CommonParlance
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Ordinary-language usages. Seeded from the Open English WordNet (OEWN) 2025, CC BY 4.0.
Context admission
Admitted. Context admission is separate from purpose assessments and factual verdicts.
Why maintain this knowledge?
No justification recorded. This does not mean the knowledge is unjustified; no applicable assessment has been adopted.
Particular uses
These assessments concern specific investigations, audiences, or applications. They do not replace the default justification or authorize other uses.
No particular uses recorded here.
Review or propose an assessment
Purpose authoring is optional. Propose a more specific default or a particular use only when there is something more specific to say. Each proposal includes its scope and reasoning in one market.
Purpose assessments are separate from factual reasoning and context admission. A missing or denied purpose does not change a factual verdict or prevent context creation.
Child contexts
- Science Proposed
Terms in this context
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abstract thought in CommonParlance
- definition thinking that is coherent and logical
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abstracted in CommonParlance
- definition lost in thought; showing preoccupation
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abstractedly in CommonParlance
- definition in an absentminded or preoccupied manner
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abstractedness in CommonParlance
- definition preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
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abstracter in CommonParlance
- definition one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
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abstraction in CommonParlance
- definition a concept or idea not associated with any specific instance
- definition the act of withdrawing or removing something
- definition the process of formulating general concepts by abstracting common properties of instances
- definition an abstract painting
- definition preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else
- definition a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples
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abstractionism in CommonParlance
- definition an abstract genre of art; artistic content depends on internal form rather than pictorial representation
- definition a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examples
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abstractionist in CommonParlance
- definition not representing or imitating external reality or the objects of nature
- definition a painter of abstract pictures
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abstractive in CommonParlance
- definition of an abstracting nature or having the power of abstracting
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abstractly in CommonParlance
- definition in abstract terms
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abstractness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object
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abstractor in CommonParlance
- definition one who makes abstracts or summarizes information
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abstruse in CommonParlance
- definition difficult to penetrate; incomprehensible to one of ordinary understanding or knowledge
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abstrusely in CommonParlance
- definition in a manner difficult to understand
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abstruseness in CommonParlance
- definition the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
- definition wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
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abstrusity in CommonParlance
- definition wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound
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absurd in CommonParlance
- definition inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense
- definition so unreasonable as to invite derision
- definition a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless
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absurdist humor in CommonParlance
- definition is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.
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absurdist humour in CommonParlance
- definition is a form of humour predicated on deliberate violations of causal reasoning, producing events and behaviours that are obviously illogical.
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absurdity in CommonParlance
- definition a message whose content is at variance with reason
- definition a ludicrous folly
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absurdly in CommonParlance
- definition in an absurd manner or to an absurd degree
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absurdness in CommonParlance
- definition a message whose content is at variance with reason
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abulia in CommonParlance
- definition a loss of will power
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abulic in CommonParlance
- definition suffering from abulia; showing abnormal inability to act or make decisions
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abundance in CommonParlance
- definition the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
- definition (physics) the ratio of the number of atoms of a specific isotope of an element to the total number of isotopes present
- definition (chemistry) the ratio of the total mass of an element in the earth's crust to the total mass of the earth's crust; expressed as a percentage or in parts per million