Words that rhyme with bareness

  • anus
    n 1: the excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal
  • awareness
    n 1: having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" [syn: awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness] [ant: incognizance] 2: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: awareness, sentience]
  • careless
    adj 1: marked by lack of attention or consideration or forethought or thoroughness; not careful; "careless about her clothes"; "forgotten by some careless person"; "a careless housekeeper"; "careless proofreading"; "it was a careless mistake"; "hurt by a careless remark" [ant: careful] 2: effortless and unstudied; "an impression of careless elegance"; "danced with careless grace" 3: (usually followed by `of') without due thought or consideration; "careless of the consequences"; "crushing the blooms with regardless tread" [syn: careless(p), regardless]
  • clearness
    n 1: free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression [syn: clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity] [ant: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness, unclearness] 2: the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes" [syn: clearness, clarity, uncloudedness] [ant: opacity, opaqueness]
  • dearness
    n 1: the quality possessed by something with a great price or value [syn: costliness, dearness, preciousness]
  • fairness
    n 1: conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the fairness of my claim" [syn: fairness, equity] [ant: inequity, unfairness] 2: ability to make judgments free from discrimination or dishonesty [syn: fairness, fair-mindedness, candor, candour] [ant: unfairness] 3: the property of having a naturally light complexion [syn: paleness, blondness, fairness] 4: the quality of being good looking and attractive [syn: comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness]
  • gayness
    n 1: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex [syn: homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness]
  • harness
    n 1: a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for holding something to the body (especially one supporting a person suspended from a parachute) 2: stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and pull a cart v 1: put a harness; "harness the horse" [syn: harness, tackle] [ant: unharness] 2: exploit the power of; "harness natural forces and resources" 3: control and direct with or as if by reins; "rein a horse" [syn: harness, rein in, draw rein, rein] 4: keep in check; "rule one's temper" [syn: rule, harness, rein]
  • menace
    n 1: something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a constant threat in Japan" [syn: menace, threat] 2: a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate menace" v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize, jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril] 2: express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he menaced the bank manager with a stick" 3: act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"
  • nearness
    n 1: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" [syn: nearness, closeness] [ant: farawayness, farness, remoteness]
  • queerness
    n 1: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet] 2: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex [syn: homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness]
  • rareness
    n 1: noteworthy scarcity [syn: rarity, rareness, infrequency]
  • rawness
    n 1: a chilly dampness; "the rawness of the midnight air" 2: the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made it unpublishable" [syn: incompleteness, rawness] [ant: completeness] 3: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn: tenderness, soreness, rawness] 4: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops" [syn: inexperience, rawness] [ant: experience]
  • saintliness
    n 1: the quality of resembling a saint
  • seemliness
    n 1: a sense of propriety and consideration for others; "a place where the company of others must be accepted with good grace" [syn: seemliness, grace] [ant: unseemliness]
  • slovenliness
    n 1: a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for [syn: sloppiness, slovenliness, unkemptness] 2: habitual uncleanliness
  • soreness
    n 1: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn: tenderness, soreness, rawness] 2: an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress [syn: discomfort, soreness, irritation]
  • timeliness
    n 1: being at the right time [syn: seasonableness, timeliness] [ant: unseasonableness, untimeliness] 2: timely convenience [syn: opportuneness, patness, timeliness] [ant: inopportuneness, untimeliness]
  • ugliness
    n 1: qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the senses [ant: beauty] 2: the quality of being wicked [syn: nefariousness, wickedness, vileness, ugliness]
  • unawareness
    n 1: unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or attention [syn: unknowingness, unawareness]
  • unfairness
    n 1: partiality that is not fair or equitable [ant: candor, candour, fair-mindedness, fairness] 2: injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards [syn: unfairness, inequity] [ant: equity, fairness] 3: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity, shabbiness]
  • worldliness
    n 1: the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment [syn: sophistication, worldliness, mundaneness, mundanity] [ant: naiveness, naivete, naivety] 2: concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual needs; "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around him" [ant: otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism, spirituality]
  • greyness
    n 1: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black [syn: gray, grayness, grey, greyness]
  • janus
    n 1: (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head
  • spareness
    n 1: the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness [syn: sparseness, spareness, sparsity, thinness] 2: the property of having little body fat [syn: leanness, thinness, spareness] [ant: avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness]
  • squareness
    n 1: the property of being shaped like a square
  • debonairness
  • portliness
  • sheerness
  • sickliness
  • unearthliness

See also bareness definition and bareness synonyms