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Definition: DISPLACENCY |
DISPLACENCYNoun1. Want of complacency or gratification; envious displeasure; dislike. |
Etymology: Displacency \Dis*pla"cen*cy\, noun. [from Late Latin expression displacentia, for Latin displicentia, from displicere to displease; dis- placere to please. See Displease, and compare to Displeasance.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Noun: disapprobation, disapproval; improbation; disesteem, disvaluation, displacency; odium; dislike. |
Discourtesy | Noun: discourtesy;ill breeding; ill manners, bad manners, ungainly manners; insuavity; uncourteousness;Adjective: rusticity, inurbanity; illiberality, incivility displacency. |
Dislike | Noun: dislike, distaste, disrelish, disinclination, displacency. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Expression using "DISPLACENCY": incivility displacency. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-l-n-p-s-y" | |
-2 letters: inclasped. | |
-3 letters: calcined, calcines, calycine, capelins, cyanides, delicacy, displace, dyspneal, dyspneic, ecdysial, panicled, panicles, pelicans, saliency, sandpile, sapiency, scenical, syndical. | |
-4 letters: adenyls, alipeds, alpines, cadency, calcine, calends, calices, calyces, cancels, candies, candles, capelin, caplins, celiacs, clasped, cyanide, cyanids, cycasin, cyclase, cylices, cynical, cypsela, denials, dialyse, display, dyspnea, elapids, elysian, enclasp, icecaps, incased, inclasp. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-c-d-e-i-l-n-p-s-y" | |
+2 letters: encyclopedias. | |
+3 letters: encyclopaedias, endoscopically. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 49 53 50 4C 41 43 45 4E 43 59 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.. .. ... .--. .-.. .- -.-. . -. -.-. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01001001 01010011 01010000 01001100 01000001 01000011 01000101 01001110 01000011 01011001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D I S P L A C E N C Y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0049 0053 0050 004C 0041 0043 0045 004E 0043 0059 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3843535046353739483759 |
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