Words that rhyme with vanities

n 1: things that make you comfortable and at ease; "all the comforts of home" [syn: comforts, creature comforts, amenities, conveniences]

n 1: the organization that is the governing authority of a political unit; "the government reduced taxes"; "the matter was referred to higher authorities" [syn: government, authorities, regime]

n 1: a requirement of etiquette or custom; "a mere formality" [syn: formality, formalities]

n 1: fighting; acts of overt warfare; "the outbreak of hostilities" [syn: hostilities, belligerency]

n 1: studies intended to provide general knowledge and intellectual skills (rather than occupational or professional skills); "the college of arts and sciences" [syn: humanistic discipline, humanities, liberal arts, arts]

n 1: relatively permanent disorder of the mind [ant: saneness, sanity]

n 1: anything that is owed to someone else

n 1: a hard brittle grey polyvalent metallic element that resembles iron but is not magnetic; used in making steel; occurs in many minerals [syn: manganese, Mn, atomic number 25]

n 1: normal or sound powers of mind [syn: sanity, saneness] [ant: insanity]

n 1: medical practitioner who is regarded as the father of medicine; author of the Hippocratic oath (circa 460-377 BC)

n 1: the Greek courtier to Dionysius the Elder who (according to legend) was condemned to sit under a naked sword that was suspended by a hair in order to demonstrate to him that being a king was not the happy state Damocles had said it was (4th century BC)

n 1: ancient Athenian philosopher; teacher of Plato and Xenophon (470-399 BC)