Describing Words
This tool helps you find adjectives for things that you're trying to describe. Also check out ReverseDictionary.org and RelatedWords.org.
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Words to Describe diversity
Below is a list of describing words for diversity. You can sort the descriptive words by uniqueness or commonness using the button above. Sorry if there's a few unusual suggestions! The algorithm isn't perfect, but it does a pretty good job for most common nouns. Here's the list of words that can be used to describe diversity:
- european linguistic
- also biological
- racial, religious and political
- utter unending
- pointless and coincidental
- once mammalian
- little, interesting
- political, economic and ideological
- complex linguistic
- judicious and astonishing
- always laudable
- genetic and linguistic
- ethnic, cultural and national
- purposive or intentional
- immense and radical
- enormous biological
- vast ethnic
- tremendous ecological
- maximal genetic
- radical and innate
- twofold balanced
- recital little
- immense deep-seated
- farthest and widest
- radical and substantial
- wide and quite unprecedented
- alike obvious
- alike obvious and annoying
- widest partial
- great and doubtless necessary
- excellent and greater
- widest and strangest
- slight but radical
- local and zonal
- concomitant radical
- infinite numerical
- great petrological
- merely historical and accidental
- praiseworthy and even astonishing
- sufficient genetic
- greater environmental
- cultural and national
- exquisite and endless
- greater cultural
- it--intellectual
- enough genetic
- such ecological
- obvious bright
- wonderful biological
- environmental balanced
- authentic arcane
- minimum genetic
- little mutational
- infinite individual
- old confusing
- internal temporal
- endless harmonious
- intrinsic and hereditary
- unavoidable and even necessary
- historical and accidental
- normal and hereditary
- more racial
- wide religious
- economic and ideological
- grand and fundamental
- such unified
- specialized national
- doubtless necessary
- rich genetic
- utter religious
- low genetic
- wide and honest
- little functional
- new and far greater
- manifest and undeniable
- considerable verbal
- whole fundamental
- beautiful and harmonious
- greater linguistic
- genetic and social
- indigenous biological
- greater physiological
- now sexual
- greater organic
- physical and temperamental
- great linguistic
- genetic and cultural
- more genetic
- extreme competitive
- true biological
- further potential
- cultural and philosophical
- slow but constant
- real specific
- deep and original
- apparently chaotic
- greatest linguistic
- cultural and genetic
- necessarily considerable
- almost infinite
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Describing Words
The idea for the Describing Words engine came when I was building the engine for Related Words (it's like a thesaurus, but gives you a much broader set of related words, rather than just synonyms). While playing around with word vectors and the "HasProperty" API of conceptnet, I had a bit of fun trying to get the adjectives which commonly describe a word. Eventually I realised that there's a much better way of doing this: parse books!
Project Gutenberg was the initial corpus, but the parser got greedier and greedier and I ended up feeding it somewhere around 100 gigabytes of text files - mostly fiction, including many contemporary works. The parser simply looks through each book and pulls out the various descriptions of nouns.
Hopefully it's more than just a novelty and some people will actually find it useful for their writing and brainstorming, but one neat little thing to try is to compare two nouns which are similar, but different in some significant way - for example, gender is interesting: "woman" versus "man" and "boy" versus "girl". On an inital quick analysis it seems that authors of fiction are at least 4x more likely to describe women (as opposed to men) with beauty-related terms (regarding their weight, features and general attractiveness). In fact, "beautiful" is possibly the most widely used adjective for women in all of the world's literature, which is quite in line with the general unidimensional representation of women in many other media forms. If anyone wants to do further research into this, let me know and I can give you a lot more data (for example, there are about 25000 different entries for "woman" - too many to show here).
The blueness of the results represents their relative frequency. You can hover over an item for a second and the frequency score should pop up. The "uniqueness" sorting is default, and thanks to my Complicated Algorithm™, it orders them by the adjectives' uniqueness to that particular noun relative to other nouns (it's actually pretty simple). As you'd expect, you can click the "Sort By Usage Frequency" button to adjectives by their usage frequency for that noun.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source mongodb which was used in this project.
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