Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases

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CLASS IV DIVISION I SECTION V. RESULTS OF REASONING


480. Judgment [Conclusion.] -- N. result, conclusion, upshot; deduction, inference, ergotism [Med.] ; illation; corollary, porism † ; moral.

480a. [Result of search or inquiry.] Discovery -- N. discovery, detection, disenchantment; ascertainment † , disclosure, find, revelation.

481. Misjudgment -- N. misjudgment, obliquity of judgment; miscalculation, miscomputation, misconception &c (error) 495; hasty conclusion.

482. Overestimation -- N. overestimation &c v.; exaggeration &c 549; vanity &c 880; optimism, pessimism, pessimist.

483. Underestimation -- N. underestimation; depreciation &c (detraction) 934; pessimism, pessimist; undervaluing &c v.; modesty &c 881.

484. Belief -- N. belief; credence; credit; assurance; faith, trust, troth, confidence, presumption, sanguine expectation &c (hope) 858; dependence on, reliance on.

485. Unbelief. Doubt -- N. unbelief, disbelief, misbelief; discredit, miscreance † ; infidelity &c (irreligion) 989 [Obs.]; dissent &c 489; change of opinion &c 484; retraction &c 607.

486. Credulity -- N. credulity, credulousness &c adj.; cullibility † , gullibility; gross credulity, infatuation; self delusion, self deception; superstition; one's blind side; bigotry &c (obstinacy) 606; hyperorthodoxy &c 984 [Obs.]; misjudgment &c 481.

487. Incredulity -- N. incredulousness † , incredulity; skepticism, pyrrhonism † ; want of faith &c (irreligion) 989 [Obs.].

488. Assent -- N. assent, assentment † ; acquiescence, admission; nod; accord, concord, concordance; agreement &c 23; affirmance, affirmation; recognition, acknowledgment, avowal; confession of faith.

489. Dissent -- N. dissent; discordance &c (disagreement) 24; difference diversity of opinion.

490. Knowledge -- N. knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence † ; acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.] , privity † , insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation &c (judgment) 480; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics † .

491. Ignorance -- N. ignorance, nescience, tabula rasa [Lat.] , crass ignorance, ignorance crasse [Fr.] ; unfamiliarity, unacquaintance † ; unconsciousness &c adj.; darkness, blindness; incomprehension, inexperience, simplicity.

492. Scholar -- N. scholar, connoisseur, savant, pundit, schoolman † , professor, graduate, wrangler; academician, academist † ; master of arts, doctor, licentitate, gownsman; philosopher, master of math; scientist, clerk; sophist, sophister † ; linguist; glossolinguist, philologist; philologer † ; lexicographer, glossographer; grammarian; litterateur [Fr.] , literati, dilettanti, illuminati, cogniscenti [It] ; fellow, Hebraist, lexicologist, mullah, munshi † , Sanskritish; sinologist, sinologue † ; Mezzofanti † , admirable Crichton, Mecaenas.

493. Ignoramus -- N. ignoramus, dunce; wooden spoon; no scholar.

494. [Object of knowledge.] Truth -- N. fact, reality &c (existence) 1; plain fact, plain matter of fact; nature &c (principle) 5; truth, verity; gospel, gospel truth, God's honest truth; orthodoxy &c 983.1; authenticity; veracity &c 543; correctness, correctitude † .

495. Error -- N. error, fallacy; misconception, misapprehension, misstanding † , misunderstanding; inexactness &c adj.; laxity; misconstruction &c (misinterpretation) 523; miscomputation &c (misjudgment) 481; non sequitur &c 477; mis-statement, mis-report; mumpsimus † .

496. Maxim -- N. maxim, aphorism; apothegm, apophthegm † ; dictum, saying, adage, saw, proverb; sentence, mot [Fr.] , motto, word, byword, moral, phylactery, protasis † .

497. Absurdity -- N. absurdity, absurdness &c adj.; imbecility &c 499; alogy † , nonsense, utter nonsense; paradox, inconsistency; stultiloquy † , stultiloquence † ; nugacity † .

498. Intelligence, Wisdom -- N. intelligence, capacity, comprehension, understanding; cuteness, sabe [U.S.] , savvy [U.S.] ; intellect &c 450; nous [Fr.] , parts, sagacity, mother wit, wit, esprit, gumption, quick parts, grasp of intellect; acuteness &c adj.; acumen, subtlety, penetration, perspicacy † , perspicacity; discernment, due sense of, good judgment; discrimination &c 465; cunning &c 702; refinement &c (taste) 850.

499. Imbecility. Folly -- N. want of intelligence &c 498, want of intellect &c 450; shadowness † , silliness, foolishness &c adj.; imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude † , dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence &c (unskillfulness) 699.

500. Sage -- N. sage, wise man; genius; master mind, master spirit of the age; longhead † , thinker; intellectual, longhair.

501. Fool -- N. fool, idiot, tomfool, wiseacre, simpleton, witling † , dizzard † , donkey, ass; ninny, ninnyhammer † ; chowderhead † , chucklehead † ; dolt, booby, Tom Noddy, looby † , hoddy-doddy † , noddy, nonny, noodle, nizy † , owl; goose, goosecap † ; imbecile; gaby † ; radoteur † , nincompoop, badaud † , zany; trifler, babbler; pretty fellow; natural, niais † .

502. Sanity -- N. sanity; soundness &c adj.; rationality, sobriety, lucidity, lucid interval; senses, sober senses, right mind, sound mind, mens sana [Lat.] .

503. Insanity -- N. disordered reason, disordered intellect; diseased mind, unsound mind, abnormal mind; derangement, unsoundness; psychosis; neurosis; cognitive disorder; affective disorder † .

504. Madman -- N. madman, lunatic, maniac, bedlamite † , candidate for Bedlam, raver † , madcap, crazy; energumen † ; automaniac † , monomaniac, dipsomaniac, kleptomaniac; hypochondriac &c (low spirits);; crank, Tom o'Bedlam.