Words that rhyme with nonbusiness

n 1: a large-scale farming enterprise [syn: agribusiness, agriculture, factory farm]

n 1: a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it; "he bought his brother's business"; "a small mom-and-pop business"; "a racially integrated business concern" [syn: business, concern, business concern, business organization, business organisation] 2: the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects; "computers are now widely used in business" [syn: commercial enterprise, business enterprise, business] 3: the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money; "he's not in my line of business" [syn: occupation, business, job, line of work, line] 4: a rightful concern or responsibility; "it's none of your business"; "mind your own business" 5: an immediate objective; "gossip was the main business of the evening" 6: the volume of commercial activity; "business is good today"; "show me where the business was today" 7: business concerns collectively; "Government and business could not agree" [syn: business, business sector] 8: customers collectively; "they have an upper class clientele" [syn: clientele, patronage, business] 9: incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect; "his business with the cane was hilarious" [syn: business, stage business, byplay]

n 1: a feeling of being intimate and belonging together; "their closeness grew as the night wore on" [syn: closeness, intimacy] 2: the quality of being close and poorly ventilated [syn: stuffiness, closeness] 3: 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] 4: extreme stinginess [syn: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness] 5: characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) [syn: closeness, secretiveness] [ant: nakedness, openness] 6: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness]

n 1: absence of light or illumination [syn: dark, darkness] [ant: light, lighting] 2: an unilluminated area; "he moved off into the darkness" [syn: darkness, dark, shadow] 3: absence of moral or spiritual values; "the powers of darkness" [syn: iniquity, wickedness, darkness, dark] 4: an unenlightened state; "he was in the dark concerning their intentions"; "his lectures dispelled the darkness" [syn: dark, darkness] 5: having a dark or somber color [ant: lightness] 6: a swarthy complexion [syn: darkness, duskiness, swarthiness]

n 1: the quality of being mentally slow and limited [syn: denseness, dumbness, slow-wittedness] 2: the spatial property of being crowded together [syn: concentration, density, denseness, tightness, compactness] [ant: dispersion, distribution] 3: the amount per unit size [syn: density, denseness]

n 1: a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall [syn: dizziness, giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo]

n 1: the state of being false or untrue; "argument could not determine its truth or falsity" [syn: falsity, falseness] [ant: the true, trueness, truth, verity] 2: unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous [syn: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness, inconstancy] 3: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical [syn: insincerity, falseness, hollowness] [ant: sincerity]

n 1: the quality of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position" [syn: fitness, fittingness] [ant: unfitness] 2: good physical condition; being in shape or in condition [syn: fitness, physical fitness] [ant: softness, unfitness] 3: fitness to traverse the seas [syn: seaworthiness, fitness] 4: the quality of being qualified

n 1: compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive 2: the act of excusing a mistake or offense [syn: forgiveness, pardon]

n 1: that which is pleasing or valuable or useful; "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization" [syn: good, goodness] [ant: bad, badness] 2: moral excellence or admirableness; "there is much good to be found in people" [syn: good, goodness] [ant: evil, evilness]

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

n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]

n 1: the trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness]

n 1: the quality of being lax and neglectful [syn: laxness, laxity, remissness, slackness] 2: the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels" [syn: laxness, laxity]

n 1: a state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness] 2: informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish] 3: soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge" 4: a meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel 5: a (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax [syn: mess, mess hall] 6: (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad] v 1: eat in a mess hall 2: make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" [syn: mess, mess up]

n 1: an adulterous woman; a woman who has an ongoing extramarital sexual relationship with a man [syn: mistress, kept woman, fancy woman] 2: a woman schoolteacher (especially one regarded as strict) [syn: schoolmarm, schoolma'am, schoolmistress, mistress] 3: a woman master who directs the work of others

n 1: a gloomy ill-tempered feeling [syn: moroseness, glumness, sullenness] 2: a sullen moody resentful disposition [syn: sulkiness, sullenness, moroseness, sourness]

n 1: a female member of a royal family other than the queen (especially the daughter of a sovereign)

n 1: skillful performance or ability without difficulty; "his quick adeptness was a product of good design"; "he was famous for his facility as an archer" [syn: adeptness, adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness] 2: intelligence as revealed by an ability to give correct responses without delay [syn: mental quickness, quickness, quick-wittedness] 3: a rate that is rapid [syn: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness]

n 1: the state of being actual or real; "the reality of his situation slowly dawned on him" [syn: reality, realness, realism] [ant: irreality, unreality]

n 1: impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism [syn: illness, unwellness, malady, sickness] [ant: health, wellness] 2: defectiveness or unsoundness; "drugs have become a sickness they cannot cure"; "a great sickness of his judgment" 3: the state that precedes vomiting [syn: nausea, sickness]

n 1: the physical property of being inflexible and hard to bend 2: the property of moving with pain or difficulty; "he awoke with a painful stiffness in his neck" 3: firm resoluteness in purpose or opinion or action; "a charming host without any touch of stiffness or pomposity" 4: the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) [syn: awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness] 5: 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 physical condition of being stretched or strained; "it places great tension on the leg muscles"; "he could feel the tenseness of her body" [syn: tension, tensity, tenseness, tautness] 2: (psychology) a state of mental or emotional strain or suspense; "he suffered from fatigue and emotional tension"; "stress is a vasoconstrictor" [syn: tension, tenseness, stress]

n 1: the dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width [ant: slenderness, tenuity, thinness] 2: indistinct articulation; "judging from the thickness of his speech he had been drinking heavily" 3: used of a line or mark [syn: thickness, heaviness] 4: resistance to flow [ant: thinness]

n 1: an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words [syn: verboseness, verbosity] [ant: terseness]

n 1: a flaw or weak point; "he was quick to point out his wife's failings" [syn: failing, weakness] 2: powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains active" [syn: helplessness, weakness, impuissance] 3: the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed" [ant: strength] 4: the condition of being financially weak; "the weakness of the dollar against the yen" [ant: strength] 5: a penchant for something even though it might not be good for you; "he has a weakness for chocolate"

n 1: someone who sees an event and reports what happened [syn: witness, witnesser, informant] 2: a close observer; someone who looks at something (such as an exhibition of some kind); "the spectators applauded the performance"; "television viewers"; "sky watchers discovered a new star" [syn: spectator, witness, viewer, watcher, looker] 3: testimony by word or deed to your religious faith 4: (law) a person who attests to the genuineness of a document or signature by adding their own signature [syn: witness, attestant, attestor, attestator] 5: (law) a person who testifies under oath in a court of law v 1: be a witness to; "She witnessed the accident and had to testify in court" 2: perceive or be contemporaneous with; "We found Republicans winning the offices"; "You'll see a lot of cheating in this school"; "The 1960's saw the rebellion of the younger generation against established traditions"; "I want to see results" [syn: witness, find, see]

adv 1: without defense; "the child was standing in the middle of the crossfire, defenselessly" [syn: defenseless, defenceless, defenselessly, defencelessly] adj 1: lacking protection or support; "a defenseless child" [syn: defenseless, defenceless] 2: having no protecting or concealing cover; "naked to mine enemies"- Shakespeare [syn: naked, defenseless] 3: lacking weapons for self-defense [syn: defenseless, defenceless]