Undercurrent

Noun

 * 1) a current which flows under the surface
 * 2)  An emotional presence that is concealed rather than exposed.
 * The meeting was pervaded with an undercurrent of dread, as the managers tried not to admit firings were looming.

Thesaurus
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

Translations

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