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"2": "-"
},
"expansion": "relativism n (uncountable)",
"name": "ro-noun"
}
],
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{
"args": {
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"gpd": "relativismelor",
"gpi": "relativisme",
"gsd": "relativismului",
"gsi": "relativism",
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"npd": "relativismele",
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"nsd": "relativismul",
"nsi": "relativism",
"vp": "relativismelor",
"vs": "relativismule"
},
"name": "ro-decl-noun-single"
}
],
"lang": "Romanian",
"lang_code": "ro",
"pos": "noun",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"Romanian entries with incorrect language header",
"Romanian lemmas",
"Romanian neuter nouns",
"Romanian nouns",
"Romanian terms borrowed from French",
"Romanian terms derived from French",
"Romanian uncountable nouns"
],
"glosses": [
"relativism"
],
"links": [
[
"relativism",
"relativism#English"
]
],
"tags": [
"neuter",
"uncountable"
]
}
],
"word": "relativism"
}
{
"called_from": "inflection/2466",
"msg": "accepted heuristic header: table cell identified as header and given candidate status, AND the cleaned text is in LANGUAGES_WITH_CELLS_AS_HEADERS[Romanian]; cleaned text: n gender",
"path": [
"relativism"
],
"section": "Romanian",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "relativism",
"trace": ""
}
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