Describing Words
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Words to Describe philosophies
Below is a list of describing words for philosophies. 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 philosophies:
- natural and experimental
- recondite and mystic
- mechanistic personal
- polite and easy-going
- popular scholastic
- characteristic current
- ugly individualistic
- jewish rationalistic
- dead metaphysical
- speculative and experimental
- academical or sceptical
- mental, moral and political
- --_paradoxical
- --proverbial
- deep brahminical
- trenchant, precipitous
- powerful and very desolate
- boldest and most affirmative
- true monastical
- true and elegant
- higher conjugal
- political or juridical
- fascinating and imaginative
- moral or experimental
- further pessimistic
- entire antithetical
- curiously obvious
- hitherto exalted
- whole materialistic
- assuredly noble and divine
- assuredly noble
- sublime but impracticable
- rare and calm
- specially natural
- ancient and scholastic
- modern pseudo-scientific
- sunny, whimsical
- experimental natural
- stupendous and cosmogonal
- liberal and chaste
- mind--mental
- robust, inconsequential
- stern and unimaginative
- depression--mental
- thy experimental
- __moral
- convincing and satisfying
- metaphysical and practical
- early epicurean
- individualistic economic
- emotional and childish
- pretentious wordy
- previous sunny
- modern natural
- fashionable and evasive
- mystical and contentious
- rationalistic or idealistic
- also vain
- historical philosophical
- also vain and false
- foolish or insane
- pragmatic, egocentric
- vague esoteric
- futile and false
- newer chinese
- own, quaint
- antiquated moral
- characteristically dispassionate
- aristotelian natural
- asian and comparative
- cunning and fantastical
- priestly cunning and fantastical
- priestly cunning
- positive or existential
- sublime speculative
- dominant and popular
- intellectual, one-sided
- delightful superficial
- degrading and sordid
- later stoical
- ingrained military
- serious and unique
- scholastic natural
- standard rationalistic
- materialistic and empirical
- smug and timid
- subtle, natural
- perennial political
- pre-existing zoological
- recondite and far-fetched
- comprehensive cosmopolitan
- abstract or experimental
- such pluralistic
- old, egyptian
- religious metaphysical
- *moral
- prevalent sensational
- recondite mental
- weak, cynical
- incorrect metaphysical
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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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