Words that rhyme with polytonality

  • atonality
    n 1: the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system [syn: atonality, atonalism] [ant: key, tonality]
  • banality
    n 1: a trite or obvious remark [syn: platitude, cliche, banality, commonplace, bromide]
  • cardinality
    n 1: (mathematics) the number of elements in a set or group (considered as a property of that grouping)
  • commonality
    n 1: a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank [syn: commonalty, commonality, commons] 2: sharing of common attributes [syn: commonality, commonness] [ant: individualism, individuality, individuation]
  • conditionality
    n 1: the state of being conditional
  • conventionality
    n 1: conformity with conventional thought and behavior 2: unoriginality as a result of being too conventional [ant: unconventionality] 3: orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional [syn: conventionality, convention, conventionalism] [ant: unconventionality]
  • criminality
    n 1: the state of being a criminal [syn: criminalism, criminality, criminalness]
  • dimensionality
    n 1: the spatial property of having dimensions; "all matter has dimensionality"
  • directionality
    n 1: the property of a microphone or antenna of being more sensitive in one direction than in another; "the antenna received signals with no directivity" [syn: directivity, directionality] 2: the property of being directional or maintaining a direction; "the directionality of written English is from left to right"
  • emotionality
    n 1: emotional nature or quality [syn: emotionality, emotionalism] [ant: emotionlessness, unemotionality]
  • externality
    n 1: the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior; "the outwardness of the world" [syn: outwardness, externality] [ant: inwardness]
  • functionality
    n 1: capable of serving a purpose well; "software with greater functionality"
  • internality
    n 1: preoccupation with what concerns human inner nature (especially ethical or ideological values); "Socrates' inwardness, integrity, and inquisitiveness"- H.R.Finch [syn: inwardness, internality] [ant: outwardness]
  • internationality
    n 1: quality of being international in scope; "he applauded the internationality of scientific terminology" [syn: internationality, internationalism]
  • irrationality
    n 1: the state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding [syn: irrationality, unreason]
  • marginality
    n 1: the property of being marginal or on the fringes [ant: centrality]
  • nationality
    n 1: people having common origins or traditions and often comprising a nation; "immigrants of the same nationality often seek each other out"; "such images define their sense of nationality" 2: the status of belonging to a particular nation by birth or naturalization
  • originality
    n 1: the ability to think and act independently 2: the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else) [ant: unoriginality]
  • personality
    n 1: the complex of all the attributes--behavioral, temperamental, emotional and mental--that characterize a unique individual; "their different reactions reflected their very different personalities"; "it is his nature to help others" 2: a person of considerable prominence; "she is a Hollywood personality"
  • proportionality
    n 1: a ratio of two quantities that is constant 2: harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design); "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin [syn: proportion, proportionality, balance]
  • rationality
    n 1: the state of having good sense and sound judgment; "his rationality may have been impaired"; "he had to rely less on reason than on rousing their emotions" [syn: rationality, reason, reasonableness] 2: the quality of being consistent with or based on logic [syn: rationality, rationalness]
  • 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]
  • 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"
  • suttee
    n 1: the act of a Hindu widow willingly cremating herself on the funeral pyre of her dead husband
  • tonality
    n 1: any of 24 major or minor diatonic scales that provide the tonal framework for a piece of music [syn: key, tonality] [ant: atonalism, atonality]
  • unconventionality
    n 1: originality by virtue of being unconventional [ant: conventionality] 2: unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional [ant: convention, conventionalism, conventionality]
  • communality
  • constitutionality
  • exceptionality
  • extensionality
  • impersonality
  • multidimensionality
  • seasonality
  • unconstitutionality
  • eternality
  • optionality

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