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zen has 12 distinct synonyms spread across 3 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
school of Mahayana Buddhism asserting that enlightenment can come through meditation and intuition rather than faith; China and Japan
a Buddhist doctrine that enlightenment can be attained through direct intuitive insight
street name for lysergic acid diethylamide
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for zen come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.