malevolence | (noun) the quality of threatening evil | Synonyms: malevolency, malice |
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(noun) wishing evil to others | Synonyms: malignity |
malfeasance | (noun) wrongful conduct by a public official | - |
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malignance | (noun) quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will | Synonyms: malignancy, malignity |
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(noun) (medicine) a malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death | Synonyms: malignancy |
mesalliance | (noun) a marriage with a person of inferior social status | - |
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microbalance | (noun) balance for weighing very small objects | - |
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militance | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: combativeness, militancy |
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mince | (noun) food chopped into small bits | - |
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misalliance | (noun) an unsuitable alliance (especially with regard to marriage) | - |
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mischance | (noun) an instance of misfortune | Synonyms: misadventure, mishap |
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(noun) an unpredictable outcome that is unfortunate | Synonyms: bad luck, mishap |
misfeasance | (noun) doing a proper act in a wrongful or injurious manner | - |
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monstrance | (noun) (Roman Catholic Church) a vessel (usually of gold or silver) in which the consecrated Host is exposed for adoration | Synonyms: ostensorium |
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(noun) proof by a process of argument or a series of proposition proving an asserted conclusion | Synonyms: demonstration |
multivalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalency, polyvalence, polyvalency |
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munificence | (noun) liberality in bestowing gifts; extremely liberal and generous of spirit | Synonyms: largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness |
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nance | (noun) offensive term for a homosexual man | Synonyms: fag, faggot, fagot, fairy, pansy, poof, poove, pouf, queen, queer |
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nascence | (noun) the event of being born | Synonyms: birth, nascency, nativity |
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negligence | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, nonperformance |
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(noun) the trait of neglecting responsibilities and lacking concern | Synonyms: neglect, neglectfulness |
nescience | (noun) ignorance (especially of orthodox beliefs) | Synonyms: ignorantness, unknowing, unknowingness |
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neuroscience | (noun) the scientific study of the nervous system | - |
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ninepence | (noun) a coin worth nine pennies | - |
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nonacceptance | (noun) the act of refusing an offer | Synonyms: turndown |
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nonappearance | (noun) failure to appear (especially as at court) | - |
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nonattendance | (noun) the failure to attend | - |
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nonce | (noun) the present occasion | Synonyms: time being |
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nonchalance | (noun) the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care; a casual lack of concern | Synonyms: indifference, unconcern |
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noncompliance | (noun) the failure to obey | Synonyms: disobedience |
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nonconformance | (noun) failure to conform to accepted standards of behavior | Synonyms: nonconformity |
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(noun) a lack of orthodoxy in thoughts or beliefs | Synonyms: nonconformism, nonconformity |
nonequivalence | (noun) not interchangeable | - |
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nonexistence | (noun) the state of not existing | Synonyms: nonentity |
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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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nonindulgence | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, austerity |
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noninterference | (noun) a foreign policy of staying out of other countries' disputes | Synonyms: nonintervention |
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nonobservance | (noun) a lack of conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | - |
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nonoccurrence | (noun) absence by virtue of not occurring | - |
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nonperformance | (noun) failure to act with the prudence that a reasonable person would exercise under the same circumstances | Synonyms: carelessness, neglect, negligence |
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nonresistance | (noun) group refusal to resort to violence even in defense against violence | - |
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nonviolence | (noun) peaceful resistance to a government by fasting or refusing to cooperate | Synonyms: nonviolent resistance, passive resistance |
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nuance | (noun) a subtle difference in meaning or opinion or attitude | Synonyms: nicety, refinement, shade, subtlety |
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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 |
nurturance | (noun) physical and emotional care and nourishment | - |
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obedience | (noun) the act of obeying; dutiful or submissive behavior with respect to another person | Synonyms: obeisance |
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(noun) behavior intended to please your parents | Synonyms: respect |
(noun) the trait of being willing to obey | - |
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 |
observance | (noun) the act of observing; taking a patient look | Synonyms: observation, watching |
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(noun) conformity with law or custom or practice etc. | Synonyms: honoring, honouring |
(noun) the act of noticing or paying attention | Synonyms: notice, observation |
(noun) a formal event performed on a special occasion | Synonyms: ceremonial, ceremonial occasion, ceremony |
obsolescence | (noun) the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date | - |
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obstinance | (noun) the trait of being difficult to handle or overcome | Synonyms: mulishness, obstinacy, stubbornness |
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(noun) resolute adherence to your own ideas or desires | Synonyms: bullheadedness, obstinacy, pigheadedness, self-will, stubbornness |
occurrence | (noun) an event that happens | Synonyms: happening, natural event, occurrent |
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(noun) an instance of something occurring | - |
offence | (noun) the action of attacking an enemy | Synonyms: offense, offensive |
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(noun) a transgression that constitutes a violation of what is judged to be right | Synonyms: offense |
(noun) a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others; wounding the feelings of others | Synonyms: discourtesy, offense, offensive activity |
(noun) a feeling of anger caused by being offended | Synonyms: offense, umbrage |
(noun) the team that has the ball (or puck) and is trying to score | Synonyms: offense |
omnipotence | (noun) the state of being omnipotent; having unlimited power | - |
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omnipresence | (noun) the state of being everywhere at once (or seeming to be everywhere at once) | Synonyms: ubiquitousness, ubiquity |
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omniscience | (noun) the state of being omniscient; having infinite knowledge | - |
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opalescence | (noun) the visual property of something having a milky brightness and a play of colors from the surface | Synonyms: iridescence |
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opulence | (noun) wealth as evidenced by sumptuous living | Synonyms: luxuriousness, luxury, sumptuousness |
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ordinance | (noun) the act of ordaining; the act of conferring (or receiving) holy orders | Synonyms: ordination |
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(noun) an authoritative command | Synonyms: regulation |
(noun) a statute enacted by a city government | - |
ordnance | (noun) military supplies | Synonyms: munition, ordnance store |
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(noun) large but transportable armament | Synonyms: artillery, gun, heavy weapon |
oscitance | (noun) an involuntary intake of breath through a wide open mouth; usually triggered by fatigue or boredom | Synonyms: oscitancy, yawn, yawning |
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(noun) drowsiness and dullness manifested by yawning | Synonyms: oscitancy |
ounce | (noun) large feline of upland central Asia having long thick whitish fur | Synonyms: Panthera uncia, snow leopard |
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(noun) a unit of weight equal to one sixteenth of a pound or 16 drams or 28.349 grams | Synonyms: oz. |
(noun) a unit of apothecary weight equal to 480 grains or one twelfth of a troy pound | Synonyms: apothecaries' ounce, troy ounce |
overabundance | (noun) a quantity that is more than what is appropriate | Synonyms: overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance |
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(noun) the state of being more than full | Synonyms: excess, surfeit |
overconfidence | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, cocksureness |
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overindulgence | (noun) excessive indulgence | Synonyms: excess |
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overtolerance | (noun) too much permissiveness | - |
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parlance | (noun) a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language | Synonyms: idiom |
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patience | (noun) a card game played by one person | Synonyms: solitaire |
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(noun) good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence | Synonyms: forbearance, longanimity |
penance | (noun) voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing | Synonyms: self-abasement, self-mortification |
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(noun) a Catholic sacrament; repentance and confession and atonement and absolution | - |
(noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penitence, repentance |
penitence | (noun) remorse for your past conduct | Synonyms: penance, repentance |
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performance | (noun) the act of performing; of doing something successfully; using knowledge as distinguished from merely possessing it | Synonyms: carrying into action, carrying out, execution |
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(noun) the act of presenting a play or a piece of music or other entertainment | - |
(noun) any recognized accomplishment | - |
(noun) a dramatic or musical entertainment | Synonyms: public presentation |
(noun) process or manner of functioning or operating | Synonyms: functioning, operation |
permanence | (noun) the property of being able to exist for an indefinite duration | Synonyms: permanency |
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perseverance | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseveration, persistence |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, persistence, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
persistence | (noun) the act of persisting or persevering; continuing or repeating behavior | Synonyms: perseverance, perseveration |
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(noun) persistent determination | Synonyms: doggedness, perseverance, persistency, pertinacity, tenaciousness, tenacity |
(noun) the property of a continuous and connected period of time | Synonyms: continuity |
pertinence | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: applicability, pertinency |
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pestilence | (noun) a pernicious and malign influence that is hard to get rid of | Synonyms: canker |
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(noun) any epidemic disease with a high death rate | Synonyms: pest, plague |
(noun) a serious (sometimes fatal) infection of rodents caused by Yersinia pestis and accidentally transmitted to humans by the bite of a flea that has bitten an infected animal | Synonyms: pest, pestis, plague |
petulance | (noun) an irritable petulant feeling | Synonyms: choler, crossness, fretfulness, fussiness, irritability, peevishness |
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phosphorescence | (noun) a fluorescence that persists after the bombarding radiation has ceased | - |
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piquance | (noun) a tart spicy quality | Synonyms: nip, piquancy, piquantness, tang, tanginess, zest |
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(noun) the quality of being agreeably stimulating or mentally exciting | Synonyms: piquancy, piquantness |
pittance | (noun) an inadequate payment | - |
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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 | - |
poignance | (noun) a state of deeply felt distress or sorrow | Synonyms: poignancy |
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polyvalence | (noun) (chemistry) the state of having a valence greater than two | Synonyms: multivalence, multivalency, polyvalency |
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(noun) (toxicology) the state of being capable of counteracting more than one toxin or antigen or kind of microorganism | Synonyms: polyvalency |
ponce | (noun) someone who procures customers for whores (in England they call a pimp a ponce) | Synonyms: fancy man, pandar, pander, panderer, pimp, procurer |
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(noun) a man who is effeminate in his manner and fussy in the way he dresses | - |
potence | (noun) the state of being potent; a male's capacity to have sexual intercourse | Synonyms: potency |
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pounce | (noun) the act of pouncing | - |
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prance | (noun) a proud stiff pompous gait | Synonyms: strut, swagger |
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precedence | (noun) the act of preceding in time or order or rank (as in a ceremony) | Synonyms: precedency, precession |
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(noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedency, priority |
(noun) status established in order of importance or urgency | Synonyms: precedency, priority |
precipitance | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: abruptness, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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predominance | (noun) the quality of being more noticeable than anything else | Synonyms: predomination |
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(noun) the state of being predominant over others | Synonyms: predomination, prepotency |
preeminence | (noun) high status importance owing to marked superiority | Synonyms: distinction, eminence, note |
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preexistence | (noun) existing in a former state or previous to something else | - |
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preference | (noun) grant of favor or advantage to one over another (especially to a country or countries in matters of international trade, such as levying duties) | - |
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(noun) the right or chance to choose | Synonyms: druthers |
(noun) a predisposition in favor of something | Synonyms: orientation, predilection |
(noun) a strong liking | Synonyms: penchant, predilection, taste |
preponderance | (noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: prevalence |
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(noun) exceeding in heaviness; having greater weight | - |
(noun) superiority in power or influence | - |
prescience | (noun) the power to foresee the future | Synonyms: prevision |
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presence | (noun) the act of being present | - |
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(noun) dignified manner or conduct | Synonyms: bearing, comportment, mien |
(noun) the impression that something is present | - |
(noun) the immediate proximity of someone or something | Synonyms: front |
(noun) an invisible spiritual being felt to be nearby | - |
(noun) the state of being present; current existence | - |
pretence | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretending, pretense, simulation |
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(noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretense, pretension |
(noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretense, pretext |
(noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretense |
(noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretense |
prevalence | (noun) the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread | - |
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(noun) a superiority in numbers or amount | Synonyms: preponderance |
(noun) (epidemiology) the ratio (for a given time period) of the number of occurrences of a disease or event to the number of units at risk in the population | - |
prince | (noun) a male member of a royal family other than the sovereign (especially the son of a sovereign) | - |
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procurance | (noun) the act of getting possession of something | Synonyms: procural, procurement |
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prominence | (noun) relative importance or fame | - |
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(noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, protrusion, protuberance, swelling |
(noun) the state of being prominent: widely known or eminent | - |
prospicience | (noun) seeing ahead; knowing in advance; foreseeing | Synonyms: farsightedness, foresight, prevision |
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protuberance | (noun) something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings | Synonyms: bulge, bump, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, swelling |
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(noun) the condition of being protuberant; the condition of bulging out | - |
provenance | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenience |
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provenience | (noun) where something originated or was nurtured in its early existence | Synonyms: birthplace, cradle, place of origin, provenance |
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providence | (noun) the guardianship and control exercised by a deity | - |
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(noun) the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources | - |
(noun) a manifestation of God's foresightful care for his creatures | - |
province | (noun) the territory occupied by one of the constituent administrative districts of a nation | Synonyms: state |
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(noun) the proper sphere or extent of your activities | Synonyms: responsibility |