Words that rhyme with biodiversity
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adversity
n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: adversity, hardship, hard knocks] 2: a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; "a period marked by adversities" -
city
n 1: a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center] 2: an incorporated administrative district established by state charter; "the city raised the tax rate" 3: people living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city, metropolis] -
diversity
n 1: noticeable heterogeneity; "a diversity of possibilities"; "the range and variety of his work is amazing" [syn: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness, variety] 2: the condition or result of being changeable -
importantly
adv 1: in an important way or to an important degree; "more importantly, Weber held that the manifold meaning attached to the event by the social scientist could alter his definition of the concrete event itself" [syn: importantly, significantly] 2: in an important way; "for centuries jellies have figured importantly among English desserts, particularly upon festive occasion" -
perversity
n 1: deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline [syn: contrariness, perversity, perverseness] 2: deliberately deviating from what is good; "there will always be a few people who, through macho perversity, gain satisfaction from bullying and terrorism" [syn: perversity, perverseness] -
smutty
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] -
sooty
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" -
suttee
n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband -
university
n 1: the body of faculty and students at a university 2: establishment where a seat of higher learning is housed, including administrative and living quarters as well as facilities for research and teaching 3: a large and diverse institution of higher learning created to educate for life and for a profession and to grant degrees -
velocity
n 1: distance travelled per unit time [syn: speed, velocity] -
verbosity
n 1: an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words [syn: verboseness, verbosity] [ant: terseness] -
virtuosity
n 1: technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso -
viscosity
n 1: resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) [syn: viscosity, viscousness] -
gibbosity
n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence] -
ponderosity
n 1: the property of being large in mass [syn: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness, ponderosity] -
preciosity
n 1: the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined [syn: preciosity, preciousness] -
tuberosity
n 1: a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament [syn: tuberosity, tubercle, eminence] -
voluminosity
n 1: greatness of volume [syn: fullness, voluminosity, voluminousness] -
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benedicite
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mucosity
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nodosity
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rugosity
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scirrhosity
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serosity
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venosity
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villosity
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vinosity
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flexuosity
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funniosity
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graciosity
See also biodiversity definition
