ORIENTATION as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a course introducing a new situation or environment
   Synonym(s)
   • orientation course (what does orientation course mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) orientation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • course (what does course mean?)
   • course of study (what does course of study mean?)
   • course of instruction (what does course of instruction mean?)
   • class (what does class mean?)
2. Meaning
   • the act of orienting
   Hypernyms(s) orientation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • placement (what does placement mean?)
   • location (what does location mean?)
   • locating (what does locating mean?)
   • position (what does position mean?)
   • positioning (what does positioning mean?)
   • emplacement (what does emplacement mean?)
3. Meaning
   • a person’’s awareness of self with regard to position and time and place and personal relationships
   Hypernyms(s) orientation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • self-awareness (what does self-awareness mean?)
4. Meaning
   • a predisposition in favor of something
   Synonym(s)
   • predilection (what does predilection mean?)
   • preference (what does preference mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a predilection for expensive cars
   • his sexual preferences
   • showed a Marxist orientation
   Hypernyms(s) orientation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • predisposition (what does predisposition mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • choose (what does choose mean?)
   • prefer (what does prefer mean?)
   • opt (what does opt mean?)
5. Meaning
   • an integrated set of attitudes and beliefs
   Hypernyms(s) orientation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • attitude (what does attitude mean?)
   • mental attitude (what does mental attitude mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • wavelength (what does wavelength mean?)
   • experimentalism (what does experimentalism mean?)
   • reorientation (what does reorientation mean?)
   • position (what does position mean?)
   • view (what does view mean?)
   • perspective (what does perspective mean?)
   • orthodoxy (what does orthodoxy mean?)
   • unorthodoxy (what does unorthodoxy mean?)
   • heterodoxy (what does heterodoxy mean?)
   • heresy (what does heresy mean?)
   • political orientation (what does political orientation mean?)
   • ideology (what does ideology mean?)
   • political theory (what does political theory mean?)
   • religious orientation (what does religious orientation mean?)
6. Meaning
   • position or alignment relative to points of the compass or other specific directions
   Hypernyms(s) orientation is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • direction (what does direction mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • attitude (what does attitude mean?)
   • horizontal (what does horizontal mean?)
   • vertical (what does vertical mean?)
   • quarter (what does quarter mean?)
   Attribute(s)
   • horizontal (what does horizontal mean?)
   • vertical (what does vertical mean?)
   • perpendicular (what does perpendicular mean?)
   • inclined (what does inclined mean?)