Words that rhyme with fervency

  • coherency
    n 1: the state of cohering or sticking together [syn: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] [ant: incoherence, incoherency] 2: logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts [syn: coherence, coherency]
  • complacency
    n 1: the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting" [syn: complacency, complacence, self-complacency, self- satisfaction]
  • conservancy
    n 1: a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river 2: the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc.
  • contingency
    n 1: a possible event or occurrence or result [syn: eventuality, contingency, contingence] 2: the state of being contingent on something
  • conversancy
    n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy]
  • counterinsurgency
    n 1: actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency [syn: pacification, counterinsurgency]
  • insufficiency
    n 1: a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy] 2: (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally 3: lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits" [syn: insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency] [ant: adequacy, sufficiency]
  • insurgency
    n 1: an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict [syn: insurgency, insurgence]
  • irrelevancy
    n 1: the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: irrelevance, irrelevancy] [ant: relevance, relevancy]
  • proficiency
    n 1: the quality of having great facility and competence 2: skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity; "practice greatly improves proficiency" [syn: proficiency, technique]
  • pungency
    n 1: wit having a sharp and caustic quality; "he commented with typical pungency"; "the bite of satire" [syn: pungency, bite] 2: 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]
  • regency
    n 1: the period of time during which a regent governs 2: the period from 1811-1820 when the Prince of Wales was regent during George III's periods of insanity 3: the office of a regent
  • relevancy
    n 1: the relation of something to the matter at hand [syn: relevance, relevancy] [ant: irrelevance, irrelevancy]
  • stringency
    n 1: a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit [syn: stringency, tightness] 2: conscientious attention to rules and details [syn: strictness, stringency]
  • sufficiency
    n 1: sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations; "her father questioned the young suitor's sufficiency" 2: an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose; "enough is as good as a feast"; "there is more than a sufficiency of lawyers in this country" [syn: enough, sufficiency] 3: the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence" [syn: sufficiency, adequacy] [ant: deficiency, inadequacy, insufficiency]
  • tangency
    n 1: the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing 2: (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact; "they forget to solder the contacts" [syn: contact, tangency]
  • translucency
    n 1: the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely [syn: translucence, translucency, semitransparency]
  • trenchancy
    n 1: keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect [syn: incisiveness, trenchancy]
  • urgency
    n 1: the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity 2: pressing importance requiring speedy action; "the urgency of his need" 3: an urgent situation calling for prompt action; "I'll be there, barring any urgencies"; "they departed hurriedly because of some great urgency in their affairs" 4: insistent solicitation and entreaty; "his importunity left me no alternative but to agree" [syn: importunity, urgency, urging]
  • c
    adj 1: being ten more than ninety [syn: hundred, one hundred, 100, c] n 1: a degree on the centigrade scale of temperature [syn: degree centigrade, degree Celsius, C] 2: the speed at which light travels in a vacuum; the constancy and universality of the speed of light is recognized by defining it to be exactly 299,792,458 meters per second [syn: speed of light, light speed, c] 3: a vitamin found in fresh fruits (especially citrus fruits) and vegetables; prevents scurvy [syn: vitamin C, C, ascorbic acid] 4: one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) [syn: deoxycytidine monophosphate, C] 5: a base found in DNA and RNA and derived from pyrimidine; pairs with guanine [syn: cytosine, C] 6: an abundant nonmetallic tetravalent element occurring in three allotropic forms: amorphous carbon and graphite and diamond; occurs in all organic compounds [syn: carbon, C, atomic number 6] 7: ten 10s [syn: hundred, 100, C, century, one C] 8: a unit of electrical charge equal to the amount of charge transferred by a current of 1 ampere in 1 second [syn: coulomb, C, ampere-second] 9: a general-purpose programing language closely associated with the UNIX operating system 10: (music) the keynote of the scale of C major 11: the 3rd letter of the Roman alphabet [syn: C, c] 12: street names for cocaine [syn: coke, blow, nose candy, snow, C]
  • nascency
    n 1: the event of being born; "they celebrated the birth of their first child" [syn: birth, nativity, nascency, nascence] [ant: death, decease, expiry]
  • recency
    n 1: a time immediately before the present [syn: recency, recentness] 2: the property of having happened or appeared not long ago [syn: recency, recentness]
  • errancy
    n 1: (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility; "he denies the errancy of the Catholic Church" 2: fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err [ant: inerrancy]
  • divergency
    n 1: an infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence, divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency] 2: the act of moving away in different direction from a common point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines" [syn: divergence, divergency]
  • innocency
    n 1: an innocent quality or thing or act; "the innocencies of childhood"
  • recusancy
    n 1: refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England
  • incoherency
    n 1: lack of cohesion or clarity or organization [syn: incoherence, incoherency] [ant: coherence, coherency, cohesion, cohesiveness] 2: nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible [syn: incoherence, incoherency, unintelligibility]
  • cie
  • reagency
  • subagency

See also fervency definition and fervency synonyms