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Amnesia /ˌæmˈniʒə/
Noun
1. Loss of memory; forgetfulness
Amnesiac
Noun
1. Person who suffers from loss of memory (amnesia)
Apparition
Noun
1. An act of becoming visible; appearance; visibility
2. The thing appearing; a visible object; a form
3. An unexpected, wonderful, or preternatural appearance
Appearance
Noun
1. The act of appearing or coming into sight; the act of becoming visible to the eye
2. A thing seen; a phenomenon; a phase; an apparition
3. Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect
4. Semblance, or apparent likeness; external show. Outward signs, or circumstances, fitted to make a particular impression or to determine the judgment as to the character of a person or a thing, an act or a state
5. The act of appearing in a particular place, or in society, a company, or any proceedings; a coming before the public in a particular character
Bewilder
Verb (to bewilder)
1. To confuse, puzzle or befuddle someone, especially with many different things
2. To disorientate someone
Bewildered
Adjective (more bewildered, most bewildered)
1. Baffled, confused, mystified, at a loss, or uncertain
Blind
Adjective (blinder, blindest)
1. Of a person or animal, unable to see
2. Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive
3. Of a place, having little or no visibility
4. Closed at one end; having a dead end
5. Without opening
6. Smallest or slightest
Blindness
Noun
1. The condition of being blind; unable to see
Blur /blɜː/
Noun
1. A smear, smudge or blot
2. Something that appears hazy or indistinct
Verb (to blur)
1. To make indistinct or hazy, to obscure or dim
2. To smear, stain or smudge
3. To become indistinct
Blurriness /blɜːrinɛs/
Noun
1. The quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines
Blurry /blɜːri/
Adjective (blurrier, blurriest)
1. Not clear, crisp, or focused; having fuzzy edges
Cloud /klaʊd/
Noun
1. A visible mass of water droplets suspended in the air
2. Any mass of dust, steam or smoke resembling such a mass
3. Anything which makes things foggy or gloomy
4. A group of objects, especially suspended above the ground or flying
Verb (to cloud)
1. To become foggy or gloomy, to become obscured from sight
2. To make obscure
Confusion /kənˈfjuːʒən/
Noun
1. A lack of clarity or order
2. The state of being confused; not understanding
Daydream
Noun
1. A spontaneous and fanciful series of thoughts not connected to immediate reality
Delirium
Noun
1. A temporary mental state with a sudden onset, usually reversible, including symptoms of confusion, inability to concentrate, disorientation, anxiety and sometimes hallucinations
Dementia
Noun
1. A progressive decline in cognitive function due to damage or disease in the brain beyond what might be expected from normal aging. Areas particularly affected include memory, attention, judgement, language and problem solving
2. Madness or insanity
Demolition
Noun
1. The action or process of demolishing or destroying, in particular of buildings or other structures
Disappear
Verb (to disappear)
1. To vanish
2. To make vanish
Disappearance
Noun
1. The action of disappearing or vanishing
Disorientation /dɪs.ˌɔ.ɹi.ɪn.ˈtei.ʃn̩/
Noun
1. The loss of one’s sense of direction, or of one’s position in relationship with the surroundings
2. A state of confusion with regard to time, place or identity
3. A delusion
Dream /driːm/
Noun
1. Imaginary events seen in the mind while sleeping
2. A hope or wish
3. Alternate realities created by our subconscious from different parts of our mind that can range from our hopes and fears, to a life-like scenario
Verb (to dream)
1. To see imaginary events in one’s mind while sleeping
2. To hope, to wish
3. To daydream
4. To create an imaginary experience, usually when asleep
Dreamer /driːmə/
Noun
1. One who dreams
2. Someone whose beliefs are far from realistic
Experience /ɪkˈspɪə.ri.ens/
Noun
1. Event(s) of which one is cognizant
2. Activity which one has performed
3. Collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills
Verb (to experience)
1. To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one’s knowledge, opinions, or skills
Explode
Verb (to explode)
1. Burst or shatter violently, as a result of rapid combustion or excessive internal pressure
2. Suddenly express strong emotion
Explosion /ɪkˈspləʊ.ʒən/
Noun
1. A violent release of energy (e.g. mechanical, nuclear or chemical)
2. A bursting due to pressure
3. The sound of an explosion
4. A sudden increase
5. A sudden outburst
Fade /feɪd/
Verb (to fade)
1. To become fade; to grow weak; to lose strength; to decay; to perish gradually; to wither
2. To lose freshness, color, or brightness; to become faint in hue or tint; hence, to be wanting in color
3. To sink away; to disappear gradually; to grow dim; to vanish
Firework
Noun
1. A device using gunpowder and other chemicals which, when lit, emits a combination of coloured flames, sparks, whistles or bangs, and sometimes made to rocket high into the sky before exploding, used for entertainment or celebration
Fog /fɒg/
Noun
1. A thick cloud that forms near the ground; the obscurity of such a cloud
2. A mist or film clouding a surface
3. A state of mind characterized by lethargy and confusion
4. A silver deposit or other blur on a negative or developed photographic image
Fog bank
Noun
1. A dense mass of fog, specially at sea
Verb (to fog)
1. Cover or become covered with steam
2. Bewilder or puzzle
3. Treat with something in the form of a spray
4. Make (a film, negative or print) obscure or cloudy
Foggy
Adjective (foggier, foggiest)
1. Full of or accompanied by fog
2. Confused
Forget /fəˈgɛt/
Verb (to forget)
1. To lose remembrance of
2. To unintentionally not do, neglect
3. To cease remembering
Forgetfulness
Noun
1. The quality of being forgetful; proneness to let slip from the mind
2. Loss of remembrance or recollection; a ceasing to remember; oblivion
3. Failure to bear in mind; careless omission; inattention
Haze /heɪz/
Noun
1. Very fine solid particles (smoke, dust) or liquid droplets (moisture) suspended in the air, slightly limiting visibility
2. The degree of cloudiness or turbidity in a clear glass or plastic, measured in percent
3. Any substance causing turbidity in beer or wine
4. Mental confusion; the state of being in a haze
Hazy
Adjective (hazier, haziest)
1. Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze
2. Not clear or transparent
3. Obscure; confused; not clear
Interpretation
Noun
1. The act of interpreting; explanation of what is obscure; translation; version; construction
2. The sense given by an interpreter; exposition or explanation given; meaning3. The power or explaining
4. An artist’s way of expressing his thought or embodying his conception of nature
5. The act or process of applying general principles or formulae to the explanation of the results obtained in special cases
Invisible /ɪnˈvɪzəb(ə)l/
Adjective
1. Not able to be seen; not visible
Lethargy
Noun
1. A state of fatigue, sluggishness, lassitude and inactivity
2. A state of apathy with lack of emotion or interest
3. A state of comatose torpor
Memory /ˈmɛməɹi/
Noun
1. The ability of an organism to record information about things or events with the facility of recalling them later at will
2. A record of a thing or an event stored and available for later use by the organism
Mist
Noun
1. A cloud of small water droplets in the atmosphere at or near the earth’s surface, limiting visibility to a lesser extent than fog
2. A condensed vapour settling on a surface
3. A blurring of the sight
Verb (to mist)
1. Cover or be covered with mist
Misunderstanding
Noun
1. A mistake as to the meaning of something; erroneous interpretation; misconception
2. A disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel
Oblivion /ə’blɪvɪən/
Noun
1. The state of forgetfulness or distraction
2. The state of being completely forgotten
Oblivious
Adjective (more oblivious, most oblivious)
1. Lacking awareness; unmindful
2. Failing to remember; forgetful
Perception /pəˈsɛpʃən/
1. Conscious understanding of something
2. Vision (ability)
3. Acuity
4. That which is detected by the five senses; not necessarily understood; that which is detected within consciousness as a thought, intuition or deduction
Phenomenal
Adjective
1. Remarkable or exceptional, in particular exceptionally good
2. Perceptible through immediate experience or by the senses
Phenomenalism
Noun
1. The doctrine that human knowledge is confined to the appearances presented to the senses
Phenomenology
Noun
1. The science of phenomena as distinct from that of the nature of being
2. An approach that concentrates on the study of consciousness and the objects of direct experience
Phenomenon
Noun
1. A fact or situation that is observed to exist or happen
2. The object of a person’s perception
3. A remarkable person
Reality
Noun
1. The state of being actual or real
2. A real entity, event or other fact
3. The entirety of all that is real
4. An individual observer’s own subjective perception of that which is real
Remember
Verb (to remember)
1. To recall from one’s memory; to have an image in one’s memory
2. To memorize; to put something into memory
3. To not forget (to do something required)
4. To engage in the process of recalling memories
See /si/
Verb (to see)
1. To perceive with the eyes
2. To perceive or detect as if by sight
3. To form a mental picture of
4. To understand
5. To witness or observe by personal experience
Sense /sɛns/
1. One of the methods for a living being to gather data about the world; sight, smell, hearing, touch, taste
2. A general conscious awareness
3. Sound practical judgment, as in common sense
4. The meaning, reason, or value of something
5. A natural appreciation or ability
6. The way that a referent is presented
7. A single conventional use of a word; one of the entries for a word in a dictionary
Sight /saɪt/
Noun
1. The ability to see
2. Something seen
3. Something worth seeing
Verb (to sight)
1. To visually register
2. To get sight of (something)
3. To take aim at
Sleep /sliːp/
Noun
1. The state of reduced consciousness during which a human or animal rests in a daily rhythm
2. An act or instance of sleeping
3. A substance found in the corner of the eyes after waking, whether real or a figurative objectification of sleep; reduced consciousness
Verb (to sleep)
1. To rest in a state of reduced consciousness
Souvenir /suːvn̩ɪə/
Noun
1. An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location
2. Memory
Verb (se souvenir)
1. To remember
Vague
Adjective (vaguer, vaguest)
1. Not clearly expressed; stated in indefinite terms
2. Not having a precise meaning
3. Not clearly defined, grasped, or understood; indistinct; slight
4. Not clearly felt or sensed; somewhat subconscious
5. Not thinking or expressing one’s thoughts clearly or precisely
6. Lacking expression; vacant
7. Not sharply outlined; hazy
Vanish /ˈvænɪʃ/
Verb (to vanish)
1. To become invisible or to move out of view unnoticed
2. To become equal to zero
Visible
Adjective (more visible, most visible)
1. Able to be seen
Vision /ˈvɪʒ(ə)n/
Noun
1. The sense or ability of sight
2. Something imaginary one thinks one sees
3. An ideal or a goal toward which one aspires
4. A religious or mystical experience of a supernatural appearance
5. A person or thing of extraordinary beauty