Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
- craft
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- cross section
- a sample meant to be representative of a whole population
- woodcraft
- skill and experience in matters relating to the woods (as hunting or fishing or camping)
- antipathy
- the object of a feeling of intense aversion; something to be avoided
- degree of a polynomial
- the degree of the term in the polynomial that has the highest degree
- Darsana
- (from the Sanskrit word for `to see') one of six orthodox philosophical systems or viewpoints on the nature of reality and the release from bondage to karma
- honor system
- a system of conduct in which participants are trusted not to take unfair advantage of others
- ego
- (psychoanalysis) the conscious mind
- posology
- the pharmacological determination of appropriate doses of drugs and medicines
- imbecility
- retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot
- crystal gazing
- staring into a crystal ball to arouse visions of future or distant events
- discretion
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress
- stratigraphy
- the branch of geology that studies the arrangement and succession of strata
- paleopathology
- the study of disease of former times (as inferred from fossil evidence)
- democracy
- the political orientation of those who favor government by the people or by their elected representatives
- hierarchical data structure
- a structure of data having several levels arranged in a treelike structure
- populism
- the political doctrine that supports the rights and powers of the common people in their struggle with the privileged elite
- navel-gazing
- literally, the contemplation of one's navel, which is an idiom usually meaning complacent self-absorption
- AI
- the branch of computer science that deal with writing computer programs that can solve problems creatively
- autism
- (psychiatry) an abnormal absorption with the self; marked by communication disorders and short attention span and inability to treat others as people
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