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  2. Mono no aware - Wikipedia

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    Japanese woodblock print showcasing transience, precarious beauty, and the passage of time, thus "mirroring" mono no aware [1] Mono no aware (物の哀れ), [a] lit. ' the pathos of things ', and also translated as ' an empathy toward things ', or ' a sensitivity to ephemera ', is a Japanese idiom for the awareness of impermanence (無常, mujō), or transience of things, and both a transient ...

  3. Sehnsucht - Wikipedia

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    A suffering reference of the word Sehnsucht in Middle High German usage is associated with "Siechtum" in the German dictionary as follows: Weakening the disease reference, the word later denoted the high "degree of a violent and often painful longing for something, especially when one has no hope of attaining what is desired, or when attainment is uncertain, still distant."

  4. List of dictionaries by number of words - Wikipedia

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    Oxford Dictionary has 273,000 headwords; 171,476 of them being in current use, 47,156 being obsolete words and around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries. The dictionary contains 157,000 combinations and derivatives, and 169,000 phrases and combinations, making a total of over 600,000 word-forms. [41] [42]

  5. Wiktionary - Wikipedia

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    Wiktionary (UK: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ən ər i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nər-ee; US: / ˈ w ɪ k ʃ ə n ɛr i / ⓘ, WIK-shə-nerr-ee; rhyming with "dictionary") is a multilingual, web-based project to create a free content dictionary of terms (including words, phrases, proverbs, linguistic reconstructions, etc.) in all natural languages and in a number of artificial languages.

  6. Wishful thinking - Wikipedia

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    In addition to being a cognitive bias and a poor way of making decisions, wishful thinking is commonly held to be a specific informal fallacy in an argument when it is assumed that because we wish something to be true or false, it is actually true or false.

  7. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. 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 ...

  8. Fact check: Clarence Darrow, not Mark Twain, said quote about ...

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    The quote "I've never wished a man dead, but I have read some obituaries with great pleasure" is misattribute to Mark Twain. Clarence Darrow said it. Fact check: Clarence Darrow, not Mark Twain ...

  9. Ben-Yehuda Dictionary - Wikipedia

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    The words in the dictionary were arranged alphabetically, distinguishing it from other dictionaries. At the time, many dictionaries followed the practice of arranging entries alphabetically by the root letters, meaning that the word "אגרוף" (en': fist) would appear under the root letters ג-ר-ף. This system was common for many years in ...