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effacement
Overview of noun effacement
The noun effacement has 2 senses (no senses from tagged texts)
1. effacement -- (shortening of the uterine cervix and thinning of its walls as it is dilated during labor)
2. effacement, self-effacement -- (withdrawing into the background; making yourself inconspicuous)
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun effacement
2 senses of effacement
Sense 1
effacement
=> organic process, biological process
=> process, physical process
=> physical entity
=> entity
Sense 2
effacement, self-effacement
=> withdrawal
=> departure, going, going away, leaving
=> deed, feat, effort, exploit
=> accomplishment, achievement
=> action
=> act, human action, human activity
=> event
=> psychological feature
=> abstraction
=> abstract entity
=> entity
Hyponyms of noun effacement
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun effacement
2 senses of effacement
Sense 1
effacement
=> organic process, biological process
Sense 2
effacement, self-effacement
=> withdrawal
Antonyms of noun effacement
Member Holonyms of noun effacement
Substance Holonyms of noun effacement
Part Holonyms of noun effacement
1 of 2 senses of effacement
Sense 1
effacement
PART OF: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Member Meronyms of noun effacement
Substance Meronyms of noun effacement
Part Meronyms of noun effacement
Meronyms of noun effacement
Holonyms of noun effacement
1 of 2 senses of effacement
Sense 1
effacement
PART OF: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
Attributes of noun effacement
Derived Forms of noun effacement
1 of 2 senses of effacement
Sense 2
effacement, self-effacement
RELATED TO>(verb) efface#2
=> efface
Domain of noun effacement
Domain Terms of noun effacement
Familiarity of noun effacement
effacement used as a noun is rare (polysemy count =2)
Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun effacement
2 senses of effacement
Sense 1
effacement
> organic process, biological process
=> adaptation, adaption, adjustment
=> agglutination
=> aging, ageing, senescence
=> anovulation
=> antisepsis, asepsis
=> assimilation, absorption
=> autoregulation
=> bacteriostasis
=> blooming, bloom
=> bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity
=> carbon cycle
=> catabolism, katabolism, dissimilation, destructive metabolism
=> cell division, cellular division
=> crossing over, crossover
=> defoliation
=> deossification
=> digestion
=> eburnation
=> ecchymosis
=> effacement
=> erythropoiesis
=> eutrophication
=> evolution, organic evolution, phylogeny, phylogenesis
=> expression
=> extravasation
=> gastrulation
=> glycogenesis
=> growth, growing, maturation, development, ontogeny, ontogenesis
=> hematopoiesis, haematopoiesis, hemopoiesis, haemopoiesis, hemogenesis, haemogenesis, hematogenesis, haematogenesis, sanguification
=> heredity
=> humification
=> hypostasis, epistasis
=> implantation, nidation
=> inhibition
=> invagination, introversion, intussusception, infolding
=> involution
=> cytokinesis
=> karyokinesis
=> keratinization, keratinisation
=> Krebs cycle, Krebs citric acid cycle, citric acid cycle, tricarboxylic acid cycle
=> lymphopoiesis
=> lysogenization, lysogenisation
=> maturation, ripening, maturement
=> metabolism, metabolic process, metastasis
=> metamorphosis, metabolism
=> nitrogen cycle
=> nitrogen fixation
=> nondevelopment
=> nutrition
=> organification
=> ossification
=> ovulation
=> oxidative phosphorylation
=> parturition, birth, giving birth, birthing
=> pathologic process, pathological process
=> perennation
=> preservation
=> quellung, quellung reaction
=> quickening
=> regeneration
=> regulation
=> replication
=> reproduction
=> resorption, reabsorption
=> ripening, aging, ageing
=> secretion, secernment
=> segregation
=> shedding, sloughing
=> summation
=> symphysis
=> synapsis
=> synizesis, synezesis
=> transcription
=> transduction
=> translation
=> protein folding, folding
=> translocation
=> translocation
=> transpiration
=> tumefaction
=> ulceration
=> vascularization, vascularisation
=> vesiculation, vesication, blistering
Sense 2
effacement, self-effacement
> withdrawal
=> effacement, self-effacement
=> retirement, retreat
=> evacuation
=> decampment
=> desertion, abandonment, defection
=> pullback
=> retreat
=> receding, recession
Meronyms of noun effacement
2 senses of effacement
Holonyms of noun effacement
1 of 2 senses of effacement
Sense 1
effacement
PART OF: parturiency, labor, labour, confinement, lying-in, travail, childbed
PART OF: pregnancy, gestation, maternity
Grep of noun effacement
effacement
self-effacement
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