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 validity
Below is a list of describing words for validity. 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 validity:
- dubious statistical
- real problematic
- approximately universal
- beloved and consequent
- rational or national
- supply constitutional
- subjective universal
- relative or human
- merely relative or human
- universal and undeniable
- divine and unchanging
- final, literal
- eternal and imperial
- socially interactive
- tremendous existential
- comparative and relative
- universal subjective
- assertorical
- altogether doubtful
- later indubitable
- distinctive social
- such demonstrable
- general and indisputable
- equal legal
- limited artistic
- subjective and formal
- intense and practical
- dubious constitutional
- obvious and indisputable
- mathematical or philosophical
- universal and final
- perfect legal
- consequently universal
- little biological
- maximum practical
- complete legal
- universal and natural
- universal absolute
- true chronological
- much legal
- more existential
- equal and independent
- much statistical
- universal european
- least doubtful
- eternal and universal
- merely relative
- slightest legal
- absolutely universal
- eternal and absolute
- such indisputable
- certain independent
- certain relative
- practical and moral
- much formal
- own universal
- necessary and universal
- legal or other
- supernational
- legal or constitutional
- real intellectual
- immediate and absolute
- historical and cultural
- equally universal
- universal and necessary
- merely empirical
- scientific or philosophical
- absolute and entire
- merely private
- poetic and artistic
- certain theoretical
- jural
- unconditioned
- full legal
- profound and universal
- moral and legal
- extra-territorial
- interstate
- little formal
- merely temporary
- more legal
- permanent and universal
- more universal
- doubtful
- legal
- problematic
- real and permanent
- less doubtful
- much intellectual
- merely formal
- constitutional
- universal
- regulative
- such doubtful
- universal and eternal
- secondary and tertiary
- purely subjective
- unconditional
- intrinsic
- much wider
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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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