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foolishness
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n 1: the trait of acting stupidly or rashly [syn: folly,
foolishness, unwiseness] [ant: wisdom, wiseness]
2: the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive
through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an
insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly,
foolishness, craziness, madness]
3: a stupid mistake [syn: stupidity, betise, folly,
foolishness, imbecility]
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gaucheness
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n 1: an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or
refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
[syn: crudeness, crudity, gaucheness]
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girlishness
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n 1: being characteristic of a girl
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largeness
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n 1: the capacity to understand a broad range of topics; "a
teacher must have a breadth of knowledge of the subject";
"a man distinguished by the largeness and scope of his
views" [syn: breadth, comprehensiveness, largeness]
2: large or extensive in breadth or importance or
comprehensiveness; "the might have repercussions of
unimaginable largeness"; "the very extensiveness of his power
was a temptation to abuse it" [syn: largeness,
extensiveness]
3: the property of having a relatively great size [syn:
largeness, bigness] [ant: littleness, smallness]
4: the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in
such a manner as to create a false appearance of great
importance or worth) [syn: pretentiousness, pretension,
largeness] [ant: unpretentiousness]
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mulishness
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n 1: the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome [syn:
stubbornness, obstinacy, obstinance, mulishness]
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richness
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n 1: the property of being extremely abundant; "the profusion of
detail"; "the idiomatic richness of English" [syn:
profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia]
2: abundant wealth; "they studied forerunners of richness or
poverty"; "the richness all around unsettled him for he had
expected to find poverty" [syn: affluence, richness]
3: the property of a sensation that is rich and pleasing; "the
music had a fullness that echoed through the hall"; "the
cheap wine had no body, no mellowness"; "he was well aware of
the richness of his own appearance" [syn: fullness,
mellowness, richness]
4: the quality of having high intrinsic value; "the richness of
the mines and pastureland"; "the cut of her clothes and the
richness of the fabric were distinctive"
5: the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous
and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil";
"weeds lovely in their rankness" [syn: richness,
rankness, prolificacy, fertility]
6: a strong deep vividness of hue; "the fire-light gave a
richness of coloring to that side of the room"
7: splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of
the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora"
[syn: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence,
richness]
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savageness
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n 1: the property of being untamed and ferocious; "the coastline
is littered with testaments to the savageness of the
waters"; "a craving for barbaric splendor, for savagery and
color and the throb of drums" [syn: savageness,
savagery]
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staunchness
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n 1: loyalty in the face of trouble and difficulty [syn:
steadfastness, staunchness]
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strangeness
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n 1: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known [syn:
unfamiliarity, strangeness] [ant: familiarity]
2: (physics) one of the six flavors of quark
3: the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of
a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness,
curiousness] [ant: nativeness]
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stylishness
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n 1: elegance by virtue of being fashionable [syn: chic,
chicness, chichi, modishness, smartness,
stylishness, swank, last word]
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churlishness
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devilishness
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ghoulishness
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hellishness
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hugeness
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ticklishness
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sageness
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englishness
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