abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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activeness | (noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically | Synonyms: activity |
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(noun) the state of being active | Synonyms: action, activity |
adhesiveness | (noun) the property of sticking together (as of glue and wood) or the joining of surfaces of different composition | Synonyms: adherence, adhesion, bond |
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affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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aggressiveness | (noun) the quality of being bold and enterprising | - |
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(noun) a natural disposition to be hostile | Synonyms: belligerence, pugnacity |
(noun) a feeling of hostility that arouses thoughts of attack | Synonyms: aggression |
aliveness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: animateness, liveness |
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(noun) the condition of living or the state of being alive | Synonyms: animation, life, living |
allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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antivenene | (noun) an antitoxin that counteracts the effects of venom from the bite of a snake or insect or other animal | Synonyms: antivenin |
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appreciativeness | (noun) warm friendly feelings of gratitude | Synonyms: gratefulness, thankfulness |
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apprehensiveness | (noun) fearful expectation or anticipation | Synonyms: apprehension, dread |
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assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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attentiveness | (noun) the trait of being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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(noun) the trait of being observant and paying attention | - |
(noun) paying particular notice (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heed, paying attention, regard |
attractiveness | (noun) sexual allure | - |
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(noun) the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts | Synonyms: attraction |
braveness | (noun) a quality of spirit that enables you to face danger or pain without showing fear | Synonyms: bravery, courage, courageousness |
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cohesiveness | (noun) the property of being cohesive and sticky | Synonyms: glueyness, gluiness, gumminess, ropiness, tackiness, viscidity, viscidness |
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(noun) the state of cohering or sticking together | Synonyms: coherence, coherency, cohesion |
combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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comprehensiveness | (noun) the capacity to understand a broad range of topics | Synonyms: breadth, largeness |
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(noun) completeness over a broad scope | Synonyms: fullness |
compulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting compulsively | Synonyms: compulsivity |
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concaveness | (noun) the property possessed by a concave shape | Synonyms: concavity |
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conclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: decisiveness, finality |
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constructiveness | (noun) the quality of serving to build or improve | - |
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contemplativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: meditativeness, pensiveness |
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convener | (noun) the member of a group whose duty it is to convene meetings | - |
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cooperativeness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, amenableness |
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creativeness | (noun) the ability to create | Synonyms: creative thinking, creativity |
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deceptiveness | (noun) the quality of being deceptive | Synonyms: obliquity |
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decisiveness | (noun) the trait of resoluteness as evidenced by firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: decision |
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(noun) the quality of being final or definitely settled | Synonyms: conclusiveness, finality |
decorativeness | (noun) an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive | - |
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defectiveness | (noun) the state of being defective | Synonyms: faultiness |
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defensiveness | (noun) excessive sensitivity to criticism | - |
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demonstrativeness | (noun) tending to express your feelings freely | - |
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destructiveness | (noun) the quality of causing destruction | - |
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digressiveness | (noun) The characteristic quality of poetry that is marked by departure from the subject, course, or idea at hand; or by an exploration of a different or unrelated concern. | - |
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diminutiveness | (noun) the property of being very small in size | Synonyms: minuteness, petiteness, tininess, weeness |
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directiveness | (noun) the quality of being directive | Synonyms: directivity |
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discursiveness | (noun) the quality of being discursive | - |
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distinctiveness | (noun) utter dissimilarity | Synonyms: disparateness |
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(noun) a distinguishing trait | Synonyms: peculiarity, speciality, specialness, specialty |
effectiveness | (noun) power to be effective; the quality of being able to bring about an effect | Synonyms: effectivity, effectuality, effectualness |
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(noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: potency, strength |
effusiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: expansiveness, expansivity |
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electiveness | (noun) Quality or state in which choice or discretion is allowed. | Synonyms: optionality |
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elusiveness | (noun) the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down | - |
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enlivener | (noun) an agent that gives or restores life or vigor | Synonyms: invigorator, quickener |
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erosiveness | (noun) The state or quality of causing or tending to wear away or erode. | - |
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evasiveness | (noun) intentionally vague or ambiguous | Synonyms: equivocation, prevarication |
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excessiveness | (noun) immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits | Synonyms: excess, inordinateness |
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exclusiveness | (noun) tendency to associate with only a select group | Synonyms: clannishness, cliquishness |
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expansiveness | (noun) a friendly open trait of a talkative person | Synonyms: effusiveness, expansivity |
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(noun) a quality characterized by magnificence of scale or the tendency to expand | Synonyms: expansivity |
expensiveness | (noun) the quality of being high-priced | - |
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expressiveness | (noun) the quality of being expressive | - |
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extensiveness | (noun) large or extensive in breadth or importance or comprehensiveness | Synonyms: largeness |
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figurativeness | (noun) The property of being metaphorical or tropical, as opposed to literal; using figures of speech. | - |
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(noun) The representation of form or figure in art. | - |
forgiveness | (noun) the act of excusing a mistake or offense | Synonyms: pardon |
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(noun) compassionate feelings that support a willingness to forgive | - |
fricativeness | (noun) (phonetics) The quality of being produced by air flowing through a constriction in the oral cavity and typically producing a sibilant, hissing, or buzzing quality, as the English /f/ and /s/. | - |
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furtiveness | (noun) a disposition to be sly and stealthy and to do things surreptitiously | Synonyms: sneakiness, stealthiness |
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graveness | (noun) a manner that is serious and solemn | Synonyms: gravity, soberness, sobriety, somberness, sombreness |
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imaginativeness | (noun) the formation of a mental image of something that is not perceived as real and is not present to the senses | Synonyms: imagination, vision |
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imitativeness | (noun) the state of being imitating, copying, or unoriginal. | - |
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impassiveness | (noun) apathy demonstrated by an absence of emotional reactions | Synonyms: emotionlessness, impassivity, indifference, phlegm, stolidity, unemotionality |
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imperativeness | (noun) the quality of being insistent | Synonyms: instancy |
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(noun) the state of demanding notice or attention | Synonyms: insistence, insistency, press, pressure |
impressiveness | (noun) splendid or imposing in size or appearance | Synonyms: grandness, magnificence, richness |
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(noun) the quality of making a strong or vivid impression on the mind | - |
impulsiveness | (noun) the trait of acting suddenly on impulse without reflection | - |
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inactiveness | (noun) a disposition to remain inactive or inert | Synonyms: inactivity, inertia |
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(noun) the state of being inactive | Synonyms: inaction, inactivity |
inattentiveness | (noun) the trait of not being considerate and thoughtful of others | - |
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(noun) a lack of attentiveness (as to children or helpless people) | Synonyms: heedlessness |
incisiveness | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: trenchancy |
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inconclusiveness | (noun) the quality of being inconclusive | - |
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indecisiveness | (noun) the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose | Synonyms: indecision |
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(noun) doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action | Synonyms: indecision, irresolution |
ineffectiveness | (noun) lacking the power to be effective | Synonyms: ineffectuality, ineffectualness |
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inexpensiveness | (noun) the quality of being affordable | - |
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injectiveness | (noun) (mathematics) The state or quality of relating to, or being an injection: such that each element of the image (or range) is associated with at most one element of the preimage (or domain). | - |
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innovativeness | (noun) originality by virtue of introducing new ideas | - |
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inquisitiveness | (noun) The quality of being curious and interested. | - |
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(noun) a state of active curiosity | Synonyms: curiousness |
insensitiveness | (noun) the inability to respond to affective changes in your interpersonal environment | Synonyms: insensitivity |
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intensiveness | (noun) high level or degree; the property of being intense | Synonyms: intensity |
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intransitiveness | (noun) the grammatical relation created by an intransitive verb | Synonyms: intransitivity |
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introspectiveness | (noun) thoughtfulness about your own situation and feelings | - |
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intrusiveness | (noun) aggressiveness as evidenced by intruding; by advancing yourself or your ideas without invitation | Synonyms: meddlesomeness, officiousness |
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invasiveness | (noun) The quality of involving entry into the living body (as by incision or by insertion of an instrument). | - |
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(noun) The quality of tending to spread; especially of tending to invade healthy tissue. | - |
inventiveness | (noun) the power of creative imagination | Synonyms: cleverness, ingeniousness, ingenuity |
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juvenescence | (noun) the process of growing into a youth | - |
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liveness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, animateness |
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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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massiveness | (noun) an unwieldy largeness | Synonyms: bulkiness |
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(noun) the property of being large in mass | Synonyms: heft, heftiness, ponderosity, ponderousness |
meditativeness | (noun) deep serious thoughtfulness | Synonyms: contemplativeness, pensiveness |
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naiveness | (noun) lack of sophistication or worldliness | Synonyms: naivete, naivety |
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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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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 |
noninvasiveness | (noun) The quality of not being or involving an invasive medical procedure. | - |
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nutritiveness | (noun) the quality of being nourishing and promoting healthy growth | Synonyms: nutritiousness |
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objectiveness | (noun) judgment based on observable phenomena and uninfluenced by emotions or personal prejudices | Synonyms: objectivity |
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obsessiveness | (noun) extreme compulsiveness | Synonyms: obsessivity |
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obtrusiveness | (noun) an unwelcome conspicuousness | - |
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offensiveness | (noun) the quality of being offensive | Synonyms: distastefulness, odiousness |
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oppressiveness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: burdensomeness, heaviness, onerousness |
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(noun) a feeling of being oppressed | Synonyms: oppression |
oversensitiveness | (noun) sensitivity leading to easy irritation or upset | - |
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passiveness | (noun) the trait of remaining inactive; a lack of initiative | Synonyms: passivity |
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(noun) submission to others or to outside influences | Synonyms: passivity |