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 individuality
Below is a list of describing words for individuality. 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 individuality:
- much estimable
- definite and nobler
- narrow, jealous
- strenuous and rather overbearing
- delicately perfect
- communicative, expansive
- consequent emphatic
- grotesque and elusive
- separate and ungovernable
- intriguing, self-interested
- conscious and superficial
- great autocratic
- unscrupulous, inscrutable
- self-absorbed, suspicious
- fascinating and enigmatic
- already grotesque and elusive
- mysterious unique
- stern, persistent
- vehement private
- curious, startling
- strong and even eccentric
- rugged and irrepressible
- just editorial
- florid and vigorous
- peculiarly racy
- unhealthy conscious
- religious, such
- differently gifted
- strong but not overweening
- bitter and eccentric
- separate and somewhat antagonistic
- strong and somewhat pedantic
- extraordinary, unforgettable
- unfettered and unquestioned
- other nor higher
- noble and distinctive
- strong, noble and distinctive
- unchanging racial
- stubborn and intense
- appealing and compelling
- interesting and genuine
- vital and mobile
- charming and magnetic
- concrete self-conscious
- self-conscious, concrete
- remarkable and tenacious
- organizational and logistic
- worth or real
- awkward but entire
- complete and most remarkable
- humiliating and selfish
- unmistakable and easily recognizable
- distinct and daring
- vivid and independent
- doubtless physical or physiological
- towering, bold
- separate and perhaps capricious
- succinct and distinct
- hateful and sinister
- peculiar and aggressive
- ual and eternal
- subsequent peculiar
- bold and salient
- distinctive, spiritual
- definite girlish
- unique or extraordinary
- robust, hearty
- queer, powerful
- genuine strong
- perhaps unimportant
- temporary definite
- lifelike, organic
- wild and impatient
- pleasant and rewarding
- utterly overpowering
- deep-seated spanish
- pitiful, personal
- pure and unique
- superior collective
- keenly artistic
- spurious personal
- strong and unconventional
- intense poetical
- sinister and formidable
- amazing and fascinating
- doubtless physical
- quasi�personal
- delicate, conventional
- own self-confident
- less astounding
- independent, god-like
- exceptional, unique
- absolutely exceptional
- perfectly discernible
- somewhat antagonistic
- equal melodic
- provincial and racial
- naive and genuine
- local and racial
- intensely artistic
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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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