Words that rhyme with brutality

• dimensionality 5
  n 1: the spatial property of having dimensions; "all matter has dimensionality"
• venality 2
  n 1: prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
• technicality 2
  n 1: a detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality, trifle, triviality]
• mutuality 1
  n 1: a reciprocality of sentiments; "the mutuality of their affection was obvious" [syn: mutuality, mutualness] 2: a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) [syn: mutuality, interdependence, interdependency]
• abnormality 0
  n 1: an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies [syn: abnormality, abnormalcy] [ant: normalcy, normality] 2: retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence [syn: abnormality, mental defectiveness] 3: marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal [syn: abnormality, freakishness] 4: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality [syn: abnormality, irregularity]
• actuality 0
  n 1: the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality"
• banality 0
  n 1: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]
• bestiality 0
  n 1: the stupid brutal quality of a beast 2: sexual activity between a person and an animal [syn: bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty]
• bisexuality 0
  n 1: showing characteristics of both sexes [syn: androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality] 2: sexual activity with both men and women
• causality 0
  n 1: the relation between causes and effects
• centrality 0
  n 1: the property of being central [ant: marginality]
• city 0
  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]
• commonality 0
  n 1: a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank [syn: commonalty, commonality, commons] 2: sharing of common attributes [syn: commonality, commonness] [ant: individualism, individuality, individuation]
• community 0
  n 1: a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" 2: common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" 3: a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" 4: agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" [syn: community, community of interests] 5: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [syn: residential district, residential area, community] 6: (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other [syn: community, biotic community]
• conditionality 0
  n 1: the state of being conditional
• confidentiality 0
  n 1: the state of being secret; "you must respect the confidentiality of your client's communications" 2: discretion in keeping secret information
• congeniality 0
  n 1: compatibility between persons [syn: congenialness, congeniality] 2: a congenial disposition [ant: uncongeniality]
• criminality 0
  n 1: the state of being a criminal [syn: criminalism, criminality, criminalness]
• criticality 0
  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
• duality 0
  n 1: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture" [syn: dichotomy, duality] 2: (physics) the property of matter and electromagnetic radiation that is characterized by the fact that some properties can be explained best by wave theory and others by particle theory [syn: duality, wave-particle duality] 3: (geometry) the interchangeability of the roles of points and planes in the theorems of projective geometry
• eventuality 0
  n 1: a possible event or occurrence or result [syn: eventuality, contingency, contingence]
• fatality 0
  n 1: a death resulting from an accident or a disaster; "a decrease in the number of automobile fatalities" [syn: fatality, human death] 2: the quality of being able to cause death or fatal disasters
• finality 0
  n 1: the quality of being final or definitely settled; "the finality of death" [syn: finality, conclusiveness, decisiveness] [ant: inconclusiveness]
• formality 0
  n 1: a requirement of etiquette or custom; "a mere formality" [syn: formality, formalities] 2: a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies; "the formality of his voice made the others pay him close attention" [syn: formality, formalness] [ant: informality] 3: compliance with formal rules; "courtroom formality"
• frugality 0
  n 1: prudence in avoiding waste [syn: frugality, frugalness]
• functionality 0
  n 1: capable of serving a purpose well; "software with greater functionality"
• generality 0
  n 1: an idea or conclusion having general application; "he spoke in broad generalities" [syn: generalization, generalisation, generality] 2: the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability [ant: particularity, specialness]
• geniality 0
  n 1: a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) [syn: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality]
• heterosexuality 0
  n 1: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the opposite sex [syn: heterosexuality, heterosexualism, straightness]
• homosexuality 0
  n 1: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of the same sex [syn: homosexuality, homosexualism, homoeroticism, queerness, gayness]
• hospitality 0
  n 1: kindness in welcoming guests or strangers [syn: cordial reception, hospitality] [ant: inhospitality]
• illegality 0
  n 1: unlawfulness by virtue of violating some legal statute [ant: legality]
• immorality 0
  n 1: the quality of not being in accord with standards of right or good conduct; "the immorality of basing the defense of the West on the threat of mutual assured destruction" [ant: morality] 2: morally objectionable behavior [syn: evil, immorality, wickedness, iniquity]
• immortality 0
  n 1: the quality or state of being immortal [ant: mortality] 2: perpetual life after death
• impartiality 0
  n 1: an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally [syn: impartiality, nonpartisanship] [ant: partiality, partisanship]
• individuality 0
  n 1: the quality of being individual; "so absorbed by the movement that she lost all sense of individuality" [syn: individuality, individualism, individuation] [ant: commonality, commonness] 2: the distinct personality of an individual regarded as a persisting entity; "you can lose your identity when you join the army" [syn: identity, personal identity, individuality]
• informality 0
  n 1: a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously [ant: formality, formalness] 2: freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease with strangers" [syn: ease, informality]
• inhospitality 0
  n 1: unkind and inconsiderate welcome; "he was taken aback by such inhospitality" [ant: cordial reception, hospitality]
• instrumentality 0
  n 1: a subsidiary organ of government created for a special purpose; "are the judicial instrumentalities of local governments adequate?"; "he studied the French instrumentalities for law enforcement" 2: the quality of being instrumental for some purpose 3: an artifact (or system of artifacts) that is instrumental in accomplishing some end [syn: instrumentality, instrumentation]
• irrationality 0
  n 1: the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding [syn: irrationality, unreason]
• legality 0
  n 1: lawfulness by virtue of conformity to a legal statute [ant: illegality]
• lethality 0
  n 1: the quality of being deadly [syn: deadliness, lethality]
• liberality 0
  n 1: an inclination to favor progress and individual freedom [syn: liberality, liberalness] 2: the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament [syn: liberality, liberalness] [ant: illiberality]
• locality 0
  n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
• materiality 0
  n 1: relevance requiring careful consideration [ant: immateriality] 2: the quality of being physical; consisting of matter [syn: materiality, physicalness, corporeality, corporality] [ant: immateriality, incorporeality]
• mentality 0
  n 1: a habitual or characteristic mental attitude that determines how you will interpret and respond to situations [syn: mentality, outlook, mindset, mind-set] 2: mental ability; "he's got plenty of brains but no common sense" [syn: brain, brainpower, learning ability, mental capacity, mentality, wit]
• modality 0
  n 1: a classification of propositions on the basis of whether they claim necessity or possibility or impossibility [syn: modality, mode] 2: verb inflections that express how the action or state is conceived by the speaker [syn: mood, mode, modality] 3: a particular sense [syn: modality, sense modality, sensory system] 4: a method of therapy that involves physical or electrical therapeutic treatment
• morality 0
  n 1: concern with the distinction between good and evil or right and wrong; right or good conduct [ant: immorality] 2: motivation based on ideas of right and wrong [syn: ethical motive, ethics, morals, morality]
• mortality 0
  n 1: the quality or state of being mortal [ant: immortality] 2: the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year [syn: deathrate, death rate, mortality, mortality rate, fatality rate]
• municipality 0
  n 1: an urban district having corporate status and powers of self-government 2: people living in a town or city having local self-government
• musicality 0
  n 1: the property of sounding like music [syn: musicality, musicalness]
• nationality 0
  n 1: people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation; "immigrants of the same nationality often seek each other out"; "such images define their sense of nationality" 2: the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization
• neutrality 0
  n 1: nonparticipation in a dispute or war 2: tolerance attributable to a lack of involvement [syn: disinterest, neutrality] 3: pH value of 7
• normality 0
  n 1: being within certain limits that define the range of normal functioning [syn: normality, normalcy] [ant: abnormalcy, abnormality] 2: (of a solution) concentration expressed in gram equivalents of solute per liter [syn: normality, N] 3: expectedness as a consequence of being usual or regular or common [syn: normality, normalcy] 4: conformity with the norm
• originality 0
  n 1: the ability to think and act independently 2: the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) [ant: unoriginality]
• partiality 0
  n 1: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" [syn: fondness, fancy, partiality] 2: an inclination to favor one group or view or opinion over alternatives [syn: partiality, partisanship] [ant: impartiality, nonpartisanship]
• personality 0
  n 1: the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" 2: a person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality"
• plurality 0
  n 1: the state of being plural; "to mark plurality, one language may add an extra syllable to the word whereas another may simply change the vowel in the existing final syllable" 2: a large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack] 3: (in an election with more than 2 options) the number of votes for the candidate or party receiving the greatest number (but less that half of the votes) [syn: plurality, relative majority]
• practicality 0
  n 1: concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities [ant: impracticality]
• principality 0
  n 1: territory ruled by a prince [syn: principality, princedom]
• proportionality 0
  n 1: a ratio of two quantities that is constant 2: harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin [syn: proportion, proportionality, balance]
• punctuality 0
  n 1: the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time [syn: punctuality, promptness] [ant: tardiness]
• rationality 0
  n 1: the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn: rationality, reason, reasonableness] 2: the quality of being consistent with or based on logic [syn: rationality, rationalness]
• reality 0
  n 1: all of your experiences that determine how things appear to you; "his world was shattered"; "we live in different worlds"; "for them demons were as much a part of reality as trees were" [syn: world, reality] 2: the state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: reality, realness, realism] [ant: irreality, unreality] 3: the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be; "businessmen have to face harsh realities" 4: the quality possessed by something that is real [ant: unreality]
• sensuality 0
  n 1: desire for sensual pleasures [syn: sensuality, sensualness, sensualism]
• sentimentality 0
  n 1: falsely emotional in a maudlin way [syn: mawkishness, sentimentality, drippiness, mushiness, soupiness, sloppiness] 2: extravagant or affected feeling or emotion
• sexuality 0
  n 1: the properties that distinguish organisms on the basis of their reproductive roles; "she didn't want to know the sex of the foetus" [syn: sex, gender, sexuality]
• smutty 0
  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 0
  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"
• speciality 0
  n 1: an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte" [syn: forte, strong suit, long suit, metier, specialty, speciality, strong point, strength] [ant: weak point] 2: a distinguishing trait [syn: peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness] 3: the special line of work you have adopted as your career; "his specialization is gastroenterology" [syn: specialization, specialisation, specialty, speciality, specialism]
• spirituality 0
  n 1: property or income owned by a church [syn: spiritualty, spirituality, church property] 2: concern with things of the spirit [syn: spirituality, spiritualism, spiritism, otherworldliness] [ant: worldliness]
• suttee 0
  n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
• theatricality 0
  n 1: an artificial and mannered quality [syn: staginess, theatricality]
• tonality 0
  n 1: any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music [syn: key, tonality] [ant: atonalism, atonality]
• totality 0
  n 1: the state of being total and complete; "he read the article in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the destruction" [syn: entirety, entireness, integrality, totality] 2: the quality of being complete and indiscriminate; "the totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing totality of the state" 3: the whole amount [syn: sum, total, totality, aggregate]
• triviality 0
  n 1: the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous [syn: pettiness, triviality, slightness, puniness] 2: a detail that is considered insignificant [syn: technicality, trifle, triviality] 3: something of small importance [syn: triviality, trivia, trifle, small beer]
• universality 0
  n 1: the quality of being universal; existing everywhere [syn: universality, catholicity]
• unreality 0
  n 1: the quality possessed by something that is unreal [ant: reality] 2: the state of being insubstantial or imaginary; not existing objectively or in fact [syn: unreality, irreality] [ant: realism, reality, realness]
• vitality 0
  n 1: an energetic style [syn: vitality, verve] 2: a healthy capacity for vigorous activity; "jogging works off my excess energy"; "he seemed full of vim and vigor" [syn: energy, vim, vitality] 3: (biology) a hypothetical force (not physical or chemical) once thought by Henri Bergson to cause the evolution and development of organisms [syn: life force, vital force, vitality, elan vital] 4: the property of being able to survive and grow; "the vitality of a seed" [syn: animation, vitality]
• natality 0
  n 1: the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year [syn: birthrate, birth rate, fertility, fertility rate, natality]
• collegiality 0
• constitutionality 0
• extraterritoriality 0
• impersonality 0
• monumentality 0
• seasonality 0
• cyclicality 0

See also brutality definition and brutality synonyms