debate (noun)

  • 101forensics — noun /fəˈɹɛn.zɪks/ a) the study of formal debate; rhetoric b) forensic science See Also: forensic …

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  • 102historicity — noun The characteristic of having existed in history. The historicity of Jesus is a matter of some debate among scholars …

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  • 103nondebate — noun Absence of debate. Such a rhetorical tack may be understood in the context of what Steele has seen as the virtual nondebate in academia and the popular media over these issues …

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  • 104early day motion — noun A formal motion submitted for debate in the House of Commons. Syn: EDM …

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  • 105transphobia — noun Fear or hatred of transsexuality. It is not really a debate about privacy and personal safety versus politics, so much as an impulse towards pride and a rejection of internalized transphobia …

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  • 106covetise — noun Covetousness; excessive desire for something, especially for acquiring wealth. Strife; and debate, bloudshed, and bitternesse, / Outrageous wrong, and hellish couetize, / That noble heart as great dishonour doth despize …

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  • 107quodlibet — noun a) A form of music with melodies in counterpoint. b) A mode of philosophical debate popular in the Middle Ages …

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  • 108debater — noun One who debates or participates in a debate; one who argues. William is a great debater …

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  • 109velleity — noun /vɛˈliːɪti/ a) The lowest degree of desire or volition, with no effort to act. This connoisseuse of “splendid weaknesses”, run not by any lust or even velleity but by vacuum: by the absence of human hope. b) A slight wish not followed by any …

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  • 110satellite — noun /ˈsatəlʌɪt/ a) An attendant on an important person; a member of someones retinue, often in a somewhat derogatory sense; a henchman. We read in the Bible, that Nicanor the persecutor of Gods Law [...] sent his Satellites to apprehend the good …

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