agribusiness | (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agriculture, factory farm |
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airiness | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: buoyancy |
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(noun) the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air | - |
(noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: delicacy |
airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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akinesia | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesis |
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akinesis | (noun) motionlessness attributable to a temporary paralysis | Synonyms: akinesia |
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angriness | (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: anger |
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anticholinesterase | (noun) a medicine that inhibits cholinesterase by combining with it and so has a cholinergic effect | - |
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arbitrariness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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balkiness | (noun) likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly | - |
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balminess | (noun) the quality of weather that is deliciously mild and soothing | Synonyms: softness |
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bawdiness | (noun) the trait of behaving in an obscene manner | Synonyms: lewdness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity |
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beastliness | (noun) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather | - |
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(noun) the quality of being deliberately mean | Synonyms: meanness |
bioluminescence | (noun) luminescence produced by physiological processes (as in the firefly) | - |
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bitchiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: cattiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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blameworthiness | (noun) a state of guilt | Synonyms: culpability, culpableness |
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bloodiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodthirstiness |
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(noun) the state of being bloody | - |
bloodthirstiness | (noun) a disposition to shed blood | Synonyms: bloodiness |
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blurriness | (noun) the quality of being indistinct and without sharp outlines | Synonyms: fogginess, fuzziness, indistinctness, softness |
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bogginess | (noun) The state or quality of being too wet and muddy to be easily walked on. | - |
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boniness | (noun) extreme leanness (usually caused by starvation or disease) | Synonyms: bonyness, emaciation, gauntness, maceration |
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bounciness | (noun) the quality of a substance that is able to rebound | Synonyms: bounce |
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brattiness | (noun) The state or condition of acting like a brat, being unruly and impolite. | - |
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brawniness | (noun) possessing muscular strength | Synonyms: brawn, heftiness, muscle, muscularity, sinew |
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breeziness | (noun) a breezy liveliness | Synonyms: jauntiness |
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(noun) a mildly windy state of the air | Synonyms: windiness |
brininess | (noun) the relative proportion of salt in a solution | Synonyms: salinity |
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bristliness | (noun) the quality of being covered with prickly thorns or spines | Synonyms: prickliness, spininess, thorniness |
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bubbliness | (noun) the property of giving off bubbles | Synonyms: effervescence, frothiness |
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bugginess | (noun) the state of having bugs | - |
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bulginess | (noun) the property possessed by a rounded convexity | Synonyms: roundedness |
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bulkiness | (noun) an unwieldy largeness | Synonyms: massiveness |
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bumpiness | (noun) the texture of a surface that has many bumps | - |
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business | (noun) the principal activity in your life that you do to earn money | Synonyms: job, line, line of work, occupation |
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(noun) the activity of providing goods and services involving financial and commercial and industrial aspects | Synonyms: business enterprise, commercial enterprise |
(noun) the volume of commercial activity | - |
(noun) incidental activity performed by an actor for dramatic effect | Synonyms: byplay, stage business |
(noun) an immediate objective | - |
(noun) a rightful concern or responsibility | - |
(noun) a commercial or industrial enterprise and the people who constitute it | Synonyms: business concern, business organisation, business organization, concern |
(noun) customers collectively | Synonyms: clientele, patronage |
(noun) business concerns collectively | Synonyms: business sector |
businessman | (noun) a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive) | Synonyms: man of affairs |
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businessmen | (noun) the body of individuals who manage businesses | Synonyms: business community |
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businesspeople | (noun) people who transact business (especially business executives) | Synonyms: business people |
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businessperson | (noun) a capitalist who engages in industrial commercial enterprise | Synonyms: bourgeois |
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businesswoman | (noun) a female businessperson | - |
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cattiness | (noun) malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty | Synonyms: bitchiness, nastiness, spite, spitefulness |
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chariness | (noun) the trait of being cautious and watchful | Synonyms: wariness |
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cheekiness | (noun) the trait of being rude and impertinent; inclined to take liberties | Synonyms: crust, freshness, gall, impertinence, impudence, insolence |
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chemiluminescence | (noun) luminescence resulting from a chemical reaction as the oxidation of luciferin in fireflies | - |
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chilliness | (noun) the property of being moderately cold | Synonyms: coolness, nip |
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(noun) a lack of affection or enthusiasm | Synonyms: coldness, coolness, frigidity, frigidness, iciness |
chirpiness | (noun) cheerful and lively | - |
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cholinesterase | (noun) an enzyme that hydrolyses acetylcholine (into choline and acetic acid) | - |
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choppiness | (noun) used of the sea during inclement or stormy weather | Synonyms: rough water, roughness |
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chubbiness | (noun) the property of having a plump and round body | Synonyms: pudginess, rolypoliness, tubbiness |
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chumminess | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, comradeliness, comradery, comradeship |
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clamminess | (noun) unpleasant wetness | Synonyms: dankness |
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clayiness | (noun) The quality of resembling clay, ie in thickness or consistency. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayishness |
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(noun) The quality of being composed of clay. | Synonyms: clayeyness, clayishness |
cleanliness | (noun) diligence in keeping clean | - |
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(noun) the habit of keeping free of superficial imperfections | - |
cloudiness | (noun) the quality of being cloudy | Synonyms: muddiness, murkiness |
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(noun) the state of the sky when it is covered by clouds | Synonyms: cloud cover, overcast |
(noun) gloomy semidarkness caused by cloud cover | Synonyms: overcast |
clumsiness | (noun) the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant | Synonyms: awkwardness |
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(noun) the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment) | Synonyms: awkwardness, gracelessness, stiffness |
(noun) unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training | Synonyms: awkwardness, ineptitude, ineptness, maladroitness, slowness |
cockiness | (noun) offensive boldness and assertiveness | Synonyms: bumptiousness, forwardness, pushiness |
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comeliness | (noun) the quality of being good looking and attractive | Synonyms: beauteousness, fairness, loveliness |
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complimentariness | (noun) The state or quality of being in the nature of an expression of praise, congratulation, encouragement, or respect. | - |
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comradeliness | (noun) the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability | Synonyms: camaraderie, chumminess, comradery, comradeship |
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confines | (noun) a bounded scope | - |
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contemporariness | (noun) The state or quality of being contemporary, modern, of the present age. | - |
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contradictoriness | (noun) the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist | - |
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contrariness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: crankiness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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(noun) deliberate and stubborn unruliness and resistance to guidance or discipline | Synonyms: perverseness, perversity |
cosiness | (noun) a state of warm snug comfort | Synonyms: coziness, snugness |
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costliness | (noun) the quality possessed by something with a great price or value | Synonyms: dearness, preciousness |
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courtliness | (noun) elegance suggestive of a royal court | - |
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cowardliness | (noun) the trait of lacking courage | Synonyms: cowardice |
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coziness | (noun) a state of warm snug comfort | Synonyms: cosiness, snugness |
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crabbiness | (noun) a disposition to be ill-tempered | Synonyms: crabbedness, crossness |
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craftiness | (noun) the quality of being crafty | Synonyms: guile |
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(noun) shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception | Synonyms: craft, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness |
crankiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crotchetiness, grumpiness |
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craziness | (noun) foolish or senseless behavior | Synonyms: folly, foolery, indulgence, lunacy, tomfoolery |
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(noun) the quality of being rash and foolish | Synonyms: folly, foolishness, madness |
(noun) informal terms for insanity | Synonyms: daftness, flakiness |
creaminess | (noun) the property of having the thickness of heavy cream | Synonyms: soupiness |
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creditworthiness | (noun) trustworthiness with money as based on a person's credit history; a general qualification for borrowing | - |
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creepiness | (noun) an uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on your skin | - |
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crispiness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: brittleness, crispness |
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crotchetiness | (noun) a fussy and eccentric disposition | Synonyms: contrariness, crankiness, grumpiness |
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crumbliness | (noun) excessive breakableness | Synonyms: friability |
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curliness | (noun) (of hair) a tendency to curl | Synonyms: waviness |
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customariness | (noun) The state or quality of agreeing with, or being established by, custom or common usage. | - |
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cytokinesis | (noun) organic process consisting of the division of the cytoplasm of a cell following karyokinesis bringing about the separation into two daughter cells | - |
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daintiness | (noun) the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance | Synonyms: delicacy, fineness |
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dastardliness | (noun) despicable cowardice | - |
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deadliness | (noun) the quality of being deadly | Synonyms: lethality |
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dewiness | (noun) The state or property of being covered by dew, or bearing droplets of water. | - |
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diakinesis | (noun) the final stage of the prophase of meiosis | - |
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dilatoriness | (noun) slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it | Synonyms: procrastination |
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dinginess | (noun) discoloration due to dirtiness | Synonyms: dinge |
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dirtiness | (noun) obscenity in speech or writing | Synonyms: smuttiness |
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(noun) the state of being unsanitary | Synonyms: uncleanness |
(noun) the state of containing dirty impurities | - |
disorderliness | (noun) untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance) | Synonyms: disarray |
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(noun) a condition in which things are not in their expected places | Synonyms: disorder |
(noun) rowdy behavior | Synonyms: roughness, rowdiness, rowdyism |
dizziness | (noun) a reeling sensation; a feeling that you are about to fall | Synonyms: giddiness, lightheadedness, vertigo |
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doughiness | (noun) The quality or state of having the characteristics of dough, especially in appearance or consistency. | - |
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dowdiness | (noun) having a drab or dowdy quality; lacking stylishness or elegance | Synonyms: drabness, homeliness |
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downiness | (noun) a light softness | Synonyms: featheriness, fluffiness |
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dreaminess | (noun) a relaxed comfortable feeling | Synonyms: languor |
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dreariness | (noun) extreme dullness; lacking spirit or interest | Synonyms: boringness, insipidity, insipidness |
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drippiness | (noun) the physical property of being soft and drippy | - |
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(noun) falsely emotional in a maudlin way | Synonyms: mawkishness, mushiness, sentimentality, sloppiness, soupiness |
drowsiness | (noun) a very sleepy state | Synonyms: sleepiness, somnolence |
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dumpiness | (noun) a short and stout physique | Synonyms: squattiness |
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duskiness | (noun) a swarthy complexion | Synonyms: darkness, swarthiness |
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(noun) the state of being poorly illuminated | Synonyms: dimness |
dustiness | (noun) the state of being covered with dust | - |
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dyskinesia | (noun) abnormality in performing voluntary muscle movements | - |
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earliness | (noun) quality of coming early or earlier in time | - |
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