MASTERY

• command or grasp, as of a subject:
• superiority or victory:
• the act of mastering.
• the state of being master; power of command or control.

noun: command, expertise

SYNONYMS FOR MASTERY

ability, comprehension, dexterity, familiarity, finesse, genius, grasp, knack, know-how, knowledge, proficiency, prowess, skill, understanding, virtuosity, wizardry, acquirement, adeptness, adroitness, attainment, capacity, cleverness, cunning, deftness, expertness, grip, ken, mastership, power, expertism

LIFE

• the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms
• the sum of the distinguishing phenomena of organisms, especially metabolism, growth, reproduction, and adaptation to environment.
• the animate existence or period of animate existence of an individual:
• a corresponding state, existence, or principle of existence conceived of as belonging to the soul:
  eternal life.

noun: animation, spirit

SYNONYMS FOR LIFE

activity, growth, heart, soul, being, breath, brio, dash, energy, enthusiasm, entity, esprit, essence, excitement, get-up-and-go, impulse, lifeblood, liveliness, oomph, sentience, sparkle, verve, viability, vigor, vitality, vivacity, zest, zing, high spirits, élan vital

INTEGRITY

• adherence to moral and ethical principles; soundness of moral character; honesty.
• the state of being whole, entire, or undiminished:
• a sound, unimpaired, or perfect condition:

noun: honor, uprightness

SYNONYMS FOR INTEGRITY

honesty, principle, probity, purity, rectitude, sincerity, virtue, candor, forthrightness, goodness, honestness, honorableness, incorruptibility, incorruption, righteousness, straightforwardness

noun completeness

cohesion, purity, soundness, stability, unity, absoluteness, coherence, entireness, perfection, simplicity, totality, wholeness

SYNTHESIS

• the combining of the constituent elements of separate material or abstract entities into a single or unified entity (opposed to analysis,)
• a complex whole formed by combining.
• Chemistry. the forming or building of a more complex substance or compound from elements or simpler compounds.
• Philosophy. the third stage of argument in Hegelian dialectic, which reconciles the mutually contradictory first two propositions, thesis and antithesis.
• Psychology, Psychiatry. the integration of traits, attitudes, and impulses to create a total personality.

noun: combining, combination

SYNONYMS FOR SYNTHESIS

amalgam, fusion, amalgamation, blend, coalescence, composite, compound, construction, entirety, integrating, integration, organism, organization, structure, unification, union, unit, welding, whole, building a whole, constructing, forming, making one

IDENTITY

• the state or fact of remaining the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions:
• the condition of being oneself or itself, and not another:
• condition or character as to who a person or what a thing is; the qualities, beliefs, etc., that distinguish or identify a person or thing:
• the state or fact of being the same one as described.
• the sense of self, providing sameness and continuity in personality over time and sometimes disturbed in mental illnesses, as schizophrenia.
• exact likeness in nature or qualities:

noun: person’s individuality

SYNONYMS FOR IDENTITY

character, existence, identification, integrity, name, personality, status, circumstances, coherence, distinctiveness, oneness, particularity, self, singleness, singularity, uniqueness, ipseity, selfdom, selfhood, selfness

EMBODIMENT

• the act of embodying.
• the state or fact of being embodied.
• a person, being, or thing embodying a spirit, principle, abstraction, etc; incarnation.
• something embodied.

noun: representation, manifestation

SYNONYMS FOR EMBODIMENT

apotheosis, archetype, avatar, epitome, exemplar, expression, personification, realization, symbol, cast, collection, comprehension, conformation, embracement, encompassment, example, exemplification, form, formation, incarnation, inclusion, incorporation, integration, matter, organization, prosopopoeia, quintessence, reification, structure, systematization, type

ENLIGHTENMENT

• the act of enlightening.
• the state of being enlightened:
• to live in spiritual enlightenment.
  (usually initial capital letter)Buddhism, Hinduism. prajna.
• the Enlightenment, a philosophical movement of the 18th century, characterized by belief in the power of human reason and by innovations in political, religious, and educational doctrine.

noun: awareness, understanding

SYNONYMS FOR ENLIGHTENMENT

civilization, insight, literacy, sophistication, wisdom, broad-mindedness, comprehension, cultivation, culture, edification, education, information, instruction, knowledge, learning, refinement, teaching, bodhi, open-mindedness

CLARITY

• clearness or lucidity as to perception or understanding; freedom from indistinctness or ambiguity.
• the state or quality of being clear or transparent to the eye; pellucidity:
  the clarity of pure water.

noun: clearness

SYNONYMS FOR CLARITY

accuracy, brightness, certainty, directness, lucidity, precision, purity, simplicity, transparency, articulateness, comprehensibility, conspicuousness, definition, distinctness, evidence, exactitude, exactness, explicitness, intelligibility, legibility, obviousness, openness, penetrability, perceptibility, perspicuity, plainness, prominence, salience, tangibility, unambiguity, cognizability, decipherability, explicability, limpidness, manifestness, overtness, unmistakability,

MATURITY

• the state of being mature; ripeness
• full development; perfected condition:

noun: adulthood, full growth

SYNONYMS FOR MATURITY

ability, capability, experience, manhood, maturation, sophistication, wisdom, advancement, civilization, completion, cultivation, development, fitness, fullness, majority, matureness, mellowness, mentality, perfection, prime, readiness, ripeness, womanhood, full bloom, prime of life

TRANSCENDENENT

• going beyond ordinary limits; surpassing; exceeding.
• superior or supreme.
  Theology. (of the Deity) transcending the universe, time, etc.
• Philosophy – Scholasticism: above all possible modes of the infinite.
  Kantianism: transcending experience; not realizable in human experience.
  (in modern realism) referred to, but beyond, direct apprehension; outside consciousness.

adj: extraordinary

SYNONYMS FOR TRANSCENDENT

abstract, fantastic, otherworldly, sublime, supernatural, ultimate, absolute, accomplished, beyond grasp, boundless, consummate, entire, eternal, exceeding, finished, hypothetical, ideal, incomparable, infinite, innate, intact, intellectual, intuitive, matchless, obscure, original, peerless, perfect, pre-eminent, primordial, superior, supreme, surpassing, theoretical, towering, transcendental, transcending, transmundane, unequalable, unequalled, unique, unparalleled, unrivalled, whole

GRACE

• elegance or beauty of form, manner, motion, or action:
• a pleasing or attractive quality or endowment:
• favor or goodwill.
• a manifestation of favor, especially by a superior:
• mercy; clemency; pardon:
• the freely given, unmerited favor and love of God.
• the influence or spirit of God operating in humans to regenerate or strengthen them.
• a virtue or excellence of divine origin:
• moral strength:

noun: mercy, forgiveness

SYNONYMS FOR GRACE

compassion, generosity, goodness, kindness, love, tenderness, benefaction, beneficence, benevolence, charity, clemency, compassionateness, favor, forbearance, indulgence, kindliness, leniency, lenity, pardon, reprieve, responsiveness, caritas, good will

REALITY

• the state or quality of being real.
• resemblance to what is real.
• a real thing or fact.
• real things, facts, or events taken as a whole; state of affairs:
• something that exists independently of ideas concerning it.
• something that exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive.
• something that is real.

noun: facts of existence

SYNONYMS FOR REALITY

existence, matter, phenomenon, real world, realism, sensibility, truth, absoluteness, actuality, authenticity, being, certainty, concreteness, corporeality, deed, entity, genuineness, materiality, object, palpability, perceptibility, presence, realness, solidity, substance, substantiality, substantive, tangibility, validity, verisimilitude, verity, bottom line, how things are, like it is, name of the game, nuts and bolts, way of it, what’s what