Words that rhyme with city

• nitty-gritty 4
  n 1: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience; "the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" [syn: kernel, substance, core, center, centre, essence, gist, heart, heart and soul, inwardness, marrow, meat, nub, pith, sum, nitty-gritty]
• paucity 3
  n 1: an insufficient quantity or number [syn: dearth, paucity]
• necessity 2
  n 1: the condition of being essential or indispensable 2: anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained" [syn: necessity, essential, requirement, requisite, necessary] [ant: inessential, nonessential]
• bitchy 1
  adj 1: marked by or arising from malice; "a catty remark" [syn: bitchy, catty, cattish]
• adiposity 0
  n 1: having the property of containing fat; "he recommended exercise to reduce my adiposity" [syn: adiposity, adiposeness, fattiness]
• adversity 0
  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"
• animosity 0
  n 1: a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility [syn: animosity, animus, bad blood]
• atrocity 0
  n 1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness] 2: an act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity, inhumanity]
• audacity 0
  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]
• authenticity 0
  n 1: undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy]
• bellicosity 0
  n 1: a natural disposition to fight [syn: bellicosity, bellicoseness]
• biddy 0
  n 1: adult female chicken [syn: hen, biddy] 2: young bird especially of domestic fowl [syn: chick, biddy]
• bitty 0
  adj 1: (used informally) very small; "a wee tot" [syn: bitty, bittie, teensy, teentsy, teeny, wee, weeny, weensy, teensy-weensy, teeny-weeny, itty-bitty, itsy-bitsy]
• brutality 0
  n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery] 2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery]
• callosity 0
  n 1: an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) [syn: callosity, callus] 2: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility]
• capacity 0
  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"
• catholicity 0
  n 1: the beliefs and practices of a Catholic Church [syn: Catholicism, Catholicity] 2: the quality of being universal; existing everywhere [syn: universality, catholicity]
• chromaticity 0
  n 1: the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength [syn: hue, chromaticity]
• committee 0
  n 1: a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle [syn: committee, commission] 2: a self-constituted organization to promote something [syn: committee, citizens committee]
• complexity 0
  n 1: the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers" [syn: complexity, complexness] [ant: simpleness, simplicity]
• complicity 0
  n 1: guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense
• convexity 0
  n 1: the property possessed by a convex shape [syn: convexity, convexness] 2: a shape that curves or bulges outward [syn: convex shape, convexity]
• curiosity 0
  n 1: a state in which you want to learn more about something [syn: curiosity, wonder] 2: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]
• density 0
  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]
• dickey 0
  adj 1: (British informal) faulty; "I've got this dicky heart"- John le Carre [syn: dicky, dickey] n 1: a small third seat in the back of an old-fashioned two- seater [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky, dickey-seat, dickie-seat, dicky-seat] 2: a man's detachable insert (usually starched) to simulate the front of a shirt [syn: dickey, dickie, dicky, shirtfront]
• ditty 0
  n 1: a short simple song (or the words of a poem intended to be sung)
• diversity 0
  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
• domesticity 0
  n 1: the quality of being domestic or domesticated; "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity" 2: domestic activities or life; "making a hobby of domesticity"
• drippy 0
  adj 1: wet with light rain; "a sad drizzly day"; "a wet drippy day" [syn: drippy, drizzly] 2: leaking in drops; "a drippy faucet" 3: effusively or insincerely emotional; "a bathetic novel"; "maudlin expressions of sympathy"; "mushy effusiveness"; "a schmaltzy song"; "sentimental soap operas"; "slushy poetry" [syn: bathetic, drippy, hokey, maudlin, mawkish, kitschy, mushy, schmaltzy, schmalzy, sentimental, soppy, soupy, slushy]
• duplicity 0
  n 1: a fraudulent or duplicitous representation [syn: fraudulence, duplicity] 2: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another [syn: duplicity, double-dealing]
• eccentricity 0
  n 1: strange and unconventional behavior 2: (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis; "a circle is an ellipse with zero eccentricity" 3: a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path [ant: concentricity]
• edacity 0
  n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness] 2: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
• elasticity 0
  n 1: the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed; "the waistband had lost its snap" [syn: elasticity, snap] [ant: inelasticity]
• electricity 0
  n 1: a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons 2: energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor; "they built a car that runs on electricity" [syn: electricity, electrical energy] 3: keen and shared excitement; "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"
• ethnicity 0
  n 1: an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties; "ethnicity has a strong influence on community status relations"
• falsity 0
  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]
• febricity 0
  n 1: a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection [syn: fever, febrility, febricity, pyrexia, feverishness]
• felicity 0
  n 1: pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) [syn: felicity, felicitousness] [ant: infelicity] 2: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy [syn: happiness, felicity] [ant: unhappiness]
• ferocity 0
  n 1: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness]
• fixity 0
  n 1: the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment [syn: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness] [ant: looseness] 2: the quality of being incapable of mutation; "Darwin challenged the fixity of species" [syn: immutability, immutableness, fixity] [ant: mutability, mutableness]
• fugacity 0
  n 1: the tendency of a gas to expand or escape 2: the lack of enduring qualities (used chiefly of plant parts) [syn: fugacity, fugaciousness]
• generosity 0
  n 1: the trait of being willing to give your money or time [syn: generosity, generousness] [ant: stinginess] 2: acting generously [syn: generosity, unselfishness]
• giddy 0
  adj 1: having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling; "had a dizzy spell"; "a dizzy pinnacle"; "had a headache and felt giddy"; "a giddy precipice"; "feeling woozy from the blow on his head"; "a vertiginous climb up the face of the cliff" [syn: dizzy, giddy, woozy, vertiginous] 2: lacking seriousness; given to frivolity; "a dizzy blonde"; "light-headed teenagers"; "silly giggles" [syn: airheaded, dizzy, empty-headed, featherbrained, giddy, light- headed, lightheaded, silly]
• grandiosity 0
  n 1: high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation; "the grandiosity of his prose"; "an excessive ornateness of language" [syn: grandiosity, magniloquence, ornateness, grandiloquence, rhetoric]
• gritty 0
  adj 1: composed of or covered with particles resembling meal in texture or consistency; "granular sugar"; "the photographs were grainy and indistinct"; "it left a mealy residue" [syn: farinaceous, coarse-grained, grainy, granular, granulose, gritty, mealy] 2: willing to face danger [syn: game, gamy, gamey, gritty, mettlesome, spirited, spunky]
• hippie 0
  n 1: someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle [syn: hippie, hippy, hipster, flower child]
• icky 0
  adj 1: very bad; "a lousy play"; "it's a stinking world" [syn: icky, crappy, lousy, rotten, shitty, stinking, stinky] 2: soft and sticky [syn: gooey, icky]
• immensity 0
  n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]
• impetuosity 0
  n 1: rash impulsiveness [syn: impetuousness, impetuosity]
• incapacity 0
  n 1: lack of intellectual power [ant: capacity, mental ability] 2: lack of physical or natural qualifications [ant: capacity]
• inelasticity 0
  n 1: the lack of elasticity [ant: elasticity, snap]
• infelicity 0
  n 1: inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) [ant: felicitousness, felicity]
• intensity 0
  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]
• itchy 0
  adj 1: nervous and unable to relax; "a constant fretful stamping of hooves"; "a restless child" [syn: antsy, fidgety, fretful, itchy] 2: causing an irritating cutaneous sensation; being affect with an itch; "he had an itchy toe from the mosquito bite"
• jocosity 0
  n 1: fun characterized by humor [syn: jocosity, jocularity] 2: the trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness]
• kitty 0
  n 1: the combined stakes of the betters [syn: pool, kitty] 2: the cumulative amount involved in a game (such as poker) [syn: pot, jackpot, kitty] 3: young domestic cat [syn: kitten, kitty] 4: informal terms referring to a domestic cat [syn: kitty, kitty-cat, puss, pussy, pussycat]
• laxity 0
  n 1: the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels" [syn: laxness, laxity] 2: the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness]
• loquacity 0
  n 1: the quality of being wordy and talkative [syn: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity, talkativeness]
• luminosity 0
  n 1: the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light; "its luminosity is measured relative to that of our sun" [syn: luminosity, brightness, brightness level, luminance, luminousness, light]
• mendacity 0
  n 1: the tendency to be untruthful [ant: veracity]
• middy 0
  n 1: blouse with a sailor collar [syn: middy, middy blouse]
• monstrosity 0
  n 1: a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed [syn: freak, monster, monstrosity, lusus naturae] 2: something hideous or frightful; "they regarded the atom bomb as a monstrosity"
• mordacity 0
  n 1: a disposition to biting
• multiplicity 0
  n 1: the property of being multiple 2: a large number [syn: numerousness, numerosity, multiplicity]
• multiversity 0
  n 1: a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers
• nicety 0
  n 1: conformity with some esthetic standard of correctness or propriety; "it was performed with justness and beauty" [syn: justness, rightness, nicety] 2: a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude; "without understanding the finer nuances you can't enjoy the humor"; "don't argue about shades of meaning" [syn: nuance, nicety, shade, subtlety, refinement]
• nippy 0
  adj 1: a sharp biting taste; "a nippy cheese" 2: pleasantly cold and invigorating; "crisp clear nights and frosty mornings"; "a nipping wind"; "a nippy fall day"; "snappy weather" [syn: crisp, frosty, nipping, nippy, snappy]
• obesity 0
  n 1: more than average fatness [syn: fleshiness, obesity, corpulency]
• periodicity 0
  n 1: the quality of recurring at regular intervals [syn: cyclicity, periodicity]
• perplexity 0
  n 1: trouble or confusion resulting from complexity
• pertinacity 0
  n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity]
• picky 0
  adj 1: exacting especially about details; "a finicky eater"; "fussy about clothes"; "very particular about how her food was prepared" [syn: finical, finicky, fussy, particular, picky]
• piggy 0
  adj 1: resembling swine; coarsely gluttonous or greedy; "piggish table manners"; "the piggy fat-cheeked little boy and his porcine pot-bellied father"; "swinish slavering over food" [syn: hoggish, piggish, piggy, porcine, swinish] n 1: a young pig [syn: piglet, piggy, shoat, shote]
• pitchy 0
  adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty] 2: having the characteristics of pitch or tar [syn: pitchy, resinous, resiny, tarry]
• pity 0
  n 1: a feeling of sympathy and sorrow for the misfortunes of others; "the blind are too often objects of pity" [syn: commiseration, pity, ruth, pathos] 2: an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it" [syn: pity, shame] 3: the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it [syn: compassion, pity] v 1: share the suffering of [syn: feel for, pity, compassionate, condole with, sympathize with]
• plasticity 0
  n 1: the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking [syn: malleability, plasticity] [ant: unmalleability]
• pomposity 0
  n 1: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]
• porosity 0
  n 1: the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids [syn: porosity, porousness] [ant: solidity, solidness]
• precocity 0
  n 1: intelligence achieved far ahead of normal developmental schedules [syn: precociousness, precocity]
• pretty 0
  adv 1: to a moderately sufficient extent or degree; "pretty big"; "pretty bad"; "jolly decent of him"; "the shoes are priced reasonably"; "he is fairly clever with computers" [syn: reasonably, moderately, pretty, jolly, somewhat, fairly, middling, passably] [ant: immoderately, unreasonably] adj 1: pleasing by delicacy or grace; not imposing; "pretty girl"; "pretty song"; "pretty room" 2: (used ironically) unexpectedly bad; "a pretty mess"; "a pretty kettle of fish"
• prolixity 0
  n 1: boring verbosity [syn: prolixity, prolixness, windiness, long-windedness, wordiness]
• propensity 0
  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]
• publicity 0
  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"
• pugnacity 0
  n 1: a natural disposition to be hostile [syn: aggressiveness, belligerence, pugnacity]
• quickie 0
  n 1: hurried repair [syn: band aid, quick fix, quickie, quicky]
• rapacity 0
  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]
• 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]
• reciprocity 0
  n 1: a relation of mutual dependence or action or influence [syn: reciprocality, reciprocity] 2: mutual exchange of commercial or other privileges
• religiosity 0
  n 1: exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal [syn: religiosity, religionism, religiousism, pietism]
• sagacity 0
  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]
• scarcity 0
  n 1: a small and inadequate amount [syn: scarcity, scarceness] [ant: abundance, copiousness, teemingness]
• sensuous 0
  adj 1: taking delight in beauty; "the sensuous joy from all things fair"
• simplicity 0
  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]
• sinuosity 0
  n 1: having curves; "he hated the sinuosity of mountain roads" [syn: sinuosity, sinuousness]
• sixties 0
  n 1: the decade from 1960 to 1969 [syn: sixties, 1960s] 2: the time of life between 60 and 70 [syn: sixties, mid- sixties]
• sticky 0
  adj 1: having the sticky properties of an adhesive [syn: gluey, glutinous, gummy, mucilaginous, pasty, sticky, viscid, viscous] 2: moist as with undried perspiration and with clothing sticking to the body; "felt sticky and chilly at the same time" 3: hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: muggy, steamy, sticky] 4: hard to deal with; especially causing pain or embarrassment; "awkward (or embarrassing or difficult) moments in the discussion"; "an awkward pause followed his remark"; "a sticky question"; "in the unenviable position of resorting to an act he had planned to save for the climax of the campaign" [syn: awkward, embarrassing, sticky, unenviable] 5: covered with an adhesive material
• subcommittee 0
  n 1: a subset of committee members organized for a specific purpose
• tenacity 0
  n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity]
• tonicity 0
  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]
• toxicity 0
  n 1: the degree to which something is poisonous 2: grave harmfulness or deadliness [syn: perniciousness, toxicity]

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