Words that rhyme with salience

• absence 0
  n 1: the state of being absent; "he was surprised by the absence of any explanation" [ant: presence] 2: failure to be present [ant: presence] 3: the time interval during which something or somebody is away; "he visited during my absence" 4: the occurrence of an abrupt, transient loss or impairment of consciousness (which is not subsequently remembered), sometimes with light twitching, fluttering eyelids, etc.; common in petit mal epilepsy [syn: absence, absence seizure]
• ambience 0
  n 1: a particular environment or surrounding influence; "there was an atmosphere of excitement" [syn: atmosphere, ambiance, ambience] 2: the atmosphere of an environment [syn: ambiance, ambience]
• audience 0
  n 1: a gathering of spectators or listeners at a (usually public) performance; "the audience applauded"; "someone in the audience began to cough" 2: the part of the general public interested in a source of information or entertainment; "every artist needs an audience"; "the broadcast reached an audience of millions" 3: an opportunity to state your case and be heard; "they condemned him without a hearing"; "he saw that he had lost his audience" [syn: hearing, audience] 4: a conference (usually with someone important); "he had a consultation with the judge"; "he requested an audience with the king" [syn: consultation, audience, interview]
• beneficence 0
  n 1: doing good; feeling beneficent [ant: maleficence] 2: the quality of being kind or helpful or generous [ant: balefulness, maleficence, mischief]
• benevolence 0
  n 1: disposition to do good [ant: malevolence, malignity] 2: an inclination to do kind or charitable acts 3: an act intending or showing kindness and good will [syn: benevolence, benefaction]
• brilliance 0
  n 1: a light within the field of vision that is brighter than the brightness to which the eyes are adapted; "a glare of sunlight" [syn: glare, blaze, brilliance] 2: the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand; "for magnificence and personal service there is the Queen's hotel"; "his `Hamlet' lacks the brilliance that one expects"; "it is the university that gives the scene its stately splendor"; "an imaginative mix of old-fashioned grandeur and colorful art"; "advertisers capitalize on the grandness and elegance it brings to their products" [syn: magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness] 3: unusual mental ability [syn: brilliance, genius]
• convenience 0
  n 1: the state of being suitable or opportune; "chairs arranged for his own convenience" 2: the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan" [ant: inconvenience] 3: a toilet that is available to the public [syn: public toilet, comfort station, public convenience, convenience, public lavatory, restroom, toilet facility, wash room] 4: a device or control that is very useful for a particular job [syn: appliance, contraption, contrivance, convenience, gadget, gizmo, gismo, widget]
• convergence 0
  n 1: the occurrence of two or more things coming together 2: the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit [syn: convergence, convergency] [ant: divergence, divergency] 3: a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals" [syn: overlap, convergence, intersection] 4: the act of converging (coming closer) [syn: convergence, converging, convergency]
• corpulence 0
  n 1: the property of excessive fatness [syn: corpulence, overweight, stoutness, adiposis]
• counterbalance 0
  n 1: a weight that balances another weight [syn: counterweight, counterbalance, counterpoise, balance, equalizer, equaliser] 2: equality of distribution [syn: balance, equilibrium, equipoise, counterbalance] 3: a compensating equivalent [syn: counterbalance, offset] v 1: adjust for; "engineers will work to correct the effects or air resistance" [syn: compensate, counterbalance, correct, make up, even out, even off, even up] 2: contrast with equal weight or force [syn: oppose, counterbalance] 3: oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions; "This will counteract the foolish actions of my colleagues" [syn: counteract, countervail, neutralize, counterbalance]
• counterintelligence 0
  n 1: intelligence activities concerned with identifying and counteracting the threat to security posed by hostile intelligence organizations or by individuals engaged in espionage or sabotage or subversion or terrorism
• covariance 0
  n 1: (statistics) the mean value of the product of the deviations of two variates from their respective means
• dalliance 0
  n 1: the deliberate act of delaying and playing instead of working [syn: dalliance, dawdling, trifling] 2: playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest [syn: flirt, flirting, flirtation, coquetry, dalliance, toying]
• deviance 0
  n 1: a state or condition markedly different from the norm [syn: aberrance, aberrancy, aberration, deviance] 2: deviate behavior [syn: deviation, deviance]
• diligence 0
  n 1: conscientiousness in paying proper attention to a task; giving the degree of care required in a given situation 2: persevering determination to perform a task; "his diligence won him quick promotions"; "frugality and industry are still regarded as virtues" [syn: diligence, industriousness, industry] 3: a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application" [syn: application, diligence]
• disobedience 0
  n 1: the failure to obey [syn: disobedience, noncompliance] [ant: abidance, compliance, conformation, conformity, obedience, obeisance] 2: the trait of being unwilling to obey [ant: obedience]
• divergence 0
  n 1: the act of moving away in different direction from a common point; "an angle is formed by the divergence of two straight lines" [syn: divergence, divergency] 2: a variation that deviates from the standard or norm; "the deviation from the mean" [syn: deviation, divergence, departure, difference] 3: an infinite series that has no limit [syn: divergence, divergency] [ant: convergence, convergency] 4: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance]
• ebullience 0
  n 1: overflowing with eager enjoyment or approval [syn: exuberance, enthusiasm, ebullience]
• esurience 0
  n 1: excessive desire to eat [syn: edacity, esurience, ravenousness, voracity, voraciousness] 2: extreme gluttony [syn: edacity, esurience, rapaciousness, rapacity, voracity, voraciousness]
• excellence 0
  n 1: the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree 2: an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels; "a center of manufacturing excellence"; "the use of herbs is one of the excellencies of French cuisine" [syn: excellence, excellency]
• expedience 0
  n 1: the quality of being suited to the end in view [syn: expedience, expediency] [ant: inexpedience, inexpediency] 2: taking advantage of opportunities without regard for the consequences for others [syn: opportunism, self-interest, self-seeking, expedience]
• experience 0
  n 1: the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities; "a man of experience"; "experience is the best teacher" [ant: inexperience, rawness] 2: the content of direct observation or participation in an event; "he had a religious experience"; "he recalled the experience vividly" 3: an event as apprehended; "a surprising experience"; "that painful experience certainly got our attention" v 1: go or live through; "We had many trials to go through"; "he saw action in Viet Nam" [syn: experience, see, go through] 2: have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations; "I know the feeling!"; "have you ever known hunger?"; "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict"; "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare"; "I lived through two divorces" [syn: know, experience, live] 3: go through (mental or physical states or experiences); "get an idea"; "experience vertigo"; "get nauseous"; "receive injuries"; "have a feeling" [syn: experience, receive, have, get] 4: undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind; "She felt resentful"; "He felt regret" [syn: feel, experience] 5: undergo; "The stocks had a fast run-up" [syn: have, experience]
• incipience 0
  n 1: beginning to exist or to be apparent; "he placed the incipience of democratic faith at around 1850"; "it is designed to arrest monopolies in their incipiency" [syn: incipiency, incipience]
• inconvenience 0
  n 1: an inconvenient discomfort [syn: inconvenience, incommodiousness] 2: a difficulty that causes anxiety [syn: troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment] 3: the quality of not being useful or convenient [ant: convenience] v 1: to cause inconvenience or discomfort to; "Sorry to trouble you, but..." [syn: trouble, put out, inconvenience, disoblige, discommode, incommode, bother]
• inexpedience 0
  n 1: the quality of being unsuited to the end in view [syn: inexpedience, inexpediency] [ant: expedience, expediency]
• inexperience 0
  n 1: lack of experience and the knowledge and understanding derived from experience; "procedural inexperience created difficulties"; "their poor behavior was due to the rawness of the troops" [syn: inexperience, rawness] [ant: experience]
• insouciance 0
  n 1: the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you [syn: carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness]
• invariance 0
  n 1: the quality of being resistant to variation [syn: invariability, invariableness, invariance] [ant: variability, variableness, variance] 2: the nature of a quantity or property or function that remains unchanged when a given transformation is applied to it; "the invariance of the configuration under translation"
• lenience 0
  n 1: mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant [syn: lenience, leniency, mildness, lenity] 2: a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; "too much indulgence spoils a child" [syn: indulgence, lenience, leniency] 3: lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers [syn: lenience, leniency]
• licence 0
  n 1: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke [syn: license, licence] 2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: license, licence] 3: a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: license, licence, permit] v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant: decertify, derecognise, derecognize]
• license 0
  n 1: a legal document giving official permission to do something [syn: license, licence, permit] 2: freedom to deviate deliberately from normally applicable rules or practices (especially in behavior or speech) [syn: license, licence] 3: excessive freedom; lack of due restraint; "when liberty becomes license dictatorship is near"- Will Durant; "the intolerable license with which the newspapers break...the rules of decorum"- Edmund Burke [syn: license, licence] 4: the act of giving a formal (usually written) authorization [syn: license, permission, permit] v 1: authorize officially; "I am licensed to practice law in this state" [syn: license, licence, certify] [ant: decertify, derecognise, derecognize]
• luxuriance 0
  n 1: the property of being lush and abundant and a pleasure to the senses [syn: luxuriance, lushness, voluptuousness]
• obedience 0
  n 1: the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person [syn: obedience, obeisance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance] 2: the trait of being willing to obey [ant: disobedience] 3: behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes" [syn: obedience, respect]
• omniscience 0
  n 1: the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge
• parlance 0
  n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language [syn: parlance, idiom]
• patience 0
  n 1: good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn: patience, forbearance, longanimity] [ant: impatience] 2: a card game played by one person [syn: solitaire, patience]
• pleasance 0
  n 1: a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion 2: a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience; "he was tingling with pleasure" [syn: pleasure, pleasance] [ant: pain, painfulness]
• prescience 0
  n 1: the power to foresee the future [syn: prescience, prevision]
• presence 0
  n 1: the state of being present; current existence; "he tested for the presence of radon" [ant: absence] 2: the immediate proximity of someone or something; "she blushed in his presence"; "he sensed the presence of danger"; "he was well behaved in front of company" [syn: presence, front] 3: an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby 4: the impression that something is present; "he felt the presence of an evil force" 5: dignified manner or conduct [syn: bearing, comportment, presence, mien] 6: the act of being present [ant: absence]
• provenience 0
  n 1: where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence; "the birthplace of civilization" [syn: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance, provenience]
• prurience 0
  n 1: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness [syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity]
• radiance 0
  n 1: the amount of electromagnetic radiation leaving or arriving at a point on a surface [syn: radiance, glow, glowing] 2: the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light [syn: radiance, radiancy, shine, effulgence, refulgence, refulgency] 3: an attractive combination of good health and happiness; "the radiance of her countenance"
• resilience 0
  n 1: the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit [syn: resilience, resiliency] 2: an occurrence of rebounding or springing back [syn: resilience, resiliency]
• sapience 0
  n 1: ability to apply knowledge or experience or understanding or common sense and insight [syn: wisdom, sapience]
• semblance 0
  n 1: an outward or token appearance or form that is deliberately misleading; "he hoped his claims would have a semblance of authenticity"; "he tried to give his falsehood the gloss of moral sanction"; "the situation soon took on a different color" [syn: semblance, gloss, color, colour] 2: an erroneous mental representation [syn: illusion, semblance] 3: picture consisting of a graphic image of a person or thing [syn: likeness, semblance]
• silence 0
  n 1: the state of being silent (as when no one is speaking); "there was a shocked silence"; "he gestured for silence" 2: the absence of sound; "he needed silence in order to sleep"; "the street was quiet" [syn: silence, quiet] [ant: sound] 3: a refusal to speak when expected; "his silence about my contribution was surprising" [syn: muteness, silence] 4: the trait of keeping things secret [syn: secrecy, secretiveness, silence] v 1: cause to be quiet or not talk; "Please silence the children in the church!" [syn: hush, quieten, silence, still, shut up, hush up] [ant: louden] 2: keep from expression, for example by threats or pressure; "All dissenters were silenced when the dictator assumed power"
• subservience 0
  n 1: the condition of being something that is useful in reaching an end or carrying out a plan; "all his actions were in subservience to the general plan" 2: in a subservient state [syn: subservience, subservientness] 3: abject or cringing submissiveness [syn: obsequiousness, servility, subservience]
• transience 0
  n 1: an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying [syn: transience, transiency, transitoriness] 2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience]
• valance 0
  n 1: a decorative framework to conceal curtain fixtures at the top of a window casing [syn: cornice, valance, valance board, pelmet]
• valence 0
  n 1: (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate [syn: valence, valency] 2: (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) [syn: valence, valency]
• variance 0
  n 1: an event that departs from expectations [syn: discrepancy, variance, variant] 2: discord that splits a group [syn: division, variance] 3: the second moment around the mean; the expected value of the square of the deviations of a random variable from its mean value 4: a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion" [syn: discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance] 5: the quality of being subject to variation [syn: variability, variableness, variance] [ant: invariability, invariableness, invariance] 6: an official dispensation to act contrary to a rule or regulation (typically a building regulation); "a zoning variance" 7: an activity that varies from a norm or standard; "any variation in his routine was immediately reported" [syn: variation, variance]
• vengeance 0
  n 1: the act of taking revenge (harming someone in retaliation for something harmful that they have done) especially in the next life; "Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord"--Romans 12:19; "For vengeance I would do nothing. This nation is too great to look for mere revenge"--James Garfield; "he swore vengeance on the man who betrayed him"; "the swiftness of divine retribution" [syn: vengeance, retribution, payback]
• nescience 0
  n 1: ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) [syn: ignorantness, nescience, unknowing, unknowingness]
• mesalliance 0
  n 1: a marriage with a person of inferior social status
• clairaudience 0
• defeasance 0
• ingredients 0
• irradiance 0
• mergence 0
• percipience 0

See also salience definition and salience synonyms