| CHEMORECEPTIVE | • chemoreceptive adj. (Of a sense organ) able to respond to a chemical stimulus. • CHEMORECEPTIVE adj. relating to chemoreception. |
| CIRCUMSPECTIVE | • circumspective adj. Looking in all directions; cautious or watchful of danger. • CIRCUMSPECTIVE adj. looking around; wary. |
| COMPREHENSIVES | • comprehensives n. Plural of comprehensive. • COMPREHENSIVE n. a comprehensive school. |
| COMPULSIVENESS | • compulsiveness n. The state of being compulsive. • COMPULSIVE n. driven by an ungovernable impulse. |
| CONTEMPLATIVES | • contemplatives n. Plural of contemplative. • CONTEMPLATIVE n. a person who practices contemplation. |
| IMPERCEPTIVELY | • imperceptively adv. (Proscribed) imperceptibly. • IMPERCEPTIVE adv. not perceptive. |
| IMPERCEPTIVITY | • imperceptivity n. Inability to perceive. • IMPERCEPTIVITY n. the state of being imperceptive. |
| IMPERFECTIVELY | • imperfectively adv. (Grammar) In an imperfective manner or context. • IMPERFECTIVE adv. expressing action as incomplete or without reference to completion or as reiterated. |
| NONCOMPETITIVE | • noncompetitive adj. That does not involve competition or rivalry. • non-competitive adj. Alternative spelling of noncompetitive. • NONCOMPETITIVE adj. not competitive. |
| OVERCOMPLIANCE | • overcompliance n. Compliance beyond what is necessary. • OVERCOMPLIANCE n. excessive compliance. |
| OVERCOMPLICATE | • overcomplicate v. (Transitive) To make something excessively complicated. • OVERCOMPLICATE v. to complicate excessively. |
| PERSPECTIVISMS | • perspectivisms n. Plural of perspectivism. • PERSPECTIVISM n. the theory that things can only be known from an individual point of view at a particular time. |
| PRECOMPETITIVE | • precompetitive adj. Describing the early stages of the development of a commercial product, during which competitors collaborate. • PRECOMPETITIVE adj. denoting a period of industrial or commercial development during which competitors work together. |