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Meanings
Noun
1. 生物的な男女又は雌雄の区別。
2. 性欲や性衝動に関すること。
3. 印欧語やセム語派に代表的にみられる、名詞などの変化の形態によって区別されるグループ。おもに、男性、女性、中性、通性などに分けられる。同一言語内でその区分が多い場合は、名詞クラスと呼ばれる。
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woman; female; feminine gender
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
① 性別が男であること又はその人。② ある言語において名詞や形容詞における文法上の性のひとつ。男と関連する名詞に多いが、必ずしもそうではない。
① 感情や意志の傾向。② ある事物に特有の傾向。
① その物に備わっている性質。その物が保持している要素の内容。
① 筋道を立てて物事を考える能力。
① ある対象を特徴づける形態や機能、傾向。
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
① 機械や道具の性質と能力。
① その人の持つ独特の性質。② 個体や個物の持つ、それ特有の性質や特徴。
the opposite sex; isomerism
① 物事の理屈を理解し判断する能力。
① 男女の区別。② 雌雄の区別。
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
① 危険の虞。
① 生まれながらの性質。② 正気。
① 動物が性的な満足を求めようとする欲求。
relationship; relation
(relating to) gender; sex; sexual
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
trend; course of action; directionality; directivity; directional; vectorial
① 性質上の偏り。癖。
① 同一の性。② 同一の性質。
humanity; human nature
authenticity; credibility
① 重要であること。
neutrality (incl. chemical, electrical, etc.); indifference; sexlessness; androgyny; neuter gender
① 生まれつきの性質。② 生まれながらに素質のあること。すぐれていること。
wildness (plants, animals, etc.); uncouth; rough; unpolished
hasty; rash; rushed; hurried; impatient; impetuous
① 安全の度合い。
lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
ill-natured; inconstancy
① 主に生殖を目的として、雌雄が各々の生殖器を交合する行為。但し、人類においては、単に性欲を解消する手段ないし互いの愛情を確認する手段まで、その目的は拡散している。性交。
necessity; inevitability
① 生殖や快楽のために主に性器を介して交わること。
① 性的な快感。
relatedness; associativity; relation; relationship; relevance
flexibility; pliability; softness; elasticity
① 有毒な性質。
directionality; directivity
practicality; utility; usefulness
① 外界の刺激から受けた印象を心に受け止める能力。
sexual love; eros
cooperativeness; spirit of cooperation
divine nature; spirituality
① 急に発病し病状の進行が速いこと。
① 人柄。人品。品格。
superiority; predominance
① 色色な種類のものが存在すること。
cavalry; mobility; maneuverability
versatility; multiplicity of use
unpredictability; element of surprise
rationality; reasonableness
autonomy; independence
① 将来が期待されるという見込み。
① 便利であること。また、その度合。
① 病気などが治療が困難であること、又は、放置すると重大な結果を引き起こす病気などの性質。
prompt efficiency; immediate effectivity
① 敵として見なされる性質。「敵性国家」
integrity; consistency; conformity; compliance
① 物事を進んで行おうとする性質。
spirituality; spiritual nature
① 疑いなく確かであること。
① ある出来事が犯罪に起因すること。あるいは犯罪となりえるような要素を含んでいること。
nocturnality; nocturnal habits
credibility; authenticity; confidence; reliability
aggressiveness; aggression
planning; planning ability; deliberateness
law-like nature; regularity
inborn nature; genuine; intrinsic; essential
stability; security; equilibrium
special characteristics; peculiarity; distinctiveness
newsworthiness; news hook; topicality; popularity (of a topic, issue, etc.)
① 初めから終わりまで矛盾のない状態であること。
sex slave; sexual slavery
singularity; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; specificity
brutality; animal nature
concreteness; feasibility
agility; nimbleness
validity; effectiveness
transient (symptom, phenomenon); temporary; passing; fleeting
① 酸の性質を持っていること。
independence of will or action; self-direction; autonomy; initiative; identity
intrinsic goodness
positive (result); positive (attitude); cheerful; optimistic
innate goodness of man
hereditary; congenital
national traits or character; nationality
uniformity; integrity
artistry; artistic quality; artistic character
① 粘り付く性質。
① 性感染症。
universality; ubiquity; omnipresence; catholicity
poisonous; toxic; addictiveness
dual nature; bilateral character; two-facedness; two-sidedness
originality; distinctiveness; uniqueness; individuality
creativity; ingenuity
① 性質と心情。② 生まれつきの性質。
negative (result); gloomy; negative (e.g. attitude); pessimistic
① 脆く弱い性質。② プログラムの不具合などによる情報セキュリティ上の欠陥。セキュリティホール。
adaptability; flexibility
adaptability; flexibility
① 組み合わせるべき複数の部品(要素)の間で、お互いに置き換えることができる性質。また、その性質の程度。
elasticity; resilience; flexibility; adaptability
① 物体に力を加えたときのひずみが、力を取り去ると元に戻ろうとする性質。
air-permeability; breathability
realistic; practical; feasible
confidentiality
importance; seriousness
reproducibility; repeatability; duplicability
① 適切に良く当てはまること。② 判断が認識上の価値を有すること。
① 性別による差異。男女の違い。
animal (in nature); animal (in origin)
① 植物が持っている性質。② 植物が生成したものであること。
① よく燃える性質。
authenticity; credibility
sex life; sexual activities
① 動物が性的な満足を求めようとする欲求。
probability; likelihood
denaturation; degeneration
resemblance; similarity; analogy
sexual perversion
motility; mobility; maneuverability
practicability; feasibility; operability; expected implementation
operability; usability; user friendliness; ease of use; maneuverability; manoeuvrability
① 音楽的であること。② 音楽に対する考え方。音楽表現の方向性。
contingency; fortuity; randomness; unpredictability; haphazardry
sexual characteristics
① 物質が水溶液中で塩基性を示す性質。
playability; game-like quality
communality; community; having something in common
specialization; specialty; speciality; expertise
sexual techniques
virginity; maidenhood; maidenhead
fidelity; truth; authenticity; credibility
identical (of twins); monozygotic; unioval; uniovular
hardness; rigidity
possibility; potential; expandability
① 人間としての性質。
sexual relief; masturbation
liveability; livability
fire resistance
① 顕性。
acquired; a posteriori
racial or national characteristics
mind; disposition; nature
inheritable character; inheritable; hereditary; inherited
water-based; aqueous; water-soluble
compatibility; conformance; fitness; adaptability
brutal (nature); brutality; blood lust; cruelty; ferocity
① 生物について、環境が変化しても生体内の状態が一定に保たれる性質や能力。浸透圧や体温の調節などがこれにあたる。ホメオスタシス。
fraternal (of twins); diovular; dizygotic; biovular
liquidity (esp. financial); fluidity; mobility (social, job, etc.)
omnivorousness; polyphagia; omnivorous; polyphagous
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
nervous; neural; neurogenic
male characteristics; manliness
moral character or consciousness
credibility; trustworthiness
progressive (worsening disease or condition)
softness; flexibility; elasticity
stress-induced; stress-related
① 人の性質と行為。
activity; motility
continuity; continuance
① 性別による差別。女性への差別を指すことが多い。
waterproof property
heat-resisting property
criminality; criminal propensity
feeding habit (e.g. of an animal); feeding habitat
star quality
inventive step; invention (with respect to prior art)
① 物質が放射能を持つ性質。
sex toy; sex aid
embodiment; physicality
① ある状態が長続きしうる性質。
supremacy; predominance
accidental quality (philosophy, logic); accidence
self-motivation; spontaneity; spontaneousness
① 確実性に欠けること.
visibility; noticeability; perceptibility
sexual experience
hemorrhagic; haemorrhagic
(sense of) story; (sense of) narrative; storytelling (within a work); plot; storyline
sexual experience
sexual expression; expression of sexuality; gender expression (role)
① 性行為などにより感染する病気。
relativity; interconnectedness; correlation
adaptability; flexibility; malleability
sexual prodigy; stud; Don Juan
causticity; corrosiveness
sex maniac; sex fiend
complexity; complex; complicated
carcinogenic; cancer causing
one's characteristics as a writer; characteristics of a creator
habit-forming; habitual
carnivorousness; carnivorous
serviceability; maintainability; ease of maintaining
stimulative; incentive; irritative
appropriateness; finality (philosophy); purposiveness
economy (saving money)
inflammatory; pro-inflammatory
individuality; personality; idiosyncrasy
abstractness; abstraction
multiple; poly-
various facets (aspects)
① ひろく社会全体に利害や関係があるような性質。
pathogenicity; virulence
quietness; low noise
promptness; timeliness
ability to fit into any situation
obsessive-compulsive disorder; OCD
voltinism
① 有性生殖の生殖細胞。
sexual culture; sexual mores; prostitution
transparency; permeability
heterogeneity; heterogenecity
particular interest; fondness
(Goedel's) incompleteness theorem
quick-drying; fast-drying
sex hormone (e.g. estrogen, testosterone)
extreme brutality; atrocity; heinousness; heinous nature
explosiveness; explosivity; explosibility
inductive; inducible
passivity; negativity; halfheartedness
① 雌雄間で数や形質の異なる染色体。② 性決定を左右する染色体。
common property or characteristic
gender identity
lawfulness; legality; validity; legitimacy
characteristics
paraphilia; sexual deviancy
significance (esp. in statistics)
pluripotency; multipotency
homing instinct
excitability; irritability
three-dimensionality; solidity
tubercular; tuberculous
sexual violence; gender-related violence
idiopathic; spontaneous
mobility; migration; rambling; mobile; moving; ambulatory
maintainability; serviceability
saline; halophytic
absorbability; absorbency
bacterial; bacillary
third gender; third sex
finiteness; finitude
① 燃えにくい性質。
herbivorous; graminivorous
absorbency; hygroscopicity
seasonality; seasonal
① 【医学】神経変性疾患の一種。重篤な筋肉の萎縮と筋力低下が見られる。運動ニューロンの機能低下が原因とされる。
inverse; reverse; retro-; contra-
arbitrariness
sexual function
contingency; eventuality
one's nature; one's disposition
vine-like; climbing; creeping
sex (sexual) behavior (behaviour)
alterity; otherness; state of being different
duality; dualism
driving characteristics; road handling ability
reaction; response
bidirectionality; interactivity
early-onset dementia; presenile dementia
effervescence; fizziness; foamability
① 生物が雌雄どちらか一方のみの生殖器を持っていること。② 生物が雌雄どちらか一方のみの子孫を生じる現象。
stimulative; incentive; irritative
flexibility; elasticity
readability; legibility
① 塩基の性質を持っていること。
iron-deficiency anemia; iron-deficiency anaemia
① 一般的にひろくみられる性質。② 文法における性のひとつ。男性と女性両方の性質を併せ持つ性。あるいは男性と女性が合流して区別のなくなった性。共性。両性。
somatic sensation; somesthesis
backwardness; underdevelopment
malleability
① 対立形質のうち、次の代に現れる方の形質。
confidentiality; secrecy
septic; putrefactive
osmosis; permeability
linkage; co-movement; interrelation; interconnectedness
① 環境や資源が将来に渡り持続できること。
distinction of the sexes
properties of water
ambiguity (of a word); polysemy
① 液体に溶ける性質。
gonad; sexual gland
contradiction; inconsistency
agility; nimbleness
carcinogen; carcinogenic substance
complementarity; complementation
sexual victimization
① 自分の内面に関心を持ち、内気で思慮深いが実行力に乏しい性質。
immanence; inherence; indwelling
malignancy; viciousness; underhandedness
discontinuity; incoherence
soil texture; earth (in Wu Xing)
indigestible; digestion-resistant; hard-to-digest
sudden deafness; SD; sudden sensorineural hearing loss; SSHL
liquidity; fluidity; humoral
novelty (patentability requirement)
brothel; sex establishment
symbol characteristic; nature of a symbol
permanence; perpetuity
oneness; unity; integrity; inclusion
allergenic; allergic
allopatry; heterotopy; heterotopia; allopatric; aberrant
late-onset (usu. disease, etc.); delayed onset; tardive
legality; lawfulness; legitimacy
marine; maritime; oceanic; oceanity
ambiguity; fuzziness
continental; continentality
associativity; connectivity
representativeness; (level of) representation
exanthem subitum; Roseola infantum
habit is a second nature
localized; circumscribed
character traits of the people of a prefecture
commonness; the common touch
proliferative; productive; proliferating; multiplicative
① 脆く弱い性質。② プログラムの不具合などによる情報セキュリティ上の欠陥。セキュリティホール。
vine-like; climbing; creeping
innovativeness; originality; innovation
biodegradable; biodegradability
degenerative; regressive; retrogressive
hemolytic disease of the newborn (haemolytic); erythroblastosis fetalis
vascular dementia; cerebrovascular disease
gender role; sex role
compliance; conformance
marketability; saleability
ability to make plans
① 材料の性質の目安の一つで、大気、湿気、水、太陽光、温度変化などに晒されて屋外で使用される材料が受ける劣化に対する抵抗の度合い。
carcinogenic; cancer causing
aerotropism; aerobic; aerotropic
punctuality (in reference to public transport); reliability
portability; upgradability; upwards compatibility; transitional
① 外界に関心を持ち、活動的で社交的な性質。
maintainability; integrity
① 神経発達症の一つ。不注意・衝動性・多動性などの症状を示す。
pseudo; fake; imitation
suffocating; asphyxiating
sexual addiction; sex addiction
① 物体に熱を加わえて高温にすると軟化および流動化し、冷めると硬化する性質。特に、高分子材料におけるこのような性質を指す。
necrotizing fasciitis; necrotising fasciitis; flesh-eating bacteria syndrome
(sense of) story; (sense of) narrative; storytelling (within a work); plot; storyline
heliotropism; actinotropism; disposition (in flowers) to turn toward the sun; phototropism
backward compatibility; downward compatibility
efferent; centrifugal
deciduous (e.g. tree)
constitutionality
navigability; accessibility; ease of getting around; schooling behavior (in fish)
infertility (esp. of animals)
① 生物が刺激を受けた際に、一定の方向に移動しようとする性質。趨性。
① 記憶力。
electromagnetic compatibility; EMC
avoidant personality disorder; AvPD; anxious personality disorder
rheumatoid arthritis; arthritis rheumatica
sexual selection
cell-mediated immunity; cellular immunity
seborrheic dermatitis; seborrheic eczema
sexual liberation; emancipation from gender restrictions
embryonic; embryonal
universality; ubiquity; omnipresence; catholicity
universality; ubiquity; omnipresence; catholicity
toughness (of a material); tenacity; fracture toughness
ambiguity; fuzziness
habit is a second nature
automaticity; automatism
forward compatibility; upward compatibility
co-ed dormitory; mixed student accommodation
central (nervous system)
fissility; fissile; fissionable
continental climate; inland climate
color-sensitivity; colour-sensitivity
neo-Confucianism (esp. from the Song period)
thixotrophy (property of certain gels to liquefy when subjected to vibratory forces)
ionicity; ionic
downward compatibility; backward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for lower tier or older systems, versions, etc.; upward compatibility; forward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for higher tier or later systems, versions, etc.
single standard; monometallism; monometalism
ability to oppose the thumb; opposable thumb
aseptic; sterile; abacterial
quantum supremacy; quantum advantage
inflammable liquid; inflammable fluid
synonymy; synonymity
performance management
equivalency; equivalency property
ability to oppose the thumb; opposable thumb
afferent nerve; afferent neuron; afferent
insectivorous; entomophagous
unconstitutionality
orthogonal; quadrature component
negative properties
upward compatibility; forward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for higher tier or later systems, versions, etc.; downward compatibility; backward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for lower tier or older systems, versions, etc.
aneuploidy; heteroploidy
being stationary (of a process)
usability test; fitness-for-use test
positive polarity; straight polarity
interconnection; interoperability
Bacillus coagulans, species of lactic acid-forming Bacillus bacteria
compressibility
① ある真核生物のゲノムに対する一揃いの染色体のセットの数。動物などの場合、その配偶子の倍数性は n、通常の体細胞の倍数性は 2n。
sex ratio
non-incendive; non-firing
sexual characteristic
intersectionality (social and political identity framework)
multimodality; multimodal
muscle-contraction headache; tension headache
wettability
altricial; altricious
sexual assault; sexual abuse
negative polarity
eccentric personality
sexual culture; sexual mores
sinus arrhythmia; irregular heartbeat
thermophile; thermophilic bacteria
nonspecificity; nonspecific; non-specific
quasi-synonymy; quasi-synonymity
noise-induced hearing loss; NIHL
crushable; breakable; friability
iatrogenic (disease or condition caused by medical treatment)
antiperspirant; antisudorific
inhibitory; inhibiting; suppressor
thrownness; philosophical concept (Geworfenheit in German) introduced by Heidegger
aromaticity; aromatic property
disease resistance; disease tolerance
flame-resistant; flameproof
chemical resistance; resistant to chemicals; chemical proof
occupational hearing loss; occupational deafness
moisture resistance; humidity resistance
ordering; alignment
quick-acting fertilizer; quick-acting fertiliser
slow-acting fertilizer; slow-acting fertiliser
endometrial cyst; endometrioma; chocolate cyst
poliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis
sideroblastic anemia; sideroblastic anaemia
venous ulcers; stasis ulcers; varicose ulcers; ulcus cruris
alveolar pneumonia; alveolar pneumonitis
invasive tumor; invasive tumour
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Use acrylic paint.
That island has a tropical climate.
Our country's climate is temperate.