Words that rhyme with ascendency

• ascendancy 0
  n 1: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control]
• dependency 0
  n 1: the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else [syn: dependence, dependance, dependency] 2: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation] 3: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency]
• incessantly 0
  adv 1: with unflagging resolve; "dance inspires him ceaselessly to strive higher and higher toward the shining pinnacle of perfection that is the goal of every artiste" [syn: endlessly, ceaselessly, incessantly, unceasingly, unendingly, continuously] 2: without interruption; "the world is constantly changing" [syn: constantly, always, forever, perpetually, incessantly]
• insignificantly 0
  adv 1: in an insignificant manner; "some people living insignificantly among us" 2: not to a significant degree or amount; "Our budget will only be insignificantly affected by these new cuts" [ant: significantly]
• insistency 0
  n 1: the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters" [syn: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press, pressure] 2: the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position" [syn: insistence, insistency]
• insistently 0
  adv 1: in an insistent manner
• instantly 0
  adv 1: without delay or hesitation; with no time intervening; "he answered immediately"; "found an answer straightaway"; "an official accused of dishonesty should be suspended forthwith"; "Come here now!" [syn: immediately, instantly, straightaway, straight off, directly, now, right away, at once, forthwith, like a shot] 2: without any delay; "he was killed outright" [syn: instantaneously, outright, instantly, in a flash]
• interdependency 0
  n 1: a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) [syn: mutuality, interdependence, interdependency]
• intermittency 0
  n 1: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping [syn: intermittence, intermittency]
• intermittently 0
  adv 1: in an intermittent manner; "intermittently we questioned the barometer"
• lambency 0
  n 1: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency]
• latency 0
  n 1: (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head [syn: rotational latency, latency] 2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it [syn: reaction time, response time, latency, latent period] 3: the state of being not yet evident or active
• mendicancy 0
  n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity] 2: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging, mendicancy]
• militancy 0
  n 1: a militant aggressiveness [syn: combativeness, militance, militancy]
• occupancy 0
  n 1: an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: occupancy, tenancy] 2: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal" [syn: occupation, occupancy, moving in]
• penitently 0
  adv 1: showing remorse [syn: penitently, penitentially, repentantly] [ant: impenitently, unrepentantly]
• persistency 0
  n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity]
• persistently 0
  adv 1: in a persistent manner; "he was asking questions, unavoidable questions, persistently..." 2: with persistence
• piquancy 0
  n 1: a tart spicy quality [syn: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest] 2: the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting [syn: piquancy, piquance, piquantness]
• piquantly 0
  adv 1: with strong spices; in a spicy manner; "the soup was spicily flavored" [syn: piquantly, spicily]
• potency 0
  n 1: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so] 2: capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" [syn: potency, effectiveness, strength] 3: the inherent capacity for coming into being [syn: potential, potentiality, potency] 4: the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse [syn: potency, potence] [ant: impotence, impotency]
• tendency 0
  n 1: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn: inclination, disposition, tendency] 2: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency] 3: a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink" [syn: tendency, inclination] 4: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market" [syn: tendency, trend]
• c 0
  adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c] 3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid] 4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C] 5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C] 6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C] 8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c] 12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C]
• insignificancy 0
• intendancy 0
• interdependently 0
• latently 0
• mordancy 0
• mordantly 0
• overconfidently 0
• cie 0
• melany 0
• stefani 0

See also ascendency definition and ascendency synonyms