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- cleavage
the state of being split or cleft - medium
a state that is intermediate between extremes - ornamentation
the state of being ornamented - condition
a mode of being or form of existence of a person or thing - condition, status
a state at a particular time - conditions
the set of circumstances that affect someone's welfare - conditions
the prevailing context that influences the performance or the outcome of a process - condition
an illness, disease, or other medical problem - anchorage
the condition of being secured to a base - health
the general condition of body and mind - mode
a particular functioning condition or arrangement - conditionality
the state of being conditional - ground state
(physics) the lowest energy state of an atom or other particle - niche, ecological niche
(ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species) - noise conditions
the condition of being noisy (as in a communication channel) - participation, involvement
the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.) - prepossession
the condition of being prepossessed - regularization, regularisation
the condition of having been made regular (or more regular) - saturation
a condition in which a quantity no longer responds to some external influence - saturation point
(chemistry) the stage at which a substance will receive no more of another substance in solution or in a vapor - silence
the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking) - position, situation
a condition or position in which you find yourself - ski conditions
the amount and state of snow for skiing - niche
a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it - election
the status or fact of being elected - nationhood
the state of being a nation - nomination
the condition of having been proposed as a suitable candidate for appointment or election - place, shoes
a particular situation - poverty trap
a situation in which an increase in income results in a loss of benefits so that you are no better off - soup
an unfortunate situation - stymie, stymy
a situation in golf where an opponent's ball blocks the line between your ball and the hole - situation, state of affairs
the general state of things - absurd, the absurd
a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless - relationship
a state of connectedness between people (especially an emotional connection) - relationship
a state involving mutual dealings between people or parties or countries - tribalism
the state of living together in tribes - account, business relationship
a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services - short account
a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own) - blood brotherhood
the friendship characteristic of blood brothers - society, company, fellowship, companionship
the state of being with someone - trust, confidence
a trustful relationship - freemasonry
a natural or instinctive fellowship between people of similar interests - acquaintance, acquaintanceship
a relationship less intimate than friendship - association, affiliation, tie, tie-up
a social or business relationship - anaclisis
(psychoanalysis) relationship marked by strong dependence on others - assimilation
the state of being assimilated - friendship, friendly relationship
the state of being friends (or friendly) - intrigue
a clandestine love affair - romance, love affair
a relationship between two lovers - membership
the state of being a member - sexual relationship
a relationship involving sexual intimacy - involvement, intimacy, affair, liaison, affaire, amour
a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship - utopia
ideally perfect state - dystopia
state in which the conditions of life are extremely bad as from deprivation or oppression or terror - acceptance
the state of being acceptable and accepted - ballgame, new ballgame
a particular situation that is radically different from the preceding situation - challenge
a demanding or stimulating situation - childlessness
the condition of being without offspring - complication
a situation or condition that is complex or confused - conflict of interest
a situation in which a public official's decisions are influenced by the official's personal interests - crisis
an unstable situation of extreme danger or difficulty - crowding
a situation in which people or things are crowded together - crunch
a critical situation that arises because of a shortage (as a shortage of time or money or resources) - disequilibrium
loss of equilibrium attributable to an unstable situation in which some forces outweigh others - element
the situation in which you are happiest and most effective - environment
the totality of surrounding conditions - equilibrium
a stable situation in which forces cancel one another - exclusion
the state of being excluded - fishbowl, fish bowl, goldfish bowl
a state of affairs in which you have no privacy - hornet's nest, hornets' nest
a highly contentious or hazardous situation - hotbed
a situation that is ideal for rapid development (especially of something bad) - hot potato
a difficult situation - how-do-you-do, how-d'ye-do
an awkward situation - imbroglio, embroilment
an intricate and confusing interpersonal or political situation - inclusion
the state of being included - intestacy
the situation of being or dying without a legally valid will - Mexican standoff
a situation in which no one can emerge as a clear winner - nightmare, incubus
a situation resembling a terrifying dream - no-win situation
a situation in which a favorable outcome is impossible - pass, straits, strait
a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs - picture, scene
a situation treated as an observable object - prison, prison house
a prisonlike situation - purgatory
a temporary condition of torment or suffering - rejection
the state of being rejected - size, size of it
the actual state of affairs - square one
the situation in which you begin an endeavor and to which you return if your efforts fail - status quo
the existing state of affairs - swamp
a situation fraught with difficulties and imponderables - standardization, standardisation
the condition in which a standard has been successfully established - stigmatism
(optics) condition of an optical system (as a lens) in which light rays from a single point converge in a single focal point - astigmatism, astigmia
(optics) defect in an optical system in which light rays from a single point fail to converge in a single focal point - stratification, social stratification
the condition of being arranged in social strata or classes within a group - wild, natural state, state of nature
a wild primitive state untouched by civilization - way
the condition of things generally - isomerism
the state of being an isomer - stage, point, level, degree
a specific identifiable position in a continuum or series or especially in a process - ladder
ascending stages by which somebody or something can progress - elevation, peak, top, pinnacle, height, superlative, summit, meridian, tiptop, acme
the highest level or degree attainable - extent
the point or degree to which something extends - resultant, end point
the final point in a process - standard of living, standard of life
a level of material comfort in terms of goods and services available to someone or some group - plane
a level of existence or development - state of the art
the highest degree of development of an art or technique at a particular time - ultimacy, ultimateness
the state or degree of being ultimate - extremity
the greatest or utmost degree - profoundness
extremeness of degree - ordinary
the expected or commonplace condition or situation - circumstance
a condition that accompanies or influences some event or activity - homelessness
the state or condition of having no home (especially the state of living in the streets) - vagrancy
the state of wandering from place to place - event, case
a special set of circumstances - hinge
a circumstance upon which subsequent events depend - playing field
the circumstances under which competition occurs - thing
a special situation - time bomb, ticking bomb
a problematic situation that will eventually become dangerous if not addressed - tinderbox
a dangerous state of affairs - urgency
an urgent situation calling for prompt action - congestion, over-crowding
excessive crowding - reinstatement
the condition of being reinstated - office, power
(of a government or government official) holding an office means being in power - executive clemency
the power (usually of a president or governor) to pardon or commute the sentence of someone convicted in that jurisdiction - war power
an extraordinary power exercised (usually by the executive branch) in the prosecution of a war and involving an extension of the powers that the government normally has in peacetime - position, status
the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society - equation, equivalence, equality, par
a state of being essentially equal or equivalent - egality, egalite
social and political equality - tie
equality of score in a contest - deuce
a tie in tennis or table tennis that requires winning two successive points to win the game - rank, social station, social status, social rank
position in a social hierarchy - place, station
proper or designated social situation - place
proper or appropriate position or location - quality
high social status - standing
social or financial or professional status or reputation - high status
a position of superior status - center stage, centre stage
a position of prominence or importance - stardom
the status of being acknowledged as a star - championship, title
the status of being a champion - triple crown
(baseball) an unofficial title won by a batter who leads the league in hitting average, runs batted in, and home runs - triple crown
(horse racing) a title won by a horse that can win the Kentucky Derby and the Belmont Stakes and the Preakness - high ground
a position of superiority over opponents or competitors - seniority, senior status, higher status, higher rank
higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service - precedence, precedency, priority
status established in order of importance or urgency - back burner
reduced priority - front burner
top priority - superiority, transcendence, transcendency
the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits - high profile
a position attracting much attention and publicity - Holy Order, Order
(usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy - lowness, low status, lowliness
a position of inferior status - inferiority, lower status, lower rank
the state of being inferior - backseat
a secondary or inferior position or status - shade
a position of relative inferiority - subordinateness, subsidiarity
secondary importance - handmaid, handmaiden, servant
in a subordinate position - junior status
in a junior position - subservience, subservientness
in a subservient state - legal status
a status defined by law - civil death
the legal status of a person who is alive but who has been deprived of the rights and privileges of a citizen or a member of society - villeinage, villainage
the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf - illegitimacy, bar sinister, bastardy
the status of being born to parents who were not married - left-handedness
the status of being born of a morganatic marriage - citizenship
the status of a citizen with rights and duties - command
a position of highest authority - nationality
the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization - footing, terms
status with respect to the relations between people or groups - retirement
the state of being retired from one's business or occupation - being, existence, beingness
the state or fact of existing - actuality
the state of actually existing objectively - entelechy
(Aristotle) the state of something that is fully realized - genuineness
the state of being genuine - reality, realism, realness
the state of being actual or real - fact
an event known to have happened or something known to have existed - reality
the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be - historicalness
the state of having in fact existed in the past - truth, trueness, verity, the true
conformity to reality or actuality - eternity, timelessness, timeless existence
a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife - preexistence
existing in a former state or previous to something else - coexistence
existing peacefully together - eternal life, life eternal
life without beginning or end - subsistence
the state of existing in reality - presence
the state of being present - immanence, immanency
the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain - inherence, inherency
the state of inhering - ubiety
the state of existing and being localized in space - ubiquity, ubiquitousness, omnipresence
the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) - hereness
the state of being here in this place - thereness
the state of being there--not here--in position - thereness
real existence - occurrence
an instance of something occurring - allopatry
the occurrence of related organisms in separate geographical areas with no overlap - sympatry
the occurrence of organisms in overlapping geographical areas, but without interbreeding - shadow
a dominating and pervasive presence - nonbeing
the state of not being - nonentity, nonexistence
the state of not existing - unreality, irreality
the state of being insubstantial or imaginary - cloud
out of touch with reality - falseness, falsity
the state of being false or untrue - spuriousness
state of lacking genuineness - absence
the state of being absent - nonoccurrence
absence by virtue of not occurring - awayness
the state of being elsewhere than in particular place - life
the course of existence of an individual