{
  "cynicism":{
    "cynical beliefs; beliefs that people are generally selfish and dishonest":{
      "antonyms":[],
      "examples":[
        "Nothing could change her cynicism about politics."
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "related":[],
      "synonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "cynic":{
    "a person who distrusts other people and believes that everything is done for selfish reasons":{
      "examples":[
        "a cynic who believes that nobody does a good deed without expecting something in return"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "misanthrope",
        "naysayer",
        "pessimist"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "misandrist",
        "misogynist",
        "doubter",
        "negativist",
        "skeptic",
        "belittler",
        "critic",
        "derider",
        "detractor",
        "scoffer",
        "malcontent",
        "defeatist",
        "quitter"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[
        "optimist",
        "Pollyanna",
        "positivist",
        "idealist",
        "sentimentalist"
      ],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "cynosures":{
    "a guiding or motivating purpose or principle":{
      "examples":[
        "with an unwavering commitment to equal rights for all as his only cynosure"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "compasses",
        "directions",
        "foci",
        "focuses",
        "lodestars",
        "loadstars",
        "polestars"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "benchmarks",
        "criteria",
        "criterions",
        "grades",
        "marks",
        "measures",
        "pars",
        "standards",
        "touchstones",
        "yardsticks",
        "aims",
        "ambitions",
        "aspirations",
        "dreams",
        "goals",
        "intentions",
        "objectives",
        "objects",
        "purposes",
        "targets"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "a thing or place that is of greatest importance to an activity or interest":{
      "examples":[
        "that company is the cynosure for anyone wishing to make it in the music business"
      ],
      "synonyms":[
        "axes",
        "bases",
        "capitals",
        "centers",
        "centrals",
        "cores",
        "epicenters",
        "eyes",
        "foci",
        "focuses",
        "ground zeros",
        "hearts",
        "hubs",
        "loci",
        "meccas",
        "navels",
        "nerve centers",
        "nexuses",
        "nexus",
        "nuclei",
        "nucleuses",
        "omphali",
        "seats"
      ],
      "near synonyms":[
        "headquarters",
        "happy hunting grounds",
        "hives",
        "hotbeds",
        "hot spots",
        "playgrounds",
        "playlands",
        "kernels",
        "nubs",
        "piths",
        "deeps",
        "thicks",
        "essences",
        "quintessences",
        "souls",
        "attractions",
        "lodestones",
        "loadstones",
        "magnets",
        "polestars"
      ],
      "near antonyms":[],
      "antonyms":[]
    },
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  }
}