Words that rhyme with minority

• authority 5
  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: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew" 3: an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law" 4: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness] 5: an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn: agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority] 6: official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, sanction] 7: an authoritative written work; "this book is the final authority on the life of Milton"
• entirety 0
  n 1: the state of being total and complete; "he read the article in its entirety"; "appalled by the totality of the destruction" [syn: entirety, entireness, integrality, totality]
• futurity 0
  n 1: the time yet to come [syn: future, hereafter, futurity, time to come] [ant: past, past times, yesteryear] 2: the quality of being in or of the future [ant: nowness, pastness, presentness]
• immaturity 0
  n 1: not having reached maturity [syn: immaturity, immatureness] [ant: matureness, maturity]
• impurity 0
  n 1: worthless or dangerous material that should be removed; "there were impurities in the water" [syn: impurity, dross] 2: the condition of being impure [syn: impurity, impureness] [ant: pureness, purity]
• inferiority 0
  n 1: the state of being inferior [syn: inferiority, lower status, lower rank] 2: an inferior quality [syn: inferiority, low quality] [ant: high quality, superiority] 3: the quality of being a competitive disadvantage [syn: inferiority, unfavorable position]
• majority 0
  n 1: the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; "the majority of his customers prefer it"; "the bulk of the work is finished" [syn: majority, bulk] [ant: minority] 2: (elections) more than half of the votes [syn: majority, absolute majority] 3: the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs [syn: majority, legal age] [ant: minority, nonage]
• maturity 0
  n 1: the period of time in your life after your physical growth has stopped and you are fully developed [syn: adulthood, maturity] 2: state of being mature; full development [syn: maturity, matureness] [ant: immatureness, immaturity] 3: the date on which an obligation must be repaid [syn: maturity, maturity date, due date]
• obscurity 0
  n 1: the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand [syn: obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness] [ant: clarity, clearness, limpidity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity] 2: an obscure and unimportant standing; not well known; "he worked in obscurity for many years" [ant: prominence] 3: the state of being indistinct or indefinite for lack of adequate illumination [syn: obscurity, obscureness]
• priority 0
  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]
• purity 0
  n 1: being undiluted or unmixed with extraneous material [syn: purity, pureness] [ant: impureness, impurity] 2: the state of being unsullied by sin or moral wrong; lacking a knowledge of evil [syn: purity, pureness, sinlessness, innocence, whiteness] 3: a woman's virtue or chastity [syn: honor, honour, purity, pureness]
• security 0
  n 1: the state of being free from danger or injury; "we support the armed services in the name of national security" [ant: insecurity] 2: defense against financial failure; financial independence; "his pension gave him security in his old age"; "insurance provided protection against loss of wages due to illness" [syn: security, protection] 3: freedom from anxiety or fear; "the watch dog gave her a feeling of security" 4: a formal declaration that documents a fact of relevance to finance and investment; the holder has a right to receive interest or dividends; "he held several valuable securities" [syn: security, certificate] 5: property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation; "bankers are reluctant to lend without good security" [syn: security, surety] 6: a department responsible for the security of the institution's property and workers; "the head of security was a former policeman" [syn: security, security department] 7: a guarantee that an obligation will be met [syn: security, surety] 8: an electrical device that sets off an alarm when someone tries to break in [syn: security system, security measure, security] 9: measures taken as a precaution against theft or espionage or sabotage etc.; "military security has been stepped up since the recent uprising" [syn: security, security measures]
• seniority 0
  n 1: higher rank than that of others especially by reason of longer service [syn: seniority, senior status, higher status, higher rank] 2: the property of being long-lived [syn: longevity, seniority]
• smutty 0
  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]
• sonority 0
  n 1: having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant [syn: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonorousness, sonority, vibrancy]
• sooty 0
  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"
• sorority 0
  n 1: a social club for female undergraduates
• superiority 0
  n 1: the quality of being superior [syn: superiority, high quality] [ant: inferiority, low quality] 2: the quality of being at a competitive advantage [syn: superiority, favorable position, favourable position] 3: displaying a sense of being better than others; "he hated the white man's superiority and condescension" 4: the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits [syn: transcendence, transcendency, superiority]
• surety 0
  n 1: something clearly established 2: property that your creditor can claim in case you default on your obligation; "bankers are reluctant to lend without good security" [syn: security, surety] 3: a prisoner who is held by one party to insure that another party will meet specified terms [syn: hostage, surety] 4: one who provides a warrant or guarantee to another [syn: guarantor, surety, warrantor, warranter] 5: a guarantee that an obligation will be met [syn: security, surety]
• suttee 0
  n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
• anteriority 0
  n 1: the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head [ant: posteriority] 2: preceding in time [syn: priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency] [ant: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness]
• exteriority 0
• dority 0
• juniority 0

See also minority definition and minority synonyms