Words that rhyme with cunningness

n 1: the quality of being sacred

n 1: motion sickness experienced while traveling on water [syn: seasickness, mal de mer, naupathia]

n 1: a message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness]

n 1: extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: acridity, acridness] 2: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone [syn: acridity, acridness]

n 1: motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) [syn: airsickness, air sickness]

n 1: a disposition toward being alone [syn: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness]

n 1: indifference by personal withdrawal; "emotional distance" [syn: distance, aloofness] 2: a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner [syn: aloofness, remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness]

n 1: a person who has received a degree from a school (high school or college or university) [syn: alumnus, alumna, alum, graduate, grad]

n 1: a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) [syn: aridity, aridness, thirstiness]

n 1: great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, assuredness, cool, poise, sang- froid]

n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness] 2: the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal" [syn: awkwardness, nuisance value] 3: the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness] [ant: gracefulness] 4: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness] 5: trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano" [syn: awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness]

n 1: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality]

n 1: the condition of having no hair on the top of the head [syn: baldness, phalacrosis]

n 1: the state (usually of a woman) of having no children or being unable to have children 2: the quality of yielding nothing of value [syn: fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness] [ant: fecundity, fruitfulness]

n 1: the property of having a relatively great size [syn: largeness, bigness] [ant: littleness, smallness]

n 1: the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) [syn: black, blackness, inkiness] [ant: white, whiteness] 2: total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" [syn: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black]

n 1: the trait of exhibiting no personal embarrassment or concern; "the blandness of his confession enraged the judge" 2: lacking any distinctive or interesting taste property [syn: blandness, insipidity, insipidness] 3: the quality of being bland and gracious or ingratiating in manner [syn: suavity, suaveness, blandness, smoothness]

n 1: the state of being blank; void; emptiness

n 1: a bleak and desolate atmosphere; "the nakedness of the landscape" [syn: bleakness, desolation, bareness, nakedness]

n 1: a state of supreme happiness [syn: blessedness, beatitude, beatification]

n 1: the state of being blind or lacking sight [syn: blindness, sightlessness, cecity]

n 1: the trait of being willing to undertake things that involve risk or danger; "the proposal required great boldness"; "the plan required great hardiness of heart" [syn: boldness, daring, hardiness, hardihood] [ant: timidity, timorousness] 2: impudent aggressiveness; "I couldn't believe her boldness"; "he had the effrontery to question my honesty" [syn: boldness, nerve, brass, face, cheek] 3: the quality of standing out strongly and distinctly [syn: boldness, strikingness]

n 1: extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest [syn: boringness, dreariness, insipidness, insipidity]

n 1: behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame [syn: shamelessness, brazenness]

n 1: the temporal property of being very short 2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience]

n 1: liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him" [syn: alacrity, briskness, smartness]

n 1: an abrupt discourteous manner [syn: abruptness, brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness]

n 1: unwelcome burdensome difficulty [syn: burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness]

n 1: the bodily property of being attractively plump and vigorous and (of women) full-bosomed

n 1: steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity" [syn: composure, calm, calmness, equanimity] [ant: discomposure] 2: an absence of strong winds or rain 3: a feeling of calm; an absence of agitation or excitement [ant: agitation]

n 1: the sensation produced by low temperatures; "he shivered from the cold"; "the cold helped clear his head" [syn: cold, coldness] 2: a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" [syn: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness] 3: the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness] [ant: heat, high temperature, hotness]

n 1: the state of being that is commonly observed [syn: commonness, expectedness] 2: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch] 3: ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace [syn: commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness] [ant: uncommonness] 4: sharing of common attributes [syn: commonality, commonness] [ant: individualism, individuality, individuation]

n 1: meanspirited cowardice

n 1: a tortuous and twisted shape or position; "they built a tree house in the tortuosities of its boughs"; "the acrobat performed incredible contortions" [syn: tortuosity, tortuousness, torsion, contortion, crookedness] 2: having or distinguished by crooks or curves or bends or angles [ant: straightness] 3: the quality of being deceitful and underhanded [syn: crookedness, deviousness]

n 1: trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape; "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano" [syn: awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness]

n 1: meanspirited disagreeable contrariness [syn: cussedness, orneriness]

n 1: unpleasant wetness [syn: dankness, clamminess]

n 1: absence of light or illumination [syn: dark, darkness] [ant: light, lighting] 2: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn: darkness, dark, shadow] 3: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark] 4: an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" [syn: dark, darkness] 5: having a dark or somber color [ant: lightness] 6: a swarthy complexion [syn: darkness, duskiness, swarthiness]

n 1: partial or complete loss of hearing [syn: deafness, hearing loss]

n 1: the state of being poorly illuminated [syn: dimness, duskiness] 2: the property of lights or sounds that lack brilliance or are reduced in intensity [syn: dimness, subduedness] 3: the quality of being dim or lacking contrast [syn: dimness, faintness]

n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity]

n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant: soberness, sobriety] 2: habitual intoxication; prolonged and excessive intake of alcoholic drinks leading to a breakdown in health and an addiction to alcohol such that abrupt deprivation leads to severe withdrawal symptoms [syn: alcoholism, alcohol addiction, inebriation, drunkenness] 3: the act of drinking alcoholic beverages to excess; "drink was his downfall" [syn: drink, drinking, boozing, drunkenness, crapulence]

n 1: the quality of being mentally slow and limited [syn: denseness, dumbness, slow-wittedness]

n 1: the parity of even numbers (divisible by two) 2: a quality of uniformity and lack of variation [syn: evenness, invariability] [ant: unevenness, variability] 3: the quality of being balanced [ant: unevenness]

n 1: the property of lasting forever

n 1: the quality of being extreme

n 1: the properties characteristic of the female sex [syn: femaleness, feminineness] [ant: maleness, masculinity]

n 1: feelings of great warmth and intensity; "he spoke with great ardor" [syn: ardor, ardour, fervor, fervour, fervency, fire, fervidness]

n 1: the quality of being very good indeed; "the inn is distinguished by the fineness of its cuisine" [syn: fineness, choiceness] 2: the property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair" [syn: fineness, thinness] 3: having a very fine texture; "the fineness of the sand on the beach" [syn: fineness, powderiness] 4: the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features" [syn: daintiness, delicacy, fineness]

n 1: the muscle tone of healthy tissue; "his muscular firmness" [syn: firmness, soundness] [ant: unsoundness] 2: the trait of being resolute; "his resoluteness carried him through the battle"; "it was his unshakeable resolution to finish the work" [syn: resoluteness, firmness, firmness of purpose, resolve, resolution] [ant: irresoluteness, irresolution] 3: the property of being unyielding to the touch 4: the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place [syn: steadiness, firmness] [ant: ricketiness, unsteadiness]

n 1: the quality of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position" [syn: fitness, fittingness] [ant: unfitness]

n 1: remaining in place [syn: stationariness, immobility, fixedness] 2: the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment [syn: fastness, fixedness, fixity, fixture, secureness] [ant: looseness] 3: the quality of being fixed and unchangeable; "the fixedness of his gaze upset her" [syn: fixedness, unalterability]

n 1: extravagant elaborateness; "he wrote with great flamboyance" [syn: flamboyance, floridness, floridity, showiness]

n 1: a predisposition to like something; "he had a fondness for whiskey" [syn: fondness, fancy, partiality] 2: a positive feeling of liking; "he had trouble expressing the affection he felt"; "the child won everyone's heart"; "the warmness of his welcome made us feel right at home" [syn: affection, affectionateness, fondness, tenderness, heart, warmness, warmheartedness, philia] 3: a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love [syn: affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth]

n 1: the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness] [ant: nativeness]

n 1: offensive boldness and assertiveness [syn: bumptiousness, cockiness, pushiness, forwardness] 2: an advanced stage; "the forwardness of the harvest this year"; "the arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter" 3: prompt willingness; "readiness to continue discussions"; "they showed no eagerness to spread the gospel"; "they disliked his zeal in demonstrating his superiority"; "he tried to explain his forwardness in battle" [syn: readiness, eagerness, zeal, forwardness]

n 1: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness, frankness, directness, forthrightness] 2: the trait of being blunt and outspoken [syn: frankness, outspokenness]

n 1: sexual unresponsiveness (especially of women) and inability to achieve orgasm during intercourse [syn: frigidity, frigidness] 2: the absence of heat; "the coldness made our breath visible"; "come in out of the cold"; "cold is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: coldness, cold, low temperature, frigidity, frigidness] [ant: heat, high temperature, hotness] 3: a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of tone and manner" [syn: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness, chilliness]

n 1: lively high-spirited playfulness [syn: friskiness, frolicsomeness, sportiveness]

n 1: disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet [syn: lameness, limping, gimp, gimpiness, gameness, claudication]

n 1: the state of being genuine [ant: spuriousness] 2: undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy]

n 1: experiencing joy and pleasure [syn: gladness, gladfulness, gladsomeness]

n 1: an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; "gloom pervaded the office" [syn: gloom, gloominess, glumness] 2: a gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: moroseness, glumness, sullenness]

n 1: a prominent status; "a person of importance" [syn: importance, grandness] 2: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness] 3: 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] 4: splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"; "impressed by the richness of the flora" [syn: impressiveness, grandness, magnificence, richness]

n 1: the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation [syn: greenness, verdancy, verdure] 2: the state of not being ripe [ant: ripeness] 3: green color or pigment; resembling the color of growing grass [syn: green, greenness, viridity]

n 1: iron deficiency anemia in young women; characterized by weakness and menstrual disturbances and a green color to the skin [syn: chlorosis, greensickness]

n 1: the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness] 2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness]

n 1: ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion [syn: grotesqueness, grotesquery, grotesquerie]

n 1: the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness]

n 1: the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man) [syn: handsomeness, good looks]

n 1: the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan [syn: randomness, haphazardness, stochasticity, noise]

n 1: feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness]

n 1: the property of providing useful assistance 2: friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition [syn: kindliness, helpfulness]

n 1: a longing to return home

n 1: a quality of extreme unpleasantness [syn: awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness]

n 1: the quality of compassion or consideration for others (people or animals) [ant: inhumaneness, inhumanity]

n 1: the quality of being human; "he feared the speedy decline of all manhood" [syn: humanness, humanity, manhood]

n 1: overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste" [syn: haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness, precipitation]

n 1: obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness]

n 1: the power of attracting or holding one's attention (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room" [syn: interest, interestingness] [ant: uninterestingness]

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: preoccupation especially with one's attitudes and ethical or ideological values; "the sensitiveness of James's characters, their seeming inwardness"; "inwardness is what an Englishman quite simply has, painlessly, as a birthright" [ant: outwardness] 3: the quality or state of being inward or internal; "the inwardness of the body's organs" [ant: externality, outwardness] 4: preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch [syn: inwardness, internality] [ant: outwardness]

n 1: something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface

n 1: lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life [syn: callowness, jejuneness, juvenility] 2: the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness] 3: quality of lacking nutritive value [syn: jejunity, jejuneness]

n 1: a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness] 2: a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something [syn: eagerness, avidity, avidness, keenness] 3: thinness of edge or fineness of point [syn: sharpness, keenness] [ant: bluntness, dullness]

n 1: the quality of being warmhearted and considerate and humane and sympathetic [ant: unkindness] 2: tendency to be kind and forgiving [syn: forgivingness, kindness] 3: a kind act [syn: kindness, benignity]

n 1: disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet [syn: lameness, limping, gimp, gimpiness, gameness, claudication] 2: an imperfection or defectiveness; "a stylist noted for the lameness of his plots"

n 1: permanence by virtue of the power to resist stress or force; "they advertised the durability of their products" [syn: lastingness, durability, enduringness, strength]

n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity] 2: the property of having little body fat [syn: leanness, thinness, spareness] [ant: avoirdupois, blubber, fat, fatness]

n 1: profound scholarly knowledge [syn: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism]

n 1: the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you [syn: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness] 2: the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble [syn: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness] 3: the trait of being lighthearted and frivolous [syn: lightsomeness, lightness]

n 1: similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things; "man created God in his own likeness" [syn: likeness, alikeness, similitude] [ant: dissimilitude, unlikeness] 2: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing [syn: likeness, semblance]

n 1: the state in which a substance exhibits a characteristic readiness to flow with little or no tendency to disperse and relatively high incompressibility [syn: liquid, liquidness, liquidity, liquid state] 2: the property of flowing easily; "adding lead makes the alloy easier to cast because the melting point is reduced and the fluidity is increased"; "they believe that fluidity increases as the water gets warmer" [syn: fluidity, fluidness, liquidity, liquidness, runniness]

n 1: unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) [syn: lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia]

n 1: the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions; "the vileness of his language surprised us" [syn: loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness, lousiness, wickedness]

n 1: a disposition toward being alone [syn: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness]

n 1: a pining for a loved one

n 1: a loving feeling [syn: lovingness, caring] 2: a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love [syn: affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth]

n 1: free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression [syn: clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity] [ant: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness, unclearness]

n 1: the journalistic use of subject matter that appeals to vulgar tastes; "the tabloids relied on sensationalism to maintain their circulation" [syn: sensationalism, luridness] 2: unnatural lack of color in the skin (as from bruising or sickness or emotional distress) [syn: lividness, lividity, luridness, paleness, pallidness, pallor, wanness, achromasia] 3: the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness]

n 1: the quality of being deliberately mean [syn: beastliness, meanness] 2: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness]