Words that rhyme with inebriety
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acuity
n 1: sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) [syn: acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness] 2: a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness] -
ambiguity
n 1: an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context 2: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning [syn: ambiguity, equivocalness] [ant: unambiguity, unequivocalness] -
annuity
n 1: income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments; "his retirement fund was set up to be paid as an annuity" [syn: annuity, rente] -
anxiety
n 1: (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic [syn: anxiety, anxiousness] 2: a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune -
assiduity
n 1: great and constant diligence and attention [syn: assiduity, assiduousness, concentration] -
congruity
n 1: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate [syn: congruity, congruousness, congruence] [ant: incongruity, incongruousness] -
contiguity
n 1: the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: adjacency, contiguity, contiguousness] -
continuity
n 1: uninterrupted connection or union [ant: discontinuity] 2: a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot 3: the property of a continuous and connected period of time [syn: continuity, persistence] -
contrariety
n 1: the relation between contraries -
deity
n 1: any supernatural being worshipped as controlling some part of the world or some aspect of life or who is the personification of a force [syn: deity, divinity, god, immortal] -
discontinuity
n 1: lack of connection or continuity [ant: continuity] -
dubiety
n 1: the state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness] [ant: certainty] -
exiguity
n 1: the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot [syn: meagerness, meagreness, leanness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity] -
fatuity
n 1: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior" [syn: absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness] -
fortuity
n 1: anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; "winning the lottery was a happy accident"; "the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"; "it was due to an accident or fortuity" [syn: accident, stroke, fortuity, chance event] -
gaiety
n 1: a gay feeling [syn: gaiety, merriment] 2: a festive merry feeling [syn: gaiety, playfulness] -
gratuity
n 1: a relatively small amount of money given for services rendered (as by a waiter) [syn: gratuity, tip, pourboire, baksheesh, bakshish, bakshis, backsheesh] 2: an award (as for meritorious service) given without claim or obligation -
heterogeneity
n 1: the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind [syn: heterogeneity, heterogeneousness] [ant: homogeneity, homogeneousness] -
homogeneity
n 1: the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies" [syn: homogeneity, homogeneousness] [ant: heterogeneity, heterogeneousness] 2: the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure -
impiety
n 1: unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god [syn: impiety, impiousness] [ant: piety, piousness] -
impropriety
n 1: an improper demeanor [syn: impropriety, improperness] [ant: correctitude, properness, propriety] 2: the condition of being improper 3: an indecent or improper act [syn: indecency, impropriety] 4: an act of undue intimacy [syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty] -
incongruity
n 1: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate [syn: incongruity, incongruousness] [ant: congruence, congruity, congruousness] -
ingenuity
n 1: the power of creative imagination [syn: inventiveness, ingeniousness, ingenuity, cleverness] 2: the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design" [syn: ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness] -
insobriety
n 1: a temporary state resulting from excessive consumption of alcohol [syn: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, intoxication, tipsiness, insobriety] [ant: soberness, sobriety] -
liberty
n 1: immunity from arbitrary exercise of authority: political independence [syn: autonomy, liberty] 2: freedom of choice; "liberty of opinion"; "liberty of worship"; "liberty--perfect liberty--to think or feel or do just as one pleases"; "at liberty to choose whatever occupation one wishes" 3: personal freedom from servitude or confinement or oppression 4: leave granted to a sailor or naval officer [syn: shore leave, liberty] 5: an act of undue intimacy [syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty] -
moiety
n 1: one of two (approximately) equal parts [syn: moiety, mediety] 2: one of two basic subdivisions of a tribe -
notoriety
n 1: the state of being known for some unfavorable act or quality [syn: notoriety, ill fame] -
perpetuity
n 1: the property of being perpetual (seemingly ceaseless) [syn: perpetuity, sempiternity] -
perspicuity
n 1: clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous [syn: perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness] -
piety
n 1: righteousness by virtue of being pious [syn: piety, piousness] [ant: impiety, impiousness] -
promiscuity
n 1: indulging in promiscuous (casual and indiscriminate) sexual relations [syn: promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around] -
property
n 1: something owned; any tangible or intangible possession that is owned by someone; "that hat is my property"; "he is a man of property"; [syn: property, belongings, holding] 2: a basic or essential attribute shared by all members of a class; "a study of the physical properties of atomic particles" 3: any area set aside for a particular purpose; "who owns this place?"; "the president was concerned about the property across from the White House" [syn: place, property] 4: a construct whereby objects or individuals can be distinguished; "self-confidence is not an endearing property" [syn: property, attribute, dimension] 5: any movable articles or objects used on the set of a play or movie; "before every scene he ran down his checklist of props" [syn: property, prop] -
propriety
n 1: correct or appropriate behavior [syn: propriety, properness, correctitude] [ant: improperness, impropriety] -
satiety
n 1: the state of being satisfactorily full and unable to take on more [syn: repletion, satiety, satiation] -
serendipity
n 1: good luck in making unexpected and fortunate discoveries -
simultaneity
n 1: happening or existing or done at the same time [syn: simultaneity, simultaneousness] -
smutty
adj 1: characterized by obscenity; "had a filthy mouth"; "foul language"; "smutty jokes" [syn: cruddy, filthy, foul, nasty, smutty] 2: soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour" [syn: black, smutty] -
sobriety
n 1: the state of being sober and not intoxicated by alcohol [syn: soberness, sobriety] [ant: drunkenness, inebriation, inebriety, insobriety, intoxication, tipsiness] 2: moderation in or abstinence from alcohol or other drugs [syn: sobriety, dryness] 3: a manner that is serious and solemn [syn: graveness, gravity, sobriety, soberness, somberness, sombreness] 4: abstaining from excess [syn: sobriety, temperance] -
society
n 1: an extended social group having a distinctive cultural and economic organization 2: a formal association of people with similar interests; "he joined a golf club"; "they formed a small lunch society"; "men from the fraternal order will staff the soup kitchen today" [syn: club, social club, society, guild, gild, lodge, order] 3: the state of being with someone; "he missed their company"; "he enjoyed the society of his friends" [syn: company, companionship, fellowship, society] 4: the fashionable elite [syn: society, high society, beau monde, smart set, bon ton] -
sooty
adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy, sooty] 2: covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney" -
spontaneity
n 1: the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint; "the spontaneity of his laughter" [syn: spontaneity, spontaneousness] -
superfluity
n 1: extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches" [syn: overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment] -
suttee
n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband -
uppity
adj 1: presumptuously arrogant; "had a witty but overweening manner"; "no idea how overweening he would be"- S.V.Benet; "getting a little uppity and needed to be slapped down"- NY Times [syn: overweening, uppity] -
vacuity
n 1: the absence of matter [syn: vacuum, vacuity] 2: a region that is devoid of matter [syn: vacuum, vacuity] 3: total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness] -
variety
n 1: a collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley] 2: noticeable heterogeneity; "a diversity of possibilities"; "the range and variety of his work is amazing" [syn: diverseness, diversity, multifariousness, variety] 3: (biology) a taxonomic category consisting of members of a species that differ from others of the same species in minor but heritable characteristics; "varieties are frequently recognized in botany" 4: a show consisting of a series of short unrelated performances [syn: variety show, variety] 5: a category of things distinguished by some common characteristic or quality; "sculpture is a form of art"; "what kinds of desserts are there?" [syn: kind, sort, form, variety] 6: a difference that is usually pleasant; "he goes to France for variety"; "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic" [syn: variety, change] -
wapiti
n 1: large North American deer with large much-branched antlers in the male [syn: wapiti, elk, American elk, Cervus elaphus canadensis] 2: common deer of temperate Europe and Asia [syn: red deer, elk, American elk, wapiti, Cervus elaphus] -
tenuity
n 1: relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width; "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope" [syn: thinness, tenuity, slenderness] [ant: thickness] 2: a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" [syn: rarity, tenuity, low density] 3: the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne [syn: feebleness, tenuity] -
ubiety
n 1: the state of existing and being localized in space -
overanxiety
n 1: excessive anxiety -
haecceity
n 1: the essence that makes something the kind of thing it is and makes it different from any other [syn: quiddity, haecceity] -
velleity
n 1: a mere wish, unaccompanied by effort to obtain 2: volition in its weakest form -
circuity
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incorporeity
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instantaneity
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snippety
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innocuity
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aseity
See also inebriety definition and inebriety synonyms
