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  • 111Fear of solitude — An abnormal and persistent fear of solitude, of being alone. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they realize that being alone does not threaten their well being. They may worry about being ignored and unloved, or they may …

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  • 112Loneliness, fear of — An abnormal and persistent fear of loneliness, of being alone. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they realize that being alone does not threaten their well being. They may worry about being ignored and unloved, or they… …

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  • 113Solitude, fear of — An abnormal and persistent fear of solitude, of being alone. Sufferers of this fear experience undue anxiety even though they realize that being alone does not threaten their well being. They may worry about being ignored and unloved, or they may …

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  • 114Seventeenth-century materialism: Gassendi and Hobbes — T.Sorell In the English speaking world Pierre Gassendi is probably best known as the author of a set of Objections to Descartes’s Meditations. These Objections, the fifth of seven sets collected by Mersenne, are relatively long and full, and… …

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  • 115automatic — au·to·mat·ic (aw″to matґik) [Gr. automatos self acting] 1. spontaneous or involuntary; done by no act of the will. 2. self moving; self regulating …

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  • 116spontaneous — a. Voluntary, instinctive, uncompelled, unbidden, unconstrained, willing, gratuitous, free, impulsive, self moving, self acting, self existent …

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  • 117automatic — [adj1] done or made by machine automated, electric, electronic, mechanical, mechanized, motorized, robotic, self moving, self regulating, self starting; concepts 538,549 Ant. by hand, manual automatic [adj2] done by habit autogenetic, habitual,… …

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  • 118locofoco — ˌlōkōˈfō(ˌ)kō noun ( s) Etymology: probably from locomotive (I) (self propelled) + Italian foco, fuoco fire, from Latin focus fireplace, hearth more at focus 1. : a match or cigar developed during the 19th century and capable of being ignited by… …

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  • 119au|to|ki|net|ic — « toh kih NEHT ihk», adjective. self moving; automatic. ╂[< Greek autok ētos self moved (< autós self + kīneîn to move) + English ic] …

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  • 120Autokinetic — Au to*ki*net ic, a. [Auto + kinetic.] Self moving; moving automatically. [Webster 1913 Suppl.] …

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