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antiquity
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n 1: the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe
2: extreme oldness [syn: ancientness, antiquity]
3: an artifact surviving from the past
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commodity
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n 1: articles of commerce [syn: commodity, trade good,
good]
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commonalty
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n 1: a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank
[syn: commonalty, commonality, commons]
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complexity
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n 1: the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed
the complexity of modern computers" [syn: complexity,
complexness] [ant: simpleness, simplicity]
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confidentiality
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n 1: the state of being secret; "you must respect the
confidentiality of your client's communications"
2: discretion in keeping secret information
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conformity
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n 1: correspondence in form or appearance [syn: conformity,
conformance]
2: acting according to certain accepted standards; "their
financial statements are in conformity with generally
accepted accounting practices" [syn: conformity,
conformation, compliance, abidance] [ant:
disobedience, noncompliance, nonconformance,
nonconformity]
3: orthodoxy in thoughts and belief [syn: conformity,
conformism] [ant: nonconformance, nonconformism,
nonconformity]
4: concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal"
[syn: accord, conformity, accordance]
5: hardened conventionality [syn: ossification, conformity]
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congeniality
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n 1: compatibility between persons [syn: congenialness,
congeniality]
2: a congenial disposition [ant: uncongeniality]
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congruity
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n 1: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
[syn: congruity, congruousness, congruence] [ant:
incongruity, incongruousness]
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contiguity
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n 1: the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn:
adjacency, contiguity, contiguousness]
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continuity
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n 1: uninterrupted connection or union [ant: discontinuity]
2: a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid
discontinuities from shot to shot
3: the property of a continuous and connected period of time
[syn: continuity, persistence]
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conventionality
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n 1: conformity with conventional thought and behavior
2: unoriginality as a result of being too conventional [ant:
unconventionality]
3: orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn:
conventionality, convention, conventionalism] [ant:
unconventionality]
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convexity
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n 1: the property possessed by a convex shape [syn: convexity,
convexness]
2: a shape that curves or bulges outward [syn: convex shape,
convexity]
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conviviality
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n 1: a jovial nature [syn: conviviality, joviality]
2: a boisterous celebration; a merry festivity [syn:
merrymaking, conviviality, jollification]
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cordiality
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n 1: a cordial disposition [syn: amity, cordiality]
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corruptibility
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n 1: the capability of being corrupted [ant: incorruptibility]
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creativity
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n 1: the ability to create [syn: creativity, creativeness,
creative thinking] [ant: uncreativeness]
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credibility
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n 1: the quality of being believable or trustworthy [syn:
credibility, credibleness, believability] [ant:
incredibility, incredibleness]
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credulity
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n 1: tendency to believe readily
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criminality
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n 1: the state of being a criminal [syn: criminalism,
criminality, criminalness]
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criticality
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n 1: a state of critical urgency [syn: criticality,
criticalness, cruciality]
2: a critical state; especially the point at which a nuclear
reaction is self-sustaining
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crotchety
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adj 1: having a difficult and contrary disposition; "a
cantankerous and venomous-tongued old lady"- Dorothy
Sayers [syn: cantankerous, crotchety, ornery]
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density
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n 1: the amount per unit size [syn: density, denseness]
2: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn:
concentration, density, denseness, tightness,
compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution]
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equity
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n 1: the difference between the market value of a property and
the claims held against it
2: the ownership interest of shareholders in a corporation
3: conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized the
fairness of my claim" [syn: fairness, equity] [ant:
inequity, unfairness]
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falsity
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n 1: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not
determine its truth or falsity" [syn: falsity,
falseness] [ant: the true, trueness, truth,
verity]
2: a false statement [syn: falsehood, falsity, untruth]
[ant: true statement, truth]
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fidgety
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adj 1: nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping
of hooves"; "a restless child" [syn: antsy, fidgety,
fretful, itchy]
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immensity
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n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn:
enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness,
immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]
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inequity
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n 1: injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or
standards [syn: unfairness, inequity] [ant: equity,
fairness]
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iniquity
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n 1: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of
darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness,
dark]
2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality,
wickedness, iniquity]
3: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity,
shabbiness]
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intensity
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n 1: the amount of energy transmitted (as by acoustic or
electromagnetic radiation); "he adjusted the intensity of
the sound"; "they measured the station's signal strength"
[syn: intensity, strength, intensity level]
2: high level or degree; the property of being intense [syn:
intensity, intensiveness]
3: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
"the kids played their music at full volume" [syn: volume,
loudness, intensity] [ant: softness]
4: chromatic purity: freedom from dilution with white and hence
vivid in hue [syn: saturation, chroma, intensity,
vividness]
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nutty
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adj 1: having the flavor of nuts; "a nutty sherry" [syn:
nutty, nutlike]
2: informal or slang terms for mentally irregular; "it used to
drive my husband balmy" [syn: balmy, barmy, bats,
batty, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crackers, daft,
dotty, fruity, haywire, kooky, kookie, loco,
loony, loopy, nuts, nutty, round the bend, around
the bend, wacky, whacky]
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obliquity
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n 1: the presentation during labor of the head of the fetus at
an abnormal angle [syn: asynclitism, obliquity]
2: the quality of being deceptive [syn: deceptiveness,
obliquity]
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perplexity
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n 1: trouble or confusion resulting from complexity
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propensity
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n 1: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward
frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency]
2: a natural inclination; "he has a proclivity for exaggeration"
[syn: proclivity, propensity, leaning]
3: a disposition to behave in a certain way; "the aptness of
iron to rust"; "the propensity of disease to spread" [syn:
aptness, propensity]
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putty
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n 1: a dough-like mixture of whiting and boiled linseed oil;
used especially to patch woodwork or secure panes of glass
v 1: apply putty in order to fix or fill; "putty the window
sash"
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rutty
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adj 1: full of ruts; "rutty farm roads" [syn: rutted, rutty]
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smutty
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adj 1: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul
language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: cruddy, filthy,
foul, nasty, smutty]
2: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing
outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn:
black, smutty]
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sooty
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adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or
coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy,
sooty]
2: covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"
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suttee
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n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the
funeral pyre of her dead husband
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ubiquity
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n 1: the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be
everywhere at once) [syn: ubiquity, ubiquitousness,
omnipresence]
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tensity
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n 1: the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it
places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel
the tenseness of her body" [syn: tension, tensity,
tenseness, tautness]
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butty
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n 1: a sandwich; "a bacon butty"
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collegiality
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communicability
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confraternity
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contractibility
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controllability
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corruptibly
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gutty
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flaherty
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cutty
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