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audacity
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n 1: fearless daring [syn: audacity, audaciousness,
temerity]
2: aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the
audacity to question my decision" [syn: audacity,
audaciousness]
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capacity
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n 1: capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his
capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a
great capacity for growth" [ant: incapacity]
2: the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment;
"the capability of a metal to be fused" [syn: capability,
capacity]
3: the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a
capacity of 12 gallons" [syn: capacity, content]
4: the maximum production possible; "the plant is working at 80
per cent capacity"
5: a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of
director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at
a higher salary"
6: (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that
can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk
drive is usually expressed in megabytes"
7: an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored
[syn: capacitance, electrical capacity, capacity]
8: the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability
to understand the facts and significance of your behavior
[syn: capacity, mental ability] [ant: incapacity]
9: tolerance for alcohol; "he had drunk beyond his capacity"
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city
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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]
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incapacity
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n 1: lack of intellectual power [ant: capacity, mental
ability]
2: lack of physical or natural qualifications [ant: capacity]
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mendacity
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n 1: the tendency to be untruthful [ant: veracity]
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opacity
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n 1: the phenomenon of not permitting the passage of
electromagnetic radiation [ant: transparence,
transparency]
2: incomprehensibility resulting from obscurity of meaning [syn:
opacity, opaqueness]
3: the quality of being opaque to a degree; the degree to which
something reduces the passage of light [syn: opacity,
opaqueness] [ant: clarity, clearness, uncloudedness]
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publicity
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n 1: a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea
or person or institution; "the packaging of new ideas"
[syn: promotion, publicity, promotional material,
packaging]
2: the quality of being open to public view; "the publicity of
the court room"
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pugnacity
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n 1: a natural disposition to be hostile [syn: aggressiveness,
belligerence, pugnacity]
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rapacity
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n 1: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience,
rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
2: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth
(personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice,
greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia]
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rusticity
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n 1: the quality of being rustic or gauche [syn: rusticity,
gaucherie] [ant: urbanity]
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sagacity
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n 1: the mental ability to understand and discriminate between
relations [syn: sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment,
judgement, discernment]
2: the trait of forming opinions by distinguishing and
evaluating [syn: judiciousness, sagacity,
sagaciousness]
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scarcity
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n 1: a small and inadequate amount [syn: scarcity,
scarceness] [ant: abundance, copiousness,
teemingness]
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simplicity
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n 1: the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the
simplicity of a crystal" [syn: simplicity, simpleness]
[ant: complexity, complexness]
2: a lack of penetration or subtlety; "they took advantage of
her simplicity" [syn: simplicity, simpleness, simple
mindedness]
3: absence of affectation or pretense [syn: simplicity,
simmpleness]
4: freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort; "he rose
through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into
containers for ease of transportation"; "the very easiness of
the deed held her back" [syn: ease, easiness,
simplicity, simpleness] [ant: difficultness,
difficulty]
5: lack of ornamentation; "the room was simply decorated with
great restraint" [syn: chasteness, restraint,
simplicity, simpleness]
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specificity
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n 1: the quality of being specific rather than general; "add a
desirable note of specificity to the discussion"; "the
specificity of the symptoms of the disease"
2: the quality of being specific to a particular organism; "host
specificity of a parasite"
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syllabicity
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n 1: the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language
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tenacity
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n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness,
perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity,
tenaciousness, pertinacity]
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thermoelectricity
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n 1: electricity produced by heat (as in a thermocouple)
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tonicity
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n 1: the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that
facilitate response to stimuli; "the doctor tested my
tonicity" [syn: tonicity, tonus, tone] [ant:
amyotonia, atonia, atonicity, atony]
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toxicity
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n 1: the degree to which something is poisonous
2: grave harmfulness or deadliness [syn: perniciousness,
toxicity]
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veracity
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n 1: unwillingness to tell lies [ant: mendacity]
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vivacity
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n 1: characterized by high spirits and animation
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voracity
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n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience,
ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness]
2: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience,
rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
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overcapacity
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cassity
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citi
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basicity
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aromaticity
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automaticity
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isotonicity
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aperiodicity
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inefficacity
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