absorption
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absorption |
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Walter Mitty, ablation, absence of mind, absentmindedness, absorbed attention, absorbency, absorbent, abstractedness, abstraction, adsorbent, adsorption, application, assimilation, attrition, bemusement, bile, blotter, blotting, blotting paper, brown
study, burning up, castle-building, chemisorption,
chemosorption, close study, concentration, consumption, contemplation, contemplativeness,
daydream, daydreamer, daydreaming,
deep study, deep thought, depletion, depth of thought, digestion, digestive system, drain, dream, dreaming, eating up, embarrassment, endosmosis, engagement, engrossment, enmeshment,
entanglement, erosion, exhaustion, exosmosis, expending, expenditure, fantasy, fantasying, finishing, fit of abstraction, gastric juice, gastrointestinal tract, imbibing, immersion, implication, impoverishment, inclusion, infiltration, ingestion, intentness, intestinal juice, involution, involvement,
liver, meditation, melancholy, monomania, mooning, moonraking, muse, musefulness, musing, muted ecstasy, obsession, osmosis, pancreas, pancreatic digestion, pancreatic juice,
pensiveness, percolation, pipe-dreaming, pipe dream, predigestion, preoccupation, profound thought, rapt attention, reflectiveness,
relation, reverie, saliva, salivary digestion, salivary glands, secondary digestion,
seepage, single-mindedness, soaking-up, sorption, speculativeness, spending, sponge, sponging, squandering, stargazing, studiousness, study, submersion, taking-in, thoughtfulness, trance, using up, wastage, waste,
wastefulness, wasting away, wearing away, wearing
down, wistfulness, woolgathering
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self-absorption |
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acquisitiveness, anesthesia, autism, careerism, catatonia, chill,
chilliness, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, coolness, deadpan, dispassion, dispassionateness, dullness, ego trip, egotism, emotional deadness, emotionlessness, frigidity, frostiness,
graspingness, greed, heartlessness, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness,
impassivity, individualism, inexcitability, interest, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of touch, narcissism, objectivity, obtuseness, passionlessness, personal aims, personal ambition, personal desires, personalism, poker face, possessiveness, privatism, remoteness, self-admiration,
self-advancement, self-centeredness, self-consideration, self-containment, self-devotion, self-esteem, self-indulgence, self-interest, self-interestedness, self-jealousy, self-occupation, self-pleasing, self-seeking,
self-serving, self-solicitude, self-sufficiency, selfishness, selfism, soullessness, spiritlessness, straight face, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility,
unimpressionableness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, withdrawal
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Main entries similar to: absorption
ablation, absentmindedness, absorbent, abstraction, adsorbent,
adsorption, application, assimilation, attention, attrition,
bile, blotter, brown study, castle-building, concentration,
contemplation, daydream, daydreamer, deep thought, depletion,
digestion, drain, dream, dreaming, earnestness, embarrassment, engagement, entanglement, erosion, exhaustion, expenditure, fantasy, finishing, gastric juice, immersion,
implication, inclusion, infiltration, ingestion, intentness, interest, involution, involvement, liver, meditation, melancholy, monomania, mooning, muse, musing, obsession, osmosis, pensiveness,
percolation, pipe dream, preoccupation, relation, reverie, saliva, seepage, sorption, sponge, sponging, stargazing, study, submersion, taking in, thoughtfulness,
trance, Walter Mitty, waste, woolgathering
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