Conceptual:

• conceptual art (n.): art that is intended to convey an idea or concept to the perceiver and need not involve the creation or appreciation of a traditional art object such as a painting or sculpture. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

• conceptual art (n.): art in which the idea or concept presented by the artist is considered more important than the finished product, if any such exists. ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

Conceptualize:

conceptualise (tr.v.): to form a concept of, and esp. to interpret in a conceptual way. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Concipient:

concipient (adj.): conceptive, conceiving. [etymology: Latin concipient-, concipiens, present participle of concipere, ‘to conceive’]. ~ (Merriam-Webster Dictionary).

Concoct:

concoct (lit. ‘cook together’): devise or make up (a story, scheme, etc.) by elaborate or concerted planning; fabricate. (Oxford Dictionary).

Confabulation:

confabulation Psychiatry: the invention of imaginary experiences to fill gaps in memory; an account so fabricated. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

confabulate: Psychiatry. fabricate imaginary experiences as a compensation for loss of memory. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

Congenial:

• congenial (adj.): pleasant, kindly, pleasing, friendly, agreeable, cordial, sociable, genial, affable, convivial, companionable, favourable, complaisant; [e.g.]: “The company at the party was congenial, and the food excellent”. ~ (Collins Thesaurus of the English).

• congenial (adj.): 1. suitable to your needs; [e.g.]: “The department provides a congenial atmosphere for research”; “The affection of two congenial spirits, united not by legal bondage [i.e., binding marital vows] and superstitious imposture, but by mutual confidence and reciprocal virtues, is the only counterbalancing consolation in this scene of mischief and misery”. (Thomas Love Peacock, “Headlong Hall”; 1815; Chap. 15: ‘The Conclusion’; page 122⁽⁰¹⁾); (synonyms): compatible (able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination); [e.g.]: “a compatible married couple”; “her deeds were compatible with her ideology”; friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend); [e.g.]: “their friendly advice”; “it was a friendly neighbourhood”; “the only friendly person here”; “their friendly host and hostess”; sympathetic (expressing or feeling or resulting from friendly fellow feelings or sympathy or compassion; disposed toward); [e.g.]: “they were sympathetic to the students’ cause”; “there is one sympathetic observer”; “it is a sympathetic gesture”; (antonyms): uncongenial, incompatible (not suitable to anothers’ tastes or needs); [e.g.]: “the uncongenial roommates were always fighting”; “the task was uncongenial to someone sensitive to rebuffs”; 2. (used of plants): capable of cross-fertilisation or of being grafted; [e.g.]: “it was a congenial graft after all”; compatible (able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination); [e.g.]: “a compatible married couple”; “her deeds were compatible with her ideology”. ~ (Princeton’s WordNet 3.0).
⁽⁰¹⁾ [https://archive.org/details/headlonghallnigh0000thom/page/122/mode/1up].

Congenital

• congenital (adj.): denoting or relating to any nonhereditary condition, esp. an abnormal condition, existing at birth. ~ (Collins Discovery Encyclopaedia).

• congenital (adj.): 1. denoting or relating to any nonhereditary condition, esp. an abnormal condition, existing at birth; [e.g.]: “congenital blindness”; 2. (informal) complete, as if from birth; [e.g.]: “a congenital idiot”; (adv.): congenitally; (n.): congenitalness. [C18: from Latin congenitus, ‘born together with’, from con- , ‘con-’ + genitus, ‘born’, past participle of gignere, ‘to bear’, ‘beget’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Connatural:

• connatural (adj.): 1. forming an essential element, as arising from the basic structure of an individual: built-in, congenital, constitutional, elemental, inborn, inbred, indigenous, indwelling, ingrained, inherent, innate, intrinsic, native, natural; 2. connected by or as if by kinship or common origin: agnate, akin, allied, cognate, connate, consanguine, consanguineous, kindred, related. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Action/Behaviour/Deed –> Result/Outcome/Consequence:

• consequence (n.): 1. a result or effect of some previous occurrence; 2. an unpleasant result (esp in the phrase ‘take the consequences’). ~ (Collins Dictionary).

Constructionism:

• constructionism (n.): the theory that beliefs are constructed socially or culturally.~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• social constructionism: a theory of how social phenomena or objects of consciousness develop in social contexts and form the basis for shared assumptions about reality (...) the concept of socially constructed reality stresses the ongoing mass-building of worldviews by individuals in dialectical interaction with society {dialectic (n.): disputation or debate, esp. intended to resolve differences between two views rather than to establish one of them as true (Collins English Dictionary) }, and the numerous realities so formed comprise the imagined worlds of human social existence and activity, gradually crystallised by habit into institutions propped up by language conventions, given ongoing legitimacy by mythology, religion and philosophy, maintained by therapies and socialisation, and subjectively internalised by upbringing and education to become part of the identity of social citizens. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (2017 Wikipedia Encyclopaedia).

Contradiction:

contradiction (n.): a statement containing propositions or terms which are at variance with one another; inconsistency (=‘lack of consistency; incompatibility, discrepancy’). ~ (Oxford English Dictionary).

Contrariousness:

contrariousness: characterised by self-willed or refractory opposition, perverse’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

Contrarianism:

contrarianism (n.; pl. contrarianisms): beliefs and practices of a contrarian {viz.: ‘disagreeing with or proceeding against current opinion or established practice’}; [e.g.]: “Craig Kelly, MP, who specialised in implacable unreason about climate change before his conversion to stubborn contrarianism about various Covid remedies – at odds with the views of designated experts including Australia’s chief medical officer – speaks to a constituency the Coalition wants to court: a group of voters tempted to vote for rightwing protest parties rather than the Liberals and the Nationals”. (‘The Guardian‎’, Katharine Murphy; February 2, 2002). [etymology: contrarian +‎ -ism. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (Wiktionary English Dictionary).

Contrary:

• contrary (adj.): 1. diametrically opposed: antipodal, antipodean, antithetical, antonymic, antonymous, contradictory, converse, counter, diametric, diametrical, opposing, opposite, polar, reverse; 2. given to acting in opposition to others: balky, contrarious, difficult, froward {=stubbornly contrary and disobedient; obstinate}, impossible, ornery, perverse, wayward. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (American Heritage Roget’s Thesaurus).

Controversialist:

controversialist (n.): a person who takes part in controversy or likes to do so; [e.g.]: “A controversialist tends to want to smother contradiction in deceptively straightforward elegance”. (The Guardian; 2017). ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Contumacy/Contumacity:

contumacy/contumacity: (...) stubborn perverseness’. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

Contumacious:

contumacious: (...) stubbornly perverse; of a disease: resistant to treatment. ~ (Oxford Dictionary).

Corpuscle

corpuscle (n.): (physics) a discrete particle such as *an electron*, photon, ion, or atom. [C17: from Latin corpusculum, ‘a little body’, from corpus, ‘body’]. [emphasis added]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

Corrigendum:

• corrigendum (n.; pl. corrigenda): 1. an error to be corrected; 2. (sometimes plural): also called ‘erratum’: a slip of paper inserted into a book after printing, listing errors and corrections. [C19: from Latin: ‘that which is to be corrected’, from corrigere, ‘to correct’]. ~ (Collins English Dictionary).

• corrigendum (n.; pl. corrigenda): 1. an error to be corrected, especially a printer’s error; 2. (corrigenda): list of errors in a book along with their corrections; (synonyms): correction, rectification, remediation, redressment, revision, amendment: these nouns mean the making right of what is wrong; correction⁽⁰¹⁾ refers to the elimination of faults, errors, or defects; [e.g.]: “the spelling mistakes required correction immediately”; “The new design furnishes the necessary correction to the flaws in the earlier version”; rectification⁽⁰²⁾ stresses the idea of bringing something into conformity with a standard of what is right; [e.g.]: “It is dishonest to claim the rectification of injustice is without immediate cost”; remediation ⁽⁰³⁾ involves removing or counteracting something considered a cause of harm, damage, or discontent; [e.g.]: “The remediation of their abysmal ignorance necessitates their taking of applicable courses”; redressment ⁽⁰⁴⁾ refers to setting right something considered immoral or unethical and usually involves some kind of recompense; [e.g.]: “They said he had done very little redressment of the abuses the army had committed against the civilian population”; revision ⁽⁰⁵⁾ suggests change which results from careful reconsideration; [e.g.]: “The agency applied a revision of its safety recommendations in view of the new findings”; amendment⁽⁰⁶⁾ implies improvement through alteration or correction; [e.g.]: “Whenever the citizenry shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amendment, or their revolutionary right of dismemberment, or its overthrow”. [Latin, neuter gerundive of corrigere, ‘to correct’; see correct; viz.: from com-, intensive pref. + regere, ‘to rule’; see reg- in Indo-European roots; viz.: basic form *reg‑; lengthened-grade form *rēg‑, Indo-European word for a tribal king]. [verbal synonyms from ‘correct’ added; edited for nounal consistency].~ (American Heritage Dictionary).
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⁽⁰¹⁾correction (n.): 1. something given, done, or proposed as a substitute for what is wrong or inaccurate; 2. the act of correcting; 3. punishment or chastisement; 4. (usually, corrections): the various methods, as incarceration, parole, and probation, by which society deals with convicted offenders; 5. a quantity applied or other adjustment made in order to increase accuracy, as in the use of an instrument or the solution of a problem. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).
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⁽⁰²⁾rectification (n.): the act or operation of rectifying; as, the rectification of an error; the rectification of spirits; [e.g.]: “After the rectification of his views, he was incapable of compromise with profounder shapes of error”. (Thomas De Quincey; 1785-1859). ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).
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⁽⁰³⁾remediation (n.): the correction of something defective or deficient. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).
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⁽⁰⁴⁾redressment (n.): the act of redressing; redress (=to put in order again; to emend; to revise; to set right, as a wrong; to repair, as an injury; to make amends for or compensation to; ; to remedy; to relieve of anything unjust or oppressive; to bestow relief upon). ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).
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⁽⁰⁵⁾revision (n.): 1. the act or work of revising; 2. a process of revising; 3. a revised form or version. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).
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⁽⁰⁶⁾amendment (n.): 1. the act of amending or the state of being amended; 2. an alteration or addition, as to a bill; 3. a change made by correction, addition, or deletion. ~ (Webster’s 1913 Dictionary).

Corrupt:

corrupt: depraved; infected with evil; perverted (...)’. (Oxford Dictionary).

A Citizen of the World:

A specific type of cosmopolitan, in other words, or a cosmopolite. Viz.:

Cosmopolitan (n.): a person who is free from local, provincial, or national bias or attachment; citizen of the world; cosmopolite. [1835-45]. (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Coup de Théâtre:

coup de théâtre (n., pl. coups de théâtre): 1. a surprising or sensational turn of events in a play; 2. any theatrical trick intended to have a sensational effect. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Cowboy:

cowboy: (...) an unqualified or unauthorised trader or operator. (Copyright © 1998 Oxford Dictionary).

Cozen:

cozen (v.; cozened, cozening, cozens): 1. to mislead by means of a petty trick or fraud; deceive; 2. to persuade or induce to do something by cajoling or wheedling; 3. to obtain by deceit or persuasion; (v.intr.): to act deceitfully; (n.): cozener, cozenage. [probably ultimately (perhaps via Middle English cosin, ‘fraud’, ‘trickery’) from Old French cosson, ‘middleman’, ‘trader’, or obsolete Italian cozzonare, ‘to cheat’ (from Italian cozzone, ‘horse-trader), both ultimately from Latin cōciō, coctiō, ‘dealer’, perhaps of Etruscan origin]. ~ (American Heritage Dictionary).

Crass:

crass: grossly stupid, dull, or insensitive’. ~ (Copyright © 1998 Oxford Dictionary).

Criticaster:

• criticaster (n.): an incompetent critic. [1675-85; Latin critic, from Greek kritēs, ‘judge’, ‘umpire’ + -aster¹, a suffix used to form nouns deoting something that imperfectly resembles or mimics the true thing; [e.g.]: “poetaster”; “oleaster”; “historiaster”; “medicaster”; “philosophaster”; “theologaster”; “witticaster”]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Crotchety; Mean; Musty; Deadman:

• ‘crotchety: peevish [querulous, irritable, childishly fretful; spiteful], given to crotchets [perverse beliefs or preferences, usu. about trivial matters]. ~ (Oxford Dictionary)

• ‘deadman (transf. & fig.): a man who is dead. ~ (Oxford Dictionary)

Culturalise:

Culturalise (tr.v.; culturalised, culturalising): to expose or subject to the influence of culture {viz.: culture = the sum total of ways of living built up by a group of human beings and transmitted from one generation to another}; (n.): culturalisation. [1955-60]. [curly-bracketed insert added]. ~ (Webster’s College Dictionary).

Current:

I am using the word ‘current’ (from the Latin currere ‘to run’) in its ‘something which flows’ Oxford Dictionary meaning purely as a matter of convenience and am in no way suggesting thereby that emotions/ passions are necessarily electrical in nature.

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