Words that rhyme with insignificancy

n 1: the property of being absorbent [ant: nonabsorbency]

n 1: the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business [syn: accountancy, accounting]

n 1: the process of being heedful [syn: advertence, advertency]

n 1: a feeling of craving something; "an appetite for life"; "the object of life is to satisfy as many appetencies as possible"- Granville Hicks [syn: appetite, appetency, appetence]

n 1: the state that exists when one person or group has power over another; "her apparent dominance of her husband was really her attempt to make him pay attention to her" [syn: dominance, ascendance, ascendence, ascendancy, ascendency, control]

n 1: the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable"

n 1: the post of captain [syn: captainship, captaincy]

n 1: the position of chieftain [syn: chieftaincy, chieftainship]

n 1: the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually [syn: competence, competency] [ant: incompetence, incompetency]

n 1: the property of holding together and retaining its shape; "wool has more body than rayon"; "when the dough has enough consistency it is ready to bake" [syn: consistency, consistence, eubstance, body] 2: a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts [syn: consistency, consistence] [ant: inconsistency] 3: logical coherence and accordance with the facts; "a rambling argument that lacked any consistency" 4: (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another

n 1: the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation; "early mariners relied on the constancy of the trade winds" [syn: constancy, stability] [ant: changefulness, inconstancy] 2: (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation [syn: constancy, perceptual constancy] 3: faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity)

n 1: the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field; "a business management consultancy"

n 1: the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else [syn: dependence, dependance, dependency] 2: being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) [syn: addiction, dependence, dependance, dependency, habituation] 3: a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country [syn: colony, dependency]

n 1: feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless [syn: despondency, despondence, heartsickness, disconsolateness]

n 1: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance] 2: an event that departs from expectations [syn: discrepancy, variance, variant]

n 1: an expectation [syn: anticipation, expectancy] 2: something expected (as on the basis of a norm); "each of them had their own anticipations"; "an indicator of expectancy in development" [syn: anticipation, expectancy]

n 1: the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth; "we were surprised by the extravagance of his description" [syn: extravagance, extravagancy]

n 1: a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something [syn: hesitance, hesitancy] 2: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition]

n 1: the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble [syn: powerlessness, impotence, impotency] [ant: power, powerfulness] 2: an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate [syn: impotence, impotency] [ant: potence, potency]

n 1: the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities [syn: unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency] [ant: heedfulness, mindfulness]

n 1: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time [syn: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, inconsistency, repugnance] 2: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts [ant: consistence, consistency]

n 1: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy] 2: the quality of being changeable and variable [syn: inconstancy, changefulness] [ant: constancy, stability]

n 1: the term during which some position is held [syn: tenure, term of office, incumbency] 2: a duty that is incumbent upon you 3: the office of an incumbent

n 1: freedom from control or influence of another or others [syn: independence, independency]

n 1: the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men); "he studied the creation and inhabitation and demise of the colony" [syn: inhabitancy, inhabitation, habitation]

n 1: the state of demanding notice or attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "the press of business matters" [syn: imperativeness, insistence, insistency, press, pressure] 2: the act of insisting on something; "insistence on grammatical correctness is a conservative position" [syn: insistence, insistency]

n 1: a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) [syn: mutuality, interdependence, interdependency]

n 1: the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping [syn: intermittence, intermittency]

n 1: an appearance of reflected light [syn: gleam, gleaming, glow, lambency]

n 1: (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head [syn: rotational latency, latency] 2: the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it [syn: reaction time, response time, latency, latent period] 3: the state of being not yet evident or active

n 1: the state of being a beggar or mendicant; "they were reduced to mendicancy" [syn: beggary, mendicancy, mendicity] 2: a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) [syn: beggary, begging, mendicancy]

n 1: a militant aggressiveness [syn: combativeness, militance, militancy]

n 1: an act of being a tenant or occupant [syn: occupancy, tenancy] 2: the act of occupying or taking possession of a building; "occupation of a building without a certificate of occupancy is illegal" [syn: occupation, occupancy, moving in]

n 1: persistent determination [syn: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, tenacity, tenaciousness, pertinacity]

n 1: a tart spicy quality [syn: nip, piquance, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest] 2: the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting [syn: piquancy, piquance, piquantness]

n 1: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so] 2: capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects; "the toxin's potency"; "the strength of the drinks" [syn: potency, effectiveness, strength] 3: the inherent capacity for coming into being [syn: potential, potentiality, potency] 4: the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse [syn: potency, potence] [ant: impotence, impotency]

n 1: the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning [syn: abruptness, precipitateness, precipitousness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness]

n 1: the tenure of a president; "things were quiet during the Eisenhower administration" [syn: presidency, presidential term, administration] 2: the office and function of president; "Andrew Jackson expanded the power of the presidency beyond what was customary before his time" [syn: presidency, presidentship]

n 1: repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission 2: the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers" [syn: redundancy, redundance] 3: (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails 4: repetition of an act needlessly

n 1: the act of dwelling in a place [syn: residency, residence, abidance] 2: the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship)

n 1: having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound [syn: shrillness, stridence, stridency]

n 1: an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others; "he had an inclination to give up too easily"; "a tendency to be too strict" [syn: inclination, disposition, tendency] 2: an inclination to do something; "he felt leanings toward frivolity" [syn: leaning, propensity, tendency] 3: a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect; "the alkaline inclination of the local waters"; "fabric with a tendency to shrink" [syn: tendency, inclination] 4: a general direction in which something tends to move; "the shoreward tendency of the current"; "the trend of the stock market" [syn: tendency, trend]

n 1: being unoccupied 2: an empty area or space; "the huge desert voids"; "the emptiness of outer space"; "without their support he'll be ruling in a vacuum" [syn: void, vacancy, emptiness, vacuum]

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]

n 1: lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications [syn: incompetence, incompetency] [ant: competence, competency]

n 1: the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct 2: the property of being easy to see and understand [syn: obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness, patency]

n 1: a recurrent rhythmical series [syn: cadence, cadency]

n 1: the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication" [syn: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy] 2: the quality of being insistent; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy" [syn: imperativeness, instancy]

n 1: the state of being predominant over others [syn: predominance, predomination, prepotency]

n 1: status established in order of importance or urgency; "...its precedence as the world's leading manufacturer of pharmaceuticals"; "national independence takes priority over class struggle" [syn: precedence, precedency, priority] 2: preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency] [ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness] 3: the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) [syn: precession, precedence, precedency]