| | Useful Vocab, mostly rephrasing the Three Characteristics:
casual: accidental, adventitious, by chance, contingent,erratic, extemporaneous, extempore, fluky,fortuitous, impromptu, improvised, impulsive,incidental, infrequent, irregular, occasional, odd,offhand, serendipitous, spontaneous, uncertain,unexpected, unforeseen, unintentional, unplanned,unpremeditated
cause and effect:causal nexus, cause and effect , chain of circumstances, chemical reaction, concatenation ofevents, domino effect, powder train, ripples in apond, vicious circle
suffering: adversity, affliction, anguish, difficulty, discomfort,distress, dolor, hardship, martyrdom, misery,misfortune, ordeal, passion, torment, torture
unsatisfactory: amiss, bad, damaged, deficient, disappointing,disconcerting, displeasing, disquieting, distressing,disturbing, for the birds, junky, lame, mediocre, nogood, not good enough, not up to par, offensive,poor, regrettable, rotten, schlocky, second, thin,unacceptable, undesirable, unsuitable, unwelcome,unworthy, upsetting, vexing, weak, wrong busted, coming unglued, coming unstuck, defective,disabled, down, exhausted, fallen apart, faulty,feeble, gone, gone to pieces, gone to pot, haywire,imperfect, in disrepair, in need of repair, in theshop, inoperable, kaput, not functioning, on theblink, on the fritz, on the shelf, out, out ofcommission, out of kilter, out of order, out ofwhack, ruined, run-down, screwed up, shot, spent,unsatisfactory, weak, wracked, wrecked
misery: ache, agony, anguish, anvil chorus, bad news,blues, depression, desolation, despair,despondency, discomfort, distress, dolor, gloom,grief, hardship, headache, heartache, hurting,melancholy, pang, passion, sadness, sorrow,squalor, stitch, suffering, throe, torment, torture,twinge, unhappiness, woe, worriment, worry,wretchedness anguish, hurt, misery, pang, pounding, smarting,soreness, spasm, suffering, throb, throbbing, throe,twinge
dukkha: (Pāli; Sanskrit: duḥkha; Tibetan sdug bsngal) is a Buddhist term commonly translated as "suffering", "stress", "anxiety", or "dissatisfaction". Dukkha is identified as the first of theFour Noble Truths.
impermanence: conciseness, concision, condensation, crispness,curtness, economy, ephemerality, impermanence, pithiness, pointedness, succinctness, terseness,transience, transitoriness
ephemerality, impermanence ,temporality, transience alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability,changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet,fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation,fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity,impermanence , inconsistency, inquietude,insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability,oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness,shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness,unpredictability, unreliability, unstableness,unsteadiness, unsureness, vacillation, variability,volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness*
flux: alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity,instability, modification, motion, mutability,mutation, transition, unrest course, draught, drift, ebb and flow, flood, flux, jet,juice, progression, river, run, rush, spate, stream,tidal motion, tide
flitter: blare, blaze, blink, burn, dance, flare, flash, flit,flitter , fluctuate, glance, gleam, glimmer, glint,glitter, glow, hover, oscillate, quaver, quiver,scintillate, shimmer, swing, tremble, twinkle,vibrate, waver agitate, bat, beat, dance, drift, flicker, flit, flitter ,flop, fluctuate, hover, lop, oscillate, palpitate,pulsate, quaver, quiver, ripple, ruffle, shake,shiver, swing, throb, tremble, vibrate, wiggle,wobble
unreliability: blunder, corrigendum, deception, defect, erratum,exaggeration, fault, howler, imprecision,incorrectness, inexactness, miscalculation, mistake,slip*, solecism, typo, unfaithfulness, unreliability ,wrong discrepancy, disparity, doubtfulness, forswearing,inconsistency, perjury, question, unreliability ,untrustworthiness, untruthfulness
fluidity: adaptability, adjustability, flexibility, fluidity ,give*, malleability, plasticity, pliancy, resilience,rubberiness, springiness, suppleness alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity ,instability, modification, motion, mutability,mutation, transition, unrest
instability: alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability,changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet,fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation,fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity,impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude,insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability,oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness,shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness,unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness,vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability,wavering, weakness airheadedness, capriciousness, changeability,dizziness, fickleness, flippancy, frivolity, giddiness,inconstancy, instability, levity, lightness,mercurialness, variability, volatility, whimsicality,whimsicalness alteration, change, flow, fluctuation, fluidity,instability, modification, motion, mutability,mutation, transition, unrest
causal: avant garde, breaking new ground, causal ,causative, conceiving, creative, demiurgic,devising, envisioning, fertile, formative, generative,imaginative, ingenious, innovational, innovative,innovatory, inspiring, inventive, novel, originative,productive, quick, ready, resourceful, seminal,sensitive, unconventional, unprecedented, untried,unusual
amiss: awry, bad, confused, crooked, erring, erroneous,fallacious, false, faulty, flawed, foul, glitched up,haywire, imperfect, improper, inaccurate,inappropriate, incorrect, mistaken, out of order,sick, unfair, unlawful, unsuitable, untoward
misery: ache, agony, anguish, anvil chorus, bad news,blues, depression, desolation, despair,despondency, discomfort, distress, dolor, gloom, ... |