Words that rhyme with denseness

  • business
    n 1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation] 2: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [syn: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business] 3: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line] 4: a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business" 5: an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening" 6: the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" 7: business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: business, business sector] 8: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" [syn: clientele, patronage, business] 9: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: business, stage business, byplay]
  • closeness
    n 1: a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: closeness, intimacy] 2: the quality of being close and poorly ventilated [syn: stuffiness, closeness] 3: the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance; "the sudden closeness of the dock sent him into action" [syn: nearness, closeness] [ant: farawayness, farness, remoteness] 4: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness] 5: characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) [syn: closeness, secretiveness] [ant: nakedness, openness] 6: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]
  • falseness
    n 1: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: falsity, falseness] [ant: the true, trueness, truth, verity] 2: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy] 3: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical [syn: insincerity, falseness, hollowness] [ant: sincerity]
  • grossness
    n 1: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]
  • immenseness
    n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]
  • jocoseness
    n 1: the trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness]
  • laxness
    n 1: the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness] 2: the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels" [syn: laxness, laxity]
  • moroseness
    n 1: a gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: moroseness, glumness, sullenness] 2: a sullen moody resentful disposition [syn: sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness]
  • tenseness
    n 1: the physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" [syn: tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness] 2: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: tension, tenseness, stress]
  • verboseness
    n 1: an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words [syn: verboseness, verbosity] [ant: terseness]
  • intenseness
  • adverseness

See also denseness definition and denseness synonyms