Words that rhyme with gerety

n 1: a shape having one or more sharp angles [syn: angular shape, angularity] 2: the property possessed by a shape that has angles [ant: roundness]

n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 2: harshness of manner [syn: asperity, sharpness] [ant: bluntness, dullness]

n 1: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) [syn: austerity, asceticism, nonindulgence]

n 1: a rate that is rapid [syn: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness]

n 1: a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) 2: a kindly and lenient attitude toward people [syn: charity, brotherly love] 3: an activity or gift that benefits the public at large 4: pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers [syn: Jacob's ladder, Greek valerian, charity, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae] 5: an institution set up to provide help to the needy

n 1: the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure [syn: circularity, disk shape]

n 1: free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression [syn: clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity] [ant: abstruseness, obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness, unclearness] 2: the quality of clear water; "when she awoke the clarity was back in her eyes" [syn: clearness, clarity, uncloudedness] [ant: opacity, opaqueness]

n 1: adroitness in using the hands [syn: dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight]

n 1: the quality of being dissimilar [syn: dissimilarity, unsimilarity] [ant: similarity]

n 1: the quality of being composed of relatively large particles [syn: coarseness, graininess, granularity]

n 1: the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment]

n 1: a feeling facetious merriment [syn: jocundity, jocularity] 2: fun characterized by humor [syn: jocosity, jocularity] 3: activity characterized by good humor [syn: jest, joke, jocularity]

n 1: the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle 2: possessing muscular strength [syn: brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness] 3: an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style" [syn: energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim]

n 1: the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after; "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies" [ant: unpopularity]

n 1: noteworthy scarcity [syn: rarity, rareness, infrequency] 2: a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" [syn: rarity, tenuity, low density] 3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

n 1: a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles [syn: regularity, geometrical regularity] 2: the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits" [ant: irregularity, unregularity]

n 1: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness] 2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 3: extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity, severeness] 4: 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 similar [ant: dissimilarity, unsimilarity] 2: a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit [syn: similarity, law of similarity]

n 1: the quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions" [syn: singularity, uniqueness] 2: strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual

n 1: the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance [ant: popularity]

n 1: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity] 2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

n 1: the quality of lacking taste and refinement [syn: coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism, raunch]

n 1: the state of having cells