Words that rhyme with oviparity

n 1: the property of being equally skillful with each hand [syn: ambidexterity, ambidextrousness]

n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 2: harshness of manner [syn: asperity, sharpness] [ant: bluntness, dullness]

n 1: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) [syn: austerity, asceticism, nonindulgence]

n 1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness] 2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery]

n 1: a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries [syn: capillarity, capillary action]

adj 1: resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant; "a boy with carroty hair"

n 1: a rate that is rapid [syn: celerity, quickness, rapidity, rapidness, speediness]

n 1: a foundation created to promote the public good (not for assistance to any particular individuals) 2: a kindly and lenient attitude toward people [syn: charity, brotherly love] 3: an activity or gift that benefits the public at large 4: pinnate-leaved European perennial having bright blue or white flowers [syn: Jacob's ladder, Greek valerian, charity, Polemonium caeruleum, Polemonium van-bruntiae, Polymonium caeruleum van-bruntiae] 5: an institution set up to provide help to the needy

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]

n 1: adroitness in using the hands [syn: dexterity, manual dexterity, sleight]

n 1: inequality or difference in some respect

n 1: personal knowledge or information about someone or something [syn: acquaintance, familiarity, conversance, conversancy] 2: usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known [ant: strangeness, unfamiliarity] 3: close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy" [syn: familiarity, intimacy, closeness] 4: a casual manner [syn: casualness, familiarity] 5: an act of undue intimacy [syn: familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty]

n 1: great merriment [syn: hilarity, mirth, mirthfulness, glee, gleefulness]

n 1: the quality of not being open or truthful; deceitful or hypocritical [syn: insincerity, falseness, hollowness] [ant: sincerity]

n 1: the state of being isolated or detached; "the insulation of England was preserved by the English Channel" [syn: insulation, insularity, insularism, detachment]

n 1: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality [syn: abnormality, irregularity] 2: not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals [syn: irregularity, unregularity] [ant: regularity] 3: an irregular asymmetry in shape; an irregular spatial pattern [syn: irregularity, geometrical irregularity] 4: irregular and infrequent or difficult evacuation of the bowels; can be a symptom of intestinal obstruction or diverticulitis [syn: constipation, irregularity]

n 1: the property of having one dimension [syn: one- dimensionality, linearity]

n 1: (obstetrics) the number of liveborn children a woman has delivered; "the parity of the mother must be considered"; "a bipara is a woman who has given birth to two children" [syn: parity, para] 2: (mathematics) a relation between a pair of integers: if both integers are odd or both are even they have the same parity; if one is odd and the other is even they have different parity; "parity is often used to check the integrity of transmitted data" 3: (computer science) a bit that is used in an error detection procedure in which a 0 or 1 is added to each group of bits so that it will have either an odd number of 1's or an even number of 1's; e.g., if the parity is odd then any group of bits that arrives with an even number of 1's must contain an error [syn: parity bit, parity, check bit] 4: (physics) parity is conserved in a universe in which the laws of physics are the same in a right-handed system of coordinates as in a left-handed system [syn: parity, conservation of parity, space-reflection symmetry, mirror symmetry] 5: functional equality

n 1: an odd or unusual characteristic [syn: peculiarity, distinctive feature, distinguishing characteristic] 2: a distinguishing trait [syn: peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness] 3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

n 1: a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies; "he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil" [syn: mutual opposition, polarity] 2: having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign" [syn: polarity, sign]

n 1: the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after; "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies" [ant: unpopularity]

n 1: all of the offspring of a given progenitor; "we must secure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and our posterity" [syn: descendants, posterity] 2: all future generations

n 1: an economic state of growth with rising profits and full employment 2: the condition of prospering; having good fortune [syn: prosperity, successfulness]

n 1: noteworthy scarcity [syn: rarity, rareness, infrequency] 2: a rarified quality; "the tenuity of the upper atmosphere" [syn: rarity, tenuity, low density] 3: something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting [syn: curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity]

n 1: a property of polygons: the property of having equal sides and equal angles [syn: regularity, geometrical regularity] 2: the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits" [ant: irregularity, unregularity]

n 1: used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather [syn: badness, severity, severeness] 2: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 3: extreme plainness [syn: austereness, severity, severeness] 4: 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 quality of being similar [ant: dissimilarity, unsimilarity] 2: a Gestalt principle of organization holding that (other things being equal) parts of a stimulus field that are similar to each other tend to be perceived as belonging together as a unit [syn: similarity, law of similarity]

n 1: an earnest and sincere feeling [syn: earnestness, seriousness, sincerity] 2: the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical; "his sincerity inspired belief"; "they demanded some proof of my sincerity" [ant: falseness, hollowness, insincerity] 3: a quality of naturalness and simplicity; "the simple sincerity of folk songs" [syn: sincerity, unassumingness] 4: the trait of being serious; "a lack of solemnity is not necessarily a lack of seriousness"- Robert Rice [syn: seriousness, earnestness, serious-mindedness, sincerity] [ant: frivolity, frivolousness]

n 1: a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group

n 1: fearless daring [syn: audacity, audaciousness, temerity]

n 1: unusualness as a consequence of not being well known [syn: unfamiliarity, strangeness] [ant: familiarity]

n 1: the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance [ant: popularity]

n 1: conformity to reality or actuality; "they debated the truth of the proposition"; "the situation brought home to us the blunt truth of the military threat"; "he was famous for the truth of his portraits"; "he turned to religion in his search for eternal verities" [syn: truth, the true, verity, trueness] [ant: falseness, falsity] 2: an enduring or necessary ethical or religious or aesthetic truth

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

n 1: concentration measured by the number of moles of solute per liter of solution [syn: molarity, molar concentration, M]