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English noun: orientation | |||
| 1. | orientation (act) the act of orienting | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | emplacement, locating, location, placement, position, positioning | ||
| 2. | orientation (cognition) an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | attitude, mental attitude | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | experimentalism, heresy, heterodoxy, ideology, orthodoxy, perspective, political orientation, political theory, position, religious orientation, reorientation, unorthodoxy, view, wavelength | ||
| 3. | orientation position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | direction | ||
| Narrower (hyponym) | attitude, horizontal, quarter, vertical | ||
| Attribute | horizontal, inclined, perpendicular, vertical | ||
| 4. | orientation (cognition) a predisposition in favor of something | ||
| Samples | A predilection for expensive cars. His sexual preferences. Showed a Marxist orientation. | ||
| Synonyms | predilection, preference | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | predisposition | ||
| 5. | orientation (cognition) a person's awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | self-awareness | ||
| 6. | orientation (act) a course introducing a new situation or environment | ||
| Synonyms | orientation course | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | class, course, course of instruction, course of study | ||
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