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  2. Weltschmerz - Wikipedia

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    Engraving by Jusepe de Ribera depicting the melancholic and world-weary figure of a poet. Weltschmerz (German: [ˈvɛltʃmɛɐ̯ts] ⓘ; literally "world-pain") is a literary concept describing the feeling experienced by an individual who believes that reality can never satisfy the expectations of the mind, [1] [2] resulting in "a mood of weariness or sadness about life arising from the acute ...

  3. Realisation (metrology) - Wikipedia

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    The Oxford English Dictionary defines the word "realise" (also spelt "realize") as "to convert (something imagined, planned, etc.) into real existence or fact". [1] The International vocabulary of metrology identifies three distinct ways in which this is done – the first being the realisation of a measurement unit from its definition, the second the reproduction of measurement standards and ...

  4. Self-actualization - Wikipedia

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    For example, someone who has inherent potential to be a great artist or teacher may never realize their talents if their energy is focused on attaining the basic needs of humans. [11] As a person moves up Maslow's hierarchy of needs, they may eventually find themselves reaching the summit — self-actualization. [4]

  5. Realism (arts) - Wikipedia

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    Bonjour, Monsieur Courbet (1854) – a Realist painting by Gustave Courbet. Realism in the arts is generally the attempt to represent subject matter truthfully, without artificiality and avoiding speculative and supernatural elements.

  6. Self-realization - Wikipedia

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    Self-realization is a term used in Western philosophy, psychology, and spirituality; and in Indian religions.In the Western understanding, it is the "fulfillment by oneself of the possibilities of one's character or personality" (see also self-actualization). [1]

  7. Realization (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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    The different sounds that can realize a particular phoneme are called its allophones. Realization is also a subtask of natural language generation, which involves creating an actual text in a human language (English, French, etc.) from a syntactic representation. There are a number of software packages available for realization, most of which ...

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  9. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.