Noun

• S: (n) matter, affair, thing (a vaguely specified concern) "several matters to attend to"; "it is none of your affair"; "things are going well"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) concern (something that interests you because it is important or affects you) "the safety of the ship is the captain's concern"
• S: (n) interest, involvement (a sense of concern with and curiosity about someone or something) "an interest in music"
• S: (n) curiosity, wonder (a state in which you want to learn more about something)
• S: (n) cognitive state, state of mind (the state of a person's cognitive processes)
• S: (n) psychological state, psychological condition, mental state, mental condition ((psychology) a mental condition in which the qualities of a state are relatively constant even though the state itself may be dynamic) "a manic state"
• S: (n) condition, status (a state at a particular time) "a condition (or state) of disrepair"; "the current status of the arms negotiations"
• S: (n) state (the way something is with respect to its main attributes) "the current state of knowledge"; "his state of health"; "in a weak financial state"
• S: (n) attribute (an abstraction belonging to or characteristic of an entity)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• S: (n) affair, affaire, intimacy, liaison, involvement, amour (a usually secretive or illicit sexual relationship)
• S: (n) affair, occasion, social occasion, function, social function (a vaguely specified social event) "the party was quite an affair"; "an occasion arranged to honor the president"; "a seemingly endless round of social functions"