Words that rhyme with deaconess

• baroness 0
  n 1: a noblewoman who holds the rank of baron or who is the wife or widow of a baron
• bonus 0
  n 1: anything that tends to arouse; "his approval was an added fillip" [syn: bonus, fillip] 2: an additional payment (or other remuneration) to employees as a means of increasing output [syn: bonus, incentive]
• cheapness 0
  n 1: a price below the standard price [syn: bargain rate, cheapness, cut rate, cut price] 2: tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar [syn: cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze]
• dampness 0
  n 1: a slight wetness [syn: damp, dampness, moistness]
• deepness 0
  n 1: the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas [syn: astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth, deepness] 2: the quality of being physically deep; "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile" [syn: deepness, profundity, profoundness] [ant: shallowness] 3: the extent downward or backward or inward; "the depth of the water"; "depth of a shelf"; "depth of a closet" [syn: depth, deepness] 4: a low pitch that is loud and voluminous
• drabness 0
  n 1: having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance [syn: dowdiness, drabness, homeliness]
• evanesce 0
  v 1: disappear gradually; "The pain eventually passed off" [syn: evanesce, fade, blow over, pass off, fleet, pass]
• finesse 0
  n 1: subtly skillful handling of a situation [syn: delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness, finesse]
• glibness 0
  n 1: a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman" [syn: glibness, slickness]
• governess 0
  n 1: a woman entrusted with the care and supervision of a child (especially in a private home)
• larcenous 0
  n 1: having a disposition to steal [syn: thievishness, larcenous]
• limpness 0
  n 1: a flabby softness [syn: flabbiness, limpness, flaccidity]
• lioness 0
  n 1: a female lion
• marchioness 0
  n 1: the wife or widow of a marquis 2: a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess [syn: marchioness, marquise]
• onus 0
  n 1: an onerous or difficult concern; "the burden of responsibility"; "that's a load off my mind" [syn: burden, load, encumbrance, incumbrance, onus]
• patroness 0
  n 1: a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron [syn: patroness, patronne]
• plumpness 0
  n 1: the bodily property of being well rounded [syn: plumpness, embonpoint, roundness]
• ripeness 0
  n 1: the state of being ripe [ant: greenness]
• shallowness 0
  n 1: lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling [syn: superficiality, shallowness] [ant: profoundness, profundity] 2: the quality of lacking physical depth; "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive" [ant: deepness, profoundness, profundity]
• sharpness 0
  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: the attribute of urgency in tone of voice; "his voice had an edge to it" [syn: edge, sharpness] 3: a strong odor or taste property; "the pungency of mustard"; "the sulfurous bite of garlic"; "the sharpness of strange spices"; "the raciness of the wine" [syn: pungency, bite, sharpness, raciness] 4: the quality of being keenly and painfully felt; "the sharpness of her loss" 5: thinness of edge or fineness of point [syn: sharpness, keenness] [ant: bluntness, dullness] 6: the quality of being sharp and clear [syn: distinctness, sharpness] [ant: blurriness, fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness] 7: harshness of manner [syn: asperity, sharpness] [ant: bluntness, dullness]
• slowness 0
  n 1: unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness, slowness] 2: a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry [syn: slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness] 3: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality]
• steepness 0
  n 1: the property possessed by a slope that is very steep [syn: abruptness, precipitousness, steepness] [ant: gentleness, gradualness]
• synchronous 0
  adj 1: occurring or existing at the same time or having the same period or phase; "recovery was synchronous with therapy"- Jour.A.M.A.; "a synchronous set of clocks"; "the synchronous action of a bird's wings in flight"; "synchronous oscillations" [syn: synchronous, synchronal, synchronic] [ant: asynchronous] 2: (digital communication) pertaining to a transmission technique that requires a common clock signal (a timing reference) between the communicating devices in order to coordinate their transmissions [ant: asynchronous]
• terminus 0
  n 1: a place where something ends or is complete [syn: end point, endpoint, termination, terminus] 2: the ultimate goal for which something is done [syn: destination, terminus] 3: (architecture) a statue or a human bust or an animal carved out of the top of a square pillar; originally used as a boundary marker in ancient Rome [syn: terminus, terminal figure, term] 4: either end of a railroad or bus route 5: station where transport vehicles load or unload passengers or goods [syn: terminal, terminus, depot]
• togetherness 0
  n 1: affectionate closeness; "togetherness is the new wonder ingredient in marriage"
• tonus 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]
• treasonous 0
  adj 1: having the character of, or characteristic of, a traitor; "the faithless Benedict Arnold"; "a lying traitorous insurrectionist" [syn: faithless, traitorous, unfaithful, treasonable, treasonous]
• tyrannous 0
  adj 1: marked by unjust severity or arbitrary behavior; "the oppressive government"; "oppressive laws"; "a tyrannical parent"; "tyrannous disregard of human rights" [syn: oppressive, tyrannical, tyrannous]
• vertiginous 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]
• villainous 0
  adj 1: extremely wicked; "nefarious schemes"; "a villainous plot"; "a villainous band of thieves" [syn: nefarious, villainous]
• voluminous 0
  adj 1: large in volume or bulk; "a voluminous skirt" 2: marked by repeated turns and bends; "a tortuous road up the mountain"; "winding roads are full of surprises"; "had to steer the car down a twisty track" [syn: tortuous, twisting, twisty, winding, voluminous] 3: large in number or quantity (especially of discourse); "she took copious notes"; "a subject of voluminous legislation" [syn: copious, voluminous]
• yellowness 0
  n 1: yellow color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue of sunflowers or ripe lemons [syn: yellow, yellowness]
• clonus 0
  n 1: convulsion characterized by alternating contractions and relaxations
• senesce 0
  v 1: grow old or older; "She aged gracefully"; "we age every day --what a depressing thought!"; "Young men senesce" [syn: senesce, age, get on, mature, maturate]
• luminesce 0
  v 1: be or become luminescent; exhibit luminescence
• canoness 0
• superbness 0
• dungeness 0
• inverness 0
• lyonnesse 0
• rejuvenesce 0
• furness 0

See also deaconess definition