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Acousma

Definition: Acousma

Acousma

Noun

1. Illusory auditory perception of strange nonverbal sounds.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Synonym: Acousma

Synonym: auditory hallucination (n). (additional references)

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Anagrams: Acousma

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-c-m-o-s-u"

-1 letter: mucosa.

-2 letters: camas, comas, musca, omasa, sumac.

-3 letters: amas, amus, cams, casa, coma, macs, moas, mocs, ocas, scam, scum, soma, sumo.

-4 letters: aas, ama, amu, cam, cos, cum, mac, mas, moa, moc, mos, mus, oca, oms, sac, sau, som, sou, sum.

-5 letters: aa, am, as, ma, mo, mu, om, os, so, um, us.

 Words containing the letters "a-a-c-m-o-s-u"
 

+2 letters: glaucomas.

 

+3 letters: automatics, calamitous, catamounts, docudramas, guacamoles, scaramouch.

 

+4 letters: camouflages, catadromous, emasculator, lumbosacral, maculations, microfaunas, oceanariums, sarcomatous, scaramouche.

 

+5 letters: accumulators, calamitously, calumniators, chaulmoogras, diatomaceous, emasculation, emasculators, scaramouches.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Acousma


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

41 63 6F 75 73 6D 61

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

.-    -.-.    ---    ..-    ...    --    .-

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000001 01100011 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101101 01100001

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#65 &#99 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#109 &#97

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0041 0063 006F 0075 0073 006D 0061

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

35698187857967

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Anagrams
4. Orthography
5. Bibliography


  

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