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vegetation
noun
1 vegetation
All the plant life in a particular region or period:
— Pleistocene vegetation.
synonyms: botany, flora.
Roget 365:
vegetable life;
vegetation,
vegetability†;
vegetality†.
Roget 823:
insensibility,
insensibleness†;
moral insensibility;
inertness,
inertia;
vis inertiae [Lat.];
impassibility,
impassibleness;
inappetency†,
apathy,
phlegm,
dullness,
hebetude†,
supineness,
lukewarmness†.
cold fit,
cold blood,
cold heart;
coldness,
coolness;
frigidity,
sang froid [Fr.];
stoicism,
imperturbation
etc.
(inexcitability)
826†;
nonchalance,
unconcern,
dry eyes;
insouciance
etc.
(indifference)
866;
recklessness
etc.
863;
callousness;
heart of stone,
stock and stone,
marble,
deadness.
torpor,
torpidity;
obstupefaction†,
lethargy,
coma,
trance,
vegetative state;
sleep
etc.
683;
suspended animation;
stupor,
stupefaction;
paralysis,
palsy;
numbness
etc.
(physical insensibility)
376.
neutrality;
quietism,
vegetation.
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Dutch: botanica, plantegroei, gewas, planteleven, plantengroei, plantenleven, vegetatie
Polish: formacja roślinna
2 vegetation
The process of growth in plants.
Polish: wegetacja
3 vegetation
An abnormal growth or excrescence (especially a warty excrescence on the valves of the heart).
4 vegetation
Inactivity that is passive and monotonous, comparable to the inactivity of plant life.
Polish: egzystowanie, życie z dnia na dzień, wegetacja
Moby thesaurus: a wise passiveness, abeyance, apathy, botany, budding, burgeoning, catalepsy, catatonia, contemplation, contemplative life, deadliness, deathliness, development, do-nothing policy, do-nothingism, do-nothingness, dormancy, entropy, excrescence, flora, flowerage, gemmation, germination, greenery, greens, growth, herbage, idleness, immobility, inaction, inactivity, indifference, indolence, inertia, inertness, just being, laissez-aller, laissez-faire, laissez-faireism, languor, latency, lotus-eating, luxuriation, maturation, meditation, mere existence, mere tropism, neutralism, neutrality, neutralness, noninvolvement, nonparticipation, nonresistance, nonviolence, nonviolent resistance, outgrowth, overgrowth, pacifism, paralysis, passive resistance, passive self-annihilation, passiveness, passivism, passivity, plant kingdom, plant life, plants, policy, procrastination, procreation, pullulation, quiescence, quietism, reproduction, sloth, sprouting, stagnancy, stagnation, standpattism, stasis, suspense, torpor, upgrowth, vegetable kingdom, vegetable life, vegetation spirit, verdure, vis inertiae, vita contemplativa, waiting game, watching and waiting ... show more.
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