Words that rhyme with suttee
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ability
n 1: the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment [ant: inability, unfitness] 2: possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done; "danger heightened his powers of discrimination" [syn: ability, power] [ant: inability] -
abnormality
n 1: an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies [syn: abnormality, abnormalcy] [ant: normalcy, normality] 2: retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence [syn: abnormality, mental defectiveness] 3: marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal [syn: abnormality, freakishness] 4: behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality [syn: abnormality, irregularity] -
absentee
n 1: one that is absent or not in residence -
absurdity
n 1: a message whose content is at variance with reason [syn: absurdity, absurdness, ridiculousness] 2: a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior" [syn: absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness] -
acceptability
n 1: satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards [syn: acceptability, acceptableness] [ant: unacceptability, unacceptableness] -
accessibility
n 1: the quality of being at hand when needed [syn: handiness, accessibility, availability, availableness] [ant: inaccessibility, unavailability] 2: the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with [syn: approachability, accessibility] [ant: unapproachability] -
acclivity
n 1: an upward slope or grade (as in a road); "the car couldn't make it up the rise" [syn: ascent, acclivity, rise, raise, climb, upgrade] [ant: declension, declination, decline, declivity, descent, downslope, fall] -
accountability
n 1: responsibility to someone or for some activity [syn: accountability, answerability, answerableness] -
acidity
n 1: the property of being acidic [syn: sourness, sour, acidity] 2: the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth [syn: acidity, acidulousness] 3: pH values below 7 [ant: alkalinity] -
acridity
n 1: having an acrid smell 2: extreme bitterness; "the acridity of alkali" [syn: acridity, acridness] 3: the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone [syn: acridity, acridness] -
activity
n 1: any specific behavior; "they avoided all recreational activity" [ant: inactivity] 2: the state of being active; "his sphere of activity"; "he is out of action" [syn: action, activity, activeness] [ant: inaction, inactiveness, inactivity] 3: an organic process that takes place in the body; "respiratory activity" [syn: bodily process, body process, bodily function, activity] 4: (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction; "catalytic activity" 5: a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings); "the action of natural forces"; "volcanic activity" [syn: natural process, natural action, action, activity] 6: the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically; "the level of activity declines with age" [syn: activeness, activity] [ant: inactiveness, inactivity, inertia] -
actuality
n 1: the state of actually existing objectively; "a hope that progressed from possibility to actuality" -
acuity
n 1: sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) [syn: acuity, visual acuity, sharp-sightedness] 2: a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind" [syn: acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness] -
adaptability
n 1: the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances [ant: unadaptability] -
admissibility
n 1: acceptability by virtue of being admissible [ant: inadmissibility] -
adoptee
n 1: someone (such as a child) who has been adopted -
adversity
n 1: a state of misfortune or affliction; "debt-ridden farmers struggling with adversity"; "a life of hardship" [syn: adversity, hardship, hard knocks] 2: a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event; "a period marked by adversities" -
advisability
n 1: the quality of being advisable; "they questioned the advisability of our policy" [ant: inadvisability] -
affability
n 1: a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) [syn: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality] -
affinity
n 1: (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody 2: (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship [ant: blood kinship, cognation, consanguinity] 3: (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts; "in anatomical structure prehistoric man shows close affinity with modern humans" [syn: affinity, phylogenetic relation] 4: a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character; "found a natural affinity with the immigrants"; "felt a deep kinship with the other students"; "anthropology's kinship with the humanities" [syn: affinity, kinship] 5: the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule; "basic dyes have an affinity for wool and silk" [syn: affinity, chemical attraction] 6: inherent resemblance between persons or things 7: a natural attraction or feeling of kinship; "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam" -
agility
n 1: the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble [syn: agility, legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness] -
agree
v 1: be in accord; be in agreement; "We agreed on the terms of the settlement"; "I can't agree with you!"; "I hold with those who say life is sacred"; "Both philosophers concord on this point" [syn: agree, hold, concur, concord] [ant: differ, disagree, dissent, take issue] 2: consent or assent to a condition, or agree to do something; "She agreed to all my conditions"; "He agreed to leave her alone" 3: be compatible, similar or consistent; coincide in their characteristics; "The two stories don't agree in many details"; "The handwriting checks with the signature on the check"; "The suspect's fingerprints don't match those on the gun" [syn: match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree] [ant: disaccord, disagree, discord] 4: go together; "The colors don't harmonize"; "Their ideas concorded" [syn: harmonize, harmonise, consort, accord, concord, fit in, agree] 5: show grammatical agreement; "Subjects and verbs must always agree in English" 6: be agreeable or suitable; "White wine doesn't agree with me" 7: achieve harmony of opinion, feeling, or purpose; "No two of my colleagues would agree on whom to elect chairman" -
alacrity
n 1: liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"; "the smartness of the pace soon exhausted him" [syn: alacrity, briskness, smartness] -
alkalinity
n 1: pH values above 7 [ant: acidity] -
ambiguity
n 1: an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context 2: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning [syn: ambiguity, equivocalness] [ant: unambiguity, unequivocalness] -
amenity
n 1: pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; "a well trained staff saw to the agreeableness of our accommodations"; "he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age" [syn: agreeableness, amenity] [ant: disagreeableness] -
amiability
n 1: a cheerful and agreeable mood [syn: good humor, good humour, good temper, amiability] [ant: distemper, ill humor, ill humour] 2: a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) [syn: affability, affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality] -
amicability
n 1: a disinclination to quarrel [syn: amicability, amicableness] 2: having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness [syn: amicability, amicableness] -
amity
n 1: a cordial disposition [syn: amity, cordiality] 2: a state of friendship and cordiality -
amorality
n 1: the quality of being amoral -
amputee
n 1: someone who has had a limb removed by amputation -
angularity
n 1: a shape having one or more sharp angles [syn: angular shape, angularity] 2: the property possessed by a shape that has angles [ant: roundness] -
animosity
n 1: a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility [syn: animosity, animus, bad blood] -
annuity
n 1: income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments; "his retirement fund was set up to be paid as an annuity" [syn: annuity, rente] -
anonymity
n 1: the state of being anonymous [syn: anonymity, namelessness] -
antiquity
n 1: the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe 2: extreme oldness [syn: ancientness, antiquity] 3: an artifact surviving from the past -
anxiety
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 vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune -
applicability
n 1: relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand [syn: applicability, pertinence, pertinency] [ant: inapplicability] -
appointee
n 1: an official who is appointed 2: a person who is appointed to a job or position [syn: appointee, appointment] -
approachability
n 1: the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with [syn: approachability, accessibility] [ant: unapproachability] -
aridity
n 1: the quality of yielding nothing of value [syn: fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness] [ant: fecundity, fruitfulness] 2: a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) [syn: aridity, aridness, thirstiness] -
artificiality
n 1: the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally -
asininity
n 1: the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness -
assignee
n 1: (law) the party to whom something is assigned (e.g., someone to whom a right or property is legally transferred) -
atonality
n 1: the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system [syn: atonality, atonalism] [ant: key, tonality] -
atrocity
n 1: the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane [syn: atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness] 2: an act of atrocious cruelty [syn: atrocity, inhumanity] -
attainability
n 1: the state of being achievable [syn: achievability, attainability, attainableness] -
audacity
n 1: fearless daring [syn: audacity, audaciousness, temerity] 2: aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery; "he had the audacity to question my decision" [syn: audacity, audaciousness] -
austerity
n 1: the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) [syn: austerity, asceticism, nonindulgence] -
authenticity
n 1: undisputed credibility [syn: authenticity, genuineness, legitimacy] -
authority
n 1: the power or right to give orders or make decisions; "he has the authority to issue warrants"; "deputies are given authorization to make arrests"; "a place of potency in the state" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, potency, dominance, say-so] 2: (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others; "the authorities have issued a curfew" 3: an expert whose views are taken as definitive; "he is an authority on corporate law" 4: freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" [syn: assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness] 5: an administrative unit of government; "the Central Intelligence Agency"; "the Census Bureau"; "Office of Management and Budget"; "Tennessee Valley Authority" [syn: agency, federal agency, government agency, bureau, office, authority] 6: official permission or approval; "authority for the program was renewed several times" [syn: authority, authorization, authorisation, sanction] 7: an authoritative written work; "this book is the final authority on the life of Milton" -
availability
n 1: the quality of being at hand when needed [syn: handiness, accessibility, availability, availableness] [ant: inaccessibility, unavailability] -
banshee
n 1: (Irish folklore) a female spirit who wails to warn of impending death [syn: banshee, banshie] -
barbarity
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] -
be
n 1: a light strong brittle grey toxic bivalent metallic element [syn: beryllium, Be, glucinium, atomic number 4] v 1: have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun); "John is rich"; "This is not a good answer" 2: be identical to; be someone or something; "The president of the company is John Smith"; "This is my house" 3: occupy a certain position or area; be somewhere; "Where is my umbrella?" "The toolshed is in the back"; "What is behind this behavior?" 4: have an existence, be extant; "Is there a God?" [syn: exist, be] 5: happen, occur, take place; "I lost my wallet; this was during the visit to my parents' house"; "There were two hundred people at his funeral"; "There was a lot of noise in the kitchen" 6: be identical or equivalent to; "One dollar equals 1,000 rubles these days!" [syn: equal, be] [ant: differ] 7: form or compose; "This money is my only income"; "The stone wall was the backdrop for the performance"; "These constitute my entire belonging"; "The children made up the chorus"; "This sum represents my entire income for a year"; "These few men comprise his entire army" [syn: constitute, represent, make up, comprise, be] 8: work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function; "He is a herpetologist"; "She is our resident philosopher" [syn: be, follow] 9: represent, as of a character on stage; "Derek Jacobi was Hamlet" [syn: embody, be, personify] 10: spend or use time; "I may be an hour" 11: have life, be alive; "Our great leader is no more"; "My grandfather lived until the end of war" [syn: be, live] 12: to remain unmolested, undisturbed, or uninterrupted -- used only in infinitive form; "let her be" 13: be priced at; "These shoes cost $100" [syn: cost, be] -
bee
n 1: any of numerous hairy-bodied insects including social and solitary species 2: a social gathering to carry out some communal task or to hold competitions -
believability
n 1: the quality of being believable or trustworthy [syn: credibility, credibleness, believability] [ant: incredibility, incredibleness] -
bellicosity
n 1: a natural disposition to fight [syn: bellicosity, bellicoseness] -
bestiality
n 1: the stupid brutal quality of a beast 2: sexual activity between a person and an animal [syn: bestiality, zooerastia, zooerasty] -
bioelectricity
n 1: electric phenomena in animals or plants -
bisexuality
n 1: showing characteristics of both sexes [syn: androgyny, hermaphroditism, bisexuality] 2: sexual activity with both men and women -
bootee
n 1: a slipper that is soft and wool (for babies) [syn: bootee, bootie] -
brevity
n 1: the use of brief expressions 2: the attribute of being brief or fleeting [syn: brevity, briefness, transience] -
brutality
n 1: the trait of extreme cruelty [syn: ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savagery] 2: a brutal barbarous savage act [syn: brutality, barbarity, barbarism, savagery] -
calamity
n 1: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a disaster" [syn: calamity, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy, cataclysm] -
capability
n 1: the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally; "he worked to the limits of his capability" [syn: capability, capableness] [ant: incapability, incapableness] 2: the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused" [syn: capability, capacity] 3: an aptitude that may be developed [syn: capability, capableness, potentiality] [ant: incapability, incapableness] -
capacity
n 1: capability to perform or produce; "among his gifts is his capacity for true altruism"; "limited runway capacity"; "a great capacity for growth" [ant: incapacity] 2: the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment; "the capability of a metal to be fused" [syn: capability, capacity] 3: the amount that can be contained; "the gas tank has a capacity of 12 gallons" [syn: capacity, content] 4: the maximum production possible; "the plant is working at 80 per cent capacity" 5: a specified function; "he was employed in the capacity of director"; "he should be retained in his present capacity at a higher salary" 6: (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive; "the capacity of a hard disk drive is usually expressed in megabytes" 7: an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored [syn: capacitance, electrical capacity, capacity] 8: the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior [syn: capacity, mental ability] [ant: incapacity] 9: tolerance for alcohol; "he had drunk beyond his capacity" -
captivity
n 1: the state of being imprisoned; "he was held in captivity until he died"; "the imprisonment of captured soldiers"; "his ignominious incarceration in the local jail"; "he practiced the immurement of his enemies in the castle dungeon" [syn: captivity, imprisonment, incarceration, immurement] 2: the state of being a slave; "So every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity"--Shakespeare [syn: enslavement, captivity] -
carnality
n 1: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness [syn: prurience, pruriency, lasciviousness, carnality, lubricity] -
carroty
adj 1: resembling the bright orange of the root of the carrot plant; "a boy with carroty hair" -
causality
n 1: the relation between causes and effects -
cavity
n 1: a sizeable hole (usually in the ground); "they dug a pit to bury the body" [syn: pit, cavity] 2: space that is surrounded by something [syn: cavity, enclosed space] 3: soft decayed area in a tooth; progressive decay can lead to the death of a tooth [syn: cavity, caries, dental caries, tooth decay] 4: (anatomy) a natural hollow or sinus within the body [syn: cavity, bodily cavity, cavum] -
celebrity
n 1: a widely known person; "he was a baseball celebrity" [syn: celebrity, famous person] 2: the state or quality of being widely honored and acclaimed [syn: fame, celebrity, renown] [ant: infamy, opprobrium] -
centrality
n 1: the property of being central [ant: marginality] -
charity
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 -
chastity
n 1: abstaining from sexual relations (as because of religious vows) [syn: chastity, celibacy, sexual abstention] 2: morality with respect to sexual relations [syn: virtue, chastity, sexual morality] -
circularity
n 1: the roundness of a 2-dimensional figure [syn: circularity, disk shape] -
civility
n 1: formal or perfunctory politeness [ant: incivility] 2: the act of showing regard for others [syn: politeness, civility] -
clarity
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] -
commodity
n 1: articles of commerce [syn: commodity, trade good, good] -
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] -
commonalty
n 1: a class composed of persons lacking clerical or noble rank [syn: commonalty, commonality, commons] -
community
n 1: a group of people living in a particular local area; "the team is drawn from all parts of the community" 2: common ownership; "they shared a community of possessions" 3: a group of nations having common interests; "they hoped to join the NATO community" 4: agreement as to goals; "the preachers and the bootleggers found they had a community of interests" [syn: community, community of interests] 5: a district where people live; occupied primarily by private residences [syn: residential district, residential area, community] 6: (ecology) a group of interdependent organisms inhabiting the same region and interacting with each other [syn: community, biotic community] -
compatibility
n 1: a feeling of sympathetic understanding 2: capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination [ant: incompatibility] -
complexity
n 1: the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers" [syn: complexity, complexness] [ant: simpleness, simplicity] -
complicity
n 1: guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense -
comprehensibility
n 1: the quality of comprehensible language or thought [syn: comprehensibility, understandability] [ant: incomprehensibility] -
concavity
n 1: a shape that curves or bends inward [syn: concave shape, concavity, incurvation, incurvature] 2: the property possessed by a concave shape [syn: concavity, concaveness] -
conceivability
n 1: the state of being conceivable [syn: conceivableness, conceivability] -
concentricity
n 1: the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) [ant: eccentricity] -
conditionality
n 1: the state of being conditional -
conductivity
n 1: the transmission of heat or electricity or sound [syn: conduction, conductivity] -
confidentiality
n 1: the state of being secret; "you must respect the confidentiality of your client's communications" 2: discretion in keeping secret information -
conformity
n 1: correspondence in form or appearance [syn: conformity, conformance] 2: acting according to certain accepted standards; "their financial statements are in conformity with generally accepted accounting practices" [syn: conformity, conformation, compliance, abidance] [ant: disobedience, noncompliance, nonconformance, nonconformity] 3: orthodoxy in thoughts and belief [syn: conformity, conformism] [ant: nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity] 4: concurrence of opinion; "we are in accord with your proposal" [syn: accord, conformity, accordance] 5: hardened conventionality [syn: ossification, conformity] -
congeniality
n 1: compatibility between persons [syn: congenialness, congeniality] 2: a congenial disposition [ant: uncongeniality] -
congruity
n 1: the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate [syn: congruity, congruousness, congruence] [ant: incongruity, incongruousness] -
contiguity
n 1: the attribute of being so near as to be touching [syn: adjacency, contiguity, contiguousness] -
continuity
n 1: uninterrupted connection or union [ant: discontinuity] 2: a detailed script used in making a film in order to avoid discontinuities from shot to shot 3: the property of a continuous and connected period of time [syn: continuity, persistence] -
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] -
convexity
n 1: the property possessed by a convex shape [syn: convexity, convexness] 2: a shape that curves or bulges outward [syn: convex shape, convexity]
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