Words that rhyme with ambiance

• ambience 0
  n 1: a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" [syn: atmosphere, ambiance, ambience] 2: the atmosphere of an environment [syn: ambiance, ambience]
• brilliance 0
  n 1: a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight" [syn: glare, blaze, brilliance] 2: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness] 3: unusual mental ability [syn: brilliance, genius]
• deviance 0
  n 1: a state or condition markedly different from the norm [syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance] 2: deviate behavior [syn: deviation, deviance]
• disobedience 0
  n 1: the failure to obey [syn: disobedience, noncompliance] [ant: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obeisance] 2: the trait of being unwilling to obey [ant: obedience]
• ebullience 0
  n 1: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval [syn: exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience]
• ensconce 0
  v 1: fix firmly; "He ensconced himself in the chair" [syn: ensconce, settle]
• esurience 0
  n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness] 2: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
• luxuriance 0
  n 1: the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses [syn: luxuriance, lushness, voluptuousness]
• nonce 0
  n 1: the present occasion; "for the nonce" [syn: time being, nonce]
• obedience 0
  n 1: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person [syn: obedience, obeisance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance] 2: the trait of being willing to obey [ant: disobedience] 3: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: obedience, respect]
• omniscience 0
  n 1: the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge
• prescience 0
  n 1: the power to foresee the future [syn: prescience, prevision]
• provenience 0
  n 1: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience]
• prurience 0
  n 1: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness [syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity]
• puissance 0
  n 1: power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote"
• radiance 0
  n 1: the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow, glowing] 2: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency] 3: an attractive combination of good health and happiness; "the radiance of her countenance"
• resilience 0
  n 1: the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit [syn: resilience, resiliency] 2: an occurrence of rebounding or springing back [syn: resilience, resiliency]
• response 0
  n 1: a result; "this situation developed in response to events in Africa" 2: a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent; "a bad reaction to the medicine"; "his responses have slowed with age" [syn: reaction, response] 3: a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation; "I waited several days for his answer"; "he wrote replies to several of his critics" [syn: answer, reply, response] 4: the manner in which something is greeted; "she did not expect the cold reception she received from her superiors" [syn: reception, response] 5: a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister 6: the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange; "he growled his reply" [syn: reply, response] 7: the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
• salience 0
  n 1: the state of being salient [syn: salience, saliency, strikingness]
• sapience 0
  n 1: ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight [syn: wisdom, sapience]
• sconce 0
  n 1: a shelter or screen providing protection from enemy fire or from the weather 2: a small fort or earthwork defending a ford, pass, or castle gate 3: a candle or flaming torch secured in a sconce 4: a decorative wall bracket for holding candles or other sources of light
• subservience 0
  n 1: the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan" 2: in a subservient state [syn: subservience, subservientness] 3: abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: obsequiousness, servility, subservience]
• transience 0
  n 1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying [syn: transience, transiency, transitoriness] 2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience]
• variance 0
  n 1: an event that departs from expectations [syn: discrepancy, variance, variant] 2: discord that splits a group [syn: division, variance] 3: the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value 4: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance] 5: the quality of being subject to variation [syn: variability, variableness, variance] [ant: invariability, invariableness, invariance] 6: an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); "a zoning variance" 7: an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported" [syn: variation, variance]
• ponce 0
  n 1: a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses 2: someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) [syn: pimp, procurer, panderer, pander, pandar, fancy man, ponce]
• provence 0
  n 1: a former province of southeastern France; now administered with Cote d'Azur
• nescience 0
  n 1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]
• seance 0
  n 1: a meeting of spiritualists; "the seance was held in the medium's parlor" [syn: seance, sitting, session]
• mesalliance 0
  n 1: a marriage with a person of inferior social status
• percipience 0

See also ambiance definition and ambiance synonyms