List of keywords
The following is a list of the 809 areas of meaning into which the Macquarie Thesaurus is divided.
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A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
absence |
abstinence |
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accomplishment |
accord |
accounting |
accusation |
acquirement |
acquittal |
action |
actuality |
addition |
adequacy |
advance |
affectedness |
afterworld |
agent |
agreement |
air |
alcohol |
alleviation |
allure |
alphabet |
amusement |
analysis |
anarchy |
anger |
animal noise |
animals |
annoyance |
answer |
anticipation |
anxiety |
apathy |
appearance |
approval |
aristocracy |
arrangement |
arrival |
arrogance |
artist |
artlessness |
ascent |
assertion |
atom |
attack |
attempt |
attention |
attraction |
authority |
avoidance |
award |
bareness |
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beauty |
behaviour |
belief |
bend |
black |
blemish |
blue |
bluntness |
bodily discharge |
body |
bombast |
book |
boredom |
bottom |
bragging |
brevity |
bribery |
brittleness |
brown |
bubbliness |
bulge |
the bush |
busyness |
buying |
callousness |
cancellation |
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carefulness |
cause |
cautiousness |
centre |
certainty |
change |
changeableness |
changelessness |
change of allegiance |
channel |
character |
cheapness |
choice |
city |
clarity |
classification |
cleanliness |
closeness |
closure |
clothes |
cloud |
coldness |
colour |
colourlessness |
combination |
coming after |
coming before |
command |
commerce |
communication |
companionship |
comparison |
compensation |
competence |
complexity |
composure |
computing |
conditionality |
conformity |
confusion |
congratulation |
conjecture |
contact |
container |
contentedness |
contest |
continuation |
contract |
contraction |
controlling device |
convergence |
cookery |
cooling |
cooperation |
copy |
cord |
cost |
council |
counteraction |
courage |
courtesy |
court of law |
covering |
cowardice |
creation |
crossing |
cunning |
curiosity |
curve |
custom |
cut |
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dancing |
danger |
dark |
day |
deafness |
death |
deception |
decoration |
decrease |
defeat |
defence |
deficiency |
delusion |
denial |
departure |
dependence |
depth |
descent |
desire |
despair |
destruction |
deterioration |
deviation |
diagram |
difference |
difficulty |
digging |
direction |
dirtiness |
disagreement |
disappearance |
disapproval |
disbelief |
discernment |
discontentedness |
discord |
discouragement |
discourtesy |
disenchantment |
dishonesty |
dismissal |
disobedience |
disorder |
dispersion |
display |
displeasure |
disrepute |
dissonance |
distortion |
disuse |
dive |
divergence |
drug |
dryness |
dullness |
dwelling |
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easiness |
edge |
effort |
electricity |
eloquence |
emblem |
emission |
emotion |
employment |
emptiness |
enclosure |
encouragement |
energy |
entertainer |
entertainment |
enthusiasm |
entrance |
entreaty |
equality |
erectness |
error |
escape |
essay |
essence |
eternity |
evidence |
evolution |
exaggeration |
excess |
exchange |
excitement |
exclusion |
exit |
expectation |
expedience |
expensiveness |
explosion |
extinguishing |
extraction |
extravagance |
failure |
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fairness |
faithfulness |
fantasy |
farming |
fashion |
fastening |
faulty sight |
faulty speech |
feather |
fertility |
a few |
fighter |
figure of speech |
finance |
finding |
fine arts |
finish |
fire |
five and over |
flattery |
flood |
flow |
flying |
fold |
food |
fool |
foolishness |
force |
foreignness |
forgetting |
forgiveness |
formality |
four |
frequency |
friendliness |
fright |
front |
fuel |
fullness |
funeral rites |
furniture |
furrow |
the future |
gap |
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gas |
gathering |
generality |
generosity |
giving |
god |
good fortune |
goodness |
good taste |
government |
gradation |
grammatical error |
gratefulness |
greatness |
green |
grey |
grief |
growth |
guidance |
guilt |
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hair |
hanging |
happiness |
hardness |
harshness |
hate |
healing |
health |
hearing |
heat |
heating |
heaviness |
height |
help |
hiding |
high regard |
hindrance |
hissing |
hitting |
hold |
hollow |
homogeneity |
honesty |
hope |
humanity |
humour |
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idleness |
ignorance |
ill health |
illogicality |
imitation |
immorality |
impenitence |
imperfection |
importance |
imposition |
impossibility |
imprecision |
imprisonment |
improvement |
impulsiveness |
imputation |
inadequacy |
inattention |
inclusion |
incompetence |
increase |
indebtedness |
indecision |
independence |
inequality |
inevitability |
inexpedience |
inferiority |
infertility |
infinity |
influence |
informality |
information |
innocence |
insanity |
insertion |
inside |
insipidity |
insistence |
intake |
intangibility |
intellectual |
intelligence |
intention |
interaction |
interpretation |
interruption |
interval |
intolerance |
invisibility |
irregularity |
irreverence |
irritableness |
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job |
joining |
joy |
judge |
judgement |
jump |
justification |
kindness |
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knowledge |
land |
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language |
lateness |
lawfulness |
lawyer |
layer |
learning |
left |
length |
lenience |
level |
liberation |
life |
light |
lightness |
likelihood |
liquid |
list |
litigation |
loan |
logicality |
losing |
loudness |
love |
low regard |
luck |
magic |
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man |
management |
manager |
many |
mariner |
marriage |
matter |
maturity |
meaning |
meanness |
measurement |
mediation |
medication |
mediocrity |
meekness |
menace |
message |
metal |
method |
middle class |
mind |
misbehaviour |
misfortune |
misguidance |
misjudgement |
misplacement |
misrepresentation |
misuse |
mixture |
mockery |
model |
moderation |
modesty |
moment |
money |
morality |
movement |
multicolour |
music |
musical instrument |
musician |
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narrative |
nation |
nature |
necessity |
neglect |
neutrality |
newness |
news |
night |
nonconformity |
non-existence |
non-payment |
nonsense |
number |
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obligation |
obscenity |
obscurity |
obviousness |
occurrence |
odourlessness |
offer |
offspring |
oil |
oldness |
one |
opacity |
opening |
operation |
oppositeness |
opposite position |
optics |
orange |
order |
ordinariness |
organism |
outside |
overindulgence |
overtaking |
overturn |
ownership |
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parentage |
part |
participation |
particularity |
partner |
the past |
patience |
payment |
peace |
penitence |
perception |
perfection |
period |
permission |
persistence |
photography |
pity |
placement |
place of worship |
plan |
plants |
pleasant flavour |
pleasantness |
pleasure |
pliability |
poetry |
poison |
pole |
politician |
politics |
pose |
position |
possibility |
poverty |
powder |
power |
powerlessness |
precision |
prediction |
preparedness |
presence |
the present |
preservation |
pressure |
printing |
profit |
prohibition |
promiscuity |
property |
propriety |
protection |
proverb |
psyche |
publicity |
pulling |
pulp |
pungency |
punishment |
purple |
pursuit |
question |
quietness |
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rareness |
rashness |
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raw materials |
reaction |
reading |
realism |
rear |
record |
red |
refusal |
region |
regularity |
relation |
relative |
religion |
religious ceremony |
religious leader |
remembering |
remnant |
remoteness |
removal |
repair |
repetition |
representation |
repression |
reproduction |
repulsion |
repute |
resonance |
rest |
restraints |
result |
retaliation |
reticence |
retreat |
revelation |
reverence |
revolution |
rhythm |
right |
rights |
robbery |
rock |
romance |
room |
roughness |
roundness |
route |
rubbing |
rule |
ruler |
sanity |
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satisfaction |
school |
scripture |
sea |
season |
secrecy |
selfishness |
selling |
separation |
servant |
sex |
shallowness |
shape |
shapelessness |
sharing |
sharpness |
shelter |
shop |
shortness |
shouting |
showiness |
shrillness |
side |
sight |
sign |
silence |
similarity |
simplicity |
simultaneity |
single state |
size |
skin |
sky |
slander |
sleep |
slope |
slowness |
sludge |
smallness |
smell |
smoothness |
sociability |
society |
softness |
solidity |
solitude |
sombreness |
sound |
sourness |
space |
speech |
speed |
spin |
sport |
start |
state |
steadiness |
stickiness |
stoppage |
straightness |
strangeness |
strength |
stubbornness |
student |
stupidity |
subject matter |
subtraction |
suggestion |
superiority |
the supernatural |
supernatural being |
supply |
support |
surety |
surprise |
surroundings |
swamp |
swearing |
sweetness |
talkativeness |
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taste |
teacher |
teaching |
telecommunications |
temporariness |
test |
textiles |
thickness |
thief |
thinking |
thinness |
three |
thrift |
throw |
time |
timeliness |
time measurement |
tiredness |
tobacco |
tolerance |
top |
touch |
trade union |
transparency |
transport |
travel |
traversing |
truth |
turbulence |
twist |
two |
uncertainty |
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unconditionality |
unconsciousness |
undertaking |
unfairness |
unfaithfulness |
unfriendliness |
ungratefulness |
unhappiness |
unimportance |
unkindness |
unlawfulness |
unlikelihood |
unpleasant flavour |
unpleasantness |
unpreparedness |
unrelatedness |
unselfishness |
untimeliness |
untruthfulness |
unwillingness |
use |
uselessness |
vehicle |
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verbosity |
vibration |
victim |
violence |
visibility |
visit |
voluptuousness |
vulgarity |
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wall |
war |
warning |
watercraft |
weakness |
wealth |
weapon |
weather |
wetness |
white |
whole |
willingness |
wind |
winning |
wise person |
woman |
word |
work |
worker |
working class |
writing |
wrongdoing |
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