noun
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the act or an instance of choosing; option.
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absence of certainty; uncertainty.
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indecision; irresolution; doubt; hesitation.
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a secret, usu. evil, project or scheme; conspiracy; a plot.
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the period of transition from one era or epoch to antoehr.
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sort; variety; class; kind.
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an error or fault; a blunder.
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the condition, quality, fact or instance of being different; difference.
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something that is imagined; an imagined thing; imagination; a false notion.
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(gram.) the occurrence of a variant of a morpheme or phoneme; alternation; admission of an option or alternative (at one's option).
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(rhet.) a figure of speech, in which there is an option to select between two similar but opposite choices.
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(math.) any of the total number of groupings that can be arranged with or without regard to any order; permutations and combinations.