Words that rhyme with cursoriness

n 1: the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment; "I despair at the flightiness and whimsicality of my memory" [syn: flightiness, arbitrariness, whimsicality, whimsy, whimsey, capriciousness]

n 1: the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist

n 1: elegance suggestive of a royal court

n 1: the trait of lacking courage [syn: cowardice, cowardliness] [ant: braveness, bravery, courage, courageousness]

n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception [syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness] 2: the quality of being crafty [syn: craftiness, deceitfulness, guile]

n 1: a fussy and eccentric disposition [syn: crankiness, crotchetiness, contrariness, grumpiness]

n 1: informal terms for insanity [syn: craziness, daftness, flakiness] 2: the quality of being rash and foolish; "trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly"; "adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness" [syn: folly, foolishness, craziness, madness] 3: foolish or senseless behavior [syn: folly, foolery, tomfoolery, craziness, lunacy, indulgence]

n 1: the property of having the thickness of heavy cream [syn: creaminess, soupiness]

n 1: an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin

n 1: firm but easily broken [syn: brittleness, crispness, crispiness]

n 1: a fussy and eccentric disposition [syn: crankiness, crotchetiness, contrariness, grumpiness]

n 1: excessive breakableness [syn: crumbliness, friability]

n 1: (of hair) a tendency to curl [syn: curliness, waviness] [ant: straightness]

n 1: 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: despicable cowardice

n 1: the quality of being deadly [syn: deadliness, lethality]

n 1: slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it [syn: dilatoriness, procrastination]

n 1: the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered [ant: mundaneness, mundanity, ordinariness]

n 1: a general kind of something; "ignore the genus communism" 2: (biology) taxonomic group containing one or more species

n 1: state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy [syn: happiness, felicity] [ant: unhappiness] 2: emotions experienced when in a state of well-being [ant: sadness, unhappiness]

adj 1: within or by means of a vein; "an intravenous inflammation"; "intravenous feeding" [syn: intravenous, endovenous]

n 1: the quality of being commonplace and ordinary [syn: ordinariness, mundaneness, mundanity] [ant: extraordinariness]

n 1: worthlessness due to insignificance [syn: paltriness, sorriness]

n 1: the male organ of copulation (`member' is a euphemism) [syn: penis, phallus, member]

n 1: the trait of being unmanageable [syn: refractoriness, unmanageableness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy]

n 1: the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement [ant: unsatisfactoriness]

n 1: the state of being alone in solitary isolation [syn: loneliness, solitariness] 2: a disposition toward being alone [syn: aloneness, loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness]

n 1: oppressively hot and humid weather 2: the quality of expressing or arousing sexual desire; "the sultriness of her look was unmistakable"; "the sultriness of lust was in the air"

adj 1: of or contained in or performing the function of the veins; "venous inflammation"; "venous blood as contrasted with arterial blood"; "venous circulation"

n 1: the wetness of ground that is covered or soaked with water; "the baseball game was canceled because of the wateriness of the outfield"; "the water's muddiness made it undrinkable"; "the sloppiness of a rainy November day" [syn: wateriness, muddiness, sloppiness] 2: meagerness or poorness connoted by a superfluity of water (in a literary style as well as in a food); "the haziness and wateriness of his disquisitions"; "the wateriness of his blood"; "no one enjoys the burning of his soup or the wateriness of his potatoes" 3: the property of resembling the viscosity of water

n 1: the second nearest planet to the sun; it is peculiar in that its rotation is slow and retrograde (in the opposite sense of the Earth and all other planets except Uranus); it is visible from Earth as an early `morning star' or an `evening star'; "before it was known that they were the same object the evening star was called Venus and the morning star was called Lucifer" 2: goddess of love; counterpart of Greek Aphrodite [syn: Venus, Urania] 3: type genus of the family Veneridae: genus of edible clams with thick oval shells [syn: Venus, genus Venus]

n 1: a clergyman; especially a settled minister or parson [syn: dominus, dominie, domine, dominee]