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Definitionally; Deindividualise; Demarkation; Denial

Dénouement; Depository; Descry; Designation; Designatum

Determinism; Differentiate; A Dig in the Ribs; Discriminate

Disputant; Diss; Dissertator; Distinguishment; Divers; Do The Trick

Dogma; Mr. Don Quichote; Do-or-Die; Doublethink; Double-Talk

Both Alternatives; Dour; Down-to-Earth; DSM-IV

Du Jour; Dynamic; Dysthymia

• definitionally (adv.): see definitional; viz.: relating to the exact meaning of a word or concept; [e.g.]: “Gilbert makes a definitional distinction between ‘miners’ towns’ and ‘mining towns”; “the amendment is purely definitional”. [origin: late Middle English from Latin definitio(n-), from the verb definire, ‘set bounds to’; from de-, expressing completion + finire, ‘finish’, from finis, ‘end’]. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

• definitionally (adv.): in a definitional manner {=of or relating to a definition; used to define something}; as a definition; [e.g.]: “As they definitionally twitch and turn, we can just begin to glimpse–like an old-fashioned photo developing in a tray of chemicals–the outlines of a new form of American imperial war emerging before our eyes”⁽*⁾. (America’s Permanent Robot War, by Tom Engelhardt; Wed 5 Oct 2011). [etymology: definitional +‎ -ly]. [curly bracketed insert added] ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary)

⁽*⁾ [www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/oct/04/unmanned-drones-us-robot-war].

Deindividualise:

[Dictionary Definition]: deindividualise (trans. vb.): to remove or destroy the individuality of; deprive of individuality; (n.): deindividualisation. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

Demarcation:

[Dictionary Definition]: demarcation (n.): 1. the act of establishing limits or boundaries; 2. a limit or boundary; 3. (a.) a strict separation of the kinds of work performed by members of different trade unions; (b.) (as modifier): “a demarcation dispute”; (as in, demarcation disputes in assigning credit for significant scientific discoveries, in particular the Nobel Prize, where disputants often fail to recognise the importance placed on a body of work, over many years, rather than a single experiment or observation); 4. separation or distinction (often in the phrase “line of demarcation”). [C18: Latinised version of Spanish demarcación, from demarcar, ‘to appoint the boundaries of’, from marcar, ‘to mark’, from Italian marcare, of Germanic origin; see mark¹]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Denial:

[Dictionary Definition]: denial (n.; psychology): a primitive ego defence mechanism by which a person unconsciously negates the existence of a disease or other stress-producing reality in his environment, by disavowing thoughts, feelings, wishes, needs, or external reality factors which are consciously intolerable; see: in denial (viz.: ‘to be in a state of denying the existence or effects of an ego defence mechanism’). ~ (McGraw-Hill Concise Dictionary of Modern Medicine).

Dénouement:

[Dictionary Definitions]:

• denouement also dénouement (n.): 1. (a.) the final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot; (b.) the events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place; 2. the outcome of a sequence of events; the end result. [French dénouement, from Old French desnouement, ‘an untying’, from desnouer, ‘to undo’, from des-, ‘de-’ + nouer, ‘to tie’, from Latin nōdāre, from nōdus, ‘knot’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• denouement or dénouement (n.): 1. (a.) the final clarification or resolution of a plot in a play or other work; (b.) the point at which this occurs; 2. final outcome; solution. [C18: from French, literally: ‘an untying’, from dénouer, ‘to untie’, from Old French desnoer, from des-, ‘de-’ + noer, ‘to tie’, ‘knot’, from Latin nōdāre, from nōdus, ‘a knot’; see node]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• denouement dénouement (n.): 1.the final resolution of a plot, as of a drama or novel; 2. the outcome or resolution of a doubtful series of occurrences. [1745-55; from French: literally, ‘an untying’]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• denouement (n.): the final resolution of the plot, following the climax. ~ (Ologies & Isms Dictionary).

• denouement (n.): 1. the outcome of a complex sequence of events; (synonyms): final result, outcome, resultant, termination, result (something that results); [e.g.]: “he listened for the results on the radio”; 2. the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work; (synonyms): answer, result, solution, solvent, resolution (a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem); [e.g.]: “they were trying to find a peaceful solution”; “the answers were in the back of the book”; “he computed the result to four decimal places”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• denouement: the unravelling of the complications of a plot, or of a confused situation or mystery; the final resolution of a play, novel, or other narrative. ~ (Oxford EnglishDictionary).

• denouement dénouement (n.): 1. climax, conclusion, finale, termination, culmination; [e.g.]: “the book’s sentimental denouement”; 2. outcome, end, result, consequence, resolution, conclusion, end result, upshot; [e.g.]: “an unexpected denouement to the affair”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

Depository:

depository (n.): a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping; repository. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

Descry:

[Dictionary Definition]: descry (v.): 1. to perceive and fix the identity of, especially with difficulty; (synonyms): discern, distinguish, make out, pick out, spot; 2. to perceive, especially barely or fleetingly; (synonyms): catch, detect, discern, espy, glimpse, spot, spy; 3. to perceive with a special effort of the senses or the mind; (synonyms): detect, discern, distinguish, mark, mind, note, notice, observe, remark, see. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Designation:

designation (n.): 1. something that designates, such as a name or distinctive mark; 2. the act of designating or the fact of being designated. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Designatum:

designatum (n.): something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

Determinism:

• determinism (n.): the philosophical doctrine that every state of affairs, including every human event, act, and decision is the inevitable consequence of antecedent states of affairs; (n.): determinist; (adj.): deterministic; (adv.): deterministically. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• determinism (n.): (also called necessitarianism) the philosophical doctrine that all events including human actions and choices are fully determined by preceding events and states of affairs, and so that freedom of choice is illusory. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Differentiate:

[Dictionary Definition]: differentiate (v.): 1. distinguish, separate, discriminate, contrast, discern, mark off, make a distinction, tell apart, set off or apart; [e.g.]: “They cannot differentiate between their imagination and the real world”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

‘A Dig in the Ribs’:

Viz.:

• dig (n.): a thrust; a punch; a poke: as, ‘a dig in the ribs’: often used figuratively of sarcasm and criticism. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

And, due to poking around in various dictionaries, here are ten other entries:

• dig (n.): an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect; [e.g.]: “she takes a dig at me every chance she gets”; [synonyms]: barb, gibe, jibe, shaft, slam, shot. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• dig (n.): cutting remark, crack (slang), insult, taunt, sneer, jeer, quip, barb, wisecrack (informal) gibe; [e.g.]: “She couldn’t resist a dig at him after his unfortunate performance”. ~ (Collins English Thesaurus).

• dig (n.): a sarcastic, taunting remark; a gibe. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• dig (n.): a cutting, sarcastic remark. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

• dig (n.): (informal) a remark or joke that you make in order to criticise someone or annoy them. ~ (Macmillian English Dictionary).

• dig (n.): a cutting remark; a criticism or insult that is directed toward a particular person or group. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

• dig (n.): a remark that is intended to criticise, embarrass, or make a joke about someone; [e.g.]: “He’s always taking digs/a dig at me”. ~ (Cambridge English Dictionary).

• dig (n.): a cutting or sarcastic remark. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• dig (n.): sarcastic comment; gibe; [synonyms]: gibe; crack, insult, quip, scoff, wisecrack. ~ (Wordsmyth Dictionary-Thesaurus).

• dig (n.): (informal) a remark intended to mock or criticise; [e.g.]: “this was a cruel dig at Jenny”; “While criticising communal parties, he had a dig at the Congress, saying that people know the aims and objectives of communal forces”; “I even had someone come up to me in the street and tell me I had let the country down, after TV commentators had a dig at me”; [synonyms]: (informal) snide remark, cutting remark, jibe, jeer, taunt, sneer, insult, barb, insinuation; wisecrack, crack, put-down; [e.g.]: “they’re always making digs at each other”. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

Discriminate:

[Dictionary Definition]: discriminate (v.): 1. to recognise as being different; (synonyms): differentiate, discern, distinguish, know, separate, tell; 2. to make noticeable or different; (synonyms): characterise, differentiate, distinguish, individualise, mark, set apart, signalise, singularise; (adj.): able to recognise small differences or draw fine distinctions; (synonyms): discriminating, discriminative, discriminatory, select, selective. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Disputant:

disputant (n.): one who argues in opposition to another. [1610s, from noun use of Latin disputantem, present participle of disputare; from dis-, ‘separately’, ‘apart’ + putare, ‘to count’, ‘consider’; the Latin word was used in Vulgate in sense of “to argue, contend with words”]. ~ (Online Etymology Dictionary).

Diss:

diss (slang): to belittle someone; to show disrespect for; [e.g.]: “ They were such a complainer they dissed on people all the time”; “Please don’t diss them as they didn’t do any of those things”. [a slang transitive verb either from disrespect or from dismiss, as in, insignificant]. ~ (McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs).

diss (v.): treat, mention, or speak to rudely; [e.g.]: “The student who had betrayed their classmate was dissed by everyone”; (synonyms): affront, insult. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

Dissertator:

dissertator (n.): one who writes a dissertation; one who discourses formally. ~ (Century Dictionary and Cyclopaedia).

Distinguishment:

Divers:

• divers (adj.): many and different; [e.g.]: “tourist offices of divers nationalities”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).

• divers (adj.): 1. consisting of a number more than two or three but less than many; (synonyms): several, some, sundry, various; 2. consisting of a number of different kinds; (synonyms): assorted, diverse, diversified, heterogeneous, miscellaneous, mixed, motley, multifarious, multiform, sundry, varied, variegated, various; (biology): polymorphic, polymorphous. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

• divers (adj.): several, various, sundry; [e.g.]: “The artist used divers articles in her collage”; not to be confused with diverse (adj.): unlike in kind; distinct; separate; divergent; [e.g.]: “There were diverse beliefs among the parishioners”. ~ (Abused, Confused, & Misused Words by Mary Embree).

• divers (adj.): various; several; sundry. [Middle English; see diverse; viz.: Middle English divers, from Old French divers, from Latin dīversus, past participle of dīvertere, ‘to divert’; see divert; viz.: Middle English diverten, from Old French divertir, from Latin dīvertere, from dī-, dis-, ‘aside’; see dis- (viz.: dis- (pref.): Middle English, from Old French des-, from Latin dis-, ‘apart’, ‘asunder’) + vertere, ‘to turn’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• divers (determiner; archaic or literary): (a.) various; sundry; some; (b.) (as pronoun functioning as plural): “divers of them”. [C13: from Old French, from Latin dīversus, ‘turned in different directions’; see divert; viz.: from French divertir, from Latin dīvertere, ‘to turn aside’, from di-² + vertere, ‘to turn’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Dogma:

[Dictionary definitions]:

• dogma (n.; pl. dogmas or dogmata): 1. a doctrine or a corpus of doctrines relating to matters such as morality and faith, set forth in an authoritative manner by a church; 2. an authoritative principle, belief, or statement of ideas or opinion, especially one considered to be absolutely true; see synonyms at doctrine {viz.: “doctrine, dogma, tenet; these nouns denote a principle taught, advanced, or accepted, as by a group of philosophers: ‘the legal doctrine of due process’; ‘church dogma’; ‘experimentation, one of the tenets of the physical sciences’”}; 3. a principle or belief or a group of them; [e.g.]: “The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present” ~ (Abraham Lincoln). [Latin, from Greek, ‘opinion’, ‘belief’, from dokein, ‘to seem’, ‘think’]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• dogma (n.; pl -mas or -mata): 1. (theology) a religious doctrine or system of doctrines proclaimed by ecclesiastical authority as true; 2. (philosophy) a belief, principle, or doctrine or a code of beliefs, principles, or doctrines [e.g.]: ‘Marxist dogma’. [C17: via Latin from Greek: ‘opinion’, ‘belief’, from dokein, ‘to seem good’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• dogma (n.; pl. -mas, -mata): 1. a system of principles or tenets, as of a church; 2. a specific tenet or doctrine authoritatively put forth, as by a church; 3. prescribed doctrine: political dogma.; 4. an established belief or principle. [1590-1600; from Latin from Greek, =dok(eîn), ‘to seem’, ‘think’, ‘seem good’ + -ma, n. suffix]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Mr. Don Quixote:

• An illustrative allusion to the time-wasting futility of tilting at windmills (as per the eponymous hero of a romance novel, by Mr. Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra).

Do the Trick:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘do the trick: accomplish one’s purpose; achieve the required result’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Do-or-Die:

Doublethink:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘doublethink: the mental capacity to accept as equally valid two entirely contradictory opinions or beliefs; the practice of doing this’. (Oxford Dictionary).

For an example of ‘doublethink’:

• ‘War Is Peace
• ‘Freedom Is Slavery
• ‘Ignorance Is Strength’. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink).

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Double-Talk:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘double-talk = double-speak: language or talk that is (usu. deliberately) ambiguous or obscure’. (Oxford Dictionary).

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Enjoy Both Alternatives:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘have one’s cake and eat it, eat one’s cake and have it: enjoy both alternatives’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Dour:

Down-to-Earth:

I am using the ‘down-to-earth’ expression in the Oxford Dictionary ‘plain-spoken, unpretentious; practical, realistic’ meaning (as contrasted to the ‘Old and Spiritual’ being cryptic, pretentious; impractical, idealistic).

The DSM-IV:

Du Jour:

du jour (adj.;postpositive; informal): currently very fashionable or popular; [e.g.]: “the young writer du jour”; \ ”the trend du jour”. [C20: from French, literally: ‘of the day’; as used on restaurant menus of items which change daily]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

du jour (lit. ‘of the day’): said of something fashionable or hip for a day and quickly forgotten; today’s choice on the menu, as soup du jour.~ (2022 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia).

du jour (lit. ‘of the day’): said of something fashionable or hip for a day and quickly forgotten; ‘today’s choice on the menu, as soup du jour’; [e.g.]: “Vanity Fair, that glossy barometer of ‘the importance of being fabulous’, is planning an extended spread on London as the ‘happening’ city du jour”. (Douglas Kennedy, “We’re Finally Speaking their Language”, The Sunday Times, ‘The Culture’, October 27, 1996). ~ (2023 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia).

Dynamic:

[Dictionary Definition]: ‘dynamic (opp. static): active, potent, energetic, forceful; characterised by action or change’. (Oxford Dictionary).

Dysthymia:

• ‘A type of depression involving long-term, chronic symptoms that are not disabling, but keep a person from functioning at ‘full steam’ or from feeling good. Dysthymia is a less severe type of depression than what is accorded the diagnosis of major depression. However, people with dysthymia may also sometimes experience major depressive episodes, suggesting that there is a continuum between dysthymia and major depression’. (www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3147).

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