| pertinency | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinence |
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| pharmacy | (noun) a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold | Synonyms: apothecary's shop, chemist's, chemist's shop, drugstore |
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| (noun) the art and science of preparing and dispensing drugs and medicines | Synonyms: pharmaceutics |
| piquancy | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquance, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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| (noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquance, piquantness |
| piracy | (noun) hijacking on the high seas or in similar contexts; taking a ship or plane away from the control of those who are legally entitled to it | Synonyms: buccaneering |
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| (noun) the act of plagiarizing; taking someone's words or ideas as if they were your own | Synonyms: plagiarisation, plagiarism, plagiarization |
| plangency | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness, vibrancy |
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| pliancy | (noun) adaptability of mind or character | Synonyms: pliability, pliantness, suppleness |
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| (noun) the property of being pliant and flexible | Synonyms: pliantness, suppleness |
| plutocracy | (noun) a political system governed by the wealthy people | - |
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| poignancy | (noun) a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow) | Synonyms: pathos |
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| (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignance |
| policy | (noun) a plan of action adopted by an individual or social group | - |
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| (noun) a line of argument rationalizing the course of action of a government | - |
| (noun) written contract or certificate of insurance | Synonyms: insurance, insurance policy |
| polyvalency | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalence |
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| (noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalence |
| potency | (noun) capacity to produce strong physiological or chemical effects | Synonyms: effectiveness, strength |
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| (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authority, authorization, dominance, say-so |
| (noun) the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: potence |
| (noun) the inherent capacity for coming into being | Synonyms: potential, potentiality |
| precedency | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedence, precession |
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| (noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, priority |
| (noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedence, priority |
| precipitancy | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitance, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| pregnancy | (noun) the state of being pregnant; the period from conception to birth when a woman carries a developing fetus in her uterus | Synonyms: gestation, maternity |
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| prelacy | (noun) the office or station of a prelate | Synonyms: prelature |
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| (noun) prelates collectively | Synonyms: prelature |
| preoccupancy | (noun) the act of taking occupancy before someone else does | Synonyms: preoccupation |
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| (noun) the mental state of being preoccupied by something | Synonyms: absorption, engrossment, preoccupation |
| prepotency | (noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predominance, predomination |
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| presidency | (noun) the office and function of president | Synonyms: presidentship |
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| (noun) the tenure of a president | Synonyms: administration, presidential term |
| primacy | (noun) the state of being first in importance | - |
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| privacy | (noun) the quality of being secluded from the presence or view of others | Synonyms: privateness, seclusion |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privateness, secrecy |
| proficiency | (noun) the quality of having great facility and competence | - |
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| (noun) skillfulness in the command of fundamentals deriving from practice and familiarity | Synonyms: technique |
| profligacy | (noun) dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | Synonyms: dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness |
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| (noun) the trait of spending extravagantly | Synonyms: extravagance, prodigality |
| prolificacy | (noun) the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth | Synonyms: fertility, rankness, richness |
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| prophecy | (noun) knowledge of the future (usually said to be obtained from a divine source) | Synonyms: prognostication, vaticination |
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| (noun) a prediction uttered under divine inspiration | Synonyms: divination |
| pruriency | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience |
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| pungency | (noun) a strong odor or taste property | Synonyms: bite, raciness, sharpness |
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| (noun) wit having a sharp and caustic quality | Synonyms: bite |
| purulency | (noun) symptom of being purulent (containing or forming pus) | Synonyms: purulence |
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| pyromancy | (noun) divination by fire or flames | - |
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| quiescency | (noun) quiet and inactive restfulness | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence, sleeping |
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| (noun) a state of quiet (but possibly temporary) inaction | Synonyms: dormancy, quiescence |
| radiancy | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, refulgence, refulgency, shine |
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| recalcitrancy | (noun) the trait of being unmanageable | Synonyms: recalcitrance, refractoriness, unmanageableness |
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| reccy | (noun) reconnaissance (by shortening) | Synonyms: recce, recco |
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| recency | (noun) a time immediately before the present | Synonyms: recentness |
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| (noun) the property of having happened or appeared not long ago | Synonyms: recentness |
| 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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| redundancy | (noun) repetition of an act needlessly | - |
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| (noun) the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded | Synonyms: redundance |
| (noun) (electronics) a system design that duplicates components to provide alternatives in case one component fails | - |
| (noun) repetition of messages to reduce the probability of errors in transmission | - |
| refulgency | (noun) the quality of being bright and sending out rays of light | Synonyms: effulgence, radiance, radiancy, refulgence, shine |
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| regency | (noun) the office of a regent | - |
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| (noun) the period of time during which a regent governs | - |
| relevancy | (noun) the relation of something to the matter at hand | Synonyms: relevance |
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| residency | (noun) the act of dwelling in a place | Synonyms: abidance, residence |
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| (noun) the position of physician who is receiving special training in a hospital (usually after completing an internship) | - |
| resiliency | (noun) the physical property of a material that can return to its original shape or position after deformation that does not exceed its elastic limit | Synonyms: resilience |
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| (noun) an occurrence of rebounding or springing back | Synonyms: resilience |
| resplendency | (noun) brilliant radiant beauty | Synonyms: glory, resplendence |
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| rhabdomancy | (noun) searching for underground water or minerals by using a dowsing rod | Synonyms: dowse, dowsing |
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| saliency | (noun) the state of being salient | Synonyms: salience, strikingness |
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| secrecy | (noun) the trait of keeping things secret | Synonyms: secretiveness, silence |
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| (noun) the condition of being concealed or hidden | Synonyms: concealment, privacy, privateness |
| semitransparency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: translucence, translucency |
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| sentiency | (noun) the faculty through which the external world is apprehended | Synonyms: sensation, sense, sensory faculty, sentience |
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| solvency | (noun) the ability to meet maturing obligations as they come due | - |
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| stagnancy | (noun) a state of inactivity (in business or art etc) | Synonyms: doldrums, stagnation |
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| (noun) inactivity of liquids; being stagnant; standing still; without current or circulation | Synonyms: stagnation |
| stratocracy | (noun) government by the military and an army | Synonyms: military government |
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| stridency | (noun) having the timbre of a loud high-pitched sound | Synonyms: shrillness, stridence |
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| stringency | (noun) conscientious attention to rules and details | Synonyms: strictness |
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| (noun) a state occasioned by scarcity of money and a shortage of credit | Synonyms: tightness |
| succulency | (noun) a juicy appetizingness | Synonyms: juiciness, succulence |
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| sufficiency | (noun) the quality of being sufficient for the end in view | Synonyms: adequacy |
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| (noun) an adequate quantity; a quantity that is large enough to achieve a purpose | Synonyms: enough |
| (noun) sufficient resources to provide comfort and meet obligations | - |
| supremacy | (noun) power to dominate or defeat | Synonyms: domination, mastery |
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| sycophancy | (noun) fawning obsequiousness | - |
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| tangency | (noun) (electronics) a junction where things (as two electrical conductors) touch or are in physical contact | Synonyms: contact |
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| (noun) the state of being tangent; having contact at a single point or along a line without crossing | - |
| technocracy | (noun) a form of government in which scientists and technical experts are in control | - |
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| tenancy | (noun) an act of being a tenant or occupant | Synonyms: occupancy |
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| tendency | (noun) a characteristic likelihood of or natural disposition toward a certain condition or character or effect | Synonyms: inclination |
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| (noun) an attitude of mind especially one that favors one alternative over others | Synonyms: disposition, inclination |
| (noun) an inclination to do something | Synonyms: leaning, propensity |
| (noun) a general direction in which something tends to move | Synonyms: trend |
| theocracy | (noun) the belief in government by divine guidance | - |
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| (noun) a political unit governed by a deity (or by officials thought to be divinely guided) | - |
| theodicy | (noun) the branch of theology that defends God's goodness and justice in the face of the existence of evil | - |
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| totipotency | (noun) the ability of a cell to give rise to unlike cells and so to develop a new organism or part | Synonyms: totipotence |
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| transcendency | (noun) a state of being or existence above and beyond the limits of material experience | Synonyms: transcendence |
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| (noun) the state of excelling or surpassing or going beyond usual limits | Synonyms: superiority, transcendence |
| transiency | (noun) an impermanence that suggests the inevitability of ending or dying | Synonyms: transience, transitoriness |
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| translucency | (noun) the quality of allowing light to pass diffusely | Synonyms: semitransparency, translucence |
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| transparency | (noun) picture consisting of a positive photograph or drawing on a transparent base; viewed with a projector | Synonyms: foil |
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| (noun) the quality of being clear and transparent | Synonyms: transparence, transparentness |
| (noun) permitting the free passage of electromagnetic radiation | Synonyms: transparence |
| trenchancy | (noun) keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect | Synonyms: incisiveness |
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| trichromacy | (noun) the normal ability to see colors | Synonyms: chromatic vision, color vision |
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| truancy | (noun) failure to attend (especially school) | Synonyms: hooky |
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| truculency | (noun) obstreperous and defiant aggressiveness | Synonyms: truculence |
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| turbulency | (noun) unstable flow of a liquid or gas | Synonyms: turbulence |
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| ultimacy | (noun) the state or degree of being ultimate; the final or most extreme in degree or size or time or distance | Synonyms: ultimateness |
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| urgency | (noun) pressing importance requiring speedy action | - |
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| (noun) insistent solicitation and entreaty | Synonyms: importunity, urging |
| (noun) the state of being urgent; an earnest and insistent necessity | - |
| (noun) an urgent situation calling for prompt action | - |
| vacancy | (noun) an empty area or space | Synonyms: emptiness, vacuum, void |
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| (noun) being unoccupied | - |
| vagrancy | (noun) the state of wandering from place to place; having no permanent home or means of livelihood | - |
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| valency | (noun) (chemistry) a property of atoms or radicals; their combining power given in terms of the number of hydrogen atoms (or the equivalent) | Synonyms: valence |
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| (noun) (biology) a relative capacity to unite or react or interact as with antigens or a biological substrate | Synonyms: valence |
| (noun) the phenomenon of forming chemical bonds | - |
| valiancy | (noun) the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle) | Synonyms: gallantry, heroism, valiance, valor, valorousness, valour |
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| verdancy | (noun) the lush appearance of flourishing vegetation | Synonyms: greenness, verdure |
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| veterancy | (noun) a state or condition of being a veteran | - |
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| vibrancy | (noun) having the character of a loud deep sound; the quality of being resonant | Synonyms: plangency, resonance, reverberance, ringing, sonority, sonorousness |
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| virulency | (noun) extreme harmfulness (as the capacity of a microorganism to cause disease) | Synonyms: virulence |
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| (noun) extreme hostility | Synonyms: virulence |
| viscountcy | (noun) the title of a viscount | - |
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| (noun) the dignity or rank or position of a viscount or viscountess | Synonyms: viscounty |