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"turns", "attributes", "characteristics", "marks", "properties", "traits", "attitudes", "characters", "humors", "identities", "individualities", "natures", "personalities", "temperaments", "affectations", "airs", "crotchets", "curiosities", "eccentricities", "erraticisms", "idiosyncrasies", "individualisms", "kinks", "mannerisms", "oddities", "peculiarities", "quiddities", "quips", "quirks", "singularities", "tics", "tricks", "twists" ], "near antonyms":[ "conformities" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "neutralist":{ "as in internationalist":{ "examples":[], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "internationalist" ], "near antonyms":[ "chauvinist", "flag-waver", "jingo", "nationalist", "superpatriot", "loyalist", "patriot", "hawk", "warmonger" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "neuroses":{ "an emotional illness in which a person experiences strong feelings of fear or worry":{ "examples":[ "The patient is clearly suffering from a neurosis ." ], "synonyms":[], "near synonyms":[ "psychoses", "aberrations", "dementias", "derangements", "insanities", "lunacies", "manias", "rages", "instabilities", "irrationalities", "deliriums", "frenzies", "hysterias", "hallucinoses", "hypomanias", "paranoias", "schizophrenias", "senile dementias", "delusions", "hallucinations", "monomanias", "obsessions", "phobias", "abnormalities" ], "near antonyms":[ "lucidities", "rationalities", "reasonabilities", "normalities", "minds" ], "antonyms":[] }, "type":[ "noun" ] }, "neutralism":{ "lack of favoritism toward one side or another":{ "examples":[ "his neutralism in the matter is questionable, since he owns thousands of shares in the company" ], "synonyms":[ "detachment", "disinterest", "disinterestedness", "equity", "evenhandedness", "fair-mindedness", "fairness", "impartiality", "justice", "neutrality", "nonpartisanship", "objectiveness", "objectivity" ], "near synonyms":[ "apathy", "indifference", "unconcern", "broad-mindedness", "open-mindedness", "tolerance", "fence-sitting", 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