COMMUNICATIVENESS
COMMUNICATIVENESS, noun The quality of being communicative; readiness to impart to others; freedom from reserve.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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COMMUNICATORY
COMMUNICATORY, adjective Imparting knowledge.
COMMUNING
COMMUNING, participle present tense Conversing familiarly; having familiar intercourse.COMMUNING, noun Familiar converse; private intercourse.
COMMUNION
COMMUNION, noun1. Fellowship; intercourse between two persons or more; interchange of transactions, or offices; a state of giving and receiving; agreement; concord.We are natura...
COMMUNITY
COMMUNITY, noun1. Properly, common possession or enjoyment; as a community of goods.It is a confirmation of the original community of all things.2. A society of people, having c...
COMMUTABILITY
COMMUTABILITY, noun The quality of being capable of being exchanged, or put, one in the place of the other.
COMMUTABLE
COMMUTABLE, adjective That may be exchanged, or mutually changed; that may be given for another. In philology, that may pass from one into another; as, the letter b is commutabl...
COMMUTATION
COMMUTATION, noun1. Change; alteration; a passing from one state to another.2. Exchange; the act of giving one thing for another; barter.The use of money is to save the commutat...
COMMUTATIVE
COMMUTATIVE, adjective Relative to exchange; interchangeable; mutually passing from one to another; as commutative justice, justice which is mutually done and received, between ...
COMMUTATIVELY
COMMUTATIVELY, adverb By way of reciprocal exchange.
COMMUTE
COMMUTE, verb transitive1. To exchange; to put one thing in the place of another; to give or receive one thing for another; as, to commute our labors; to commute pain for pleasu...
COMMUTUAL
COMMUTUAL, adjective Mutual; reciprocal; used in poetry.There, with commutual zeal, we both had stroveIn acts of dear benevolence and love.
COMPACT
COMPACT, adjective1. Closely and firmly united, as the particles of solid bodies; firm; close; solid; dense. Stone, iron and wood are compact bodies. A compact leaf, in botany, ...
COMPACTED
COMPACTED, participle passive Pressed close; firmly united, or connected.
COMPACTEDNESS
COMPACTEDNESS, noun A state of being compact; firmness; closeness of parts; density, whence results hardness.
COMPACTING
COMPACTING, participle present tense Uniting closely; consolidating.
COMPACTION
COMPACTION, noun The act of making compact; or the state of being compact.
COMPACTLY
COMPACTLY, adverb Closely; densely; with close union of parts.
COMPACTNESS
COMPACTNESS, noun Firmness; close union of parts; density.
COMPACTURE
COMPACTURE, noun Close union or connection of parts; structure well connected; manner of joining.
COMPAGES
COMPAGES,COMPAGES, noun A system or structure of many parts united.
COMPAGINATION
COMPAGINATION, noun [See Compact.] Union of parts; structure; connection; contexture.
COMPANABLE
COMPANABLE, adjective Companionable.
COMPANABLENESS
COMPANABLENESS, noun Sociableness.
COMPANIABLE
COMPANIABLE, adjective Social.
COMPANIABLENESS
COMPANIABLENESS, noun Sociableness.
COMPANION
COMPANION, noun1. One who keeps company with another; one with whom a person frequently associates, and converses. It differs from friend, says Johnson, as acquaintance from con...