aberrancy | (noun) a state or condition markedly different from the norm | Synonyms: aberrance, aberration, deviance |
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accountancy | (noun) the occupation of maintaining and auditing records and preparing financial reports for a business | Synonyms: accounting |
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arithmancy | (noun) divination by means of numbers | - |
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ascendancy | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendence, ascendency, control, dominance |
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benignancy | (noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignity, graciousness |
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blatancy | (noun) the property of being both obvious and offensive | - |
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brilliancy | (noun) a quality that outshines the usual | Synonyms: luster, lustre, splendor, splendour |
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buoyancy | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: airiness |
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(noun) irrepressible liveliness and good spirit | Synonyms: irrepressibility |
(noun) the tendency to float in water or other liquid | - |
(noun) cheerfulness that bubbles to the surface | Synonyms: perkiness |
chiromancy | (noun) telling fortunes by lines on the palm of the hand | Synonyms: chirology, palm reading, palmistry |
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compliancy | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: complaisance, compliance, deference, obligingness |
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conservancy | (noun) the official conservation of trees and soil and rivers etc. | - |
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(noun) a commission with jurisdiction over fisheries and navigation in a port or river | - |
constancy | (noun) the quality of being enduring and free from change or variation | Synonyms: stability |
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(noun) faithfulness and dependability in personal attachments (especially sexual fidelity) | - |
(noun) (psychology) the tendency for perceived objects to give rise to very similar perceptual experiences in spite of wide variations in the conditions of observation | Synonyms: perceptual constancy |
consultancy | (noun) the practice of giving expert advice within a particular field | - |
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conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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discrepancy | (noun) a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions | Synonyms: disagreement, divergence, variance |
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(noun) an event that departs from expectations | Synonyms: variance, variant |
dormancy | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency, sleeping |
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(noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: quiescence, quiescency |
errancy | (noun) fallibility as indicated by erring or a tendency to err | - |
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(noun) (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine; especially disagreement with papal infallibility | - |
expectancy | (noun) something expected (as on the basis of a norm) | Synonyms: anticipation |
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(noun) an expectation | Synonyms: anticipation |
extravagancy | (noun) the quality of exceeding the appropriate limits of decorum or probability or truth | Synonyms: extravagance |
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fancy | (noun) imagination or fantasy; held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than true imagination | - |
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(noun) something many people believe that is false | Synonyms: fantasy, illusion, phantasy |
(noun) a predisposition to like something | Synonyms: fondness, partiality |
fancywork | (noun) decorative needlework | Synonyms: embroidery |
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flippancy | (noun) inappropriate levity | Synonyms: light-mindedness |
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fragrancy | (noun) a pleasingly sweet olfactory property | Synonyms: bouquet, fragrance, redolence, sweetness |
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geomancy | (noun) divination by means of signs connected with the earth (as points taken at random or the arrangement of particles thrown down at random or from the configuration of a region and its relation to another) | - |
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hesitancy | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance |
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(noun) a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something | Synonyms: hesitance |
hydromancy | (noun) divination by water (as by patterns seen in the ebb and flow of the tides) | - |
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incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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inconstancy | (noun) the quality of being changeable and variable | Synonyms: changefulness |
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(noun) unfaithfulness by virtue of being unreliable or treacherous | Synonyms: faithlessness, falseness, fickleness |
inerrancy | (noun) (Christianity) exemption from error | - |
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infancy | (noun) the earliest state of immaturity | Synonyms: babyhood |
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(noun) the early stage of growth or development | Synonyms: babyhood, early childhood |
inhabitancy | (noun) the act of dwelling in or living permanently in a place (said of both animals and men) | Synonyms: habitation, inhabitation |
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instancy | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: imperativeness |
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(noun) the quickness of action or occurrence | Synonyms: immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness |
irrelevancy | (noun) the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: irrelevance |
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jubilancy | (noun) a feeling of extreme joy | Synonyms: exultation, jubilance, jubilation |
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lieutenancy | (noun) the position of a lieutenant | - |
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lithomancy | (noun) divination by means of stones or stone talismans | - |
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malignancy | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignance, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignance |
mendicancy | (noun) a solicitation for money or food (especially in the street by an apparently penniless person) | Synonyms: beggary, begging |
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(noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicity |
militancy | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militance |
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necromancy | (noun) conjuring up the dead, especially for prophesying | - |
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(noun) the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world | Synonyms: black art, black magic, sorcery |
occupancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: tenancy |
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(noun) the act of occupying or taking possession of a building | Synonyms: moving in, occupation |
oneiromancy | (noun) divination through the interpretation of dreams | - |
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onomancy | (noun) divination by the letters of a name | - |
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oscitancy | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitance, yawn, yawning |
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(noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitance |
pancytopenia | (noun) an abnormal deficiency in all blood cells (red blood cells and white blood cells and platelets); usually associated with bone marrow tumor or with aplastic anemia | - |
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piquancy | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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(noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquance, piquantness |
pliancy | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliantness, suppleness |
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(noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliantness, suppleness |
poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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(noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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pregnancy | (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, maternity |
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preoccupancy | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupation |
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(noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupation |
pyromancy | (noun) divination by fire or flames | - |
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radiancy | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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recusancy | (noun) refusal to submit to established authority; originally the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend services of the Church of England | - |
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redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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(noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
(noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
(noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
relevancy | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevance |
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rhabdomancy | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, dowsing |
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stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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(noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
sycophancy | (noun) fawning obsequiousness | - |
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tenancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: occupancy |
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trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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truancy | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: hooky |
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vacancy | (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacuum, void |
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(noun) being unoccupied | - |
vagrancy | (noun) the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood | - |
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valiancy | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiance, valor, valorousness, valour |
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verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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veterancy | (noun) a state or condition of being a veteran | - |
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vibrancy | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness |
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