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supermoon
thumb|alt=refer to caption|A juxtaposition of the apparent diameters of a more-average full moon on December 20, 2010 (left), and of the supermoon of March 19, 2011 (right) as viewed from Earth

entheogen
Entheogens are psychoactive substances used in spiritual, religious, recreational, therapeutic, and experimental contexts to induce altered states of consciousness. While the term itself emphasizes ritual and sacred applications, the same substances are also frequently employed recreationally—sometimes in ways that diverge from or disregard traditional protocols. Hallucinogens such as the psilocybin found in so-called "magic" mushrooms have been used in sacred contexts since ancient times. Derived from a term meaning "generating the divine from within", entheogens are, in religious and shamani
spandrel
phenotypic characteristic that is a byproduct of the evolution of some other characteristic
monstrous moonshine
connection between representation theory of the monster group and the modular j-invariant
thealogy
thumb|Statue of Ceres, the Roman goddess of [[agriculture]]
compassionate conservatism
American political philosophy
Jespersen's Cycle
historical development of the expression of negation in some languages (preverbal negation marker → elements both before and after the verb → loss of the original preverbal marker)