Words that rhyme with convalescence

• 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]
• acquiescence 0
  n 1: acceptance without protest 2: agreement with a statement or proposal to do something; "he gave his assent eagerly"; "a murmur of acquiescence from the assembly" [syn: assent, acquiescence]
• adherence 0
  n 1: faithful support for a cause or political party or religion; "attachment to a formal agenda"; "adherence to a fat-free diet"; "the adhesion of Seville was decisive" [syn: attachment, adherence, adhesion] 2: the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition; "the mutual adhesiveness of cells"; "a heated hydraulic press was required for adhesion" [syn: adhesiveness, adhesion, adherence, bond]
• admittance 0
  n 1: the right to enter [syn: entree, access, accession, admission, admittance] 2: the act of admitting someone to enter; "the surgery was performed on his second admission to the clinic" [syn: admission, admittance]
• 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
• advertence 0
  n 1: the process of being heedful [syn: advertence, advertency]
• 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
• appearance 0
  n 1: outward or visible aspect of a person or thing [syn: appearance, visual aspect] 2: the event of coming into sight [ant: disappearance] 3: formal attendance (in court or at a hearing) of a party in an action [syn: appearance, appearing, coming into court] 4: a mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police" 5: the act of appearing in public view; "the rookie made a brief appearance in the first period"; "it was Bernhardt's last appearance in America" [ant: disappearance, disappearing] 6: pretending that something is the case in order to make a good impression; "they try to keep up appearances"; "that ceremony is just for show" [syn: appearance, show]
• assurance 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 binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something; "an assurance of help when needed"; "signed a pledge never to reveal the secret" [syn: assurance, pledge] 3: a statement intended to inspire confidence; "the President's assurances were not respected" 4: a British term for some kinds of insurance
• 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]
• clairvoyance 0
  n 1: apparent power to perceive things that are not present to the senses [syn: clairvoyance, second sight, extrasensory perception, E.S.P., ESP]
• clearance 0
  n 1: the distance by which one thing clears another; the space between them 2: vertical space available to allow easy passage under something [syn: headroom, headway, clearance] 3: permission to proceed; "the plane was given clearance to land"
• 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]
• coherence 0
  n 1: the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] [ant: incoherence, incoherency] 2: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: coherence, coherency]
• comeuppance 0
  n 1: an outcome (good or bad) that is well deserved [syn: deserts, comeuppance, comeupance]
• complaisance 0
  n 1: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference]
• compliance 0
  n 1: acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices" [syn: conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity] 2: a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others [syn: complaisance, compliance, compliancy, obligingness, deference] 3: the act of submitting; usually surrendering power to another [syn: submission, compliance]
• concupiscence 0
  n 1: a desire for sexual intimacy [syn: sexual desire, eros, concupiscence, physical attraction]
• concurrence 0
  n 1: agreement of results or opinions [syn: concurrence, concurrency] 2: acting together, as agents or circumstances or events [syn: concurrence, concurrency] 3: a state of cooperation [syn: concurrence, meeting of minds] 4: the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable" [syn: concurrence, coincidence, conjunction, co-occurrence]
• condolence 0
  n 1: an expression of sympathy with another's grief; "they sent their condolences" [syn: condolence, commiseration]
• confluence 0
  n 1: a place where things merge or flow together (especially rivers); "Pittsburgh is located at the confluence of the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers" [syn: confluence, meeting] 2: a flowing together [syn: confluence, conflux, merging] 3: a coming together of people [syn: concourse, confluence]
• congruence 0
  n 1: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate [syn: congruity, congruousness, congruence] [ant: incongruity, incongruousness]
• 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"
• consequence 0
  n 1: a phenomenon that follows and is caused by some previous phenomenon; "the magnetic effect was greater when the rod was lengthwise"; "his decision had depressing consequences for business"; "he acted very wise after the event" [syn: consequence, effect, outcome, result, event, issue, upshot] 2: the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual [syn: consequence, aftermath] 3: having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment than security"; "that result is of no consequence" [syn: consequence, import, moment] [ant: inconsequence]
• 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]
• conveyance 0
  n 1: document effecting a property transfer 2: the transmission of information [syn: conveyance, imparting, impartation] 3: something that serves as a means of transportation [syn: conveyance, transport] 4: act of transferring property title from one person to another [syn: conveyance, conveyance of title, conveyancing, conveying] 5: the act of moving something from one location to another [syn: transportation, transport, transfer, transferral, conveyance]
• 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]
• defiance 0
  n 1: intentionally contemptuous behavior or attitude [syn: defiance, rebelliousness] 2: a hostile challenge 3: a defiant act
• deterrence 0
  n 1: a negative motivational influence [syn: disincentive, deterrence] [ant: incentive, inducement, motivator] 2: a communication that makes you afraid to try something [syn: determent, deterrence, intimidation] 3: the act or process of discouraging actions or preventing occurrences by instilling fear or doubt or anxiety
• difference 0
  n 1: the quality of being unlike or dissimilar; "there are many differences between jazz and rock" [ant: sameness] 2: a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference] 3: a disagreement or argument about something important; "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats" [syn: dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict] 4: a significant change; "the difference in her is amazing"; "his support made a real difference" 5: the number that remains after subtraction; the number that when added to the subtrahend gives the minuend [syn: remainder, difference]
• 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]
• disappearance 0
  n 1: the act of leaving secretly or without explanation [syn: disappearance, disappearing] [ant: appearance] 2: the event of passing out of sight [ant: appearance] 3: gradually ceasing to be visible [syn: fade, disappearance] 4: ceasing to exist; "he regretted the disappearance of Greek from school curricula"; "what was responsible for the disappearance of the rainforest?"; "the disappearance of resistance at very low temperatures"
• discordance 0
  n 1: a harsh mixture of sounds [syn: discordance, discord] 2: strife resulting from a lack of agreement [syn: discord, discordance]
• disturbance 0
  n 1: activity that is a malfunction, intrusion, or interruption; "the term `distress' connotes some degree of perturbation and emotional upset"; "he looked around for the source of the disturbance"; "there was a disturbance of neural function" [syn: perturbation, disturbance] 2: an unhappy and worried mental state; "there was too much anger and disturbance"; "she didn't realize the upset she caused me" [syn: disturbance, perturbation, upset] 3: a disorderly outburst or tumult; "they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused" [syn: disturbance, disruption, commotion, flutter, hurly burly, to-do, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, kerfuffle] 4: a noisy fight [syn: affray, disturbance, fray, ruffle] 5: the act of disturbing something or someone; setting something in motion 6: (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness [syn: mental disorder, mental disturbance, disturbance, psychological disorder, folie] 7: electrical or acoustic activity that can disturb communication [syn: noise, interference, disturbance]
• 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]
• 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]
• essence 0
  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] 2: any substance possessing to a high degree the predominant properties of a plant or drug or other natural product from which it is extracted 3: the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work [syn: effect, essence, burden, core, gist] 4: a toiletry that emits and diffuses a fragrant odor [syn: perfume, essence]
• evanescence 0
  n 1: the event of fading and gradually vanishing from sight; "the evanescence of the morning mist"
• 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
• 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]
• 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
• 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
• 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]
• 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"
• overindulgence 0
  n 1: excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence" [syn: overindulgence, excess]

See also convalescence definition and convalescence synonyms