(medicine, psychiatry) In a phase of mental activity in which one begins to recognize and acknowledge the maladaptiveness of someone's behavior (such as own's own, or that of a family member or friend); usually with reference to substance use.
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
Pertaining to a religious contemplative, or a contemplative religious orders, especially the Roman Catholic varieties.
noun
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious or philosophical contemplation.
corporativism
corporativism
noun
Synonym of corporatism
imperceivable
imperceivable
adj
that cannot be perceived; imperceptible
imperceivably
imperceivably
adv
imperceptibly
implicatively
implicatively
adv
In an implicative way.
overcompliant
overcompliant
adj
Excessively compliant.
overempirical
overpolemical
overpolemical
adj
Excessively polemical.
provincialism
provincialism
noun
(linguistics) A word or locution characteristic of a region or district.
(politics) Synonym of regionalism: belief in the superiority of one's regional government; the belief that most or nearly all political power should be decentralized to provincial governments.
The quality of being provincial; having provincial tastes, mentality, manners.
speculativism
speculativism
noun
An approach based on speculation rather than any formal method.