absorbency | (noun) the property of being absorbent | - |
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adjacency | (noun) the attribute of being so near as to be touching | Synonyms: contiguity, contiguousness |
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advertency | (noun) the process of being heedful | Synonyms: advertence |
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agency | (noun) to have the ability to produce a particular effect or achieve an end | Synonyms: means, way |
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(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: authority, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
(noun) a business or organization that provides a particular service, especially the mediation of transactions between two parties | - |
(noun) the state of serving as an official and authorized delegate or agent | Synonyms: delegacy, representation |
(noun) the state of being in action or exerting power | - |
ambivalency | (noun) mixed feelings or emotions | Synonyms: ambivalence |
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antecedency | (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, anteriority, precedence, precedency, priority |
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apparency | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparentness |
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appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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ascendency | (noun) the state that exists when one person or group has power over another | Synonyms: ascendance, ascendancy, ascendence, control, dominance |
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astringency | (noun) the ability to contract or draw together soft body tissues to check blood flow or restrict secretion of fluids | Synonyms: stypsis |
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(noun) a sharp astringent taste; the taste experience when a substance causes the mouth to pucker | Synonyms: astringence |
belligerency | (noun) fighting; acts of overt warfare | Synonyms: hostilities |
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(noun) hostile or warlike attitude or nature | Synonyms: belligerence |
cadency | (noun) a recurrent rhythmical series | Synonyms: cadence |
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clemency | (noun) leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice | Synonyms: mercifulness, mercy |
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(noun) good weather with comfortable temperatures | Synonyms: mildness |
coalescency | (noun) the union of diverse things into one body or form or group; the growing together of parts | Synonyms: coalescence, coalition, concretion, conglutination |
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cogency | (noun) the quality of being valid and rigorous | Synonyms: rigor, rigour, validity |
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(noun) persuasive relevance | - |
coherency | (noun) logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts | Synonyms: coherence |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, cohesion, cohesiveness |
competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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complacency | (noun) the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself | Synonyms: complacence, self-complacency, self-satisfaction |
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concurrency | (noun) acting together, as agents or circumstances or events | Synonyms: concurrence |
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(noun) agreement of results or opinions | Synonyms: concurrence |
consistency | (noun) the property of holding together and retaining its shape | Synonyms: body, consistence, substance |
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(noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that none of the propositions deducible from the axioms contradict one another | - |
(noun) a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts | Synonyms: consistence |
(noun) logical coherence and accordance with the facts | - |
constituency | (noun) the body of voters who elect a representative for their area | - |
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continency | (noun) the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters | Synonyms: continence |
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contingency | (noun) a possible event or occurrence or result | Synonyms: contingence, eventuality |
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(noun) the state of being contingent on something | - |
convergency | (noun) the act of converging (coming closer) | Synonyms: convergence, converging |
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(noun) the approach of an infinite series to a finite limit | Synonyms: convergence |
corpulency | (noun) more than average fatness | Synonyms: fleshiness, obesity |
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counterinsurgency | (noun) actions taken by a government to defeat insurgency | Synonyms: pacification |
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covalency | (noun) valence characterized by the sharing of electrons in a chemical compound; the number of pairs of electrons an atom can share | Synonyms: covalence |
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cryptocurrency | (noun) a currency based on the usage of cryptography to secure transactions | - |
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currency | (noun) the property of belonging to the present time | Synonyms: currentness, up-to-dateness |
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(noun) general acceptance or use | - |
(noun) the metal or paper medium of exchange that is presently used | - |
decadency | (noun) the state of being degenerate in mental or moral qualities | Synonyms: decadence, degeneracy, degeneration |
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decency | (noun) the quality of conforming to standards of propriety and morality | - |
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(noun) the quality of being polite and respectable | - |
deficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: inadequacy, insufficiency |
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(noun) the state of needing something that is absent or unavailable | Synonyms: lack, want |
delinquency | (noun) an antisocial misdeed in violation of the law by a minor | Synonyms: juvenile delinquency |
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(noun) a tendency to be negligent and uncaring | Synonyms: dereliction, willful neglect |
(noun) nonpayment of a debt when due | - |
dependency | (noun) a geographical area politically controlled by a distant country | Synonyms: colony |
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(noun) the state of relying on or being controlled by someone or something else | Synonyms: dependance, dependence |
(noun) being abnormally tolerant to and dependent on something that is psychologically or physically habit-forming (especially alcohol or narcotic drugs) | Synonyms: addiction, dependance, dependence, habituation |
despondency | (noun) feeling downcast and disheartened and hopeless | Synonyms: despondence, disconsolateness, heartsickness |
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detergency | (noun) detergent quality; the quality of having cleansing power | Synonyms: detergence |
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disfluency | (noun) lack of skillfulness in speaking or writing | - |
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divergency | (noun) the act of moving away in different direction from a common point | Synonyms: divergence |
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(noun) an infinite series that has no limit | Synonyms: divergence |
efficiency | (noun) skillfulness in avoiding wasted time and effort | - |
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(noun) the ratio of the output to the input of any system | - |
emergency | (noun) a brake operated by hand; usually operates by mechanical linkage | Synonyms: emergency brake, hand brake, parking brake |
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(noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: exigency, pinch |
(noun) a state in which martial law applies | - |
encyclical | (noun) a letter from the pope sent to all Roman Catholic bishops throughout the world | Synonyms: encyclical letter |
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encyclopaedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopedia |
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encyclopaedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopaedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopedist |
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encyclopedia | (noun) a reference work (often in several volumes) containing articles on various topics (often arranged in alphabetical order) dealing with the entire range of human knowledge or with some particular specialty | Synonyms: cyclopaedia, cyclopedia, encyclopaedia |
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encyclopedism | (noun) profound scholarly knowledge | Synonyms: encyclopaedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship |
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encyclopedist | (noun) a person who compiles information for encyclopedias | Synonyms: encyclopaedist |
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excellency | (noun) an outstanding feature; something in which something or someone excels | Synonyms: excellence |
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exigency | (noun) a sudden unforeseen crisis (usually involving danger) that requires immediate action | Synonyms: emergency, pinch |
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(noun) a pressing or urgent situation | - |
(noun) that which is required in a particular situation —usually used in plural. | - |
expediency | (noun) the quality of being suited to the end in view | Synonyms: expedience |
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fervency | (noun) feelings of great warmth and intensity | Synonyms: ardor, ardour, fervidness, fervor, fervour, fire |
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flatulency | (noun) a state of excessive gas in the alimentary canal | Synonyms: flatulence, gas |
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fluency | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: articulateness, volubility |
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(noun) skillfulness in speaking or writing | - |
(noun) powerful and effective language | Synonyms: eloquence, smoothness |
frequency | (noun) the number of observations in a given statistical category | Synonyms: absolute frequency |
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(noun) the ratio of the number of observations in a statistical category to the total number of observations | Synonyms: relative frequency |
(noun) the number of occurrences within a given time period | Synonyms: frequence, oftenness |
immanency | (noun) the state of being within or not going beyond a given domain | Synonyms: immanence |
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imminency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminentness, impendence, impendency |
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immunodeficiency | (noun) immunological disorder in which some part of the body's immune system is inadequate and resistance to infectious diseases is reduced | - |
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impendency | (noun) the state of being imminent and liable to happen soon | Synonyms: forthcomingness, imminence, imminency, imminentness, impendence |
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impenitency | (noun) the trait of refusing to repent | Synonyms: impenitence |
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impermanency | (noun) the property of not existing for indefinitely long durations | Synonyms: impermanence |
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impotency | (noun) the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble | Synonyms: impotence, powerlessness |
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(noun) an inability (usually of the male animal) to copulate | Synonyms: impotence |
inadvertency | (noun) the trait of forgetting or ignoring your responsibilities | Synonyms: heedlessness, inadvertence, unmindfulness |
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incipiency | (noun) beginning to exist or to be apparent | Synonyms: incipience |
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inclemency | (noun) excessive sternness | Synonyms: hardness, harshness, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity, stiffness |
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(noun) weather unsuitable for outdoor activities | Synonyms: bad weather, inclementness |
incoherency | (noun) nonsense that is simply incoherent and unintelligible | Synonyms: incoherence, unintelligibility |
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(noun) lack of cohesion or clarity or organization | Synonyms: incoherence |
incompetency | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetence |
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inconsistency | (noun) the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts | - |
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(noun) the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time | Synonyms: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, repugnance |
incontinency | (noun) involuntary urination or defecation | Synonyms: incontinence |
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incumbency | (noun) the office of an incumbent | - |
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(noun) a duty that is incumbent upon you | - |
(noun) the term during which some position is held | Synonyms: tenure, term of office |
indecency | (noun) an indecent or improper act | Synonyms: impropriety |
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(noun) the quality of being indecent | - |
independency | (noun) freedom from control or influence of another or others | Synonyms: independence |
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inefficiency | (noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of efficiency | - |
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inexpediency | (noun) the quality of being unsuited to the end in view | Synonyms: inexpedience |
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infrequency | (noun) noteworthy scarcity | Synonyms: rareness, rarity |
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inherency | (noun) the state of inhering; the state of being a fixed characteristic | Synonyms: inherence |
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innocency | (noun) an innocent quality or thing or act | - |
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insistency | (noun) the act of insisting on something | Synonyms: insistence |
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(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: imperativeness, insistence, press, pressure |
insolvency | (noun) the lack of financial resources | - |
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insufficiency | (noun) lack of an adequate quantity or number | Synonyms: deficiency, inadequacy |
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(noun) (pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally | - |
(noun) a lack of competence | Synonyms: inadequacy |
insurgency | (noun) an organized rebellion aimed at overthrowing a constituted government through the use of subversion and armed conflict | Synonyms: insurgence |
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interdependency | (noun) a reciprocal relation between interdependent entities (objects or individuals or groups) | Synonyms: interdependence, mutuality |
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intermittency | (noun) the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping | Synonyms: intermittence |
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intransigency | (noun) the trait of being intransigent; stubbornly refusing to compromise | Synonyms: intransigence |
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intumescency | (noun) the increase in volume of certain substances when they are heated (often accompanied by release of water) | Synonyms: intumescence, swelling |
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(noun) swelling up with blood or other fluids (as with congestion) | Synonyms: intumescence |
lambency | (noun) an appearance of reflected light | Synonyms: gleam, gleaming, glow |
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latency | (noun) the state of being not yet evident or active | - |
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(noun) the time that elapses between a stimulus and the response to it | Synonyms: latent period, reaction time, response time |
(noun) (computer science) the time it takes for a specific block of data on a data track to rotate around to the read/write head | Synonyms: rotational latency |
leniency | (noun) lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers | Synonyms: lenience |
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(noun) mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant | Synonyms: lenience, lenity, mildness |
(noun) a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone | Synonyms: indulgence, lenience |
malevolency | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolence, malice |
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multivalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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nascency | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascence, nativity |
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nonabsorbency | (noun) the property of not being absorbent | - |
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oxyphencyclimine | (noun) an anticholinergic drug (trade name Daricon) used in treating peptic ulcers | Synonyms: Daricon |
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parturiency | (noun) concluding state of pregnancy; from the onset of contractions to the birth of a child | Synonyms: childbed, confinement, labor, labour, lying-in, travail |
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patency | (noun) the openness (lack of obstruction) of a bodily passage or duct | - |
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(noun) the property of being easy to see and understand | Synonyms: noticeability, noticeableness, obviousness |
permanency | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanence |
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persistency | (noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
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pertinency | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinence |
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phencyclidine | (noun) a drug used as an anesthetic by veterinarians; illicitly taken (originally in the form of powder or `dust') for its effects as a hallucinogen | Synonyms: angel dust, PCP, phencyclidine hydrochloride |
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plangency | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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polyvalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalence |
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(noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalence |