brisance | (noun) the shattering or crushing effect of a sudden release of energy as in an explosion | - |
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cognisance | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: awareness, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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complaisance | (noun) a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others | Synonyms: compliance, compliancy, deference, obligingness |
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conversance | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversancy, familiarity |
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conversancy | (noun) personal knowledge or information about someone or something | Synonyms: acquaintance, conversance, familiarity |
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impuissance | (noun) powerlessness revealed by an inability to act | Synonyms: helplessness, weakness |
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incessancy | (noun) the quality of something that continues without end or interruption | Synonyms: ceaselessness, continuousness, incessantness |
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malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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nonfeasance | (noun) a failure to act when under an obligation to do so; a refusal (without sufficient excuse) to do that which it is your legal duty to do | - |
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nuisance | (noun) (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive | - |
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(noun) something or someone that causes trouble; a source of unhappiness | Synonyms: annoyance, bother, botheration, infliction, pain, pain in the ass, pain in the neck |
obeisance | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obedience |
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(noun) bending the head or body or knee as a sign of reverence or submission or shame or greeting | Synonyms: bow, bowing |
pleasance | (noun) a fundamental feeling that is hard to define but that people desire to experience | Synonyms: pleasure |
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(noun) a pleasant and secluded part of a garden; usually attached to a mansion | - |
puissance | (noun) power to influence or coerce | - |
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recognisance | (noun) (law) a security entered into before a court with a condition to perform some act required by law; on failure to perform that act a sum is forfeited | Synonyms: recognizance |
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reconnaissance | (noun) the act of reconnoitring (especially to gain information about an enemy or potential enemy) | Synonyms: reconnaissance mission |
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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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sanctification | (noun) a religious ceremony in which something is made holy | - |
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sanctimoniousness | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimony |
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sanctimony | (noun) the quality of being hypocritically devout | Synonyms: sanctimoniousness |
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sanction | (noun) the act of final authorization | - |
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(noun) a mechanism of social control for enforcing a society's standards | - |
(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization |
(noun) formal and explicit approval | Synonyms: countenance, endorsement, imprimatur, indorsement, warrant |
sanctitude | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctity |
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sanctity | (noun) the quality of being holy | Synonyms: holiness, sanctitude |
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sanctuary | (noun) area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing | Synonyms: bema, chancel |
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(noun) a shelter from danger or hardship | Synonyms: asylum, refuge |
(noun) a consecrated place where sacred objects are kept | - |
sanctum | (noun) a place of inviolable privacy | Synonyms: sanctum sanctorum |
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(noun) a sacred place of pilgrimage | Synonyms: holy, holy place |
unsanctification | (noun) unholiness by virtue of being profane | Synonyms: profaneness |
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usance | (noun) accepted or habitual practice | Synonyms: custom, usage |
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(noun) (economics) the utilization of economic goods to satisfy needs or in manufacturing | Synonyms: consumption, economic consumption, use, use of goods and services |
(noun) the period of time permitted by commercial usage for the payment of a bill of exchange (especially a foreign bill of exchange) | - |