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badness
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n 1: that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics
or decency; "take the bad with the good" [syn: bad,
badness] [ant: good, goodness]
2: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or
weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness]
3: an attribute of mischievous children [syn: naughtiness,
mischievousness, badness]
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broadness
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n 1: the property of being wide; having great width [syn:
wideness, broadness] [ant: narrowness]
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candidness
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n 1: the quality of being honest and straightforward in attitude
and speech [syn: candor, candour, candidness,
frankness, directness, forthrightness]
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complicatedness
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n 1: puzzling complexity [syn: complicatedness,
complication, knottiness, tortuousness]
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conceitedness
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n 1: the trait of being unduly vain and conceited; false pride
[syn: conceit, conceitedness, vanity] [ant:
humbleness, humility]
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contentedness
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n 1: the state of being contented with your situation in life;
"he relaxed in sleepy contentedness"; "they could read to
their heart's content" [syn: contentedness, content]
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crudeness
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n 1: a wild or unrefined state [syn: crudeness, crudity,
primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness]
2: an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or
refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
[syn: crudeness, crudity, gaucheness]
3: an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier
dwellings depressed her" [syn: crudeness, roughness]
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deadness
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n 1: the quality of being unresponsive; not reacting; as a
quality of people, it is marked by a failure to respond
quickly or with emotion to people or events; "she began to
recover from her numb unresponsiveness after the accident";
"in an instant all the deadness and withdrawal were wiped
away" [syn: unresponsiveness, deadness] [ant:
responsiveness]
2: the physical property of something that has lost its
elasticity; "he objected to the deadness of the tennis balls"
3: the inanimate property of something that has died
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disjointedness
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n 1: lacking order or coherence
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gladness
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n 1: experiencing joy and pleasure [syn: gladness,
gladfulness, gladsomeness]
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goodness
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n 1: that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the
good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are
happiness and self-realization" [syn: good, goodness]
[ant: bad, badness]
2: moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be
found in people" [syn: good, goodness] [ant: evil,
evilness]
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hardness
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n 1: the property of being rigid and resistant to pressure; not
easily scratched; measured on Mohs scale [ant: softness]
2: a quality of water that contains dissolved mineral salts that
prevent soap from lathering; "the costs of reducing hardness
depend on the relative amounts of calcium and magnesium
compounds that are present"
3: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn:
unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness,
insensibility]
4: the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series
of problems of increasing hardness"; "the ruggedness of his
exams caused half the class to fail" [syn: hardness,
ruggedness]
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]
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lewdness
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n 1: the trait of behaving in an obscene manner [syn:
obscenity, lewdness, bawdiness, salaciousness,
salacity]
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loudness
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n 1: the magnitude of sound (usually in a specified direction);
"the kids played their music at full volume" [syn:
volume, loudness, intensity] [ant: softness]
2: tasteless showiness [syn: flashiness, garishness,
gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness,
tawdriness, glitz]
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madness
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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]
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oddness
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n 1: the parity of odd numbers (not divisible by two)
2: eccentricity that is not easily explained [syn: oddity,
oddness]
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redness
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n 1: a response of body tissues to injury or irritation;
characterized by pain and swelling and redness and heat
[syn: inflammation, redness, rubor]
2: red color or pigment; the chromatic color resembling the hue
of blood [syn: red, redness]
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relatedness
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n 1: a particular manner of connectedness; "the relatedness of
all living things" [ant: unrelatedness]
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rudeness
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n 1: a manner that is rude and insulting [syn: discourtesy,
rudeness] [ant: courtesy, good manners]
2: a wild or unrefined state [syn: crudeness, crudity,
primitiveness, primitivism, rudeness]
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sadness
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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]
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shrewdness
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n 1: intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business
dealings) [syn: shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity,
perspicaciousness]
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slackness
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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]
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sordidness
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n 1: sordid dirtiness [syn: sordidness, squalor,
squalidness]
2: unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values [syn:
baseness, sordidness, contemptibility,
despicableness, despicability]
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spiritedness
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n 1: quality of being active or spirited or alive and vigorous
[syn: animation, spiritedness, invigoration, brio,
vivification]
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tiredness
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n 1: temporary loss of strength and energy resulting from hard
physical or mental work; "he was hospitalized for extreme
fatigue"; "growing fatigue was apparent from the decline in
the execution of their athletic skills"; "weariness
overcame her after twelve hours and she fell asleep" [syn:
fatigue, weariness, tiredness]
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weirdness
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n 1: strikingly out of the ordinary [syn: outlandishness,
bizarreness, weirdness]
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wideness
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n 1: the property of being wide; having great width [syn:
wideness, broadness] [ant: narrowness]
2: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn:
enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness,
immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]
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jadedness
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proudness
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snideness
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