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Definitions: Nemesis |
NemesisNoun1. (Greek mythology) the goddess of divine retribution and vengeance. 2. Something causes misery or death; "the bane of my life". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Nemesis" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1592. (references) |
Etymology: Nemesis \Nem"e*sis\, noun. [Latin expression, from the Greek expression, originally, distribution, from to distribute. See Nomad.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Nemesis Retribution, or rather the righteous anger of God. A female Greek deity, whose mother was Night. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: NemesisSynonyms: bane (n), curse (n), scourge (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Punishment | Discipline, infliction, trial; judgment; penalty; retribution; thunderbolt, Nemesis; requital; (reward); penology; retributive justice. |
Revenge | Avenger, vindicator, Nemesis, Eumenides. |
Right | Astraea, Nemesis, Themis. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Nemesis |
| Specialty definitions using "Nemesis": Rings Noted in Fable. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Nemesis" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (nemesis), Dutch (Nemesis), German (nemesis). |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Scott, I want you to meet daddy's nemesis, Austin Powers (Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery; writing credit: Mike Myers.) Oh my, does he hate us. Thinks I'm his nemesis. (The Silence of the Lambs; writing credit: Ted Tally) Together they become champions of good and the nemesis of evil! (Moby Dick and the Mighty Mightor; writing credit: Eddie Brandt; David Scott) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Nemesis Game (2003) His Own Nemesis (1916) The Weird Nemesis (1915) His Nemesis (1914) The Boob's Nemesis (1914) | |
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| "Nemesis" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Nemesis" is used about 43 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 43 | 52,181 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
star trek nemesis | 540 |
nemesis | 374 |
resident evil nemesis | 124 |
resident evil 3 nemesis | 114 |
clanton nemesis | 48 |
nemesis racing | 42 |
zork nemesis | 31 |
nemesis game | 26 |
nemesis factor | 14 |
nemesis star trek vhs | 14 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Nemesis"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | nemesi, perëndesha e hakkmarjës. (various references) | |
Arabic | الهة الإنتقام عند الإغريق, إنتقام (reprisal, requital, retaliation, revenge). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | възмездие (comeuppance, judgement, judgment, pay, payment, payoff, requital, restitution, retribution, reward, wage), отмъщение (retaliation, retort, revenge, turnabout, vengeance, vindication), отплата (meed, payoff, quittance, recompense, remuneration, repayment, requital, retaliation, retort, return, reward, wage). (various references) | |
Czech | nemesis, trest (castigation, pain, penalty, punishment, retribution), odplata (reckoning, requital, retaliation, retribution, reward), msta (vengeance). (various references) | |
Dutch | Nemesis. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Nemeso. (various references) | |
Farsi | کینه جوءی , قصاص , انتقام (Reprisal, Revenge, Vengeance), الهه انتقام . (various references) | |
French | némésis. (various references) | |
German | nemesis, die gerechte strafe. (various references) | |
Greek | νέμεση, θεία δίκη (divine retribution, judgement). (various references) | |
Hebrew | קמ" (retaliation, revenge, vengeance). (various references) | |
Hungarian | nemeszisz, végzet (chance, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, kismet, predestination, weird), nemezis, bosszúálló sors, bosszú istennője. (various references) | |
Italian | nemesi. (various references) | |
Manx | briwnys cherraghey. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | emesisnay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | nem (neither, never mind, nor, not, not yet), nêmesis. (various references) | |
Russian | немезида. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | nepobediv protivnik, osvetnik (avenger, revenger, vindicator), osvetnička pravda. (various references) | |
Spanish | justo castigo (retribution), justicia (execution, fairness, justice, justness, Lam, legitimacy, rest, right, righteousness, rightness, start). (various references) | |
Swedish | vädergällning. (various references) | |
Thai | การลงโทษหรือการพ่ายแพ้ที่ไม่สามารถหลีกเลี่ยงไ"้. (various references) | |
Turkish | intikam tanrıçası, intikam (payoff, retribution, revenge, vengeance, vindication), adil ceza, öç (requital, retaliation, retribution, revenge, vengeance). (various references) | |
Ukranian | відплата (atonement, comeback, comeuppance, oblation, quits, requital, retaliation, retort, retribution, reward, wages, wrack), месниця, доля (allotment, chance, cup, destiny, doom, fatality, fate, fortune, karma, lot, portion, predestination). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | nữ thần báo ứng sự báo ứng, sự báo oán. (various references) | |
Welsh | dialedd (vengeance). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Misspellings | |
"Nemesis" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: gemesis, Hemesis, Jenesis, namesis, namesti, neesick, nemasis, nemausus, nemese, nemesi, nemesia, nemesias, Nemesius, nemesses, Nemetin, nemises, nemisis, Nemitsas, Nemois, neomucisa, nimeses, noesis, Numidius, Nyemwezi, temgesic. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "Nemesis" (pronounced ne"musus) |
| 4 | -u s u s | analysis, antithesis, archdiocese, dialysis, diocese, electrolysis, Genesis, hydrolysis, hypothesis, metamorphosis, morphogenesis, organogenesis, photosynthesis, psoriasis, psychoanalysis, synthesis, urinalysis. |
| 3 | -s u s | acidosis, amniocentesis, apotheosis, arteriosclerosis, atherosclerosis, axis, catharsis, census, cirrhosis, colossus, consensus, crisis, diagnosis, fibrosis, geotaxis, glacis, heterosis, homeostasis, hypnosis, meiosis, misdiagnosis, Narcissus, necrosis, nephrosis, neurofibromatosis, neurosis, nexus, phototaxis, plexus, preadolescence, proboscis, prognosis, prosthesis, psychokinesis, psychosis, rhesus, sclerosis, symbiosis, synopsis, Tarsus, telexes, Texas, thesis, thrombosis, tuberculosis, versus. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: siemens. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-i-m-n-s-s" | |
-1 letter: emesis, menses, mesnes, seines, semens. | |
-2 letters: mense, mesne, miens, mines, mises, neems, seems, seine, seise, seism, semen, semes, semis, sense, sines. | |
-3 letters: emes, eses, isms, mess, mien, mine, mise, miss, neem, ness, nims, seem, seen, sees, seis, seme, semi, sene, sims, sine, sins. | |
-4 letters: eme, ems, ens, ess, ins, ism, men, mis, nee, nim, see, sei, sen, sim, sin, sis. | |
-5 letters: em, en, es, in, is, me, mi, ne, si. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-i-m-n-s-s" | |
+1 letter: inmeshes, missense, seemings. | |
+2 letters: amnesties, demonises, dimnesses, emersions, emptiness, endemisms, feminises, immensest, jessamine, meatiness, merriness, messaline, messiness, mestinoes, misenters, misevents, missenses, monetises, primeness, seaminess, sediments, seleniums, semitones, specimens, spermines. | |
+3 letters: centesimos, comeliness, creaminess, deaminases, dreaminess, economises, ecumenisms, ecumenists, enamelists, epicenisms, estaminets, firmnesses, gaminesses, grimnesses, homeliness, hominesses, impureness, isoenzymes, jessamines, limberness, limestones, liminesses, limpnesses, luminesces, magnesites, magnetises, mainsheets, matinesses, mazinesses, meniscuses, mescalines, mesnalties, messalines, mildnesses, milestones, mindedness, miniseries, minuteness, mirinesses, misdefines, misentries, misrenders, missilemen, modernises, moisteners, mousseline, multisense, nimbleness, presentism, primnesses, reemission, reminisces, remissness, remoistens, riminesses, seemliness, seminaries, sentiments, sermonizes, simpleness, sixteenmos, slimnesses, solemnizes, steaminess, tenebrisms, terminuses, timeliness, trimnesses. | |
+4 letters: absenteeism, advisements, aimlessness, amativeness, amiableness, animateness, balminesses, bumpinesses, businessmen, campinesses, cysteamines, designments, despisement, disseminate, disseminule, dissepiment, divestments, dumpinesses, emotionless, emptinesses, endomitoses, endomixises, enlistments, evangelisms, filminesses, foaminesses, genteelisms, griminesses, gumminesses, hamminesses, heathenisms, henotheisms, homogenises, immenseness, immensities, impatienses, impressment, inseminates, intermeshes, intersystem, investments, irksomeness, jimsonweeds, jumpinesses, kinetosomes, lemniscates, limitedness, lissomeness, lumpinesses, maisonettes, manginesses, manifesters, manifestoes, manlinesses, martensites, massiveness, meaningless, meatinesses, merrinesses, mesenteries, mesmerising, messinesses, metagenesis, milkinesses, mineralises, minestrones, miserliness, misfeasance, missteering, mistinesses, moistnesses, moldinesses, monasteries, monogenesis, monostelies, moodinesses, mousinesses, mousselines, muddinesses, mugginesses, murkinesses, mushinesses, muskinesses, mussinesses, mustinesses, mutagenesis, muzzinesses, neorealisms, noisemakers, noisomeness, premoistens, premonishes, presentisms, primenesses, reemissions, reminiscers, roominesses, seaminesses, sermonizers, sliminesses, smithereens, smokinesses, solemnifies, solemnities, somerseting, streamlines, sublimeness, teemingness, testimonies, timidnesses, unimpressed, unseemliest, wimpinesses, winsomeness. | |
+5 letters: absenteeisms, amicableness, chastisement, chumminesses, clamminesses, clumsinesses, comelinesses, creaminesses, crumminesses, desipramines, despisements, despoilments, determinisms, determinists, disablements, disbursement, discernments, diseconomies, disencumbers, disesteeming, disguisement, dismalnesses, disseminated, disseminates, disseminules, dissepiments, disseverment, dreaminesses, ecumenicisms, ecumenicists, egocentrisms, einsteiniums, endodermises, essentialism, eudaemonisms, eudaemonists, externalisms, feminineness, flimsinesses, freneticisms, gloominesses, grumpinesses, hemosiderins, homelinesses, homesickness, hypermnesias, impersonates, impishnesses, impoliteness, impressments, improperness, impurenesses, indorsements, intimateness, irredentisms, limbernesses, limpidnesses, maidenliness, mannerliness, marshinesses, masterliness, mastersinger, materialness, merchandises, mercifulness, mesalliances, messeigneurs, mightinesses, mindednesses, mindlessness, minesweepers, minnesingers, minstrelsies, minutenesses, miscellanies, misconceives, misdemeanors, misesteeming, misfeasances, misrepresent, misstatement, modishnesses, monkeyshines, monodisperse, morbidnesses, motherliness, mulishnesses, neostigmines, nimblenesses, omnisciences, plebeianisms, pumpkinseeds, reassembling, reassignment, reimpression, remissnesses, rescindments, ressentiment, salinometers, secessionism, seemlinesses, semicolonies, semidarkness, semifinished, seminiferous, seminudities, sensitometer, sensitometry, simplenesses, skimpinesses, smarminesses, smudginesses, smuttinesses, somersetting, steaminesses, steelmakings, storminesses, streamliners, subeconomies, swampinesses, tensiometers, timelessness, timelinesses, timeservings, tiresomeness, toilsomeness, ultimateness, unimpressive, unseemliness, untimeliness, wisenheimers. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 6D 65 73 69 73 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-. . -- . ... .. ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01101101 01100101 01110011 01101001 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e m e s i s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 006D 0065 0073 0069 0073 |
| 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)48717971857585 |
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