| adiposity | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, fattiness |
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| animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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| antiredeposition | (noun) the process of preventing redeposition | - |
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| appositeness | (noun) appropriateness for the occasion | Synonyms: aptness |
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| apposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: collocation, juxtaposition |
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| (noun) (biology) growth in the thickness of a cell wall by the deposit of successive layers of material | - |
| (noun) a grammatical relation between a word and a noun phrase that follows | - |
| bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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| callosity | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
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| (noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | Synonyms: callus |
| chamosite | (noun) a greenish grey or black silicate of iron and aluminum | - |
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| composite | (noun) a conceptual whole made up of complicated and related parts | Synonyms: complex |
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| (noun) considered the most highly evolved dicotyledonous plants, characterized by florets arranged in dense heads that resemble single flowers | Synonyms: composite plant |
| compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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| composition | (noun) the act of creating written works | Synonyms: authorship, penning, writing |
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| (noun) musical creation | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) something that is created by arranging several things to form a unified whole | - |
| (noun) the way in which someone or something is composed | Synonyms: constitution, make-up, makeup, physical composition |
| (noun) the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole | Synonyms: composing |
| (noun) an essay (especially one written as an assignment) | Synonyms: paper, report, theme |
| (noun) a musical work that has been created | Synonyms: musical composition, opus, piece, piece of music |
| (noun) art and technique of printing with movable type | Synonyms: typography |
| (noun) a mixture of ingredients | - |
| compositor | (noun) one who sets written material into type | Synonyms: setter, typesetter, typographer |
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| curiosity | (noun) something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting | Synonyms: curio, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity |
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| (noun) a state in which you want to learn more about something | Synonyms: wonder |
| decomposition | (noun) the analysis of a vector field | Synonyms: vector decomposition |
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| (noun) the organic phenomenon of rotting | Synonyms: decay |
| (noun) (biology) the process of decay caused by bacterial or fungal action | Synonyms: breakdown, putrefaction, rot, rotting |
| (noun) (chemistry) separation of a substance into two or more substances that may differ from each other and from the original substance | Synonyms: breakdown, chemical decomposition reaction, decomposition reaction |
| (noun) in a decomposed state | Synonyms: disintegration |
| deposit | (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposition |
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| (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: depositary, depository, repository |
| (noun) a payment given as a guarantee that an obligation will be met | - |
| (noun) matter that has been deposited by some natural process | Synonyms: sediment |
| (noun) the phenomenon of sediment or gravel accumulating | Synonyms: alluviation, sedimentation |
| (noun) a partial payment made at the time of purchase; the balance to be paid later | Synonyms: down payment |
| (noun) money deposited in a bank or some similar institution | Synonyms: bank deposit |
| (noun) money given as security for an article acquired for temporary use | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposition |
| depositary | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depository, repository |
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| deposition | (noun) the act of deposing someone; removing a powerful person from a position or office | Synonyms: dethronement |
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| (noun) the act of putting something somewhere | Synonyms: deposit |
| (noun) (law) a pretrial interrogation of a witness; usually conducted in a lawyer's office | - |
| (noun) the natural process of laying down a deposit of something | Synonyms: deposit |
| depositor | (noun) a person who has deposited money in a bank or similar institution | - |
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| depository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, repository |
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| dermatomyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling accompanied by skin rash affecting cheeks and eyelids and neck and chest and limbs; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| disposition | (noun) the act or means of getting rid of something | Synonyms: disposal |
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| (noun) your usual mood | Synonyms: temperament |
| (noun) a natural or acquired habit or characteristic tendency in a person or thing | - |
| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: inclination, tendency |
| electrodeposition | (noun) the deposition of a substance on an electrode by the action of electricity (especially by electrolysis) | - |
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| exposition | (noun) a systematic interpretation or explanation (usually written) of a specific topic | Synonyms: expounding |
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| (noun) an account that sets forth the meaning or intent of a writing or discourse | - |
| (noun) (music) the section of a movement (especially in sonata form) where the major musical themes first occur | - |
| (noun) a collection of things (goods or works of art etc.) for public display | Synonyms: exhibition, expo |
| expositor | (noun) a person who explains | Synonyms: expounder |
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| fibromyositis | (noun) local inflammation of muscle and connective tissue | - |
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| fibrositis | (noun) inflammation of white fibrous tissues (especially muscle sheaths) | - |
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| fibrosity | (noun) the quality of being fibrous | Synonyms: fibrousness |
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| generosity | (noun) acting generously | Synonyms: unselfishness |
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| (noun) the trait of being willing to give your money or time | Synonyms: generousness |
| gibbosity | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
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| globosity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globularness, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness, sphericity |
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| glutinosity | (noun) the property of having a viscosity like jelly | Synonyms: gelatinousness, glutinousness |
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| grandiosity | (noun) high-flown style; excessive use of verbal ornamentation | Synonyms: grandiloquence, magniloquence, ornateness, rhetoric |
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| heterozygosity | (noun) the state of being heterozygous; having two different alleles of the same gene | - |
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| homozygosity | (noun) the state of being homozygous; having two identical alleles of the same gene | - |
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| impetuosity | (noun) rash impulsiveness | Synonyms: impetuousness |
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| imposition | (noun) the act of imposing something (as a tax or an embargo) | Synonyms: infliction |
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| (noun) an uncalled-for burden | - |
| inappositeness | (noun) inappropriateness | Synonyms: inaptness |
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| indisposition | (noun) a certain degree of unwillingness | Synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance |
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| (noun) a slight illness | - |
| inositol | (noun) an optically inactive alcohol that is a component of the vitamin B complex | - |
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| interposition | (noun) the action of interjecting or interposing an action or remark that interrupts | Synonyms: interjection, interpellation, interpolation |
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| (noun) the act or fact of interposing one thing between or among others | Synonyms: intervention |
| jocosity | (noun) the trait of merry joking | Synonyms: humorousness, jocoseness, merriness |
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| (noun) fun characterized by humor | Synonyms: jocularity |
| juxtaposition | (noun) the act of positioning close together (or side by side) | Synonyms: apposition, collocation |
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| (noun) a side-by-side position | - |
| luminosity | (noun) the quality of being luminous; emitting or reflecting light | Synonyms: brightness, brightness level, light, luminance, luminousness |
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| malposition | (noun) faulty position | Synonyms: misplacement |
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| meticulosity | (noun) strict attention to minute details | Synonyms: meticulousness, punctiliousness, scrupulousness |
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| monstrosity | (noun) something hideous or frightful | - |
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| (noun) a person or animal that is markedly unusual or deformed | Synonyms: freak, lusus naturae, monster |
| myositis | (noun) inflammation of muscle tissue | - |
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| numerosity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: multiplicity, numerousness |
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| opposite | (noun) a word that expresses a meaning opposed to the meaning of another word, in which case the two words are antonyms of each other | Synonyms: antonym, opposite word |
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| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposition |
| (noun) a relation of direct opposition | Synonyms: contrary, reverse |
| (noun) something inverted in sequence or character or effect | Synonyms: inverse |
| oppositeness | (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: opposition |
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| opposition | (noun) the act of hostile groups opposing each other | Synonyms: confrontation |
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| (noun) the action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with | Synonyms: resistance |
| (noun) a body of people united in opposing something | - |
| (noun) an armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force) | Synonyms: enemy, foe, foeman |
| (noun) a contestant that you are matched against | Synonyms: opponent, opposite |
| (noun) a direction opposite to another | - |
| (noun) the relation between opposed entities | Synonyms: oppositeness |
| oppositionality | (noun) The quality of opposing or of being in conflict. | - |
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| ovipositor | (noun) egg-laying tubular structure at the end of the abdomen in many female insects and some fishes | - |
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| pilosity | (noun) the quality of having hair | Synonyms: hairiness |
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| polymyositis | (noun) myositis characterized by weakness of limb and neck muscles and much muscle pain and swelling; progression and severity vary among individuals | - |
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| pomposity | (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pompousness, pretentiousness, puffiness, splashiness |
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| ponderosity | (noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, massiveness, ponderousness |
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| porosity | (noun) the property of being porous; being able to absorb fluids | Synonyms: porousness |
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| posit | (noun) (logic) a proposition that is accepted as true in order to provide a basis for logical reasoning | Synonyms: postulate |
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| position | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, positioning |
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| (noun) a job in an organization | Synonyms: berth, office, place, post, situation |
| (noun) (in team sports) the role assigned to an individual player | - |
| (noun) the post or function properly or customarily occupied or served by another | Synonyms: lieu, place, stead |
| (noun) the act of positing; an assumption taken as a postulate or axiom | - |
| (noun) the spatial property of a place where or way in which something is situated | Synonyms: spatial relation |
| (noun) the arrangement of the body and its limbs | Synonyms: attitude, posture |
| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: perspective, view |
| (noun) a rationalized mental attitude | Synonyms: posture, stance |
| (noun) an opinion that is held in opposition to another in an argument or dispute | Synonyms: side |
| (noun) an item on a list or in a sequence | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) the particular portion of space occupied by something | Synonyms: place |
| (noun) a point occupied by troops for tactical reasons | Synonyms: military position |
| (noun) the appropriate or customary location | - |
| (noun) the relative position or standing of things or especially persons in a society | Synonyms: status |
| (noun) a condition or position in which you find yourself | Synonyms: situation |
| positioner | (noun) (computer science) the actuator that moves a read/write head to the proper data track | Synonyms: rotary actuator |
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| (noun) a device used to control the opening or closing of the actuator based on electric, or pneumatic signals. | - |
| positioning | (noun) the act of putting something in a certain place | Synonyms: emplacement, locating, location, placement, position |
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| positive | (noun) a film showing a photographic image whose tones correspond to those of the original subject | - |
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| (noun) the primary form of an adjective or adverb; denotes a quality without qualification, comparison, or relation to increase or diminution | Synonyms: positive degree |
| positiveness | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positivism, positivity |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positivity, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positivity |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positivity |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positivity |
| positivism | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivity |
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| (noun) the form of empiricism that bases all knowledge on perceptual experience (not on intuition or revelation) | Synonyms: logical positivism |
| positivist | (noun) someone who emphasizes observable facts and excludes metaphysical speculation about origins or ultimate causes | Synonyms: rationalist |
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| positivity | (noun) a quality or state characterized by certainty or acceptance or affirmation and dogmatic assertiveness | Synonyms: positiveness, positivism |
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| (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: advantageousness, favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, profitableness |
| (noun) the quality of being undeniable and not worth arguing about | Synonyms: incontrovertibility, incontrovertibleness, positiveness |
| (noun) an amount greater than zero | Synonyms: positiveness |
| (noun) the character of the positive electric pole | Synonyms: positiveness |
| positron | (noun) an elementary particle with positive charge; interaction of a positron and an electron results in annihilation | Synonyms: antielectron |
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| postposition | (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element after another (as placing a modifier after the word that it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix after the base to which it is attached) | - |
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| preciosity | (noun) the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined | Synonyms: preciousness |
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| predisposition | (noun) a disposition in advance to react in a particular way | - |
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| (noun) an inclination beforehand to interpret statements in a particular way | - |
| (noun) susceptibility to a pathogen | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| preposition | (noun) a function word that combines with a noun or pronoun or noun phrase to form a prepositional phrase that can have an adverbial or adjectival relation to some other word | - |
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| (noun) (linguistics) the placing of one linguistic element before another (as placing a modifier before the word it modifies in a sentence or placing an affix before the base to which it is attached) | - |
| presupposition | (noun) the act of presupposing; a supposition made prior to having knowledge (as for the purpose of argument) | - |
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| proposition | (noun) a task to be dealt with | - |
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| (noun) (logic) a statement that affirms or denies something and is either true or false | - |
| (noun) a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection | Synonyms: proffer, suggestion |
| (noun) the act of making a proposal | Synonyms: proposal |
| (noun) an offer for a private bargain (especially a request for sexual favors) | - |
| propositus | (noun) the person immediately affected by or concerned with an action | - |
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| redeposition | (noun) deposition from one deposit to another | - |
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| redisposition | (noun) the withdrawal and redistribution of forces in an attempt to use them more effectively | Synonyms: redeployment |
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| reimposition | (noun) imposition again | - |
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| religiosity | (noun) exaggerated or affected piety and religious zeal | Synonyms: pietism, religionism, religiousism |
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| repositing | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: reposition, storage, warehousing |
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| reposition | (noun) depositing in a warehouse | Synonyms: repositing, storage, warehousing |
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| repositioning | (noun) the act of placing in a new position | - |
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| repository | (noun) a facility where things can be deposited for storage or safekeeping | Synonyms: deposit, depositary, depository |
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| (noun) a burial vault (usually for some famous person) | Synonyms: monument |
| (noun) a person to whom a secret is entrusted | Synonyms: secretary |
| rhodochrosite | (noun) a mineral consisting of manganese carbonate; a source of manganese | - |
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| rosita | (noun) erect plant with small clusters of pink trumpet-shaped flowers of southwestern United States | Synonyms: Centaurium calycosum |
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| sinuosity | (noun) having bends (especially of streams and roads) | Synonyms: sinuousness |
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| strenuosity | (noun) intense energy | Synonyms: athleticism |
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| sumptuosity | (noun) the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive | Synonyms: lavishness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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| superposition | (noun) the placement of one thing on top of another | - |
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| (noun) (geometry) the placement of one object ideally in the position of another one in order to show that the two coincide | - |
| (noun) (geology) the principle that in a series of stratified sedimentary rocks the lowest stratum is the oldest | Synonyms: principle of superposition, superposition principle |
| (noun) (geology) the deposition of one geological stratum on another | - |
| supposition | (noun) a hypothesis that is taken for granted | Synonyms: assumption, supposal |
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| (noun) the cognitive process of supposing | Synonyms: supposal |
| (noun) a message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence | Synonyms: conjecture, guess, hypothesis, speculation, surmisal, surmise |
| suppository | (noun) a small plug of medication designed for insertion into the rectum or vagina where it melts | - |
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| tortuosity | (noun) a tortuous and twisted shape or position | Synonyms: contortion, crookedness, torsion, tortuousness |
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| transposition | (noun) the act of reversing the order or place of | Synonyms: reversal |
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| (noun) (music) playing in a different key from the key intended; moving the pitch of a piece of music upwards or downwards | - |
| (noun) (mathematics) the transfer of a quantity from one side of an equation to the other along with a change of sign | - |
| (noun) (electricity) a rearrangement of the relative positions of power lines in order to minimize the effects of mutual capacitance and inductance | - |
| (noun) (genetics) a kind of mutation in which a chromosomal segment is transfered to a new position on the same or another chromosome | - |
| (noun) an event in which one thing is substituted for another | Synonyms: permutation, replacement, substitution, switch |
| (noun) any abnormal position of the organs of the body | Synonyms: heterotaxy |
| tuberosity | (noun) a protuberance on a bone especially for attachment of a muscle or ligament | Synonyms: eminence, tubercle |
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| varicosity | (noun) varix or varicose condition in which a vein is swollen and tortuous | - |
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| verbosity | (noun) an expressive style that uses excessive or empty words | Synonyms: verboseness |
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| virtuosity | (noun) technical skill or fluency or style exhibited by a virtuoso | - |
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| viscosity | (noun) resistance of a liquid to shear forces (and hence to flow) | Synonyms: viscousness |
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| voluminosity | (noun) greatness of volume | Synonyms: fullness, voluminousness |
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