| Main Entry: | climate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | weather of region |
Synonyms: |
altitude, aridity, atmospheric conditions, characteristic weather, clime, conditions, humidity, latitude, meteorologic conditions, meteorological character, temperature |
| Main Entry: | climate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mood of situation |
Synonyms: |
ambience, ambient, atmosphere, disposition, environment, feeling, medium, milieu, mise-en-scène, mood, surroundings, temper, tendency, trend |
| Main Entry: | ambience |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
Synonyms: |
ambient, atmosphere, climate, medium, surroundings |
| Main Entry: | atmosphere |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | general feeling or mood |
Synonyms: |
air, ambience, aura, background, character, climate, color, environment, feel, feeling, flavor, impression, local color, medium, mood, place, property, quality, scene, semblance, sense, space, spirit, surroundings, taste, tone |
| Main Entry: | environment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | surroundings, atmosphere |
Synonyms: |
ambiance, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, zoo |
| Notes: | environment emerged linked with nature, implying 'natural' (not human, not cultural) surroundings; ecology emerged as a scientific effort to connect organisms (such as the human) to their environments environment is the area in which something exists or lives; habitat is a the place or type of place where a person or thing is most likely to be found |
| Main Entry: | medium |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | atmosphere, setting |
Synonyms: |
ambience, ambient, climate, conditions, element, habitat, influences, milieu, surroundings |
| Main Entry: | milieu |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment, atmosphere |
Synonyms: |
ambience, ambient, background, bag, climate, element, locale, location, medium, mise-en-scène, nabe, neighborhood, place, scene, setting, space, sphere, surroundings, turf |
| Main Entry: | surroundings |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | environment |
Synonyms: |
ambience, atmosphere, background, climate, community, environs, home, location, medium, milieu, neighborhood, setting, vicinity |
| Main Entry: | temper |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of mind |
Synonyms: |
atmosphere, attitude, attribute, aura, character, climate, complexion, condition, constitution, disposition, drift, frame of mind, humor, individualism, individuality, leaning, makeup, mind, mood, nature, orientation, outlook, peculiarity, personality, posture, property, quality, scene, soul, spirit, state, strain, style, temperament, tendency, tenor, thing*, timbre, tone, trend, type, vein, way |
| Main Entry: | temperature |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hotness, coldness of some degree |
Synonyms: |
body heat, calefaction, climate, cold, condition, degrees, febricity, feverishness, heat, incalescence, pyrexia, thermal reading, warmth |