What is another word for Gravamen?
Pronunciation:
[ ɡɹˈave͡ɪmˌɛn], [ ɡɹˈaveɪmˌɛn], [ ɡ_ɹ_ˈa_v_eɪ_m_ˌɛ_n]
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Synonyms for Gravamen:
n.
• body (noun) • heart (noun)- nitty-gritty,
- focus,
- hub,
- basic,
- seat,
- focal point,
- quick,
- middle,
- nucleus,
- bosom,
- crux,
- coal and ice,
- center,
- bottom line,
- polestar.
Other synonyms:
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•
- pith,
- marrow,
- meat,
- be,
- spirit,
- kernel,
- soul,
- nub,
- quintessence,
- core,
- heart,
- stuff,
- gist,
- essence,
- root.
-
•
- objection.
- polar star,
- tomfool,
- insistence,
- mall,
- alienation,
- epistasis,
- soundbox,
- constitute,
- nisus,
- shove,
- atmospheric pressure,
- call for,
- bang,
- mess,
- disorder,
- antecedent,
- blossom,
- person,
- slant,
- bum,
- canonic,
- block,
- bone marrow,
- halfway,
- expostulation,
- jabbing,
- breed,
- lading,
- represent,
- postulation,
- overgorge,
- stop,
- rout,
- embrace,
- heart murmur,
- mollymawk,
- go forth,
- strive,
- unanimous,
- blackjack,
- musical theme,
- glut,
- total,
- crossbreed,
- nearly,
- imperativeness,
- deepness,
- filter out,
- summarize,
- backside,
- cost,
- the boot,
- lade,
- direct,
- crabbed,
- ail,
- fool,
- embody,
- prayer,
- behind,
- aim,
- filter,
- degree,
- effect,
- shout,
- force-out,
- military unit,
- bemoan,
- tote up,
- composition,
- focussing,
- hope,
- air pressure,
- repoint,
- dot,
- exist,
- murmuring,
- vegetable marrow,
- join,
- lot,
- fundament,
- people,
- contention,
- chaw,
- exercising weight,
- fanny,
- life,
- about,
- complain,
- iron heel,
- necessitate,
- perturb,
- payoff,
- source,
- precept,
- hurl,
- fuss,
- englut,
- incommode,
- buy the farm,
- arse,
- graveness,
- means,
- feel,
- farce,
- bombilation,
- nates,
- warm,
- force play,
- sobriety,
- rush,
- beginning,
- posit,
- slew,
- straining,
- involve,
- hindquarters,
- target,
- release,
- busyness,
- violence,
- thing,
- nigh,
- thrusting,
- concentre,
- entirely,
- scotch,
- logical argument,
- force out,
- passel,
- centre of attention,
- absolute majority,
- foundation,
- gourmandize,
- mark,
- disputation,
- report,
- count,
- disembodied spirit,
- lynchpin,
- profoundness,
- ingathering,
- line of reasoning,
- keen,
- totality,
- heap,
- heart and soul,
- introductory,
- tone,
- hybridisation,
- distort,
- posterior,
- aggregative,
- midway,
- fundamental frequency,
- unit,
- choke,
- distributor point,
- point in time,
- push up,
- almost,
- mountain,
- indicate,
- system of weights,
- someone,
- paper,
- hybridization,
- deal,
- cut across,
- snuff it,
- aggregate,
- cosh,
- tail end,
- outrage,
- personnel,
- midriff,
- cargo,
- substantive,
- cash in one's chips,
- cut,
- substantial,
- necessity,
- need,
- interbreeding,
- totally,
- discontent,
- exit,
- encumbrance,
- right,
- equal,
- hybrid,
- relative majority,
- weightiness,
- melodic line,
- emergence,
- glucinium,
- reach,
- decimal point,
- exclaim,
- core group,
- cut through,
- quickly,
- muttering,
- supply,
- storm,
- peak,
- consequence,
- backbone,
- culminate,
- near,
- seethe,
- focalize,
- wad,
- pile,
- manoeuvre,
- impel,
- settle,
- interbreed,
- profundity,
- altogether,
- gormandise,
- key,
- mediate,
- make out,
- pointedness,
- quest,
- entreaty,
- play out,
- ascendent,
- literary argument,
- liveliness,
- track,
- estrangement,
- stretch,
- bulge,
- gormandize,
- affection,
- boeuf,
- tooshie,
- lode,
- eye,
- titty,
- grudge,
- payload,
- melodic phrase,
- ill-tempered,
- strategic arms limitation talks,
- torso,
- cark,
- base,
- mental strain,
- tense,
- weight unit,
- gravitational attraction,
- upshot,
- binge,
- weighting,
- trust,
- extend,
- attract,
- maxim,
- summarise,
- puree,
- kicking,
- bespeak,
- unhinge,
- essentialness,
- headstone,
- get across,
- mortal,
- protest,
- worry,
- centering,
- content,
- conk,
- orison,
- all-important,
- issuance,
- of the essence,
- bring out,
- mickle,
- crabby,
- battle cry,
- strength,
- subject matter,
- betoken,
- come out,
- direction,
- recoil,
- sit,
- unhurt,
- thrill,
- knocker,
- inspirit,
- fast,
- adulterate,
- wholly,
- stack,
- add up,
- promptly,
- problem,
- feeling,
- poking,
- derriere,
- mint,
- british pound sterling,
- subject,
- flood tide,
- takings,
- spate,
- ask,
- astuteness,
- make up,
- sift,
- designate,
- primal,
- stock,
- agile,
- revolve about,
- somebody,
- mo,
- polaris,
- legal age,
- progeny,
- yell,
- sprightliness,
- philosopher's stone,
- bilk,
- underlying,
- overeat,
- tail,
- midsection,
- somberness,
- bit,
- remonstrance,
- egress,
- summation,
- hatful,
- orgasm,
- hybridizing,
- can,
- level,
- hug,
- gimmick,
- crown of thorns,
- sexual climax,
- way out,
- pass over,
- southern cross,
- insistency,
- contend,
- steady down,
- inconvenience oneself,
- immediate,
- weigh,
- ready,
- mussitation,
- quetch,
- canonical,
- pass,
- nervous strain,
- knife thrust,
- warhead,
- sum of money,
- dissent,
- tot up,
- detail,
- variant,
- call,
- soulfulness,
- basis,
- poke,
- benchmark,
- take root,
- tonic,
- cud,
- gravitation,
- parameter,
- trunk,
- textile,
- tenderness,
- reboot,
- call out,
- bombinate,
- loading,
- pound sterling,
- quibble,
- crossroads,
- summate,
- significant,
- ill,
- pin,
- nerve,
- nerve center,
- in-between,
- try,
- coronach,
- tot,
- thwart,
- angle,
- invoke,
- common salt,
- full stop,
- weep,
- great deal,
- get over,
- cry out,
- plenty,
- elegy,
- masses,
- soberness,
- minute,
- proceeds,
- origin,
- muggins,
- push,
- idea,
- affectionateness,
- union,
- look,
- good deal,
- tit,
- decease,
- keister,
- congress of racial equality,
- requisite,
- dilute,
- necessary,
- bad-tempered,
- marrow squash,
- luggage compartment,
- milepost,
- poppycock,
- flavour,
- rudimentary,
- coming,
- event,
- tush,
- real,
- ingurgitate,
- add,
- ancestor,
- publication,
- heyday,
- coerce,
- spirit up,
- gravitational force,
- outcome,
- rationale,
- hollo,
- pregnant,
- weight down,
- disturb,
- vociferation,
- cardiac murmur,
- give-up the ghost,
- requirement,
- prat,
- offspring,
- automobile trunk,
- melodic theme,
- twist,
- add together,
- shout out,
- hooey,
- boob,
- psyche,
- flavor,
- thwartwise,
- force per unit area,
- disoblige,
- require,
- corporeal,
- bellyache,
- full point,
- anchor,
- striving,
- affair,
- pole star,
- pressing,
- stern,
- collection,
- all,
- dirt,
- virtually,
- ticker,
- tune,
- scarf out,
- shopping centre,
- exact,
- purport,
- mettle,
- here and now,
- crab,
- squall,
- perfume,
- form,
- fondness,
- bloom,
- the great unwashed,
- queer,
- petty criticism,
- rivet,
- military force,
- difficultness,
- amount,
- stage,
- pound,
- run down,
- laden,
- infrastructure,
- rootage,
- steer,
- write out,
- press,
- bitch,
- deform,
- focusing,
- go,
- rear,
- thrum,
- military group,
- crux of the matter,
- hale,
- signification,
- generalization,
- crisscross,
- rear end,
- place,
- second,
- grouchy,
- crossbreeding,
- transversal,
- choke up,
- shipment,
- exhaust,
- accusal,
- street corner,
- buns,
- butt,
- kick the bucket,
- pot,
- solicitation,
- peck,
- burthen,
- dirge,
- cardinal,
- revolve around,
- efflorescence,
- gunpoint,
- pack,
- all important,
- appealingness,
- pain,
- freight,
- center field,
- rallying cry,
- fabric,
- sieve,
- etymon,
- want,
- perish,
- ether,
- plain,
- linchpin,
- quite a little,
- driving force,
- tense up,
- unscathed,
- wedge,
- centerfield,
- load up,
- distract,
- shopping mall,
- midpoint,
- solid,
- separate out,
- comprise,
- personify,
- consistence,
- emotional state,
- guide,
- requiem,
- root word,
- orient,
- power,
- inconvenience,
- lug,
- emerge,
- philosophers' stone,
- breast,
- center on,
- induct,
- consignment,
- table salt,
- spoil,
- amount of money,
- give up,
- flock,
- mutter,
- grumble,
- spot,
- rootle,
- sit down,
- forcefulness,
- croaking,
- salinity,
- pains,
- malicious gossip,
- statement,
- scream,
- compass point,
- hurtle,
- period,
- luff,
- power point,
- stress,
- intent,
- north star,
- channelize,
- squeeze,
- battalion,
- tenor voice,
- debase,
- pop off,
- stub,
- stab,
- number,
- gorge,
- tilt,
- taper,
- concentrate,
- staple,
- grumbling,
- tally,
- buttocks,
- discommode,
- warmheartedness,
- sight,
- organic structure,
- bottom,
- corner,
- pump,
- hybridise,
- smell,
- controversy,
- argumentation,
- center of attention,
- saphead,
- solution,
- follow,
- charm,
- charge,
- publish,
- outcry,
- stem,
- invest,
- free weight,
- satiate,
- importation,
- topic,
- large number,
- filtrate,
- crossing,
- batch,
- warmness,
- concenter,
- juncture,
- transverse,
- squawk,
- hoi polloi,
- unharmed,
- tire,
- prime,
- clobber,
- shopping center,
- instant,
- engorge,
- bewail,
- sum up,
- ascendant,
- ass,
- baffle,
- bring up,
- implication,
- quid pro quo,
- debate,
- understructure,
- humming,
- focus on,
- raft,
- take,
- war cry,
- sweep,
- individual,
- flush,
- issuing,
- essential condition,
- drive,
- magnetic core,
- bother,
- spunk,
- cell nucleus,
- tidy sum,
- motif,
- lens nucleus,
- contestation,
- hybridize,
- cloth,
- watchword,
- rump,
- well-nigh,
- asking,
- yield,
- foot,
- pierce,
- blackmail,
- outlet,
- watershed,
- disquiet,
- throw,
- deplore,
- cronk,
- message,
- incumbrance,
- beef cattle,
- military issue,
- cavil,
- tip,
- cover,
- air,
- swivel,
- ask for,
- var.,
- item,
- percentage point,
- come forth,
- consistency,
- muckle,
- murmuration,
- pressure sensation,
- result,
- fussy,
- kvetch,
- put out,
- bombination,
- stuff and nonsense,
- ram,
- nidus,
- holler,
- settle down,
- inwardness,
- frustrate,
- manoeuver,
- flying,
- foil,
- song,
- hind end,
- pressure level,
- mourning,
- sharpen,
- channelise,
- grandness,
- discontentedness,
- score,
- beryllium,
- solemnity,
- sombreness,
- government issue,
- head,
- central,
- present moment,
- line,
- hassle,
- speedy,
- breaker point,
- crucial,
- indispensable,
- culmination,
- die,
- prompt,
- straightaway,
- trouble oneself,
- completely,
- kick back,
- upset,
- show,
- signal,
- concentrate on,
- karyon,
- threnody,
- saddle,
- saltiness,
- importee,
- pass away,
- arguing,
- focalise,
- wail,
- rule,
- spell,
- nimble,
- span,
- chew,
- generalisation,
- traverse,
- profound,
- plug,
- drop dead,
- pig out,
- lunge,
- dead body,
- murmur vowel,
- mainstay,
- snapper,
- first harmonic,
- trump,
- grumpy,
- melody,
- overindulge,
- volume,
- gnarl,
- iron boot,
- live,
- expire,
- pore,
- pivot man,
- atomic number 4,
- intersect,
- blazon out,
- multitude,
- spry,
- bombilate,
- radical,
- jab,
- to the highest degree,
- plaza,
- sound off,
- maneuver,
- return.
- pivot,
- haecceity,
- high point,
- meaning,
- force,
- buzz,
- quid,
- gravity,
- Main Thing,
- essential,
- lamentation,
- plaint,
- best part,
- important part,
- elixir,
- climax,
- device,
- generality,
- critical point,
- accusation,
- better part,
- groan,
- keynote,
- hum,
- prominent part,
- onus,
- demand,
- essential part,
- scandal,
- significance,
- import,
- desire,
- sum and substance,
- grouse,
- grievance,
- argumentum ad hominem,
- burden,
- sap,
- majority,
- mass,
- petition,
- appeal,
- albatross,
- theme,
- depth,
- matter,
- point,
- kick,
- cross,
- load,
- murmur,
- boot,
- main point,
- millstone,
- bulk,
- lament,
- crisis,
- real issue,
- gripe,
- Scandalum magnatum,
- weight,
- fundamental,
- main body,
- axiom,
- discontentment,
- ailment,
- moan,
- quiddity,
- trump card,
- cry,
- important thing,
- issue,
- major part,
- beef,
- disaffection,
- sum total,
- difficulty,
- argument,
- pressure,
- principal part,
- moment,
- bench mark,
- complaint,
- chief thing,
- most,
- centre,
- turning point,
- strain,
- cornerstone,
- salt,
- milestone,
- flower,
- plurality,
- sine qua non,
- detraction,
- request,
- landmark,
- material,
- cardinal point,
- keystone,
- croak,
- trouble,
- hypostasis,
- postulate,
- thrust,
- principle,
- importance.
How to use "Gravamen" in context?
Gravamen, often translated as "the motive," is an essential element of any tragedy. It is the force that propels the characters onwards in their desperate quest, and it can be seen as the source of the drama. In a well-written tragedy, gravamen is always palpable, driving the action and providing the emotional backbone. It can be anything from a family feud to a love affair, and it's always motivating to watch.
While it can be difficult to isolate gravamen in a story, it's definitely a crucial part of a good tragedy. Without it, the characters and their journeys would become static and dull.
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