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Affaire; Afflatus; Agency; Agnition; Agnogenic; Agnorance

Agnostic; Agnosy/Agnosic; Aide-Mémoire; Akimbo; Alas poor Yorick

Alas; Albion; Alienist; Alterity; Amative; Amatory; Amoral

Aestesis/Anaesthesia; Anamnesis; Anomalous; Anomie; Anonymise

Anthropo-; Anthropocentric; Anthropomorphic; Antipodean/Antipode


Affaire:

affaire (n.): a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).


Afflatus:


Agency:

Vis.:

• agency (n.): intervening action towards an end; action personified; a source of action towards an end [agent: late Middle English (in the sense ‘someone or something that produces an effect’) fr. Latin agent- ‘doing’, from agere]. (Oxford Dictionary).

• agency (n.): the means or mode of acting; instrumentality. [Medieval Latin agentia, from Latin agens, ‘agent-’, present participle of agere, ‘to do’; see agent; viz.: ‘one that acts or has the power or authority to act’]. (American Heritage Dictionary).

• agency (n.): a means of exerting power or influence; instrumentality. [1650-60; fr. Medieval Latin; agent: 1570-80; fr. Latin agent-, s. of agens, present participle of agere, ‘to drive, do’]. (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Agent/Agency (more definitions):


Agnition:

• agnition (n.), (obs.): recognition, acknowledgment [fr. Latin agnitio, fr. agnitus, past part. of agnoscere, ‘to recognize, acknowledge’, fr. ad- + gnoscere, ‘to know’]. (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• agnize (v. t.): to recognize; to acknowledge; ‘I do agnize a natural and prompt alacrity’ ~ Shak. (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).


Agnogenic:

agnogenic (adj.): of unknown origin or aetiology; cryptogenic; idiopathic. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).


Agnorance:


Agnostic:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘agnostic: a person who is uncertain or non-committal about a particular thing’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Agnosy:

[Dictionary Definition]: agnosy (n.): ignorance; specifically, an ignorance common to all humankind. [from Greek ἀγνωσία, ‘ignorance’, from -, privative + γνῶσις, ‘knowing’]. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Agnosy:

Agnosic:

[Dictionary Definition]: agnosic (adj.): of or relating to agnosy. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Agnosic:


Aide-Mémoire:

An aide-mémoire (formal): a piece of writing or a picture that helps you to remember something; [e.g.]: “I write notes to myself and put them on the board. It serves as an aide-mémoire”. ~ (Cambridge Idioms Dictionary).


Akimbo:

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The ‘Alas poor Yorick’ variety:

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Alas:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘alas: expr. unhappiness, grief, pity, or concern’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Albion:


Alienist:

alienist (n.): a physician who evaluates the competence of defendants to stand trial. [obs. French aliéniste, ‘psychiatrist’: obs. French aliéné, ‘mentally ill’ (from past participle of aliéner, ‘to estrange’, ‘make hostile’, ‘deprive of reason’, from Old French, from Latin aliēnāre, ‘to deprive of reason’; from Latin aliēnus, ‘alien’; from alius, ‘other’) + French -iste, ‘-ist’; from Old French, from Latin -istēs, ‘-ista’, from Greek -istēs, ‘agent noun suffix’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


Alterity:

• alterity (n.): the state of being other or different; otherness. [origin: mid 17th century from late Latin alteritas, from alter, ‘other’]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• alterity (n.): the quality or condition of being other or different; otherness. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• alterity (n.): the state or quality of being other or different. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

• alterity (n.; pl. alterities): the state of being different, especially with respect to one’s perception of one’s identity within a culture; otherness. [Origin: French altérité, ‘otherness’, Late Latin alteritās, Latin alter, ‘other’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Alterity:


Amative:

[Dictionary Definition]: amative (adj.): relating to or inclined toward love, especially sexual love; amorous⁽*⁾; (adv.): amatively; (n.): amativeness. [1630; Medieval Latin amātīvus, ‘capable of love’, from amātus, past participle of Latin amāre, ‘to love’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

⁽*⁾amorous (adj.): 1. feeling or devoted to sexual love or desire; (synonyms): amative, concupiscent, erotic, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, lusty, passionate, prurient, sexy; 2. of, concerning, or promoting sexual love or desire; (synonyms): amatory, aphrodisiac, erotic, lascivious, salacious, sexual, sexy. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Amatory:


Amoral:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘amoral: unconcerned with or outside morality; neither moral nor immoral; being beyond the moral order or a particular code of morals’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Anamnesis:

Anamnesis (n.): a recalling to memory; the remembrance of the past; the ability to recall prior occurrences; the act or process of reproduction in memory; recollection; remembrance;

(adj.): anamnestic; (adv.): anamnestically.

[1650-60; New Latin fr. Greek ‌anámnēsis‌, remembrance; fr. anamimnēskein, ‘to remember’; anamnē-, ‌‘to remind‌’; ana-‌ + mimnēskein, ‘to call to mind’, ‘‌to recall’].


Anomalous:

anomalous (adj.): 1. deviating from the common order, form, or rule; irregular; abnormal; 2. not fitting into a common, familiar, or expected type or pattern; unusual; 3. incongruous or inconsistent; (adv.): anomalously; (n.): anomalousness. [1640-50; from Medieval Latin, Late Latin anōmalus, from Greek anṓmalos, ‘irregular’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


Anomie:

Anomie (n.): a condition of an individual or of society characterised by a breakdown or absence of norms and values or a sense of dislocation and alienation; (n.): anomic. [1930-35; from French, from Greek anomía, ‘lawlessness’; a- + -nomy, from Greek nomia, ‘law’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).


Anonymise:

anonymise (tr.v.; anonymised, anonymising, anonymises): to make anonymous, especially by removing or preventing access to names; [e.g.]: “medical records that were anonymised for use in a study”; (n.): anonymisation. [from anonym(ous) + -ise]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


Anthropo-:


Anthropocentric:

I am using the word anthropocentric in its ‘regarding the world in terms of human experience’ meaning.

[Dictionary Definition]: anthropocentrism (n.): regarding humans as the central element of the universe. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


Anthropomorphic:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘anthropomorphic: of the nature of anthropomorphism [the ascription of human form, attributes, or personality to God, a god, an animal, or something impersonal’. (Oxford Dictionary).


Antipodean/Antipode:

antipodean (adj.): diametrically opposed: *antipodal[†]*, antithetical, antonymic, antonymous, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, diametric, diametrical, opposing, opposite, polar, reverse.

antipodean (adj.): diametrically opposed: *antipodal[†]*, antithetical, antonymic, antonymous, contradictory, contrary, converse, counter, diametric, diametrical, opposing, opposite, polar, reverse. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

[†]antipodal (adj): 1. of, relating to, or situated on the opposite sides of the earth; 2. diametrically opposed; exactly opposite; (n): antipodes. [back-formation from antipodes; viz.: Middle English, lit. “people with feet opposite ours”, from Latin, from Greek, from pl. of antipous, ‘with the feet opposite’: anti-, ‘anti-’ + pous, pod-, ‘foot’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).


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