| inventiveness | (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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| iterative | (noun) the aspect of the verb that expresses the repetition of an action | Synonyms: iterative aspect |
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| laxative | (noun) a mild cathartic | - |
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| lenitive | (noun) remedy that eases pain and discomfort | - |
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| locative | (noun) the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the place of the state or action denoted by the verb | Synonyms: locative role |
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| (noun) A case used to indicate place, or the place where, or wherein. | Synonyms: locative case |
| locomotive | (noun) a wheeled vehicle consisting of a self-propelled engine that is used to draw trains along railway tracks | Synonyms: engine, locomotive engine, railway locomotive |
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| lucrativeness | (noun) the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit | Synonyms: gainfulness, profitability, profitableness |
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| manipulativeness | (noun) The quality of using manipulation purposefully, of tending to manipulate others. | - |
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| meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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| motive | (noun) the psychological feature that arouses an organism to action toward a desired goal; the reason for the action; that which gives purpose and direction to behavior | Synonyms: motivation, need |
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| (noun) a design or figure that consists of recurring shapes or colors, as in architecture or decoration | Synonyms: motif |
| (noun) a theme that is repeated or elaborated in a piece of music | Synonyms: motif |
| multiversity | (noun) a university system having several separate campuses and colleges and research centers | - |
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| narrative | (noun) a message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events; presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program | Synonyms: narration, story, tale |
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| native | (noun) indigenous plants and animals | - |
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| (noun) an indigenous person who was born in a particular place | Synonyms: aboriginal, aborigine, indigen, indigene |
| (noun) a person born in a particular place or country | - |
| nativeness | (noun) the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin | - |
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| negative | (noun) a piece of photographic film showing an image with light and shade or colors reversed | - |
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| (noun) a reply of denial | - |
| negativeness | (noun) characterized by habitual skepticism and a disagreeable tendency to deny or oppose or resist suggestions or commands | Synonyms: negativism, negativity |
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| (noun) an amount less than zero | Synonyms: negativity |
| (noun) the character of the negative electric pole | Synonyms: negativity |
| neoconservative | (noun) a conservative who subscribes to neoconservatism | Synonyms: neocon |
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| nominative | (noun) the category of nouns serving as the grammatical subject of a verb | Synonyms: nominative case, subject case |
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| nutritiveness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiousness |
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| objective | (noun) the lens or system of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the object being viewed | Synonyms: object glass, object lens, objective lens |
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| (noun) the goal intended to be attained (and which is believed to be attainable) | Synonyms: aim, object, target |
| objectiveness | (noun) judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | Synonyms: objectivity |
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| operative | (noun) someone who can be employed as a detective to collect information and assist in criminal investigations | Synonyms: PI, private detective, private eye, private investigator, shamus, sherlock |
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| (noun) a person secretly employed in espionage for a government | Synonyms: intelligence agent, intelligence officer, secret agent |
| optative | (noun) a mood (as in Greek or Sanskrit) that expresses a wish or hope; expressed in English by modal verbs | Synonyms: optative mood |
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| oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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| palliative | (noun) remedy that alleviates pain without curing | Synonyms: alleviant, alleviator |
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| partitive | (noun) word (such a `some' or `less') that is used to indicate a part as distinct from a whole | - |
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| perceptiveness | (noun) the quality of insight and sympathetic understanding | - |
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| (noun) delicate discrimination (especially of esthetic values) | Synonyms: appreciation, discernment, taste |
| (noun) perception of that which is obscure | Synonyms: discernment |
| (noun) a feeling of understanding | Synonyms: insight, perceptivity |
| perfective | (noun) the aspect of a verb that expresses a completed action | Synonyms: perfective aspect |
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| (noun) a tense of verbs used in describing action that has been completed (sometimes regarded as perfective aspect) | Synonyms: perfect, perfect tense, perfective tense |
| perspective | (noun) the appearance of things relative to one another as determined by their distance from the viewer | Synonyms: linear perspective |
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| (noun) a way of regarding situations or topics etc. | Synonyms: position, view |
| plaintiveness | (noun) expressing sorrowfulness | - |
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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 |
| prerogative | (noun) a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right) | Synonyms: exclusive right, perquisite, privilege |
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| preservative | (noun) a chemical compound that is added to protect against decay or decomposition | - |
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| preventative | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventive, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventive, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventive |
| preventive | (noun) remedy that prevents or slows the course of an illness or disease | Synonyms: preventative, prophylactic |
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| (noun) an agent or device intended to prevent conception | Synonyms: birth control device, contraceptive, contraceptive device, preventative, prophylactic device |
| (noun) any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome | Synonyms: encumbrance, hinderance, hindrance, hitch, incumbrance, interference, preventative |
| preventiveness | (noun) The property of preventing, hindering, or acting as an obstacle to something. | - |
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| primitive | (noun) a word serving as the basis for inflected or derived forms | - |
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| (noun) a mathematical expression from which another expression is derived | - |
| (noun) a person who belongs to an early stage of civilization | Synonyms: primitive person |
| primitiveness | (noun) a wild or unrefined state | Synonyms: crudeness, crudity, primitivism, rudeness |
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| productiveness | (noun) the quality of being productive or having the power to produce | Synonyms: productivity |
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| prospectiveness | (noun) The quality of relating to or furnishing a future prospect. | - |
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| protectiveness | (noun) the quality of providing protection | - |
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| (noun) a feeling of protective affection | - |
| purgative | (noun) a purging medicine; stimulates evacuation of the bowels | Synonyms: aperient, cathartic, physic |
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| receptiveness | (noun) willingness or readiness to receive (especially impressions or ideas) | Synonyms: openness, receptivity |
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| recitative | (noun) a vocal passage of narrative text that a singer delivers with natural rhythms of speech | - |
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| reflectiveness | (noun) the capability of quiet thought or contemplation | Synonyms: reflectivity |
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| refractiveness | (noun) the physical property of a medium as determined by its index of refraction | Synonyms: refractivity |
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| relative | (noun) an animal or plant that bears a relationship to another (as related by common descent or by membership in the same genus) | Synonyms: congenator, congener, congeneric |
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| (noun) a person related by blood or marriage | Synonyms: relation |
| repetitiveness | (noun) verboseness resulting from excessive repetitions | Synonyms: repetitiousness |
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| representative | (noun) an item of information that is typical of a class or group | Synonyms: example, illustration, instance |
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| (noun) a person who represents others | - |
| (noun) a member of the United States House of Representatives | - |
| (noun) an advocate who represents someone else's policy or purpose | Synonyms: interpreter, spokesperson, voice |
| restiveness | (noun) characterized by nervousness and quickness to take fright | Synonyms: skittishness |
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| (noun) The characteristic of being resistant of control, stubborn. | - |
| (noun) the anxious feeling you have when you have the jitters | Synonyms: jitteriness, jumpiness, nervousness |
| restorative | (noun) a device for treating injury or disease | Synonyms: corrective |
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| (noun) a medicine that strengthens and invigorates | Synonyms: tonic |
| restrictiveness | (noun) a lack of permissiveness or indulgence and a tendency to confine behavior within certain specified limits | Synonyms: unpermissiveness |
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| (noun) a grammatical qualification that makes the meaning more specific (`red hat' has a more specific meaning than `hat') | - |
| retentiveness | (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentivity |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentivity |
| retrospective | (noun) an exhibition of a representative selection of an artist's life work | - |
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| secretiveness | (noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | Synonyms: closeness |
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| (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secrecy, silence |
| sedative | (noun) a drug that reduces excitability and calms a person | Synonyms: depressant, downer, sedative drug |
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| sensitive | (noun) someone who serves as an intermediary between the living and the dead | Synonyms: medium, spiritualist |
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| sensitiveness | (noun) the ability to respond to physical stimuli or to register small physical amounts or differences | Synonyms: sensitivity |
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| (noun) the ability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| (noun) (physiology) responsiveness to external stimuli; the faculty of sensation | Synonyms: sensibility, sensitivity |
| (noun) sensitivity to emotional feelings (of self and others) | Synonyms: sensitivity |
| siccative | (noun) a substance that promotes drying (e.g., calcium oxide absorbs water and is used to remove moisture) | Synonyms: desiccant, drier, drying agent |
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| speculativeness | (noun) the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation | - |
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| (noun) financial risk | - |
| sportiveness | (noun) lively high-spirited playfulness | Synonyms: friskiness, frolicsomeness |
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| subjectiveness | (noun) judgment based on individual personal impressions and feelings and opinions rather than external facts | Synonyms: subjectivity |
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| subjunctive | (noun) a mood that represents an act or state (not as a fact but) as contingent or possible | Synonyms: subjunctive mood |
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| substantive | (noun) any word or group of words functioning as a noun | - |
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| suggestiveness | (noun) The state or quality of being full of suggestions, of stimulating thought. | - |
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| superlative | (noun) an exaggerated expression (usually of praise) | - |
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| (noun) the superlative form of an adjective or adverb | Synonyms: superlative degree |
| (noun) the highest level or degree attainable; the highest stage of development | Synonyms: acme, elevation, height, meridian, peak, pinnacle, summit, tiptop, top |
| talkativeness | (noun) the quality of being wordy and talkative | Synonyms: garrulity, garrulousness, loquaciousness, loquacity |
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| transitive | (noun) a verb (or verb construction) that requires an object in order to be grammatical | Synonyms: transitive verb, transitive verb form |
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| transitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by a transitive verb | Synonyms: transitivity |
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| ultraconservative | (noun) an extreme conservative; an opponent of progress or liberalism | Synonyms: extreme right-winger, reactionary |
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| unassertiveness | (noun) diffidence about self promotion | - |
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| unattractiveness | (noun) an ugliness of appearance that is not appealing to viewers | - |
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| uncommunicativeness | (noun) the trait of being uncommunicative | - |
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| uncompetitiveness | (noun) The quality of not being good enough to compete successfully with others. | - |
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| uncreativeness | (noun) a lack of creativity | - |
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| unperceptiveness | (noun) the lack of insight and sympathetic understanding | - |
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| unproductiveness | (noun) the quality of lacking the power to produce | - |
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| vasoconstrictive | (noun) any agent that causes a narrowing of an opening of a blood vessel: cold or stress or nicotine or epinephrine or norepinephrine or angiotensin or vasopressin or certain drugs; maintains or increases blood pressure | Synonyms: pressor, vasoconstrictor |
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| vasodilative | (noun) a drug that causes dilation of blood vessels | Synonyms: vasodilator |
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| vindictiveness | (noun) a malevolent desire for revenge | Synonyms: vengefulness |
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| vocative | (noun) the case (in some inflected languages) used when the referent of the noun is being addressed | Synonyms: vocative case |
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| vomitive | (noun) a medicine that induces nausea and vomiting | Synonyms: emetic, nauseant, vomit |
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