Word Finder - absolute

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That which is independent of context-dependent interpretation, inviolate, fundamental.

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moral absolutes

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Anything that is absolute.

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In a plane, the two imaginary circular points at infinity; in space of three dimensions, the imaginary circle at infinity.

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(usually capitalized) A realm which exists without reference to anything else; that which can be imagined purely by itself; absolute ego.

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(usually capitalized) The unity of spirit and nature; God.

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(usually capitalized) The whole of reality; the totality to which everything is reduced.

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A concentrated natural flower oil, used for perfumes; an alcoholic extract of a concrete.

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Free of restrictions, limitations, qualifications or conditions; unconditional.

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1658, Samuel Hoard, God[']s Love to Mankind, Manifested, by disprooving his absolute decree for their damnation

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Free from imperfection, perfect, complete; especially, perfectly embodying a quality in its essential characteristics or to its highest degree.

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absolute purity, absolute liberty

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Pure, free from mixture or adulteration; unmixed.

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absolute alcohol

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Complete, utter, outright; unmitigated, not qualified or diminished in any way.

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When caught, he told an absolute lie.   an absolute denial of all charges

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Positive, certain; unquestionable.

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Certain; free from doubt or uncertainty (e.g. a person, opinion or prediction).

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Fundamental, ultimate, intrinsic; not relative; independent of references or relations to other things or standards.

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Absolute rights and duties are such as pertain to man in a state of nature as contradistinguished from relative rights and duties, or such as pertain to him in his social relations.

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Independent of arbitrary units of measurement, standards, or properties; not comparative or relative.

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absolute velocity, absolute motion, absolute position

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(grammar) Not immediately dependent on the other parts of the sentence; not in a syntactical relation with other parts of a text, or qualifying the text as a whole rather than any single word in it, like "it being over" in "it being over, she left".

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As measured using an absolute value.

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absolute deviation

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Indicating an expression that is true for all real numbers, or of all values of the variable; unconditional.

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Pertaining to a grading system based on the knowledge of the individual and not on the comparative knowledge of the group of students.

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Independent of (references to) other arts; expressing things (beauty, ideas, etc) only in one art.

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absolute music

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Absolved; free.