Partial List of Terms Related to Intangibles, Ambiguous Feelings, and Partially Unbelievable Realms

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vi·cis·si·tude      /vɪˈsɪsɪˌtud, -ˌtyud/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[vi-sis-i-tood, -tyood] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1.	a change or variation occurring in the course of something.

2.	interchange or alternation, as of states or things.

3.	vicissitudes, successive, alternating, or changing phases or conditions, as of life or fortune; ups and downs: They remained friends through the vicissitudes of 40 years.

4.	regular change or succession of one state or thing to another.

5.	change; mutation; mutability.

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tim·bre      /ˈtæmbər, ˈtɪm-; Fr. ˈtɛ̃br^ə/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[tam-ber, tim-; Fr. tan-br^uh] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1.	Acoustics, Phonetics. the characteristic quality of a sound, independent of pitch and loudness, from which its source or manner of production can be inferred. Timbre depends on the relative strengths of the components of different frequencies, which are determined by resonance.

2.	Music. the characteristic quality of sound produced by a particular instrument or voice; tone color.

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[Origin: 1325–75; ME tymbre < F: sound (orig. of bell), MF: bell, timbrel, drum, OF: drum < MGk tímbanon, var. of Gk týmpanon drum]

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ves·per      /ˈvɛspər/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[ves-per] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1.	(initial capital letter) the evening star, esp. Venus; Hesper.

2.	Also called vesper bell. a bell rung at evening.

3.

vespers, (sometimes initial capital letter) Ecclesiastical. a. a religious service in the late afternoon or the evening. b. the sixth of the seven canonical hours, or the service for it, occurring in the late afternoon or the evening. c. Roman Catholic Church. a part of the office to be said in the evening by those in major orders, frequently made a public ceremony in the afternoons or evenings of Sundays and holy days. d. evensong.

4.	Archaic. evening.

–adjective

5.	of, pertaining to, appearing in, or proper to the evening.

6.	of or pertaining to vespers.

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[Origin: 1350–1400; ME, partly < L: evening, evening star; partly < OF vespres evening service < ML vesperās, acc. pl. of L vespera, fem. var. of vesper; c. Gk hésperos; akin to west]

per·mu·ta·tion      /ˌpɜrmyʊˈteɪʃən/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[pur-myoo-tey-shuhn] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation

–noun

1.	the act of permuting or permutating; alteration; transformation.

2.

Mathematics. a. the act of changing the order of elements arranged in a particular order, as abc into acb, bac, etc., or of arranging a number of elements in groups made up of equal numbers of the elements in different orders, as a and b in ab and ba; a one-to-one transformation of a set with a finite number of elements. b. any of the resulting arrangements or groups. Compare combination (def. 8b).

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[Origin: 1325–75; ME permutacioun (< MF permutacion) < L permūtātiōn- (s. of permūtātiō) thoroughgoing change. See per-, mutation, permute]

—Related forms

per·mu·ta·tion·al, adjective

per·mu·ta·tion·ist, noun

—Synonyms 1. modification, transmutation, change.

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[Origin: 1560–70; < L vicissitūdō, equiv. to viciss(im) in turn (perh. by syncope < *vice-cessim; vice in the place of (see vice³) + cessim giving way, adv. deriv. of cédere to go, proceed) + -i- -i- -tūdō -tude]

—Related forms

vi·cis·si·tu·di·nous, adjective

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Main Entry:	dreamy
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	illusory
Synonyms:	abstracted, astral, calming, chimerical, daydreaming, dreamlike, excellent, fanciful, fantastic, gentle, idealistic, imaginary, immaterial, impractical, intangible, introspective, introvertive, lulling, marvelous, misty, musing, mythical, nightmarish, otherworldly, pensive, phantasmagoric, phantasmagorical, preoccupied, quixotic, relaxing, romantic, shadowy, soothing, speculative, unreal, unsubstantial, utopian, vague, visionary, whimsical
Antonyms:	down-to-earth, practical, pragmatic, realistic
Source:	Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1) Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.

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Main Entry:	fanciful
Part of Speech:	adjective
Definition:	imaginary
Synonyms:	absurd, aerial, bizarre, blue sky*, capricious, chimerical, curious, dreamlike, extravagant, fabulous, fairy-tale, fancied, fantastic, fantastical, fictional, fictitious, fictive, flaky*, floating, ideal, illusory, imaginative, imagined, incredible, kinky*, legendary, mythical, notional, offbeat, pipe dream*, poetic, preposterous, romantic, shadowy, suppositious, unreal, visionary, whimsical, wild
Antonyms:	matter-of-fact, prosaic, real, realistic, reality-based
Source:	Roget’s New Millennium™ Thesaurus, First Edition (v 1.3.1) Copyright © 2008 by Lexico Publishing Group, LLC. All rights reserved.