Words that rhyme with righteousness

  • agelessness
    n 1: the quality of being timeless and eternal
  • aimlessness
    n 1: the quality of lacking any definite purpose [syn: purposelessness, aimlessness] [ant: purposefulness, sense of purpose]
  • amorousness
    n 1: a feeling of love or fondness [syn: amorousness, enamoredness] 2: the arousal of feelings of sexual desire [syn: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness, amativeness]
  • anxiousness
    n 1: (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic [syn: anxiety, anxiousness] 2: a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments [syn: anxiousness, disquiet]
  • arduousness
    n 1: extreme effortfulness [syn: arduousness, strenuousness]
  • biliousness
    n 1: gastric distress caused by a disorder of the liver or gall bladder 2: a disposition to exhibit uncontrolled anger; "his temper was well known to all his employees" [syn: temper, biliousness, irritability, peevishness, pettishness, snappishness, surliness]
  • callousness
    n 1: devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness [syn: unfeelingness, callousness, callosity, hardness, insensibility]
  • carelessness
    n 1: the quality of not being careful or taking pains [syn: carelessness, sloppiness] [ant: carefulness] 2: failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances [syn: negligence, carelessness, neglect, nonperformance]
  • cautiousness
    n 1: the trait of being cautious; being attentive to possible danger; "a man of caution" [syn: caution, cautiousness, carefulness] [ant: incaution, incautiousness]
  • copiousness
    n 1: the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance" [syn: abundance, copiousness, teemingness] [ant: scarceness, scarcity]
  • covetousness
    n 1: an envious eagerness to possess something 2: extreme greed for material wealth [syn: avarice, avariciousness, covetousness, cupidity] 3: reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins) [syn: avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia]
  • curiousness
    n 1: a state of active curiosity [syn: curiousness, inquisitiveness] 2: the quality of being alien or not native; "the strangeness of a foreigner" [syn: foreignness, strangeness, curiousness] [ant: nativeness]
  • decorousness
    n 1: propriety in manners and conduct [syn: decorum, decorousness] [ant: indecorousness, indecorum]
  • deviousness
    n 1: the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly [syn: deviousness, obliqueness] 2: the quality of being deceitful and underhanded [syn: crookedness, deviousness]
  • dubiousness
    n 1: the state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness] [ant: certainty] 2: uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise" [syn: doubt, dubiousness, doubtfulness, question]
  • endlessness
    n 1: the property of being (or seeming to be) without end
  • enormousness
    n 1: unusual largeness in size or extent or number [syn: enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness, wideness]
  • enviousness
    n 1: a feeling of grudging admiration and desire to have something that is possessed by another [syn: envy, enviousness]
  • fatuousness
    n 1: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior" [syn: absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness]
  • fearlessness
    n 1: feeling no fear [syn: fearlessness, bravery] [ant: fear, fearfulness, fright] 2: the trait of feeling no fear [ant: fearfulness]
  • flawlessness
    n 1: the state of being without a flaw or defect [syn: perfection, flawlessness, ne plus ultra] [ant: imperfection, imperfectness]
  • gaseousness
    n 1: having the consistency of a gas
  • generousness
    n 1: the trait of being willing to give your money or time [syn: generosity, generousness] [ant: stinginess]
  • gibbousness
    n 1: something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings; "the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge"; "the hump of a camel"; "he stood on the rocky prominence"; "the occipital protuberance was well developed"; "the bony excrescence between its horns" [syn: bulge, bump, hump, swelling, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence]
  • godlessness
    n 1: the doctrine or belief that there is no God [syn: atheism, godlessness] [ant: theism] 2: impiety by virtue of not being a godly person [syn: ungodliness, godlessness] [ant: godliness]
  • graciousness
    n 1: excellence of manners or social conduct [ant: ungraciousness] 2: the quality of being kind and gentle [syn: benignity, benignancy, graciousness] [ant: malignance, malignancy, malignity]
  • gutlessness
    n 1: the trait of lacking courage and determination; fearful of loss or injury [ant: gutsiness, pluck, pluckiness]
  • hairlessness
    n 1: the condition of being void of hair [syn: hairlessness, depilation] 2: the quality of not having hair [ant: hairiness, pilosity]
  • heedlessness
    n 1: a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) [syn: inattentiveness, heedlessness] [ant: attentiveness, heed, paying attention, regard] 2: the trait of acting rashly and without prudence [syn: heedlessness, mindlessness, rashness] 3: the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities [syn: unmindfulness, heedlessness, inadvertence, inadvertency] [ant: heedfulness, mindfulness]
  • heinousness
    n 1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness]
  • helplessness
    n 1: powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains active" [syn: helplessness, weakness, impuissance] 2: the state of needing help from something 3: a feeling of being unable to manage
  • hideousness
    n 1: dreadful ugliness; horrible repulsiveness
  • hopelessness
    n 1: the despair you feel when you have abandoned hope of comfort or success [ant: hopefulness]
  • humorousness
    n 1: the trait of merry joking [syn: jocoseness, jocosity, merriness, humorousness]
  • idleness
    n 1: having no employment [syn: idleness, idling, loafing] 2: the quality of lacking substance or value; "the groundlessness of their report was quickly recognized" [syn: groundlessness, idleness] 3: the trait of being idle out of a reluctance to work [syn: faineance, idleness]
  • joylessness
    n 1: a feeling of dismal cheerlessness
  • joyousness
    n 1: the emotion of great happiness [syn: joy, joyousness, joyfulness] [ant: sorrow]
  • lawlessness
    n 1: a state of lawlessness and disorder (usually resulting from a failure of government) [syn: anarchy, lawlessness] 2: illegality as a consequence of unlawful acts; defiance of the law [syn: lawlessness, outlawry]
  • lifelessness
    n 1: a state of no motion or movement; "the utter motionlessness of a marble statue" [syn: motionlessness, stillness, lifelessness] [ant: motion] 2: not having life [syn: inanimateness, lifelessness] [ant: aliveness, animateness, liveness]
  • listlessness
    n 1: a feeling of lack of interest or energy [syn: languor, lassitude, listlessness] 2: inactivity resulting from lethargy and lack of vigor or energy [syn: listlessness, torpidity, torpidness, torpor]
  • lusciousness
    n 1: extreme appetizingness [syn: delectability, deliciousness, lusciousness, toothsomeness]
  • mindlessness
    n 1: total lack of meaning or ideas [syn: inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness] 2: the trait of acting rashly and without prudence [syn: heedlessness, mindlessness, rashness]
  • nervousness
    n 1: the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters [syn: jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness, restiveness] 2: an uneasy psychological state; "he suffered an attack of nerves" [syn: nervousness, nerves] 3: a sensitive or highly strung temperament
  • noxiousness
    n 1: the quality of being noxious [syn: harmfulness, noisomeness, noxiousness]
  • numerousness
    n 1: a large number [syn: numerousness, numerosity, multiplicity]
  • obviousness
    n 1: the property of being easy to see and understand [syn: obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness, patency]
  • odiousness
    n 1: the quality of being offensive [syn: offensiveness, odiousness, distastefulness]
  • pompousness
    n 1: lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity [syn: ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness, inflation]
  • preciousness
    n 1: the quality possessed by something with a great price or value [syn: costliness, dearness, preciousness] 2: the positive quality of being precious and beyond value [syn: invaluableness, preciousness, pricelessness, valuableness] 3: the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined [syn: preciosity, preciousness]
  • quietness
    n 1: the property of making no sound [syn: quietness, soundlessness] 2: a state of peace and quiet [syn: tranquillity, tranquility, quietness, quietude]
  • ravenousness
    n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness]
  • recklessness
    n 1: the trait of giving little thought to danger [syn: recklessness, foolhardiness, rashness]
  • restlessness
    n 1: the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; "the restlessness of the wind" 2: a lack of patience; irritation with anything that causes delay [syn: restlessness, impatience] 3: a feeling of agitation expressed in continual motion; "he's got the fidgets"; "waiting gave him a feeling of restlessness" [syn: fidget, fidgetiness, restlessness] 4: inability to rest or relax or be still [syn: restlessness, uneasiness, queasiness]
  • righteous
    adj 1: characterized by or proceeding from accepted standards of morality or justice; "the...prayer of a righteous man availeth much"- James 5:16 [ant: unrighteous] 2: morally justified; "righteous indignation"
  • righteously
    adv 1: in a righteous manner; "righteously indignant" [ant: unrighteously]
  • rigorousness
    n 1: something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters" [syn: asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, severeness, rigorousness, rigourousness] 2: 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]
  • riotous
    adj 1: produced or growing in extreme abundance; "their riotous blooming" [syn: exuberant, lush, luxuriant, profuse, riotous] 2: characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination; "effects of the struggle will be violent and disruptive"; "riotous times"; "these troubled areas"; "the tumultuous years of his administration"; "a turbulent and unruly childhood" [syn: disruptive, riotous, troubled, tumultuous, turbulent] 3: unrestrained by convention or morality; "Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society"; "deplorably dissipated and degraded"; "riotous living"; "fast women" [syn: debauched, degenerate, degraded, dissipated, dissolute, libertine, profligate, riotous, fast]
  • ruthlessness
    n 1: mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity [syn: pitilessness, ruthlessness] 2: feelings of extreme heartlessness [syn: cruelty, mercilessness, pitilessness, ruthlessness]
  • sedulousness
    n 1: the quality of being constantly diligent and attentive [syn: sedulity, sedulousness]
  • selflessness
    n 1: the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others [syn: altruism, selflessness] [ant: egocentrism, egoism, self-centeredness, self-concern, self- interest] 2: acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity [syn: selflessness, self-sacrifice]
  • sensuousness
    n 1: a sensuous feeling
  • seriousness
    n 1: an earnest and sincere feeling [syn: earnestness, seriousness, sincerity] 2: the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness" [syn: seriousness, distressfulness] 3: 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]
  • spaciousness
    n 1: spatial largeness and extensiveness (especially inside a building); "the capaciousness of Santa's bag astounded the child"; "roominess in this size car is always a compromise"; "his new office lacked the spaciousness that he had become accustomed to" [syn: capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness, commodiousness]
  • speciousness
    n 1: an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility; "the speciousness of his argument" [syn: speciousness, meretriciousness]
  • spotlessness
    n 1: the state of being spotlessly clean [syn: spotlessness, immaculateness]
  • spuriousness
    n 1: state of lacking genuineness [ant: genuineness]
  • studiousness
    n 1: diligent study
  • tactlessness
    n 1: the quality of lacking tact [ant: tact, tactfulness]
  • tediousness
    n 1: dullness owing to length or slowness [syn: tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness]
  • timelessness
    n 1: a state of eternal existence believed in some religions to characterize the afterlife [syn: eternity, timelessness, timeless existence]
  • timorousness
    n 1: fear of the unknown or unfamiliar or fear of making decisions [syn: timidity, timidness, timorousness] 2: fearfulness in venturing into new and unknown places or activities [syn: timidity, timorousness] [ant: boldness, daring, hardihood, hardiness]
  • tirelessness
    n 1: tireless determination [syn: indefatigability, indefatigableness, tirelessness]
  • uselessness
    n 1: the quality of having no practical use [syn: inutility, uselessness, unusefulness] [ant: usefulness, utility]
  • viciousness
    n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery]
  • virtuousness
    n 1: the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong [syn: virtue, virtuousness, moral excellence]
  • chitinous
    adj 1: of or resembling chitin
  • libelous
    adj 1: (used of statements) harmful and often untrue; tending to discredit or malign [syn: calumniatory, calumnious, defamatory, denigrative, denigrating, denigratory, libellous, libelous, slanderous]
  • pilotless
    adj 1: lacking a pilot; "a drone is a pilotless aircraft"
  • porousness
    n 1: the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids [syn: porosity, porousness] [ant: solidity, solidness]
  • airlessness
  • facelessness
  • footlessness
  • formlessness
  • gloriousness
  • gorgeousness
  • grievousness
  • haplessness
  • harmlessness
  • jealousness
  • joblessness
  • needlessness
  • painlessness
  • raucousness
  • riotousness
  • tenuousness
  • vigorousness
  • wondrousness
  • zealousness
  • landlessness
  • ominousness

See also righteousness definition