undercurrent
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Undercurrent \Un"der*cur`rent\, n.
1. A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in
a contrary direction to that on the surface. --Totten.
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2. Hence, figuratively, a tendency of feeling, opinion, or
the like, in a direction contrary to what is publicly
shown; an unseen influence or tendency; as, a strong
undercurrent of sentiment in favor of a prisoner.
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All the while there was a busy undercurrent in her.
--G. Eliot.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
163 Moby Thesaurus words for "undercurrent":
affect, affection, affluence, afflux, affluxion, air current,
allegory, allusion, ambiance, ambience, arcane meaning, assumption,
atmosphere, aura, bucking, challenge, coloration, concourse,
confluence, conflux, connotation, contention, contradiction,
contraposition, contravention, contraversion, coral heads,
counteraction, counterbalance, counterblast, countercurrent,
counterforce, counterinfluence, counterpoise, counterpressure,
counterweight, counterworking, course, crosscurrent, crossing,
current, current of air, defluxion, denial, downdraft, downflow,
downpour, draft, drift, driftage, emotion, emotional charge,
emotional shade, experience, fall wind, feeling, feeling tone,
flavor, flow, flow of air, flowing, fluency, flux, following wind,
foreboding, foul wind, gush, gut reaction, head wind, heartthrob,
hint, implication, implied meaning, import, impression,
impugnation, impugnment, indraft, inference, inflow, inhalation,
innuendo, inrush, inspiration, intimation, ironbound coast,
ironic suggestion, jetstream, katabatic wind, ledges, lee shore,
meaning, metaphorical sense, mill run, millrace, monsoon,
movement of air, murmur, negation, nuance, occult meaning, onrush,
onward course, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnation,
outflow, overtone, passion, pitfall, presentiment, presumption,
presupposition, profound sense, quicksands, race, reaction,
rebutment, rebuttal, refusal, rejection, resistance, response,
rockbound coast, rocks, run, rush, sandbank, sandbar, sands,
sensation, sense, sentiment, set, shallows, shoals, spate,
standing against, stream, stream of air, subsense,
subsidiary sense, suggestion, supposition, surge, symbolism,
tail wind, tendency, tenor, tide, tinge, touch, traversal, trend,
undermeaning, undertone, undertow, updraft, vibes, vibrations,
water flow, wind
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