#romanian

• Female abiturient / High school senior — The feminine form of the term 'abiturient'; a female student in her final year of high school or a graduate taking the baccalaureate exam to gain access to university studies.
• Despicable / Vile — A quality designating a person, act, or attitude of a base nature, completely devoid of dignity, honor, or moral scruples; causing profound revulsion, contempt, disgust, or loathing through its wickedness or baseness.
• Abjection / Vileness — The state, quality, or character of being abject; behavior, act, attitude, or manifestation of extreme baseness or wickedness. It can also denote a state of profound moral decay or a vulgar, insulting expression.
• Ablution — A secondary form or variant spelling of the noun 'abluțiune'. It denotes the partial or total washing of the body, having a ritual or symbolic character for spiritual purification within certain religions (such as Islam or Hinduism). In a medical or daily sense, it represents simple washing or bathing, while in geomorphology it defines the erosion of rocks on the ocean floor caused by deep currents.
• Ablution — The standard and primary noun form denoting the partial or total washing of the body, having a ritual or symbolic character, intended for spiritual purification within various world religions. In a medical or everyday sense, it represents the cleansing of the body through bathing, while in geomorphology it defines the process of submarine erosion caused by deep ocean currents.
• Ablutomania — A psychological or behavioral disorder characterized by an obsessive, compulsive, and exaggerated tendency to wash one's body or hands repeatedly. It frequently manifests as an elaborate ritual within obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), driven by intense anxiety related to germs, dirt, or contamination.
• To self-sacrifice / To deny oneself — The act of voluntarily relinquishing one's own interests, desires, rights, or personality out of a spirit of absolute devotion to a high cause, an idea, or the well-being of another person. It represents the voluntary act of self-sacrifice.
• Abnegation / Self-denial — Complete devotion, altruism, and spirit of voluntary sacrifice that leads a person to entirely relinquish their own interests, desires, rights, or personality to serve a noble cause, a high idea, or to ensure the well-being of others.
• Self-sacrificing / Devoted — Quality of a person or an action characterized by self-sacrifice; full of devotion, always ready for self-denial, profoundly altruistic, entirely dedicated to an idea, mission, or the public good.
• Abnormal / Anomalous — A quality designating a fact, behavior, state, or phenomenon that deviates from the norm, rule, or standard state of normality; abnormal, unusual, irregular, or uncommon. It represents a neologism less frequent than its modern equivalent 'anormal'.
• Abnormality / Anomaly — The state, quality, or character of being abnormal; a clear deviation from the norm, rule, or the natural and customary state of things. In older academic or philosophical writings, the term is used as a learned variant of the noun 'anormalitate'.
• Mild ailment (archaic regionalism) — An old medical term or regionalism previously used in Romanian villages (especially in certain southern or Transylvanian sub-dialects) as a derived or phonetically altered form to describe a mild state of suffering, a passing physical indisposition, a minor illness, or a bodily weakness.
• To abolish / To repeal — The act of officially abolishing, annulling, suppressing, or repealing a law, custom, public institution, or legal social status, through an official legislative act or a decree issued by a sovereign state authority.
• Abolition / Repeal — The act of abolishing and its result; the official abolition, annulment, suppression, or repeal of a law, custom, public institution, or legal social status, through an act of public authority.
• Abolished / Repealed — A quality designating a law, custom, privilege, or institution that has been officially abolished, annulled, or suppressed through a legislative act or an authoritative decree. It derives from the past participle of the verb 'to abolish'.
• Abolition / Legal repeal — A secondary form or legal variant of the noun 'abolițiune'. It denotes an act of clemency or a criminal law measure through which the sovereign legislative power abolishes, annuls, or prohibits a law, penalty, or judicial procedure. In certain historical legal systems, it represented a form of early amnesty that halted the initiation or continuation of criminal prosecution.
• Abolitionism — A social, political, and ideological movement that emerged in the 18th and 19th centuries in Europe and the Americas, initially aimed at the official abolition of slavery and human trafficking. In a broader and modern sense, the term denotes any current of opinion or doctrine advocating for the permanent suppression of laws, institutions, or practices considered inhumane or outdated, such as the death penalty or the classical penitentiary system.
• Abolitionist — A person who adheres to abolitionism, actively campaigning for the dissolution of an inhumane or outdated law, institution, or practice (such as slavery, the death penalty, or the carceral system). As an adjective, it qualifies anything pertaining to abolitionism or specific to the struggle for suppressing these oppressive systems.
• Abolitionist (feminine) — The feminine form of the term 'aboliționist'. It denotes a woman who adheres to the principles of abolitionism and actively campaigns for the dissolution of oppressive or outdated laws, institutions, or practices (such as slavery or capital punishment). As an adjective, it qualifies a feminine action, publication, or entity associated with this movement.
• Abnégation / Abolition (archaic variant) — The complete, etymological, and traditional noun form denoting the official abolition, annulment, suppression, or repeal of a law, custom, institution, or legal social status, through an act of public authority. In modern Romanian, it is used less frequently than its shortened variant 'abolire' or the legal variant 'aboliție'.