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kamet
  • n  a mountain in the Himalayas in northern India (25,450 feet high)
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involuntariness
  • n  the trait of being unwilling
    in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton
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involuntary muscle
  • n  a muscle that contracts without conscious control and found in walls of internal organs such as stomach and intestine and bladder and blood vessels (excluding the heart)
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involuntary trust
  • n  a trust created by a court (regardless of the intent of the parties) to benefit a party that has been wrongfully deprived of its rights
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iodochlorhydroxyquin
  • n  drug used to treat certain fungal infection (as athlete's foot)
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iodocompound
  • n  a compound containing the covalent iodine radical
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involution
  • n  reduction in size of an organ or part (as in the return of the uterus to normal size after childbirth)
  • n  a long and intricate and complicated grammatical construction
  • n  marked by elaborately complex detail
  • n  the act of sharing in the activities of a group
  • n  the process of raising a quantity to some assigned power
  • n  the action of enfolding something
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involutional depression
  • n  a major depressive episode associated with the climacteric
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involvement
  • n  the act of sharing in the activities of a group
  • n  a connection of inclusion or containment
    he escaped involvement in the accident
    there was additional involvement of the liver and spleen
  • n  a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something
  • n  a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship
  • n  the condition of sharing in common with others (as fellows or partners etc.)
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invulnerability
  • n  having the strength to withstand attack
  • n  the property of being invulnerable; the property of being incapable of being hurt (physically or emotionally)
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inwardness
  • n  the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
  • n  preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values
    the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness
    inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright
  • n  the quality or state of being inward or internal
    the inwardness of the body's organs
  • n  preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values)
    Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch
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