Words that rhyme with decayedness

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

n 1: excess bodily weight; "she disliked fatness in herself as well as in others" [syn: fatness, fat, blubber, avoirdupois] [ant: leanness, spareness, thinness]

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

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: 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: obsolete terms for legal insanity [syn: lunacy, madness, insaneness] 2: an acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain [syn: rabies, hydrophobia, lyssa, madness] 3: a feeling of intense anger; "hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"; "his face turned red with rage" [syn: fury, rage, madness] 4: 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] 5: unrestrained excitement or enthusiasm; "poetry is a sort of divine madness" [syn: madness, rabidity, rabidness]

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

n 1: the feeling of patient, submissive humbleness [syn: meekness, submission] 2: a disposition to be patient and long suffering [syn: meekness, subduedness]

n 1: a texture of a surface or edge that is not smooth but is irregular and uneven [syn: roughness, raggedness] [ant: smoothness] 2: the quality of being unpleasant (harsh or rough or grating) to the senses [syn: harshness, roughness] 3: an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her" [syn: crudeness, roughness] 4: used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather [syn: choppiness, roughness, rough water] 5: rowdy behavior [syn: rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness, disorderliness] 6: the formation of small pits in a surface as a consequence of corrosion [syn: pitting, roughness, indentation] 7: harsh or severe speech or behavior; "men associate the roughness of nonstandard working-class speech with masculinity"; "the roughness of her voice was a signal to keep quiet"

n 1: the fullness of a tone of voice; "there is a musky roundness to his wordiness" [syn: roundness, rotundity] 2: the quality of being round numbers; "he gave us the results in round numbers, but their roundness didn't affect the point he was making" 3: the property possessed by a line or surface that is curved and not angular [ant: angularity] 4: the bodily property of being well rounded [syn: plumpness, embonpoint, roundness]

n 1: emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being [syn: sadness, unhappiness] [ant: happiness] 2: the state of being sad; "she tired of his perpetual sadness" [syn: sadness, sorrow, sorrowfulness] 3: the quality of excessive mournfulness and uncheerfulness [syn: gloominess, lugubriousness, sadness]

n 1: weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy [syn: inanition, lassitude, lethargy, slackness] 2: the quality of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope" [syn: slack, slackness] 3: the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness]

n 1: an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

n 1: a state of warm snug comfort [syn: coziness, cosiness, snugness]

n 1: a state or condition free from damage or decay [ant: unsoundness] 2: the quality of being prudent and sensible [syn: wisdom, wiseness, soundness] [ant: unsoundness] 3: the muscle tone of healthy tissue; "his muscular firmness" [syn: firmness, soundness] [ant: unsoundness]

n 1: the quality of being complete or utter or extreme; "the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections" [syn: starkness, absoluteness, utterness] 2: an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation; "I was struck by the starkness of my father's room" [syn: bareness, starkness]

n 1: the quality (as of scenery) being grim and gloomy and forbidding; "the sternness of his surroundings made him uncomfortable" 2: uncompromising resolution [syn: sternness, strictness]

n 1: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend 2: the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck" 3: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity" 4: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness] 5: excessive sternness; "severity of character"; "the harshness of his punishment was inhuman"; "the rigors of boot camp" [syn: severity, severeness, harshness, rigor, rigour, rigorousness, rigourousness, inclemency, hardness, stiffness]

n 1: the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated [syn: jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness] 2: the attribute of having been domesticated [syn: tameness, domestication] [ant: wildness]

n 1: the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width [ant: slenderness, tenuity, thinness] 2: indistinct articulation; "judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily" 3: used of a line or mark [syn: thickness, heaviness] 4: resistance to flow [ant: thinness]

n 1: enduring strength and energy [syn: stamina, staying power, toughness] 2: the property of being big and strong [syn: huskiness, ruggedness, toughness] 3: the elasticity and hardness of a metal object; its ability to absorb considerable energy before cracking [syn: temper, toughness] 4: impressive difficulty [syn: formidability, toughness]

n 1: a state of arrangement or appearance; "in good trim" [syn: trim, trimness]

n 1: unclearness by virtue of being poorly expressed or not coherent in meaning; "the Conservative manifesto is a model of vagueness"; "these terms were used with a vagueness that suggested little or no thought about what each might convey" 2: indistinctness of shape or character; "the scene had the swirling vagueness of a painting by Turner"

n 1: a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings" [syn: failing, weakness] 2: powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains active" [syn: helplessness, weakness, impuissance] 3: the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed" [ant: strength] 4: the condition of being financially weak; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen" [ant: strength] 5: a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you; "he has a weakness for chocolate"

n 1: a feeling of extreme emotional intensity; "the wildness of his anger" [syn: wildness, abandon] 2: the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence" [syn: ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness] 3: an unruly disposition to do as one pleases; "Liza had always had a tendency to wildness"; "the element of wildness in his behavior was a protest against repressive convention" 4: an intractably barbarous or uncultivated state of nature [ant: domestication, tameness]

n 1: inappropriate conduct [syn: inappropriateness, wrongness] [ant: appropriateness, rightness] 2: contrary to conscience or morality [ant: rightness] 3: the quality of not conforming to fact or truth [syn: incorrectness, wrongness] [ant: correctness, rightness]