| abiogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: autogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| abrasiveness | (noun) the roughness of a substance that causes abrasions | Synonyms: harshness, scratchiness |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable | - |
| absoluteness | (noun) the quality of being absolute | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: starkness, utterness |
| abstruseness | (noun) the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand | Synonyms: obscureness, obscurity, reconditeness |
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| (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstrusity, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
| acceptableness | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptability |
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| achimenes | (noun) any plant of the genus Achimenes having showy bell-shaped flowers that resemble gloxinias | Synonyms: hot water plant |
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| 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 |
| acuteness | (noun) the quality of having a sharp edge or point | - |
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| (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuity, keenness, sharpness |
| (noun) a sensitivity that is keen and highly developed | - |
| adequateness | (noun) the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: | Synonyms: adequacy |
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| 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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| adiposeness | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposity, fattiness |
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| admirableness | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirability, wonderfulness |
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| adorableness | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorability |
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| affableness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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| affectionateness | (noun) a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love | Synonyms: fondness, lovingness, warmth |
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| (noun) a positive feeling of liking | Synonyms: affection, fondness, heart, philia, tenderness, warmheartedness, warmness |
| affirmativeness | (noun) the agreeable quality of one who assents | - |
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| agamogenesis | (noun) reproduction without the fusion of gametes | Synonyms: asexual reproduction |
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| agenesia | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesis |
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| agenesis | (noun) imperfect development; nondevelopment of a part | Synonyms: agenesia |
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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 |
| agreeableness | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeability |
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| (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: amenity |
| alikeness | (noun) similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things | Synonyms: likeness, similitude |
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| 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 |
| alkylbenzenesulfonate | (noun) sulfonate of alkyl benzene | - |
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| allusiveness | (noun) a quality characterized by indirect reference | - |
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| aloneness | (noun) a disposition toward being alone | Synonyms: loneliness, lonesomeness, solitariness |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| amelogenesis | (noun) the developmental process of forming tooth enamel | - |
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| amenableness | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenability, cooperativeness |
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| amiableness | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiability, bonhomie, geniality |
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| amicableness | (noun) having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amicability |
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| (noun) a disinclination to quarrel | Synonyms: amicability |
| ampleness | (noun) the property of impressive largeness in size | - |
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| (noun) the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency | - |
| androgenesis | (noun) male parthenogenesis in which the embryo contains only paternal chromosomes due to the failure of the egg nucleus to participate in fertilization | Synonyms: androgeny |
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| angiogenesis | (noun) the formation of new blood vessels | - |
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| animateness | (noun) the property of being animated; having animal life as distinguished from plant life | Synonyms: aliveness, liveness |
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| answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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| anthropogenesis | (noun) the evolution or genesis of the human race | Synonyms: anthropogeny |
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| antiqueness | (noun) the quality or state of being in the style or fashion of former times. | - |
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| appositeness | (noun) appropriateness for the occasion | Synonyms: aptness |
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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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| appropriateness | (noun) the quality of being specially suitable | - |
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| (noun) appropriate conduct; doing the right thing | Synonyms: rightness |
| articulateness | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: fluency, volubility |
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| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| associableness | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associability |
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| astuteness | (noun) intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings) | Synonyms: perspicaciousness, perspicacity, shrewdness |
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| (noun) the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas | Synonyms: deepness, depth, profoundness, profundity |
| atherogenesis | (noun) the formation of atheromas on the walls of the arteries as in atherosclerosis | - |
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| attainableness | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainability |
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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 |
| audibleness | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibility |
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| austereness | (noun) extreme plainness | Synonyms: severeness, severity |
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| autogenesis | (noun) a hypothetical organic phenomenon by which living organisms are created from nonliving matter | Synonyms: abiogenesis, autogeny, spontaneous generation |
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| availableness | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availability, handiness |
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| averageness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding | Synonyms: mediocrity |
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| (noun) the state of being that is average; indicates normality but with connotations of mediocrity | - |
| awareness | (noun) having knowledge of | Synonyms: cognisance, cognizance, consciousness, knowingness |
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| (noun) state of elementary or undifferentiated consciousness | Synonyms: sentience |
| bareness | (noun) an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation | Synonyms: starkness |
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| (noun) the state of being unclothed and exposed (especially of a part of the body) | - |
| (noun) a bleak and desolate atmosphere | Synonyms: bleakness, desolation, nakedness |
| baroqueness | (noun) elaborate and extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century | Synonyms: baroque |
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| baseness | (noun) unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values | Synonyms: contemptibility, despicability, despicableness, sordidness |
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| bellicoseness | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicosity |
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| biogenesis | (noun) the production of living organisms from other living organisms | Synonyms: biogeny |
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| (noun) production of a chemical compound by a living organism | Synonyms: biosynthesis |
| bizarreness | (noun) strikingly out of the ordinary | Synonyms: outlandishness, weirdness |
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| blastogenesis | (noun) theory that inherited characteristics are transmitted by germ plasm | - |
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| (noun) asexual reproduction by budding | - |
| blitheness | (noun) a feeling of spontaneous good spirits | Synonyms: cheerfulness |
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| blueness | (noun) blue color or pigment; resembling the color of the clear sky in the daytime | Synonyms: blue |
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| 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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| breakableness | (noun) the consistency of something that breaks under pressure | - |
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| brittleness | (noun) firm but easily broken | Synonyms: crispiness, crispness |
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| brusqueness | (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: abruptness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
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| burdensomeness | (noun) unwelcome burdensome difficulty | Synonyms: heaviness, onerousness, oppressiveness |
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| cacogenesis | (noun) inability to produce hybrids that are both viable and fertile | - |
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| caenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: cainogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| cainogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cenogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| capableness | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capability |
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| (noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capability, potentiality |
| carefreeness | (noun) the trait of being without worry or responsibility | - |
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| (noun) the cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you | Synonyms: insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomeness |
| cenogenesis | (noun) introduction during embryonic development of characters or structure not present in the earlier evolutionary history of the strain or species (such as the addition of the placenta in mammalian evolution) | Synonyms: caenogenesis, cainogenesis, kainogenesis, kenogenesis |
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| changeableness | (noun) the quality of being changeable; having a marked tendency to change | Synonyms: changeability |
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| charitableness | (noun) generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate) | - |
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| chasteness | (noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: restraint, simpleness, simplicity |
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| choiceness | (noun) the quality of being very good indeed | Synonyms: fineness |
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| closeness | (noun) the spatial property resulting from a relatively small distance | Synonyms: nearness |
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| (noun) characterized by a lack of openness (especially about one's actions or purposes) | Synonyms: secretiveness |
| (noun) the quality of being close and poorly ventilated | Synonyms: stuffiness |
| (noun) close or warm friendship | Synonyms: familiarity, intimacy |
| (noun) extreme stinginess | Synonyms: meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimoniousness, parsimony, tightfistedness, tightness |
| (noun) a feeling of being intimate and belonging together | Synonyms: intimacy |
| coarseness | (noun) looseness or roughness in texture (as of cloth) | Synonyms: nubbiness, tweediness |
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| (noun) the quality of being composed of relatively large particles | Synonyms: graininess, granularity |
| (noun) the quality of lacking taste and refinement | Synonyms: commonness, grossness, raunch, vulgarism, vulgarity |
| (noun) language or humor that is down-to-earth | Synonyms: saltiness |
| cocksureness | (noun) total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant | Synonyms: certitude, overconfidence |
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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 |
| comatoseness | (noun) a state of deep and often prolonged unconsciousness; usually the result of disease or injury | Synonyms: coma |
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| combativeness | (noun) a militant aggressiveness | Synonyms: militance, militancy |
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| combustibleness | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: burnability, combustibility |
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| comfortableness | (noun) a feeling of being at ease in a relationship | - |
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| (noun) a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain | Synonyms: comfort |
| commensurateness | (noun) the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount | Synonyms: correspondence, proportionateness |
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| commonplaceness | (noun) ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace | Synonyms: commonness, everydayness |
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| communicativeness | (noun) the trait of being communicative | - |
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| companionableness | (noun) suitability to be a companion | Synonyms: companionability |
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| compassionateness | (noun) a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering | Synonyms: compassion |
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| competitiveness | (noun) an aggressive willingness to compete | Synonyms: fight |
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| completeness | (noun) (logic) an attribute of a logical system that is so constituted that a contradiction arises if any proposition is introduced that cannot be derived from the axioms of the system | - |
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| (noun) the state of being complete and entire; having everything that is needed | - |
| compositeness | (noun) the property of being a composite number | - |
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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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