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anus
0
n 1: the excretory opening at the end of the alimentary canal
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austereness
0
n 1: extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity,
severeness]
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awareness
0
n 1: having knowledge of; "he had no awareness of his mistakes";
"his sudden consciousness of the problem he faced"; "their
intelligence and general knowingness was impressive" [syn:
awareness, consciousness, cognizance, cognisance,
knowingness] [ant: incognizance]
2: state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness; "the
crash intruded on his awareness" [syn: awareness,
sentience]
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beastliness
0
n 1: the quality of being deliberately mean [syn: beastliness,
meanness]
2: unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
-
bizarreness
0
n 1: strikingly out of the ordinary [syn: outlandishness,
bizarreness, weirdness]
-
chilliness
0
n 1: the property of being moderately cold; "the chilliness of
early morning" [syn: chilliness, coolness, nip]
2: a lack of affection or enthusiasm; "a distressing coldness of
tone and manner" [syn: coldness, coolness, frigidity,
frigidness, iciness, chilliness]
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cleanliness
0
n 1: the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections
2: diligence in keeping clean [ant: uncleanliness]
-
clearness
0
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]
-
comeliness
0
n 1: the quality of being good looking and attractive [syn:
comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness]
-
costliness
0
n 1: the quality possessed by something with a great price or
value [syn: costliness, dearness, preciousness]
-
courtliness
0
n 1: elegance suggestive of a royal court
-
cowardliness
0
n 1: the trait of lacking courage [syn: cowardice,
cowardliness] [ant: braveness, bravery, courage,
courageousness]
-
crumbliness
0
n 1: excessive breakableness [syn: crumbliness, friability]
-
curliness
0
n 1: (of hair) a tendency to curl [syn: curliness, waviness]
[ant: straightness]
-
dastardliness
0
n 1: despicable cowardice
-
deadliness
0
n 1: the quality of being deadly [syn: deadliness,
lethality]
-
dearness
0
n 1: the quality possessed by something with a great price or
value [syn: costliness, dearness, preciousness]
-
disorderliness
0
n 1: a condition in which things are not in their expected
places; "the files are in complete disorder" [syn:
disorderliness, disorder] [ant: order, orderliness]
2: rowdy behavior [syn: rowdiness, rowdyism, roughness,
disorderliness]
3: untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) [syn:
disarray, disorderliness]
-
earliness
0
n 1: quality of coming early or earlier in time [ant:
lateness]
-
fairness
0
n 1: conformity with rules or standards; "the judge recognized
the fairness of my claim" [syn: fairness, equity] [ant:
inequity, unfairness]
2: ability to make judgments free from discrimination or
dishonesty [syn: fairness, fair-mindedness, candor,
candour] [ant: unfairness]
3: the property of having a naturally light complexion [syn:
paleness, blondness, fairness]
4: the quality of being good looking and attractive [syn:
comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness]
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fatherliness
0
n 1: the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father;
"the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man
eased her fears" [syn: fatherliness, paternal quality]
-
friendliness
0
n 1: a feeling of liking for another person; enjoyment in their
company [ant: unfriendliness]
2: a friendly disposition [ant: unfriendliness]
-
gayness
0
n 1: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons
of the same sex [syn: homosexuality, homosexualism,
homoeroticism, queerness, gayness]
-
ghastliness
0
n 1: the quality of being ghastly [syn: ghastliness,
grimness, gruesomeness, luridness]
-
ghostliness
0
n 1: strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring
fear [syn: eeriness, ghostliness]
-
godliness
0
n 1: piety by virtue of being a godly person [ant:
godlessness, ungodliness]
-
harness
0
n 1: a support consisting of an arrangement of straps for
holding something to the body (especially one supporting a
person suspended from a parachute)
2: stable gear consisting of an arrangement of leather straps
fitted to a draft animal so that it can be attached to and
pull a cart
v 1: put a harness; "harness the horse" [syn: harness,
tackle] [ant: unharness]
2: exploit the power of; "harness natural forces and resources"
3: control and direct with or as if by reins; "rein a horse"
[syn: harness, rein in, draw rein, rein]
4: keep in check; "rule one's temper" [syn: rule, harness,
rein]
-
holiness
0
n 1: the quality of being holy [syn: holiness, sanctity,
sanctitude] [ant: unholiness]
-
homeliness
0
n 1: having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or
elegance [syn: dowdiness, drabness, homeliness]
2: an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine
clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness" [syn:
homeliness, plainness]
-
kindliness
0
n 1: friendliness evidence by a kindly and helpful disposition
[syn: kindliness, helpfulness]
-
knightliness
0
n 1: the medieval principles governing knighthood and knightly
conduct [syn: chivalry, knightliness]
-
leisureliness
0
n 1: slowness by virtue of being leisurely
-
liveliness
0
n 1: general activity and motion [syn: liveliness,
animation]
2: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy
play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it" [syn:
liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness]
-
loneliness
0
n 1: the state of being alone in solitary isolation [syn:
loneliness, solitariness]
2: sadness resulting from being forsaken or abandoned [syn:
forlornness, loneliness, desolation]
3: a disposition toward being alone [syn: aloneness,
loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness]
-
lordliness
0
n 1: formality in bearing and appearance; "he behaved with great
dignity" [syn: dignity, lordliness, gravitas]
2: overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward
inferiors [syn: arrogance, haughtiness, hauteur, high-
handedness, lordliness]
-
loveliness
0
n 1: the quality of being good looking and attractive [syn:
comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness]
-
lowliness
0
n 1: the state of being humble and unimportant [syn:
humbleness, unimportance, obscureness, lowliness]
2: a position of inferior status; low in station or rank or
fortune or estimation [syn: low status, lowness,
lowliness] [ant: high status]
-
manliness
0
n 1: the trait of being manly; having the characteristics of an
adult male [syn: manfulness, manliness, virility]
-
menace
0
n 1: something that is a source of danger; "earthquakes are a
constant threat in Japan" [syn: menace, threat]
2: a threat or the act of threatening; "he spoke with desperate
menace"
v 1: pose a threat to; present a danger to; "The pollution is
endangering the crops" [syn: endanger, jeopardize,
jeopardise, menace, threaten, imperil, peril]
2: express a threat either by an utterance or a gesture; "he
menaced the bank manager with a stick"
3: act in a threatening manner; "A menacing person"
-
miserliness
0
n 1: total lack of generosity with money
-
motherliness
0
n 1: the quality of having or showing the tenderness and warmth
and affection of or befitting a mother; "the girl's
motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the
children" [syn: motherliness, maternalism, maternal
quality, maternity]
-
nearness
0
n 1: 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]
-
neighbourliness
0
n 1: a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors [syn:
neighborliness, neighbourliness, good-neighborliness,
good-neighbourliness] [ant: unneighborliness]
-
niggardliness
0
n 1: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess,
niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony,
parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness,
closeness]
-
oiliness
0
n 1: consisting of or covered with oil [syn: greasiness,
oiliness, oleaginousness]
2: smug self-serving earnestness [syn: fulsomeness,
oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness,
unction]
-
orderliness
0
n 1: the quality of appreciating method and system [syn:
orderliness, methodicalness]
2: a condition of regular or proper arrangement; "he put his
desk in order"; "the machine is now in working order" [syn:
orderliness, order] [ant: disorder, disorderliness]
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queerness
0
n 1: a strange attitude or habit [syn: oddity, queerness,
quirk, quirkiness, crotchet]
2: a sexual attraction to (or sexual relations with) persons of
the same sex [syn: homosexuality, homosexualism,
homoeroticism, queerness, gayness]
-
rareness
0
n 1: noteworthy scarcity [syn: rarity, rareness,
infrequency]
-
rawness
0
n 1: a chilly dampness; "the rawness of the midnight air"
2: the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect; "the
study was criticized for incompleteness of data but it
stimulated further research"; "the rawness of his diary made
it unpublishable" [syn: incompleteness, rawness] [ant:
completeness]
3: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the best
results are generally obtained by inserting the needle into
the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a cold,
rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn:
tenderness, soreness, rawness]
4: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding
derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created
difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of
the troops" [syn: inexperience, rawness] [ant:
experience]
-
saintliness
0
n 1: the quality of resembling a saint
-
seemliness
0
n 1: a sense of propriety and consideration for others; "a place
where the company of others must be accepted with good
grace" [syn: seemliness, grace] [ant: unseemliness]
-
shapeliness
0
n 1: the quality of having a well-rounded body [syn:
curvaceousness, shapeliness, voluptuousness]
-
silliness
0
n 1: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of
the clown's behavior" [syn: absurdity, fatuity,
fatuousness, silliness]
2: an impulsive scatterbrained manner [syn: giddiness,
silliness]
-
slovenliness
0
n 1: a lack of order and tidiness; not cared for [syn:
sloppiness, slovenliness, unkemptness]
2: habitual uncleanliness
-
soreness
0
n 1: a pain that is felt (as when the area is touched); "the
best results are generally obtained by inserting the needle
into the point of maximum tenderness"; "after taking a
cold, rawness of the larynx and trachea come on" [syn:
tenderness, soreness, rawness]
2: an uncomfortable feeling of mental painfulness or distress
[syn: discomfort, soreness, irritation]
-
sprightliness
0
n 1: animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a
heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
[syn: liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness]
-
stateliness
0
n 1: an elaborate manner of doing something; "she served coffee
with great stateliness"
2: impressiveness in scale or proportion [syn: stateliness,
majesty, loftiness]
-
surliness
0
n 1: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper
was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper,
biliousness, irritability, peevishness,
pettishness, snappishness, surliness]
-
timeliness
0
n 1: being at the right time [syn: seasonableness,
timeliness] [ant: unseasonableness, untimeliness]
2: timely convenience [syn: opportuneness, patness,
timeliness] [ant: inopportuneness, untimeliness]
-
ugliness
0
n 1: qualities of appearance that do not give pleasure to the
senses [ant: beauty]
2: the quality of being wicked [syn: nefariousness,
wickedness, vileness, ugliness]
-
unawareness
0
n 1: unconsciousness resulting from lack of knowledge or
attention [syn: unknowingness, unawareness]
-
unfairness
0
n 1: partiality that is not fair or equitable [ant: candor,
candour, fair-mindedness, fairness]
2: injustice by virtue of not conforming with rules or standards
[syn: unfairness, inequity] [ant: equity, fairness]
3: an unjust act [syn: injustice, unfairness, iniquity,
shabbiness]
-
unfriendliness
0
n 1: dislike experienced as an absence of friendliness [ant:
friendliness]
2: an unfriendly disposition [ant: friendliness]
-
ungainliness
0
n 1: the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are
extremely ungainly and inelegant [syn: gawkiness,
ungainliness]
-
ungodliness
0
n 1: impiety by virtue of not being a godly person [syn:
ungodliness, godlessness] [ant: godliness]
-
unmanliness
0
n 1: the trait of being effeminate (derogatory of a man); "the
students associated science with masculinity and arts with
effeminacy"; "Spartans accused Athenians of
effeminateness"; "he was shocked by the softness of the
atmosphere surrounding the young prince, arising from the
superfluity of the femininity that guided him" [syn:
effeminacy, effeminateness, sissiness, softness,
womanishness, unmanliness]
-
unruliness
0
n 1: the trait of being prone to disobedience and lack of
discipline [syn: unruliness, fractiousness,
willfulness, wilfulness]
-
wiliness
0
n 1: shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
[syn: craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness,
guile, slyness, wiliness]
-
womanliness
0
n 1: the trait of being womanly; having the characteristics of
an adult female [syn: womanliness, womanlike]
-
worldliness
0
n 1: the quality or character of being intellectually
sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience
or disillusionment [syn: sophistication, worldliness,
mundaneness, mundanity] [ant: naiveness, naivete,
naivety]
2: concern with worldly affairs to the neglect of spiritual
needs; "he disliked the worldliness of many bishops around
him" [ant: otherworldliness, spiritism, spiritualism,
spirituality]
-
greyness
0
n 1: a neutral achromatic color midway between white and black
[syn: gray, grayness, grey, greyness]
-
janus
0
n 1: (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages;
is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head
-
squareness
0
n 1: the property of being shaped like a square
-
kaunas
0
n 1: a city in central Lithuania [syn: Kaunas, Kovna,
Kovno]
-
capricornus
0
n 1: a faint zodiacal constellation in the southern hemisphere;
between Sagittarius and Aquarius [syn: Capricornus,
Capricorn]
-
silvanus
0
n 1: (Roman mythology) god of woods and fields and flocks; Pan
is the Greek counterpart [syn: Sylvanus, Silvanus]
-
faunus
0
n 1: (Roman mythology) ancient rural deity; later considered a
counterpart of Greek Pan
-
unharness
0
v 1: remove the harness from; "unharness a horse" [ant:
harness, tackle]
-
uranus
0
n 1: (Greek mythology) god of the heavens; son and husband of
Gaea and father of the Titans in ancient mythology [syn:
Ouranos, Uranus]
2: a giant planet with a ring of ice particles; the 7th planet
from the sun has a blue-green color and many satellites;
"Uranus was discovered by William Herschel in 1781"
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brotherliness
0
-
burliness
0
-
earthliness
0
-
feyness
0
-
gentlemanliness
0
-
gingerliness
0
-
grisliness
0
-
housewifeliness
0
-
kingliness
0
-
portliness
0
-
sheerness
0
-
sickliness
0
-
unearthliness
0
-
wifeliness
0
-
wobbliness
0
-
woolliness
0
-
tenace
0
-
janice
0
-
sejanus
0
-
coriolanus
0
-
janis
0