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What is the noun for recessive?

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recess
  1. (countable or uncountable) A break, pause or vacation.
  2. An inset, hole, space or opening.
  3. (US) A time of play, usually, on a playground.
  4. A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
  5. (archaic) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat.
  6. (archaic) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
  7. (archaic) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
  8. A secret or abstruse part.
  9. (botany) A sinus.
  10. Synonyms:
  11. Examples:
    1. “A huge four-posted bed with silken hangings occupied a recess in the room.”
      “Unfortunately, the brand new, shiny car now has a huge recess in the rear.”
      “He then suggested that they should take a fifteen-minute recess in the meeting so that the members could discuss the matter among themselves.”
recession
  1. The act or an instance of receding or withdrawing.
  2. A period of reduced economic activity
  3. The ceremonial filing out of clergy and/or choir at the end of a church service.
  4. The act of ceding something back.
  5. Synonyms:
  6. Examples:
    1. “The country was gripped by a deep recession and interest rates were soaring.”
      “These borings exhibit the sea's immediate presence during the Eocene period and its gradual recession from the base of the granite cliffs to its present boundaries.”
      “Should November's figures show a significant drop, it would suggest that a double-dip recession had become more likely.”
recessionitis
  1. (humorous) A state of economic recession, regarded as a disease or ailment.
recessional
  1. Music played during a church recession.
receding
recessiveness
  1. The property of being recessive.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I don't think that anything is known yet about the number, position, dominance, co-dominance or recessiveness of genes for behavior.”
      “The concept of dominance and recessiveness is not particularly relevant in X-linked inheritance.”
      “Consequently recessiveness of the two mutations is well established.”
recessivity
  1. Quality of being recessive.
recessive
  1. (genetics) A gene that is recessive.
recessionals
  1. plural of recessional
recessions
  1. plural of recession
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “It has lasted for a long time, through depressions, recessions, slumps, civil wars and world wars.”
      “Just as the mass extinctions were associated with climatic shifts, depressions and recessions often reflect changing economic conditions.”
      “It does so because it believes that recessions are a great time to gain ground on the competition.”
recessives
  1. plural of recessive
  2. Examples:
    1. “But regardless of why most incompatibilities act as recessives, the present results leave little doubt that they do.”
      “If two of these recessives meet in an individual, their version of the trait will be expressed.”
      “Almost all mutants were found to behave as simple Mendelian recessives.”
recedings
recesses
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