| ACCIDENTALISM | • accidentalism n. Accidental character or effect. • accidentalism n. The belief that outward appearance often contrasts with substance or essence (after Thomas Aquinas). • accidentalism n. A system of medicine based on belief that symptoms of disease are caused by external factors. |
| ACCLIMATISING | • acclimatising v. Present participle of acclimatise. • ACCLIMATISE v. to accustom to a climate, also ACCLIMATIZE, ACCLIMATE. |
| ACCOMPLISHING | • accomplishing v. Present participle of accomplish. • ACCOMPLISH v. to bring about (a result) by effort, also COMPLISH. |
| COMMUNALISTIC | • communalistic adj. Pertaining to communalism. • COMMUNALISTIC adj. relating to communalism, social organization on a communal basis. |
| COMPLICATIONS | • complications n. Plural of complication. • COMPLICATION n. complexity, intricacy. |
| ECUMENICALISM | • ecumenicalism n. The belief that there should be better understanding and closer co-operation between different denominations… • ECUMENICALISM n. the doctrines and practice of the Christian ecumenical movement, also ECUMENICISM. |
| ENCOMIASTICAL | • encomiastical adj. Alternative form of encomiastic. • ENCOMIASTICAL adj. bestowing praise, also ENCOMIASTIC. |
| INCOMMISCIBLE | • incommiscible adj. Not commiscible; not mixable. • INCOMMISCIBLE adj. unable to be mixed or intermingled. |
| INCOMPLIANCES | • incompliances n. Plural of incompliance. • INCOMPLIANCE n. lack of compliance, also INCOMPLIANCY. |
| MECHANICALISM | • MECHANICALISM n. the belief that phenomena are determined by physical forces. |
| MULTISCIENCES | • MULTISCIENCE n. knowledge of many things. |
| NEOCLASSICISM | • neoclassicism n. Any of several movements in the arts, architecture, literature and music that revived forms from earlier centuries. • NEOCLASSICISM n. a revival of the classical style in art and architecture. |
| OCCASIONALISM | • occasionalism n. (Philosophy, uncountable) A metaphysical doctrine that holds that all events are occasioned (caused) by God. • occasionalism n. (Linguistics, countable) A nonce word. • OCCASIONALISM n. the Cartesian explanation of the apparent interaction of mind and matter by the direct intervention of God on the occasion of certain changes occurring in one or the other. |
| OCCIDENTALISM | • occidentalism n. The habits and attitudes of westerners. • OCCIDENTALISM n. the study of the Occident. |
| SCAPULIMANTIC | • scapulimantic adj. Relating to scapulimancy. • SCAPULIMANTIC adj. related to scapulimancy, divination involving a shoulder blade which has been charred or cracked from a fire. |