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Definitions: Indifference |
IndifferenceNoun1. Unbiased impartial unconcern. 2. Apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions. 3. The trait of lacking enthusiasm for or interest in things generally. 4. The trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "indifference" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To dream of indifference, signifies pleasant companions for a very short time. For a young woman to dream that her sweetheart is indifferent to her, signifies that he may not prove his affections in the most appropriate way. To dream that she is indifferent to him, means that she will prove untrue to him. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Mathematics | In Italian usage there is said to be statistical indifference between two variates if their correlation is zero, or more generally, if some index of concordance(concordanza)vanishes. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Synonyms: IndifferenceSynonyms: apathy (n), emotionlessness (n), impassiveness (n), impassivity (n), nonchalance (n), phlegm (n), spiritlessness (n), stolidity (n), unconcern (n), unemotionality (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Absence of Choice | Neutrality, indifference; indecision; (irresolution); arbitrariness. |
Inattention | Supineness; (inactivity); etourderie, want of thought; heedlessness; (neglect); insouciance; (indifference). |
Incuriosity | Noun: incuriosity, incuriousness; Adjective: insouciance; indifference, lack of interest, disinterest. |
Indifference | Noun: indifference, neutrality; coldness; Adjective: anaphrodisia; unconcern, insouciance, nonchalance; want of interest, want of earnestness; anorexy, anorexia, inappetency; apathy; (insensibility); supineness; (inactivity); disdain; recklessness; inattention. |
Insensibility | Cold fit, cold blood, cold heart; coldness, coolness; frigidity, sang froid; stoicism, imperturbation; (inexcitability); nonchalance, unconcern, dry eyes; insouciance; (indifference); recklessness; callousness; heart of stone, stock and stone, marble, deadness. |
Unimportance | Triviality, levity, frivolity; paltriness; Adjective:; poverty; smallness; vanity; (uselessness); matter of indifference; no object. |
Unwillingness | Noun: unwillingness; Adjective: indisposition, indisposedness; disinclination, aversation; nolleity, nolition; renitence, renitency; reluctance; indifference; backwardness; Adjective: slowness; want of alacrity,want of readiness; indocility; (obstinacy). |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Indifference |
| English words defined with "indifference": Adiaphorism, Adiaphory, alien, alienate, All a case, aloofness, assume ♦ callous ♦ disaffect, dismissive, Dissympathy, distance ♦ estrange ♦ feign ♦ Incuriosity, Indifferency, Indifferentism, indifferently, Indisturbance, indurate ♦ lightly ♦ methane series ♦ Overskip ♦ pachydermatous, Pococurantism ♦ sham, shrug, simulate, steam, stoicism, stolidity, stolidness ♦ temperamental, thick-skinned, To look down on, To make no difference, To turn a cold shoulder to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "indifference": Academy, Ague ♦ Candide ♦ Dombey ♦ Errands ♦ Farewell, Festival, Fox's Sleep ♦ Homicide ♦ Indifference ♦ Leprosy, Liquor ♦ Neuroleptanalgesia ♦ Property ♦ Rimer, Rosemary, Ruby ♦ Sang Froid, Schizoid Personality Disorder, Side, Snakes, Sour Grapeism, Stoics ♦ Table, Tempest, tomb ♦ Wadding, Walking. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "indifference": Pococurantism. (references) |
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Screenplays | To define myself, one word: indifference. (2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle; writing credit: Catherine Vimenet; Jean-Luc Godard) Cool indifference to the staring crowds along the bank. (The Swan; writing credit: Ferenc Molnár; John Dighton) Indifference is. (Cheers; writing credit: Isaac Cronin; Wayne Wang) If I didn't know you better I'd think you have the feigned indifference of a man in love. (Dangerous Beauty; writing credit: Jeannine Dominy) | |
Clever | It is not the difference between people that is the difficulty; it is the indifference. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Reckless Indifference (2000) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Gleichgültigkeit. Gleichgültigkeit kann lähmend sein.... : [Indifference. Indifference can be crippling....].Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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| Yawn; tired; exhausted; catch flies; divide; doze; drowse; expand; gap; gape; give; nap; part; sleep; snooze; spread; yaw; yawp; apathy; detachment; disgust; distaste; doldrums; dullness; ennui; fatigue; flatness; incuriosity; indifference; irksomeness; j. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Epictetus | The materials are indifferent, but the use we make of them is not a matter of indifference. |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime. |
George Eliot | No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference. |
| Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. | |
Henry David Thoreau | After the first blush of sin comes its indifference. |
Iris Murdoch | Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference. |
J. August Strindberg | I hated her now with a hatred more fatal than indifference because it was the other side of love. |
Plato | The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Religion is as effectually destroyed by bigotry as by indifference. |
| Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places. | |
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Emma | Austen, Jane | Absence, with the conviction probably of her indifference, had produced this very natural and very desirable effect. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | Hester Prynne, meanwhile, kept her place upon the pedestal of shame, with glazed eyes, and an air of weary indifference. |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | Such is the indifference of heaven. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | A cold lucid indifference reigned in his soul. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | One man says, in his despair or indifference to life, take up a handful of the earth at your feet, and paint your house that color. |
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Economic History | Sri Lanka | Lethargy and indifference on the part of mid- and lower-level public servants compound transparency problems. (references) |
Romania | The lack of exposure to Western practices in the past has left a legacy of indifference to after sales service. (references) | |
Mexico | In January 1994, insurgents in the state of Chiapas briefly took arms against the government, protesting alleged oppression and governmental indifference to poverty. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hungary | NGO's reported fewer cases of police harassment of foreign residents, particularly of non-Europeans; however, police showed indifference towards foreigners who had been victims of street crime. (references) |
Russia | Nonetheless, the USMC believes that most hazing incidents and assaults are not reported, due to a fear of reprisals, the indifference of commanders, and deliberate efforts to cover up such activity. (references) | |
Minorities | Panama | In addition, Panamanians often resent Chinese immigrants for their perceived indifference toward the culture of their adopted country and their clannish behavior. (references) |
Political Economy | POLAND | Some U.S. companies have criticized Polish customs' performance, citing long delays, indifference, corruption, incompetent officials, and inconsistent application of customs rules. (references) |
Travel | Japan | Indifference to local business practices may indicate a lack of commitment on the part of the exporter, and may lead to misunderstandings and bad feelings between both sides. (references) |
Women | Cote d'Ivoire | Women's advocacy groups have protested the indifference of authorities to female victims of violence and called attention to domestic violence and FGM. The groups also reported that women who are the victims of rape or domestic violence often are ignored when they attempt to bring the violence to the attention of the police. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TOMB, n. The House of Indifference. Tombs are now by common consent invested with a certain sanctity, but when they have been long tenanted it is considered no sin to break them open and rifle them, the famous Egyptologist, Dr. Huggyns, explaining that a tomb may be innocently "glened" as soon as its occupant is done "smellynge," the soul being then all exhaled. This reasonable view is now generally accepted by archaeologists, whereby the noble science of Curiosity has been greatly dignified. |
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Dennis Miller | But even I realize we have to pull the thong of indifference out of our ass and acknowledge that we share this planet with others. |
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference. |
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| "Indifference" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.67% of the time. "Indifference" is used about 609 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) | 99.67% | 607 | 10,589 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.33% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 609 | N/A |
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Expressions using "indifference": matter of indifference ♦ under the cloak of indifference. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "indifference": near-indifference, semi-indifference. | |
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| 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 |
indifference | 14 |
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deliberate indifference | 7 |
depraved indifference | 7 |
indifference mouth | 4 |
indifference lyrics | 4 |
indifference jam lyrics pearl | 4 |
indifference mouth roma | 3 |
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guitar indifference jam pearl tab | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "indifference"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | indeferencë, paanshmëri, mospërfillje (carelessness, coldness, contempt, disinterest, disregard, insouciance, neglect, negligence, nonchalance, slight, slur, snub), moskokëçarje (carelessness, insensibility, negligence, nonchalance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | لا مبالاة (apathy, carelessness, disinterest, disinterestedness, easiness, impassivity, insouciance, nonchalance, phlegm, thickskin, unconcern), عدم إكتراث (apathy, impoliteness, nonchalance, thoughtlessness), عدم أهمية. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | равнодушие (apathy, disregard, insusceptibility, listlessness, nonchalance, tepidity, unconcern, vacancy), незначителност (exiguity, exility, insignificance, insignificancy, littleness, nothingness, puerility), апатия (accidie, acedia, apathy, insensibility, languor, lassitude, torpor), безразличие (disinterest, frigidity, incuriosity, insensibility, languor, torpidity, unconcern), безпристрастие (detachment, equity, fairness), посредственост (dead level, feebleness, meanness, mediocrity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 冷 (INDIFFERENT), 不重視 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | neteènost (apathy, indolence, phlegm), lhostejnost (aloofness, apathy), apatie (apathy, impassivity, listlessness, torpidity, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | statistisk indifferens. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | flegma (phlegm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | flegmo (phlegm). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | لاقیدی (Nonchalance, Unconcern), سهل انگاری (Nonchalance), خونسردی (Composure, Phlegm, Unconcern), بی علاقگی (Apathy, Lethargy, Stupidity, Unconcern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | indifferenssi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | indifférence. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | indifferenz (immunity), gleichgültigkeit (amelia, apathy, casualness, detachment, disregard, halfheartedness, languidness, phlegm, unconcern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αδιαφορία (cold shoulder, detachment, disinterest, listlessness, negligence, nonchalance, regardlessness, unconcern). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא אכפתיות (recklessness, unconcern), שויון פש (apathy, equability, nonchalance), שא ות (complacence, self satisfaction, serenity, tranquillity), קרירות (coldness, coolness), א"ישות (apathy, impassivity, inertness, listlessness, neutrality, phlegm, unconcern), צ י ות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | közömbösség (coolness, disinterest, impassivity, incuriosity, listlessness, negligence, neutrality). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kelalaian (dereliction, omission). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | indifferenza statistica, indifferenza (aloofness, disregard, insensibility, nonchalance, wild card), imparzialit (fairness, impartiality), noncuranza (carelessness, forgetfulness, nonchalance, unconcern), mancanza di valore, disinteresse (disinterestedness, unselfishness), apatia (apathy, hebetude, torpor). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 冷淡 (coolness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | しら"かお (unconcerned air), ひややかさ (coldness, frigidity), ふねっし" (inattentiveness, lack of enthusiasm), れいた" (coolness), れいぜ" (before the spirit of the deceased, cold look, cold-heartedness, coolness, lukewarmness), ちゅうせい (fairness, impartiality, loyalty, mediaeval times, Middle Ages, neuter gender, neutral, sincerity, sterility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 무관심. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuhym (unconcern, unconcernedness), feayr-chooish (frigidity, impassiveness, imperturbability, languidness, phlegm, self-possession). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | likegyldighet. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | indifferenceay indiferença (aloofness, apathy, callousness, cold shoulder, coldness, coolness, detachment, disinterested, easiness, estreat, frill, insensibility, insouciance, litany, lukewarmness, nonchalance, stand off, unconcern). (various references) indiferenţã (apathy, carelessness, coldness, coolness, detachment, disregard, equanimity, frigidity, insensibility, listlessness, nonchalance, phlegm, recklessness, regardlessness, remissness, sloth, torpor, unconcern), nepãsare (apathy, carelessness, casualness, disregard, laxity, listlessness, negligence, nonchalance, recklessness, remissness, sloth, unconcern), nepãrtinire (candor, candour, impartiality), mediocritate (mediocrity, second rater), lipsã de importanţã (immateriality, nugacity, pettiness, triviality). (various references) безразличие (apathy, frigidity, indolence, insouciance, torpor, unconcern). (various references) ravnodušnost (apathy, listlessness, unconcern), nehaj (negligence), nebriga (unconcern). (various references) indiferencia (apathy, coldness, coolness, disregard, nonchalance, perfunctoriness, unconcern). (various references) likgiltighet (apathy, detachment, disregard, insensibility, insouciance, unconcern), indifferens. (various references) ilgisizlik (apathy, backwater, coolness, disinterestedness, insouciance, listlessness, neglect, phlegm, unconcern, unconcernedness), ilgilenmeme, umursamazlık (laxity, laxness, listlessness, negligence, nonchalance, recklessness, unconcern, unconcernedness), umursamama (disregard), tarafsızlık (candor, candour, detachment, equilibrium, equitableness, equity, evenness, fair play, fairness, impartiality, neutralism, neutrality, non committal, objectiveness, objectivity, openness), kayıtsızlık (carelessness, forgetfulness, nonchalance, oblivion, unconcern), hissizlik (anaesthesia, anesthesia, apathy, deadness, impassivity, insensibility, insensitiveness, insensitivity, numbness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor), duygusuzluk (apathy, frigidity, insensibility, insusceptibility, obtuseness, phlegm, stolidity), balgam (expectoration, mucus, phlegm, pituitary, sputum), aldırmazlık (carelessness, unconcern, unconcernedness), önemsizlik (insignificance, insignificancy, lightness, littleness, paltriness, puniness, slightness, smallness, triviality, unimportance). (various references) perhaяlyk, biperwaяlyk. (various references) індеферентність, нейтральність (neutrality), незаначність, байдужість (apathy, callousness, cold-bloodedness, coldness, insensibility, negligence, nonchalance, oscitation, unconcern). (various references) thái độ trung lập, thái độ không thiên vị sự không quan trọng, sự thờ ơ (disinterestedness), sự lânh đạm (iciness, nonchalance), sự không thiết, sự không quan tâm (unthoughtfulness), sự không để ý (heedlessness), sự hờ hững (apathy, disinterestedness, neglect, unconcern), sự dửng dưng, sự b ng quang tính trung lập. (various references) difrawder (apathy), difaterwch (apathy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "indifference": indifferences. (additional references) | |
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"Indifference" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: indefference, indifferance, undifference. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "indifference" (pronounced i'ndi"feruns or i'ndi"fruns) |
| 7 | -d i" f er u n s | difference. |
| 5 | -f er u n s | conference, deference, inference, preference, reference. |
| 4 | -er u n s | belligerence, deliverance, endurance, exuberance, furtherance, ignorance, intolerance, irreverence, protuberance, reverence, severance, temperance, tolerance, utterance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, abhorrence, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, adherence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, defiance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, entrance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
| 5 | -f r u n s | circumference, teleconference, videoconference. |
| 4 | -r u n s | abhorrence, adherence, appearance, assurance, Clarence, clearance, coherence, disappearance, entrance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, hindrance, incoherence, insurance, interference, noninterference, perseverance, preponderance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, reinsurance, remembrance. |
| 3 | -u n s | abeyance, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, clairvoyance, coexistence, cognizance, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, intelligence, interdependence, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, relevance, reliance, reluctance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, vigilance, violence, virulence. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-e-f-f-i-i-n-n-r" | |
-2 letters: difference. | |
-3 letters: inference. | |
-4 letters: niffered, redefine, refenced. | |
-5 letters: cinerin, defence, definer, deifier, dineric, edifice, edifier, effendi, eirenic, finnier, needier, refence, refined, reified. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-e-f-f-i-i-n-n-r" | |
+1 letter: indifferences. | |
+2 letters: indifferencies. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 64 69 66 66 65 72 65 6E 63 65 |
| 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)01001001 01101110 01100100 01101001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110010 01100101 01101110 01100011 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n d i f f e r e n c e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0064 0069 0066 0066 0065 0072 0065 006E 0063 0065 |
| 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)438070757272718471806971 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Sounds 8. Quotations: Familiar | 9. Quotations: Fiction 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Derivations 18. Rhymes 19. Anagrams 20. Orthography | 21. Bibliography |
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