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| Main Entry: | recurrence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | repeated happening |
| Synonyms: | frequency, reappearance, regularity, reoccurrence, repetition, return, habituation, intermittence, repetitiveness |
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| Main Entry: | recurrence |
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| Main Entry: | anniversary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | yearly observance, celebration |
| Synonyms: | ceremony, commemoration, festival, holiday, red-letter day, feast day, jubilee, recurrence |
| Main Entry: | duplicate |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | copy, reproduction |
| Synonyms: | Xerox*, carbon, carbon copy*, chip off the old block*, clone, companion, coordinate, copycat*, correlate, counterfeit, counterpart, dead ringer*, ditto*, double, dupe*, facsimile, fake, fellow, imitation, likeness, match, mate, obverse, parallel, phony, photocopy, pirate, reciprocal, repetition, replica, second, similarity, spitting image*, twin, analogue, counterscript, duplication, germination, knockoff, lookalike, photostat, recurrence, replication, repro, ringer, stat |
| Notes: | duplication may be regarded as an activity because one duplicates (makes again) something, but replication is a process in which something is replicated (copied) |
| Antonyms: | archetype, model, original, prototype |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | frequency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | commonness, repetitiveness |
| Synonyms: | abundance, beat, constancy, density, iteration, number, oscillation, persistence, prevalence, regularity, reiteration, repetition, rhythm, frequentness, periodicity, pulsation, recurrence |
| Antonyms: | infrequency, irregularity, uncommonness |
| Main Entry: | relapse |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deterioration, weakening |
| Synonyms: | fall, fall from grace, lapse, loss, repetition, retrogression, return, reversion, setback, backsliding, recidivism, recurrence, regression, turn for the worse, worsening |
| Antonyms: | healing, progress, strengthening |
| Main Entry: | repetition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication; doing again |
| Synonyms: | chant, chorus, copy, echo, encore, iteration, litany, paraphrase, practice, recapitulation, recital, redundancy, rehearsal, reiteration, relation, renewal, repeat, report, reproduction, return, rhythm, rote, alliteration, broken record, ingemination, iteracy, iterance, periodicity, perseveration, reappearance, recurrence, reoccurrence, repetitiousness, replication, restatement, staccato, tautology |
| Antonyms: | instance |
| Main Entry: | multiplication |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | duplication |
| Synonyms: | addition, amplification, augmentation, increase, procreation, repeating, repetition, reproduction, augmenting, compounding, manifolding, recurrence, reduplication, reduplification, reproducing |
| Antonyms: | decrease, reduction, subtraction |
| Main Entry: | regularity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | evenness |
| Synonyms: | balance, clockwork, conformity, congruity, consistency, constancy, harmony, precision, proportion, punctuality, rhythm, rotation, routine, symmetry, uniformity, invariability, orderliness, periodicity, predictability, recurrence, steadiness |
| Main Entry: | recognition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | identification, acknowledgment |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, allowance, appreciation, assimilation, avowal, awareness, cognizance, concession, confession, consciousness, detection, discovery, double take*, high sign*, memory, notice, noticing, perceiving, perception, realization, recall, recollection, remembering, remembrance, respect, salute, sensibility, tumble*, understanding, verifying, acknowledging, apperception, apprehending, identifying, recalling, recognizance, recurrence |
| Antonyms: | forgetfulness, ignorance |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | return |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | coming again |
| Synonyms: | acknowledgment, answer, appearance, arrival, coming, entrance, entry, occurrence, reaction, rebound, recoil, recompense, recovery, rejoinder, replacement, restitution, restoration, retreat, reversion, homecoming, reappearance, recoiling, recompensing, recrudescence, recurrence, reestablishment, reinstatement, reoccurrence, repossession, restoring, revisitation |
| Antonyms: | departure, leave |
| Main Entry: | returning |
| Part of Speech: | noun1 |
| Definition: | the act of coming back |
| Synonyms: | rebound, repetition, retreat, return, reverberation, revolution, revolving, rotation, reappearance, recurrence, reentrance, reoccurrence, reoccurring, retracing, rotating, turning back |
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