| COMPARATIVENESS | • comparativeness n. The state or quality of being comparative. • COMPARATIVE n. of the nature of comparison. |
| COMPARATIVISTS | • comparativists n. Plural of comparativist. • COMPARATIVIST n. one who conducts a comparative study. |
| COMPREHENSIVES | • comprehensives n. Plural of comprehensive. • COMPREHENSIVE n. a comprehensive school. |
| COMPREHENSIVISE | • comprehensivise v. Alternative form of comprehensivize. • COMPREHENSIVISE v. to make comprehensive, also COMPREHENSIVIZE. |
| COMPRESSIVE | • compressive adj. That compresses. • COMPRESSIVE adj. of or relating to compression. |
| COMPRESSIVELY | • compressively adv. In a compressive way. • COMPRESSIVE adv. of or relating to compression. |
| CORPORATIVISMS | • corporativisms n. Plural of corporativism. • CORPORATIVISM n. the policy of control of a country's economy through the combined power of the trade unions, large businesses, etc., also CORPORATISM. |
| DECOMPRESSIVE | • decompressive adj. That decompresses. • DECOMPRESS adj. to release from pressure or compression. |
| DESCRIPTIVISM | • descriptivism n. (Linguistics) The practice of describing realistic forms, as opposed to prescribing idealistic norms… • DESCRIPTIVISM n. a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| DESCRIPTIVISMS | • descriptivisms n. Plural of descriptivism. • DESCRIPTIVISM n. a theory of ethics by which only empirical statements are acceptable. |
| IMPROVISATRICES | • improvisatrices n. Plural of improvisatrice. • improvisatrices n. Plural of improvisatrix. • IMPROVISATRIX n. (archaic) a female improvisator, also IMPROVISATRICE. |
| MISPERCEIVES | • misperceives v. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of misperceive. • MISPERCEIVE v. to perceive wrongly. |
| OVERCOMPRESSING | • overcompressing v. Present participle of overcompress. • OVERCOMPRESS v. to compress excessively. |
| OVERPESSIMISTIC | • overpessimistic adj. More pessimistic than is warranted. • OVERPESSIMISTIC adj. excessively pessimistic. |
| OVERSIMPLISTIC | • oversimplistic adj. Too simplistic. • OVERSIMPLISTIC adj. excessively simplistic. |
| PERSPECTIVISM | • perspectivism n. The philosophical view that all perception always takes place from a specific perspective. • PERSPECTIVISM n. the theory that things can only be known from an individual point of view at a particular time. |
| 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. |
| PRESCRIPTIVISM | • prescriptivism n. (Linguistics) The practice of prescribing idealistic norms, as opposed to describing realistic forms… • PRESCRIPTIVISM n. the belief that moral edicts are merely orders with no truth value. |
| PRESCRIPTIVISMS | • prescriptivisms n. Plural of prescriptivism. • PRESCRIPTIVISM n. the belief that moral edicts are merely orders with no truth value. |
| PROVINCIALISMS | • provincialisms n. Plural of provincialism. • PROVINCIALISM n. a dialectal or local word, phrase, or idiom. |