrence of Waters or place of its absorbition, there is no authentick decision.
ref: 1912, Thomas Browne, The Works of Sir Thomas Browne, volume 1, page 331:
glosses: Absorption.
absorpt
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹpt/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹpt/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹpt/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹpt/
rhymes: -ɔɹpt
Etymology: From Latin absorptus, perfect passive participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
Senses: examples: text: Absent I ponder, and absorpt in care:
ref: 1725–1726, Homer, “Book 10”, in [William Broome, Elijah Fenton, Alexander Pope], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], London: […] Bernard Lintot, →OCLC:
glosses: past participle of absorb
absorpt
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹpt/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹpt/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹpt/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹpt/
rhymes: -ɔɹpt
Etymology: From Latin absorptus, perfect passive participle of absorbeō (“absorb”).
Senses: glosses: absorbed
absorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.tɪv/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.tɪv/
Forms: form: more absorptive
form: most absorptive
Etymology: From absorb + -tive.
Senses: examples: text: In practice, from that date onwards until recent times, the economic absorptive capacity of the country has been treated as the sole limiting factor […]
ref: 1939, British White Paper of Palestine of 1939:
glosses: Having power, capacity, or tendency to absorb or imbibe; absorbent.
Derived terms: absorptively
absorptiveness
absorptivity
hyperabsorptive
immunoabsorptive
isoabsorptive
malabsorptive
nonabsorptive
postabsorptive
preabsorptive
reabsorptive
absorptive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈsɔɹp.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈzɔɹp.tɪv/
ipa: /æbˈzɔɹp.tɪv/
Forms: form: absorptives
Etymology: From absorb + -tive.
Senses: glosses: Any substance that absorbs.
absorptiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Etymology: From absorptive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
absorptivity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˌsɔɹpˈtɪvə.ti/
ipa: /əbˌsɔɹpˈtɪvə.ti/
Forms: form: absorptivities
Etymology: From absorptive + -ity.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being absorptive; absorptiveness.
topics: natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
thermodynamics
glosses: The fraction of radiation absorbed by a surface to the total radiation incident on the surface.
qualifier: analytical chemistry
glosses: The constant a in the Beer's law relation A = abc, where A is the absorbance, b the path length, and c the concentration of solution. Also known as absorptive power. Formerly known as absorbency index; absorption constant; extinction coefficient.
Synonyms: absorption coefficient
absorption factor
absquatulate
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈskwɑt͡ʃ.ʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /æbzˈkwɑt͡ʃ.ʊ.leɪt/
ipa: /æbzˈkwɑt͡ʃ.ə.leɪt/
Forms: form: absquatulates
form: absquatulating
form: absquatulated
form: absquatulated
Etymology: Attested since the 1830s in American English, a jocular mock-Latin word. Blend of abscond + squat + perambulate, as ab- (“away (from)”) (as in abscond) + squat + *-ulate (as in perambulate, properly -ate), hence meaning “get up (from a squat) and depart (quickly)”. The middle portion was perhaps influenced by -le (“(frequentative)”) and the dialectal term squattle (“depart”); compare contemporary skedaddle.
Senses: examples: text: Even within the past year, several Land Officers and keepers of public monies--the Collector of New Orleans and Plattsburg--the Post Masters of Mobile and Worcester have made serious and prominent additions to the long catalogue of absquatulating defaulters.
ref: 1840 January 9, “The President's Message, No. 2”, in Lincoln Telegraph, volume IV, number 41, Bath, Maine, page 3:
text: Why, I expect in a year or two to see coffins introduced into the parlors of the Fifth Avenue, and to find them, when their owners fail or absquatulate, advertised for sale at auction, with the rest of the household furniture, at a great sacrifice on the original cost.
ref: 1860 September, “A Day with the Dead”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 6, number 35:
text: Whilst I was looking for the books, Lord Orville came in. He looked uncommonly down in the mouth, as he said: ‘Is this true, Miss Anville; are you going to cut?‘ ‘To absquatulate, Lord Orville,’ said I, still pretending that I was looking for the books.
ref: 1863, William Makepeace Thackeray, Roundabout Papers:
text: "[…]Now I see you again—I’m satisfied. I’m satisfied completely. See? I’m going to absquatulate, see? Hey Presto right away.”
He turned to his tea for a moment, finished his cup noisily, stood up.
ref: 1910, H. G. Wells, The history of Mr. Polly:
glosses: To leave quickly or in a hurry; to depart, flee.
wikipedia: Michael Quinion
Synonyms: sense: leave quickly
word: abscond
sense: leave quickly
word: decamp
sense: leave quickly
word: skedaddle
sense: leave quickly
word: vamoose
word: leave
Derived terms: abscotchalater
absquatulation
absquatulator
absque hoc
Language: English
Part of speech: phrase
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin absque hoc (literally “without this”).
Senses: topics: law
glosses: The technical words of denial used in denying what has been alleged.
abstain
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsteɪn/
ipa: /əbˈsteɪn/
ipa: /æbˈsteɪn/
rhymes: -eɪn
Forms: form: abstains
form: abstaining
form: abstained
form: abstained
form: no-table-tags
form: glossary
form: abstain
form: abstain
form: abstained
form: abstain
form: abstainest
form: abstained
form: abstainedst
form: abstains
form: abstaineth
form: abstained
form: abstain
form: abstained
form: abstain
form: abstained
form: abstain
form: -
form: abstaining
form: abstained
Etymology: First attested around 1380. From Middle English absteynen, absteinen, abstenen, from Old French astenir, abstenir, from Latin abstineō (“to hold oneself back”) from abs- (“from”) + teneō (“I hold”). See also tenable.
Senses: glosses: Keep or withhold oneself.
examples: text: In order to improve his health, Rob decided to abstain from smoking.
text: The Security Council […] calls upon all Governments and authorities, without prejudice to the rights, claims or positions of the parties concerned, to abstain from any hostile military action in Palestine and to that end to issue a cease-fire order to their military and paramilitary forces
ref: 22 May 1948, United Nations, Security Council Resolution 49
text: Who abstains from meat that is not gaunt?
ref: 1597, Shakespeare, Richard II, II-i:
glosses: Refrain from (something or doing something); keep from doing, especially an indulgence.
glosses: Fast (not eat for a period).
examples: text: I abstain from this vote, as I have no particular preference.
text: […]forcing a small portion of the population to abstain from voting
ref: 1913, Thomas Babington Macaulay, A Short History of English Liberalism:
glosses: Deliberately refrain from casting one's vote at a meeting where one is present.
examples: text: Whether he abstain men from marying [sic].
ref: 1645, John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions on the four chief places in Scripture:
glosses: Hinder; keep back; withhold.
Synonyms: abjure
deny oneself
forbear
forgo
give up
refrain
relinquish
withhold
Derived terms: abstainer
abstainment
abstention
nonabstaining
Related terms: abstemious
abstinence
abstinent
abstainer
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsteɪ.nɚ/
rhymes: -eɪnə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abstainers
Etymology: From Middle English absteyner, equivalent to abstain + -er.
Senses: examples: text: To one of my very nervous patients, who was an abstainer, whose fancy was fixed on his mother, and who repeatedly dreamed of climbing stairs accompanied by his mother, I once remarked that moderate masturbation would be less harmful to him than enforced abstinence.
ref: 1920, Sigmund Freud, chapter V, in M. D. Eder, transl., Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners, New York: The James A. McCann Company:
text: He was a total abstainer and a nonsmoker, had no recreations except a daily hour in the gymnasium, and had taken a vow of celibacy, believing marriage and the care of a family to be incompatible with a twenty-four-hour-a-day devotion to duty.
ref: 1949, George Orwell, chapter 4, in Nineteen Eighty-Four:
text: 'Never himself touches a drop of the stuff, you understand. Having been an abstainer since the age of seven or something. A clerky figure even as a child.'
ref: 1990, William Trevor, “Family Sins”, in The Collected Stories, New York: Viking, published 1992, page 1105:
glosses: One who abstains; especially, one who abstains from something, such as the use of alcohol or drugs, or one who abstains for religious reasons; one who practices self-denial.
Synonyms: Nazarite
teetotaler
Derived terms: nonabstainer
abstemiousness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈsti.mi.əs.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈsti.mi.əs.nəs/
Etymology: From abstemious + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: He was temperate in his meals and diversions, but always kept a little on this side of abstemiousness. Only in the use of the Indian weed he might be thought a little excessive.
ref: 1833, [Charles Lamb], “Preface. By a Friend of the Late Elia.”, in The Last Essays of Elia. […], London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page ix:
glosses: The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing, particularly in the use of food and strong drinks.
abstentious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɛn.ʃəs/
ipa: /əbˈstɛn.ʃəs/
Forms: form: more abstentious
form: most abstentious
Etymology: From abstention + -ous.
Senses: synonyms: word: abstinent
word: temperate
word: abstemious
word: abstentious
word: abstinent
word: sober
word: spareful
word: temperate
glosses: Characterized by abstinence; self-restraint.
Derived terms: abstentiousness
Related terms: abstemious
absterge
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒ/
ipa: /æbˈstɝd͡ʒ/
ipa: /əbˈstɝd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)dʒ
Forms: form: absterges
form: absterging
form: absterged
form: absterged
Etymology: From French and Middle French absterger or from Medieval Latin abstergēre (“wipe off or away”); formed from Latin abs- + tergeō (“to wipe off”).
Senses: synonyms: cleanse
purge
glosses: To make clean by wiping; to wipe away.
absterse
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɜː(ɹ)s/
ipa: /æbˈstɝs/
ipa: /əbˈstɝs/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)s
Forms: form: absterses
form: abstersing
form: abstersed
form: abstersed
Etymology: From Middle English absterse, from Latin abstersus, perfect passive participle of abstergeō (“wipe off, wipe away”); formed from abs- + tergeō (“wipe”).
Senses: examples: text: […] nor will we affirme that Iron ingeſted, receiveth in the ſtomack of the Oeſtridge no alteration whatſoever; but if any ſuch there be, we ſuſpect this effect rather from ſome way of corroſion, then any of digeſtion; not any liquid reduction or tendance to chilification by the power of naturall heate, but rather ſome attrition from an acide and vitriolous humidity in the ſtomack, which may abſterſe, and ſhave the ſcorious parts thereof; […]
ref: 1646, Thomas Browne, “Of the Oestridge”, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 3rd book, page 164:
glosses: To absterge; to cleanse; to purge away.
Derived terms: abstersion
abstersive
abstersiveness
abstersory
abstersion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɜː.ʒn̩/
ipa: /æbˈstɝ.ʒn̩/
ipa: /əbˈstɝ.ʒn̩/
ipa: /æbˈstɝ.ʃn̩/
ipa: /əbˈstɝ.ʃn̩/
Forms: form: abstersions
Etymology: From Middle English abstersioun, from either Old French or Medieval Latin abstertion, from Latin abstersus, past participle of abstergēo (“I wipe off or away”).
Senses: examples: text: Waverley ... was offered the patriarchal refreshment of a bath for the feet ... He was not, indeed, so luxuriously attended upon this occasion as the heroic travellers in the Odyssey; the task of ablution and abstersion being performed, not by a beautiful damsel, trained To chafe the limb, and pour the fragrant oil, but by a smoke-dried skinny old Highland woman, who did not seem to think herself much honoured by the duty imposed upon her...
ref: 1814, Sir Walter Scott, Waverley; or, 'Tis Sixty Years Since:
glosses: Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging.
abstersive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɜː(ɹ).sɪv/
ipa: /æbˈstɝ.sɪv/
ipa: /əbˈstɝ.sɪv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: more abstersive
form: most abstersive
form: abstergent
Etymology: From Middle French abstersif, from Latin abstersus.
Senses: examples: text: If he cannot digeſt a ſtrong and abſterſive drugge, for to remove his evill, let him at leaſt take a lenitive pill to eaſe the ſame.
ref: 1603, Michel de Montaigne, “That the taste of goods or evilles doth greatly depend on the opinion we have of them”, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book I, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC, page 137:
text: Therefore it is good, after Purging, to vſe Apozumes, and Broths, not ſo much Opening as thoſe vſed before Purging, but Abſterſiue and Mundifying Cliſters alſo are good to conclude with, to draw away the Reliques of the Humours, that may haue deſcended to the Lower Region of the Body.
ref: 1627 (indicated as 1626), Francis [Bacon], “I. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], London: […] William Rawley […]; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC, paragraph 65, pages 21–22:
text: [S]ome Bodies taken into that of a Man, are deoppilating, others inciding, reſolving, diſcuſſing, ſuppurating, abſterſive of noxious adherences, and thickning the Blood and humors, being aſtringent, Anodinous or appeaſing paine &c.
ref: 1671, Robert Boyle, “An Introduction to the History of Particular Qualities. Chapter I.”, in Robert Boyle, Tracts […]. About the Cosmicall Qualities of Things. […], London: […] W[illiam] H[all] for Ric[hard] Davis, →OCLC, page 6:
glosses: Cleansing; purging; abstergent.
Derived terms: abstersiveness
abstersive
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɜː(ɹ).sɪv/
ipa: /æbˈstɝ.sɪv/
ipa: /əbˈstɝ.sɪv/
rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)sɪv
Forms: form: abstersives
form: abstergent
Etymology: From Middle French abstersif, from Latin abstersus.
Senses: examples: text: […]the ſtrong abſterſive of ſom heroick magiſtrat[…]
ref: 1645 March 14 (Gregorian calendar), John Milton, Tetrachordon: Expositions upon the Foure Chief Places in Scripture, which Treat of Mariage, or Nullities in Mariage. […], London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 11:
glosses: Something cleansing; detergent; abstergent.
abstersiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɝː(ɹ).sɪv.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈstɝ.sɪv.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈstɝ.sɪv.nəs/
Etymology: From abstersive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being abstersive.
abstinency
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.stɪ.nən.si/
Forms: form: abstinencies
Etymology: From abstinence + -y.
Senses: glosses: Alternative form of abstinence
abstinent
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.stɪ.nn̩t/
ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩t/
Forms: form: more abstinent
form: most abstinent
Etymology: First attested in the late 14th century as Middle English abstinent, abstynent, from Old French abstinent, from Latin abstinēns, present participle of abstineō. See abstain.
Senses: examples: text: Be abstinent; shew not the corruption of thy generation: he that feeds shall die
ref: c. 1612–1615?, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, revised by Philip Massinger, “Loves Cure or, The Martial Maid”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
synonyms: word: abstemious
word: continent
word: temperate
word: abstemious
word: abstentious
word: abstinent
word: sober
word: spareful
word: temperate
glosses: Refraining from indulgence, especially from the indulgence of appetite.
Derived terms: abstinently
nonabstinent
abstinent
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.stɪ.nn̩t/
ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩t/
Forms: form: abstinents
Etymology: From Middle English abstinent (adjective form).
Senses: glosses: One who abstains; a faster.
glosses: Alternative letter-case form of Abstinent.
Derived terms: abstinential
fapstinent
Related terms: abstinence
abstinency
abstinently
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈæb.stɪ.nn̩t.li/
ipa: /ˈæb.stə.nn̩t.li/
Forms: form: more abstinently
form: most abstinently
Etymology: From abstinent + -ly.
Senses: glosses: With abstinence.
abstorted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Senses: examples: text: by adopting a pure normal regimen, which strikes at the root of all quackery and causes it to die a sudden and abstorted death.
ref: 1850, American Vegetarian & Health Journal:
text: [I]f coming years have in store for me any such affliction as time seems to have left on the abstorted brain of the Republican council[…]
ref: 1886 May 2, “Raked Fore and Aft”, in St. Paul Daily Globe, Saint Paul, Minnesota, page 3:
glosses: simple past and past participle of abstort
abstracted
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
Forms: form: more abstracted
form: most abstracted
Etymology: From abstract + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: the evil abstracted stood
From his own evil,[…]
ref: 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
glosses: Separated or disconnected; withdrawn; removed; apart.
examples: text: I am not sure, that the best way of discussing any subject, except those, that concern the abstracted sciences, is not somewhat in the way of dialogue.
ref: 1796–1797, Edmund Burke, “Letters on a Regicide Peace, Continued from Vol. VIII. Letter IV. To the Earl Fitzwilliam.”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume IX, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Separated from matter; abstract; ideal, not concrete.
examples: text: The preſent Argument is the moſt abſtracted that ever I engaged in, it ſtrains my Faculties to their higheſt Stretch; and I deſire the Reader to attend with utmoſt perpenſity; For, I now proceed to unravel this knotty Point.
ref: 1704, [Jonathan Swift], “Section IX. A Digression Concerning the Original, the Use and Improvement of Madness in a Commonwealth.”, in A Tale of a Tub. […], London: […] John Nutt, […], →OCLC, pages 169–170:
glosses: Abstract; abstruse; difficult.
examples: text: an abstracted scholar
text: I'm afraid neither of us was looking where we were going. We Adrians are notoriously abstracted, are we not?
ref: 1991 September, Stephen Fry, chapter 2, in The Liar, London: Heinemann, →ISBN, section I, page 40:
glosses: Inattentive to surrounding objects; absent in mind; meditative.
Derived terms: abstractedly
abstractedness
nonabstracted
unabstracted
abstracted
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɪd/
Etymology: From abstract + -ed.
Senses: glosses: simple past and past participle of abstract
abstractedness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɪd.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪd.nəs/
Etymology: From abstracted + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
abstracter
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɚ/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abstracters
form: abstractor
Etymology: From abstract + -er.
Senses: examples: text: an abstractor of title
text: a title abstractor
glosses: One who abstracts, or makes an abstract, as in records or documents.
glosses: Someone that finds and summarizes information for legal or insurance work.
glosses: An accounting clerk who records payroll deductions.
abstracter
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɚ/
rhymes: -æktə(ɹ)
Forms: form: abstractor
Etymology: From abstract + -er.
Senses: examples: text: Absurdity, which perhaps may signifie more with some Apprehensions, than an abstracter way of reasoning : It is this, That upon this Supposition it would follow, chat if God himself should impose any Command upon a Creature, […]
ref: 1698, John Norris, Treatises upon several subjects: viz.: Reason and religion, or, the grounds and measures of devotion ; reflections upon the conduct of human life ..., page 316:
text: […] bleaching, which nicely captures the partial effacement of a morpheme's semantic features, the stripping away of some of its precise content so it can be used in an abstracter, grammatical-hardware-like way.
ref: 1991, James Matisoff, quoted in Elizabeth Closs Traugott, Bernd Heine, Approaches to Grammaticalization: Volume II. Types of grammatical markers, John Benjamins Publishing, page 384
glosses: comparative form of abstract: more abstract
abstractional
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.ʃnl̩/
ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.ʃn̩.l̩/
Forms: form: more abstractional
form: most abstractional
Etymology: From abstraction + -al.
Senses: glosses: Pertaining to abstraction.
abstractionist
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.ʃən.əst/
Forms: form: more abstractionist
form: most abstractionist
Etymology: From abstraction + -ist.
Senses: glosses: Related or tending to abstractionism, particularly art.
abstractionist
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.ʃən.əst/
Forms: form: abstractionists
Etymology: From abstraction + -ist.
Senses: examples: text: She punishes abstractionists, and will only forgive an induction which is rare and casual.
ref: 1844, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Nominalist and Realist”, in Essays, Second Series:
text: If you come near them and see what conceits they entertain,—they are abstractionists, and spend their days and nights in dreaming some dream; in expecting the homage of society to some precious scheme, built on a truth, but destitute of proportion in its presentment, of justness in its application, and of all energy of will in the schemer to embody and vitalize it.
ref: 1850, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Montaigne; or, the Skeptic”, in Representative Men:
text: In this all-important respect I do not hesitate to say we theorists and abstractionists of the North, throughout that long anti-slavery discussion which ended with the 1861 dash of arms, were thoroughly wrong.
ref: 1913, Charles Francis Adams, ’Tis Sixty Years Since, New York: The Macmillan Company, page 15:
glosses: An idealist.
topics: art
arts
glosses: Someone who supports or creates abstract art.
abstractitious
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˌæbstɹækˈtɪʃəs/
Senses: examples: text: ABSTRACTITIOUS spirit is that which is drawn by distillation from vegetables, without fermentation
ref: 1788, John Berkenhout, First Lines of the Theory and Practice of Philosophical Chemistry:
glosses: Obtained from plants by distillation.
Related terms: abstract
abstractive
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪv/
ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɪv/
ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪv/
rhymes: -æktɪv
Forms: form: more abstractive
form: most abstractive
Etymology: From Middle English abstractif, from Medieval Latin abstractivus, from Latin abstractus (“drawn away”) + -ivus (“-ive”). Equivalent to abstract + -ive.
Senses: examples: text: The researcher proposed an abstractive model for text summarization.
text: Unlike extractive methods, abstractive summarization generates new phrasing.
text: The essay was praised for its abstractive qualities, showing insight rather than repetition.
glosses: Having an abstracting nature or tendency; tending to separate; tending to be withdrawn.
glosses: Derived by abstraction; belonging to abstraction.
Derived terms: abstractively
abstractiveness
non-abstractive
nonabstractive
abstractively
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɪv.li/
Forms: form: more abstractively
form: most abstractively
Etymology: From abstractive + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abstract manner; in the abstract.
abstractiveness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.tɪv.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈstɹæk.tɪv.nəs/
Etymology: From abstractive + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being abstractive.
abstractly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹækt.li/
Forms: form: more abstractly
form: most abstractly
Etymology: From Middle English abstractly; equivalent to abstract + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: Bernard Clark and Ethel were seated side by side on a costly sofa gazing abstractly at the parting guest.
ref: 1919, Daisy Ashford, chapter 5, in The Young Visiters:
glosses: In an abstract way or manner
examples: matter abstractly considered
glosses: separately; absolutely
abstractness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /æbˈstɹæk.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈstɹækt.nəs/
Forms: form: abstractnesses
Etymology: From abstract + -ness.
Senses: examples: text: The abstractness of the ideas.
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
glosses: The quality of being abstract.
abstringe
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əb.stɹɪnd͡ʒ/
rhymes: -ɪndʒ
Forms: form: abstringes
form: abstringing
form: abstringed
form: abstringed
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abstringō, from ab- (“away”) + stringō (“I bind, I tie”).
Senses: examples: For quotations using this term, see Citations:abstringe.
glosses: To unbind; to loosen.
abstrude
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹuːd/
rhymes: -uːd
Forms: form: abstrudes
form: abstruding
form: abstruded
form: abstruded
Etymology: From Latin abstrūdō (“push away, hide”). See abstruse.
Senses: examples: text: Thus it is with regard to the elementary substance of fire; dispensed, perhaps, to every thing corporeal, but hid deepest in those substances which are most densely compacted. It is intimately abstruded in what poetical licence terms the Veins of Flint; […]
ref: 1773, Thomas Patten, A Letter to the Right Honourable the Lord North, Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Concerning Subscription to the 39 Articles, page 27:
text: .[…] the Greeks, while they retained the purity of their language, did not, any more than the Latins, rhyme their verse, but on the contrary (Mr. Swift's very words) 'abstruded the rhyme from it by metre and quantity.'
ref: 1805, Tobias George Smollett, The Critical Review: Or, Annals of Literature, page 193:
text: In winter, owing to the great amount of water poured into the sea, and the less amount abstruded by evaporation, the water stands some ten or twelve feet higher than at other times.
ref: 1873, William Denton, Elizabeth M. Foote Denton, The Soul of Things, Or, Psychometric Researches and Discoveries, page 71:
text: The Golek". A hexagonal roll, with a row of teeth, about six inches long, abstruding from each of the sides of the hexagon; or a serrated board in place of the teeth. This implement is used in some districts instead of the plough or “chankol.”
ref: 1919, Straits Settlements. Dept, “Bulletin”, in Agriculture:
glosses: To thrust away.
abstrusely
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹuːs.li/
ipa: /æbˈstɹus.li/
ipa: /əbˈstɹus.li/
Forms: form: more abstrusely
form: most abstrusely
Etymology: From abstruse + -ly.
Senses: glosses: In an abstruse manner.
abstruseness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹuːs.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈstɹus.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈstɹus.nəs/
Forms: form: abstrusenesses
Etymology: From abstruse + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The property of being abstruse; abstrusity.
abstrusion
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: abstrusions
Etymology: Borrowed from Latin abstrusio. See abstruse.
Senses: glosses: The act of thrusting away.
abstrusity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈstɹuː.sə.ti/
ipa: /æbˈstɹu.sə.ti/
ipa: /əbˈstɹu.sə.ti/
Forms: form: abstrusities
Etymology: From abstruse + -ity.
Senses: glosses: Abstruseness; that which is abstruse.
absume
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsuːm/
ipa: /æbˈsum/
ipa: /əbˈsum/
rhymes: -uːm
Forms: form: absumes
form: absuming
form: absumed
form: absumed
Etymology: Learned borrowing from Latin absūmō (“diminish”); formed from ab (“from, away from”) + sūmō (“take”).
Senses: glosses: To consume gradually; to waste away.
absumption
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: -ʌmpʃən
Etymology: From Latin absumptionem. Compare absume.
Senses: examples: text: Chriſtians abhorred this way of obſequies, and though they ſtickt not to give their bodies to be burnt in their lives, deteſted that mode after death; affecting rather a depoſiture than abſumption, […]
ref: 1658, Thomas Browne, “Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall. […]. Chapter I”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 1:
glosses: Destruction or disintegration, especially a gradual one; wasting away.
absurdity
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɜːd.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /æbˈsɝd.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /æbˈzɝd.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /əbˈsɝd.ɪ.ti/
ipa: /əbˈzɝd.ɪ.ti/
Forms: form: absurdities
Etymology: First attested around 1472. From Middle English absurdite, then from either Middle French absurdité, or from Late Latin absurditas (“dissonance, incongruity”), from Latin absurdus + -itas (“quality, state, degree”). Equivalent to absurd + -ity.
Senses: examples: text: And it is a fact that in these two days the boy had almost talked over his mother, too; had parried all her objections one after another with that indignant good sense which is often the perfection of absurdity …
ref: 1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 7, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
glosses: That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction.
examples: text: The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number
ref: 1689 (indicated as 1690), [John Locke], An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Eliz[abeth] Holt, for Thomas Basset, […], →OCLC:
text: Neither [Jones][…] nor I (in 1966) could conceive of reducing our "science" to the ultimate absurdity of reading Finnish newspapers almost a century and a half old in order to establish "priority."
ref: 1992, Rudolf M[athias] Schuster, The Hepaticae and Anthocerotae of North America: East of the Hundredth Meridian, volume V, Chicago, Ill.: Field Museum of Natural History, →ISBN, page viii:
text: There's credit too for highlighting the problems of Manchester's Castlefield Corridor, where he showed the absurdity of building Ordsall Chord to feed more trains into the congested corridor without upgrading the corridor itself.
ref: 2023 July 12, Philip Haigh, “Narrow narrative overlooks past and present achievements”, in RAIL, number 987, page 50:
glosses: The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment.
glosses: Dissonance.
absurdly
Language: English
Part of speech: adv
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɜːd.li/
ipa: /æbˈsɝd.li/
ipa: /æbˈzɝd.li/
ipa: /əbˈsɝd.li/
ipa: /əbˈzɝd.li/
Forms: form: more absurdly
form: most absurdly
Etymology: From absurd + -ly.
Senses: examples: text: He orated absurdly.
text: Absurdly, he concluded his oration with a song.
glosses: In an absurd fashion.
examples: text: The critics were absurdly extravagant with their praise.
text: By the year 1765, Richard `Dickie' Tattersall, the absurdly romantic self-styled soldier of fortune and indulged son of an obscenely well-off Yorkshire squire, was brimming with gratitude[.]
ref: 1996, Jon Byrell, Lairs, Urgers and Coat-Tuggers, Sydney: Ironbark, page 245:
glosses: To an extreme degree.
absurdness
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əbˈsɜːd.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈsɝd.nəs/
ipa: /æbˈzɝd.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈsɝd.nəs/
ipa: /əbˈzɝd.nəs/
Forms: form: absurdnesses
Etymology: From absurd + -ness.
Senses: glosses: The quality of being absurd; absurdity.
abuna
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /əˈbuːnə/
Forms: form: abunas
form: abun
Etymology: From Amharic አቡነ (ʾäbunä), Arabic أَبُونَا (ʔabūnā, “our father”).
Senses: examples: text: Around these leaders are still numerous hereditary dynasties of non-monastic clergy who, over the centuries, might swarm in their thousands to seek ordination on the abun’s rare visits to their area.
ref: 2009, Diarmaid MacCulloch, A History of Christianity, Penguin, published 2010, page 242:
topics: Christianity
glosses: The Patriarch, or head of the Abyssinian Church.