| appetence | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetency, appetite |
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| appetency | (noun) a feeling of craving something | Synonyms: appetence, appetite |
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| appetent | (adjective) marked by eager desire | - |
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| competence | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competency |
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| competency | (noun) the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually | Synonyms: competence |
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| competent | (adjective) properly or sufficiently qualified or capable or efficient | - |
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| (adjective) legally qualified or sufficient | - |
| (adjective) adequate, but not outstanding or exceptional | - |
| competently | (adverb) with competence; in a competent capable manner | Synonyms: ably, aptly, capably |
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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 | - |
| concreteness | (noun) the quality of being concrete (not abstract) | - |
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| detent | (noun) a hinged catch that fits into a notch of a ratchet to move a wheel forward or prevent it from moving backward | Synonyms: click, dog, pawl |
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| detente | (noun) the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations) | - |
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| detention | (noun) a punishment in which a student must stay at school after others have gone home | - |
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| (noun) a state of being confined (usually for a short time) | Synonyms: custody, detainment, hold |
| discreteness | (noun) the state of being several and distinct | Synonyms: distinctness, separateness, severalty |
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| immunocompetence | (noun) the ability to develop an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| immunocompetent | (adjective) capable of developing an immune response following exposure to an antigen | - |
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| incompetence | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetency |
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| (noun) inability of a part or organ to function properly | - |
| incompetency | (noun) lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications | Synonyms: incompetence |
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| incompetent | (adjective) not qualified or suited for a purpose | - |
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| (adjective) legally not qualified or sufficient | Synonyms: unqualified |
| (adjective) not doing a good job | Synonyms: unskilled |
| (adjective) not meeting requirements | Synonyms: incapable, unequal to |
| (adjective) showing lack of skill or aptitude | Synonyms: bungling, clumsy, fumbling |
| (noun) someone who is not competent to take effective action | Synonyms: incompetent person |
| incompetently | (adverb) in an incompetent manner | Synonyms: displaying incompetence |
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| incompleteness | (noun) the state of being crude and incomplete and imperfect | Synonyms: rawness |
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| metencephalon | (noun) the part of the hindbrain that develops into the pons and the cerebellum | - |
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| obsoleteness | (noun) the property of being out of date and not current | Synonyms: superannuation |
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| 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 |
| pretend | (adjective) imagined as in a play | Synonyms: make-believe |
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| (noun) the enactment of a pretense | Synonyms: make-believe |
| (verb) make believe with the intent to deceive | Synonyms: affect, dissemble, feign, sham |
| (verb) represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like | Synonyms: make, make believe |
| (verb) put forward, of a guess, in spite of possible refutation | Synonyms: guess, hazard, venture |
| (verb) state insincerely | Synonyms: profess |
| (verb) behave unnaturally or affectedly | Synonyms: act, dissemble |
| (verb) put forward a claim and assert right or possession of | - |
| pretended | (adjective) adopted in order to deceive | Synonyms: assumed, false, fictitious, fictive, put on, sham |
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| pretender | (noun) a person who makes deceitful pretenses | Synonyms: fake, faker, fraud, imposter, impostor, pseud, pseudo, role player, sham, shammer |
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| (noun) a person who professes beliefs and opinions that he or she does not hold in order to conceal his or her real feelings or motives | Synonyms: dissembler, dissimulator, hypocrite, phoney, phony |
| pretending | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretense, simulation |
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| pretense | (noun) the act of giving a false appearance | Synonyms: feigning, pretence, pretending, simulation |
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| (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretension |
| (noun) an artful or simulated semblance | Synonyms: guise, pretence, pretext |
| (noun) imaginative intellectual play | Synonyms: make-believe, pretence |
| (noun) pretending with intention to deceive | Synonyms: dissembling, feigning, pretence |
| pretension | (noun) a false or unsupportable quality | Synonyms: pretence, pretense |
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| (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretentiousness |
| (noun) the advancing of a claim | - |
| pretentious | (adjective) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved) importance or distinction | - |
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| (adjective) intended to attract notice and impress others | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| (adjective) (of a display) tawdry or vulgar | Synonyms: ostentatious |
| pretentiously | (adverb) in a pretentious manner | - |
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| pretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being pretentious (behaving or speaking in such a manner as to create a false appearance of great importance or worth) | Synonyms: largeness, pretension |
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| (noun) lack of elegance as a consequence of being pompous and puffed up with vanity | Synonyms: inflation, ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, puffiness, splashiness |
| quieten | (verb) cause to be quiet or not talk | Synonyms: hush, hush up, shut up, silence, still |
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| (verb) make calm or still | Synonyms: calm, calm down, lull, quiet, still, tranquilize, tranquillise, tranquillize |
| (verb) become quiet or quieter | Synonyms: hush, pipe down, quiesce, quiet, quiet down |
| retention | (noun) the act of retaining something | Synonyms: holding, keeping |
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| (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retentiveness, retentivity |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retentiveness, retentivity |
| retentive | (adjective) good at remembering | Synonyms: long, recollective, tenacious |
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| (adjective) having the capacity to retain something | - |
| (adjective) having the power, capacity, or quality of retaining water | - |
| retentively | (adverb) in a retentive manner | - |
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| 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 |
| retentivity | (noun) the power of retaining liquid | Synonyms: retention, retentiveness |
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| (noun) the property of retaining possessions that have been acquired | Synonyms: retentiveness |
| (noun) the power of retaining and recalling past experience | Synonyms: memory, retention, retentiveness |
| sweeten | (verb) make sweeter, more pleasant, or more agreeable | - |
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| (verb) make sweeter in taste | Synonyms: dulcify, dulcorate, edulcorate |
| sweetened | (adjective) with sweetening added | Synonyms: sugared, sweet-flavored, sweet |
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| sweetener | (noun) anything that serves as an enticement | Synonyms: bait, come-on, hook, lure |
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| (noun) something added to foods to make them taste sweeter | Synonyms: sweetening |
| sweetening | (noun) the act of adding a sweetener to food | - |
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| (noun) an improvement that makes something more agreeable | Synonyms: enhancement |
| (noun) something added to foods to make them taste sweeter | Synonyms: sweetener |
| unpretending | (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretentious |
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| unpretentious | (adjective) lacking pretension or affectation | - |
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| (adjective) not ostentatious | Synonyms: unostentatious, unpretending |
| (adjective) exhibiting restrained good taste | Synonyms: understated, unostentatious |
| unpretentiously | (adverb) in an unpretentious manner | - |
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| unpretentiousness | (noun) the quality of being natural and without pretensions | - |
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| unretentive | (adjective) (of memory) deficient in retentiveness or range | Synonyms: forgetful, short |
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| unsweetened | (adjective) not made sweet | - |
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