Words that rhyme with consequence

• absence 0
  n 1: the state of being absent; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" [ant: presence] 2: failure to be present [ant: presence] 3: the time interval during which something or somebody is away; "he visited during my absence" 4: the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy [syn: absence, absence seizure]
• adolescence 0
  n 1: the time period between the beginning of puberty and adulthood 2: in the state that someone is in between puberty and adulthood
• allegiance 0
  n 1: the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team" [syn: commitment, allegiance, loyalty, dedication] 2: the loyalty that citizens owe to their country (or subjects to their sovereign) [syn: allegiance, fealty]
• ambivalence 0
  n 1: mixed feelings or emotions [syn: ambivalence, ambivalency]
• ambulance 0
  n 1: a vehicle that takes people to and from hospitals
• balance 0
  n 1: a state of equilibrium [ant: imbalance, instability, unbalance] 2: equality between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account 3: 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] 4: equality of distribution [syn: balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance] 5: something left after other parts have been taken away; "there was no remainder"; "he threw away the rest"; "he took what he wanted and I got the balance" [syn: remainder, balance, residual, residue, residuum, rest] 6: the difference between the totals of the credit and debit sides of an account 7: (astrology) a person who is born while the sun is in Libra [syn: Libra, Balance] 8: the seventh sign of the zodiac; the sun is in this sign from about September 23 to October 22 [syn: Libra, Libra the Balance, Balance, Libra the Scales] 9: (mathematics) an attribute of a shape or relation; exact reflection of form on opposite sides of a dividing line or plane [syn: symmetry, symmetricalness, correspondence, balance] [ant: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance] 10: a weight that balances another weight [syn: counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser] 11: a wheel that regulates the rate of movement in a machine; especially a wheel oscillating against the hairspring of a timepiece to regulate its beat [syn: balance wheel, balance] 12: a scale for weighing; depends on pull of gravity v 1: bring into balance or equilibrium; "She has to balance work and her domestic duties"; "balance the two weights" [syn: balance, equilibrate, equilibrize, equilibrise] [ant: unbalance] 2: compute credits and debits of an account 3: hold or carry in equilibrium [syn: poise, balance] 4: be in equilibrium; "He was balancing on one foot"
• beneficence 0
  n 1: doing good; feeling beneficent [ant: maleficence] 2: the quality of being kind or helpful or generous [ant: balefulness, maleficence, mischief]
• benevolence 0
  n 1: disposition to do good [ant: malevolence, malignity] 2: an inclination to do kind or charitable acts 3: an act intending or showing kindness and good will [syn: benevolence, benefaction]
• bioluminescence 0
  n 1: luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly)
• birefringence 0
  n 1: splitting a ray into two parallel rays polarized perpendicularly [syn: double refraction, birefringence]
• brilliance 0
  n 1: a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight" [syn: glare, blaze, brilliance] 2: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness] 3: unusual mental ability [syn: brilliance, genius]
• cadence 0
  n 1: (prosody) the accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence] 2: the close of a musical section 3: a recurrent rhythmical series [syn: cadence, cadency]
• coalescence 0
  n 1: the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts [syn: coalescence, coalescency, coalition, concretion, conglutination]
• cognisance 0
  n 1: having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes"; "his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" [syn: awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance, knowingness] [ant: incognizance]
• commence 0
  v 1: take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; "We began working at dawn"; "Who will start?"; "Get working as soon as the sun rises!"; "The first tourists began to arrive in Cambodia"; "He began early in the day"; "Let's get down to work now" [syn: get down, begin, get, start out, start, set about, set out, commence] [ant: end, terminate] 2: set in motion, cause to start; "The U.S. started a war in the Middle East"; "The Iraqis began hostilities"; "begin a new chapter in your life" [syn: begin, lead off, start, commence] [ant: end, terminate] 3: get off the ground; "Who started this company?"; "We embarked on an exciting enterprise"; "I start my day with a good breakfast"; "We began the new semester"; "The afternoon session begins at 4 PM"; "The blood shed started when the partisans launched a surprise attack" [syn: start, start up, embark on, commence]
• complaisance 0
  n 1: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference]
• concupiscence 0
  n 1: a desire for sexual intimacy [syn: sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction]
• condense 0
  v 1: undergo condensation; change from a gaseous to a liquid state and fall in drops; "water condenses"; "The acid distills at a specific temperature" [syn: condense, distill, distil] 2: make more concise; "condense the contents of a book into a summary" [syn: digest, condense, concentrate] 3: remove water from; "condense the milk" 4: cause a gas or vapor to change into a liquid; "The cold air condensed the steam" 5: become more compact or concentrated; "Her feelings condensed" 6: develop due to condensation; "All our planets condensed out of the same material" 7: compress or concentrate; "Congress condensed the three-year plan into a six-month plan" [syn: condense, concentrate, contract]
• condolence 0
  n 1: an expression of sympathy with another's grief; "they sent their condolences" [syn: condolence, commiseration]
• confidence 0
  n 1: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness] 2: a feeling of trust (in someone or something); "I have confidence in our team"; "confidence is always borrowed, never owned" [ant: diffidence, self-distrust, self- doubt] 3: a state of confident hopefulness that events will be favorable; "public confidence in the economy" 4: a trustful relationship; "he took me into his confidence"; "he betrayed their trust" [syn: confidence, trust] 5: a secret that is confided or entrusted to another; "everyone trusted him with their confidences"; "the priest could not reveal her confidences"
• conscience 0
  n 1: motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions [syn: conscience, scruples, moral sense, sense of right and wrong] 2: conformity to one's own sense of right conduct; "a person of unflagging conscience" 3: a feeling of shame when you do something immoral; "he has no conscience about his cruelty"
• convalescence 0
  n 1: gradual healing (through rest) after sickness or injury [syn: convalescence, recuperation, recovery]
• convergence 0
  n 1: the occurrence of two or more things coming together 2: the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit [syn: convergence, convergency] [ant: divergence, divergency] 3: a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals" [syn: overlap, convergence, intersection] 4: the act of converging (coming closer) [syn: convergence, converging, convergency]
• conversance 0
  n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy]
• corpulence 0
  n 1: the property of excessive fatness [syn: corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposis]
• counterbalance 0
  n 1: a weight that balances another weight [syn: counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser] 2: equality of distribution [syn: balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance] 3: a compensating equivalent [syn: counterbalance, offset] v 1: adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" [syn: compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up] 2: contrast with equal weight or force [syn: oppose, counterbalance] 3: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" [syn: counteract, countervail, neutralize, counterbalance]
• counterintelligence 0
  n 1: intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism
• covalence 0
  n 1: valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share [syn: covalence, covalency]
• diligence 0
  n 1: conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation 2: persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues" [syn: diligence, industriousness, industry] 3: a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application" [syn: application, diligence]
• distance 0
  n 1: the property created by the space between two objects or points 2: a distant region; "I could see it in the distance" 3: size of the gap between two places; "the distance from New York to Chicago"; "he determined the length of the shortest line segment joining the two points" [syn: distance, length] 4: indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance" [syn: distance, aloofness] 5: the interval between two times; "the distance from birth to death"; "it all happened in the space of 10 minutes" [syn: distance, space] 6: a remote point in time; "if that happens it will be at some distance in the future"; "at a distance of ten years he had forgotten many of the details" v 1: keep at a distance; "we have to distance ourselves from these events in order to continue living" 2: go far ahead of; "He outdistanced the other runners" [syn: outdistance, outstrip, distance]
• divergence 0
  n 1: the act of moving away in different direction from a common point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines" [syn: divergence, divergency] 2: a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference] 3: an infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence, divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency] 4: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance]
• divulgence 0
  n 1: the act of disclosing something that was secret or private [syn: divulgence, divulgement]
• dominance 0
  n 1: superior development of one side of the body [syn: laterality, dominance] 2: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control] 3: the organic phenomenon in which one of a pair of alleles present in a genotype is expressed in the phenotype and the other allele of the pair is not 4: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so]
• effervescence 0
  n 1: the process of bubbling as gas escapes 2: the property of giving off bubbles [syn: bubbliness, effervescence, frothiness]
• efflorescence 0
  n 1: the period of greatest prosperity or productivity [syn: flower, prime, peak, heyday, bloom, blossom, efflorescence, flush] 2: any red eruption of the skin [syn: rash, roseola, efflorescence, skin rash] 3: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence] 4: a powdery deposit on a surface [syn: efflorescence, bloom]
• effulgence 0
  n 1: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency]
• eloquence 0
  n 1: powerful and effective language; "his eloquence attracted a large congregation"; "fluency in spoken and written English is essential"; "his oily smoothness concealed his guilt from the police" [syn: eloquence, fluency, smoothness]
• emergence 0
  n 1: the gradual beginning or coming forth; "figurines presage the emergence of sculpture in Greece" [syn: emergence, outgrowth, growth] 2: the becoming visible; "not a day's difference between the emergence of the andrenas and the opening of the willow catkins" [syn: emergence, egress, issue] 3: the act of emerging [syn: emergence, emersion] 4: the act of coming (or going) out; becoming apparent [syn: egress, egression, emergence]
• equivalence 0
  n 1: a state of being essentially equal or equivalent; equally balanced; "on a par with the best" [syn: equality, equivalence, equation, par] 2: essential equality and interchangeability [ant: nonequivalence] 3: qualities that are comparable; "no comparison between the two books"; "beyond compare" [syn: comparison, compare, equivalence, comparability]
• evanescence 0
  n 1: the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight; "the evanescence of the morning mist"
• evidence 0
  n 1: your basis for belief or disbelief; knowledge on which to base belief; "the evidence that smoking causes lung cancer is very compelling" [syn: evidence, grounds] 2: an indication that makes something evident; "his trembling was evidence of his fear" 3: (law) all the means by which any alleged matter of fact whose truth is investigated at judicial trial is established or disproved v 1: provide evidence for; stand as proof of; show by one's behavior, attitude, or external attributes; "His high fever attested to his illness"; "The buildings in Rome manifest a high level of architectural sophistication"; "This decision demonstrates his sense of fairness" [syn: attest, certify, manifest, demonstrate, evidence] 2: provide evidence for; "The blood test showed that he was the father"; "Her behavior testified to her incompetence" [syn: testify, bear witness, prove, evidence, show] 3: give evidence; "he was telling on all his former colleague" [syn: tell, evidence]
• excellence 0
  n 1: the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree 2: an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine" [syn: excellence, excellency]
• excrescence 0
  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] 2: (pathology) an abnormal outgrowth or enlargement of some part of the body
• feculence 0
  n 1: something that is feculent
• flatulence 0
  n 1: a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal [syn: flatulence, flatulency, gas] 2: pompously embellished language [syn: turgidity, turgidness, flatulence]
• florescence 0
  n 1: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence]
• fluorescence 0
  n 1: light emitted during absorption of radiation of some other (invisible) wavelength
• fragrance 0
  n 1: a distinctive odor that is pleasant [syn: aroma, fragrance, perfume, scent] 2: a pleasingly sweet olfactory property [syn: bouquet, fragrance, fragrancy, redolence, sweetness]
• grandiloquence 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]
• grievance 0
  n 1: a resentment strong enough to justify retaliation; "holding a grudge"; "settling a score" [syn: grudge, score, grievance] 2: an allegation that something imposes an illegal obligation or denies some legal right or causes injustice 3: a complaint about a (real or imaginary) wrong that causes resentment and is grounds for action
• guidance 0
  n 1: something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action [syn: guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction] 2: the act of guiding or showing the way [syn: guidance, steering] 3: the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king" [syn: steering, guidance, direction]
• hindrance 0
  n 1: something immaterial that interferes with or delays action or progress [syn: hindrance, hinderance, deterrent, impediment, balk, baulk, check, handicap] 2: any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome [syn: hindrance, hinderance, hitch, preventive, preventative, encumbrance, incumbrance, interference] 3: the act of hindering or obstructing or impeding [syn: hindrance, hinderance, interference]
• ignorance 0
  n 1: the lack of knowledge or education
• imbalance 0
  n 1: a lack of balance or state of disequilibrium; "a hormonal imbalance" [syn: imbalance, instability, unbalance] [ant: balance] 2: (mathematics) a lack of symmetry [syn: asymmetry, dissymmetry, imbalance] [ant: balance, correspondence, symmetricalness, symmetry]
• impatience 0
  n 1: a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: restlessness, impatience] 2: a restless desire for change and excitement 3: a dislike of anything that causes delay [ant: forbearance, longanimity, patience]
• incandescence 0
  n 1: the phenomenon of light emission by a body as its temperature is raised [syn: incandescence, glow] 2: light from heat
• incompetence 0
  n 1: lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetence, incompetency] [ant: competence, competency] 2: inability of a part or organ to function properly
• inconsequence 0
  n 1: having no important effects or influence [ant: consequence, import, moment] 2: invalid or incorrect reasoning [syn: illogicality, illogicalness, illogic, inconsequence] [ant: logicality, logicalness]
• indigence 0
  n 1: a state of extreme poverty or destitution; "their indigence appalled him"; "a general state of need exists among the homeless" [syn: indigence, need, penury, pauperism, pauperization]
• indolence 0
  n 1: inactivity resulting from a dislike of work [syn: indolence, laziness]
• indulgence 0
  n 1: an inability to resist the gratification of whims and desires [syn: indulgence, self-indulgence] 2: a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child" [syn: indulgence, lenience, leniency] 3: the act of indulging or gratifying a desire [syn: indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring] 4: foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence] 5: the remission by the pope of the temporal punishment in purgatory that is still due for sins even after absolution; "in the Middle Ages the unrestricted sale of indulgences by pardoners became a widespread abuse"
• inflorescence 0
  n 1: the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms [syn: blossoming, flowering, florescence, inflorescence, anthesis, efflorescence] 2: the flowering part of a plant or arrangement of flowers on a stalk
• innocence 0
  n 1: the quality of innocent naivete [syn: artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness] 2: the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil [syn: purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness] 3: a state or condition of being innocent of a specific crime or offense; "the trial established his innocence" [ant: guilt, guiltiness]
• insentience 0
  n 1: lacking consciousness or ability to perceive sensations [ant: sentience]
• insolence 0
  n 1: the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties [syn: crust, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence, cheekiness, freshness] 2: an offensive disrespectful impudent act
• instance 0
  n 1: an occurrence of something; "it was a case of bad judgment"; "another instance occurred yesterday"; "but there is always the famous example of the Smiths" [syn: case, instance, example] 2: an item of information that is typical of a class or group; "this patient provides a typical example of the syndrome"; "there is an example on page 10" [syn: example, illustration, instance, representative] v 1: clarify by giving an example of [syn: exemplify, illustrate, instance]
• insurgence 0
  n 1: an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict [syn: insurgency, insurgence]
• intelligence 0
  n 1: the ability to comprehend; to understand and profit from experience [ant: stupidity] 2: a unit responsible for gathering and interpreting information about an enemy [syn: intelligence, intelligence service, intelligence agency] 3: secret information about an enemy (or potential enemy); "we sent out planes to gather intelligence on their radar coverage" [syn: intelligence, intelligence information] 4: information about recent and important events; "they awaited news of the outcome" [syn: news, intelligence, tidings, word] 5: the operation of gathering information about an enemy [syn: intelligence, intelligence activity, intelligence operation]
• intransigence 0
  n 1: the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise [syn: intransigency, intransigence]
• iridescence 0
  n 1: the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface [syn: opalescence, iridescence]
• juvenescence 0
  n 1: the process of growing into a youth
• licence 0
  n 1: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke [syn: license, licence] 2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: license, licence] 3: a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: license, licence, permit] v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant: decertify, derecognise, derecognize]
• license 0
  n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: license, licence, permit] 2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: license, licence] 3: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke [syn: license, licence] 4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: license, permission, permit] v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant: decertify, derecognise, derecognize]
• luminescence 0
  n 1: light not due to incandescence; occurs at low temperatures 2: light from nonthermal sources [syn: luminescence, glow]
• magnificence 0
  n 1: splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora" [syn: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness] 2: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness]
• magniloquence 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]
• malevolence 0
  n 1: wishing evil to others [syn: malevolence, malignity] [ant: benevolence] 2: the quality of threatening evil [syn: malevolence, malevolency, malice]
• malfeasance 0
  n 1: wrongful conduct by a public official
• misfeasance 0
  n 1: doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner
• munificence 0
  n 1: liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit [syn: munificence, largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness]
• negligence 0
  n 1: failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances [syn: negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance] 2: the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern [syn: negligence, neglect, neglectfulness]
• nonchalance 0
  n 1: the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern [syn: nonchalance, unconcern, indifference]
• nonfeasance 0
  n 1: a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do
• nonsense 0
  adj 1: having no intelligible meaning; "nonsense syllables"; "a nonsensical jumble of words" [syn: nonsense(a), nonsensical] n 1: a message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum] 2: ornamental objects of no great value [syn: folderal, falderol, frill, gimcrackery, gimcrack, nonsense, trumpery]
• nuisance 0
  n 1: (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive 2: a bothersome annoying person; "that kid is a terrible pain" [syn: pain, pain in the neck, nuisance]
• obsolescence 0
  n 1: the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date; "a policy of planned obsolescence"
• omnipresence 0
  n 1: the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) [syn: ubiquity, ubiquitousness, omnipresence]
• opalescence 0
  n 1: the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface [syn: opalescence, iridescence]
• opulence 0
  n 1: wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living [syn: luxury, luxuriousness, opulence, sumptuousness]
• ordinance 0
  n 1: an authoritative rule [syn: regulation, ordinance] 2: a statute enacted by a city government 3: the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders; "the rabbi's family was present for his ordination" [syn: ordination, ordinance]
• outbalance 0
  v 1: weigh more heavily; "these considerations outweigh our wishes" [syn: preponderate, outweigh, overbalance, outbalance]
• overbalance 0
  v 1: weigh more heavily; "these considerations outweigh our wishes" [syn: preponderate, outweigh, overbalance, outbalance] 2: cause to be off balance; "It is not desirable to overbalance the budget"
• overconfidence 0
  n 1: total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant [syn: certitude, cocksureness, overconfidence]
• overindulgence 0
  n 1: excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" [syn: overindulgence, excess]
• parlance 0
  n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language [syn: parlance, idiom]
• patience 0
  n 1: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn: patience, forbearance, longanimity] [ant: impatience] 2: a card game played by one person [syn: solitaire, patience]
• penance 0
  n 1: remorse for your past conduct [syn: repentance, penitence, penance] 2: a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution 3: voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing [syn: penance, self-mortification, self- abasement]
• pestilence 0
  n 1: a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal [syn: plague, pestilence, pest, pestis] 2: any epidemic disease with a high death rate [syn: plague, pestilence, pest] 3: a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of; "racism is a pestilence at the heart of the nation"; "according to him, I was the canker in their midst" [syn: pestilence, canker]
• petulance 0
  n 1: an irritable petulant feeling [syn: irritability, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, peevishness, petulance, choler]
• phosphorescence 0
  n 1: a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased

See also consequence definition and consequence synonyms