achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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adiabaticity | (noun) The condition of occurring without gain or loss of heat (and thus with no change in entropy, in the quasistatic approximation). | - |
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analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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appendicitis | (noun) inflammation of the vermiform appendix | - |
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aromaticity | (noun) The property of having an aroma. | - |
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atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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catholicity | (noun) the quality of being universal; existing everywhere | Synonyms: universality |
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cervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the uterine cervix | - |
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chromaticity | (noun) the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength | Synonyms: hue |
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complicit | (adjective) involved with others in an activity that is unlawful or morally wrong | - |
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complicity | (noun) guilt as an accomplice in a crime or offense | - |
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concentricity | (noun) the quality of having the same center (as circles inside one another) | - |
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cubicity | (noun) the property of resembling a cube | - |
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cyclicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: periodicity |
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cytotoxicity | (noun) the degree to which something is toxic to living cells | - |
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deficit | (noun) the property of being an amount by which something is less than expected or required | Synonyms: shortage, shortfall |
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(noun) an excess of liabilities over assets (usually over a certain period) | - |
(noun) (sports) the score by which a team or individual is losing | - |
(noun) a deficiency or failure in neurological or mental functioning | - |
domesticity | (noun) domestic activities or life | - |
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(noun) the quality of being domestic or domesticated | - |
duplicitous | (adjective) marked by deliberate deceptiveness especially by pretending one set of feelings and acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: ambidextrous, deceitful, double-dealing, double-faced, double-tongued, Janus-faced, two-faced |
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duplicity | (noun) acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another | Synonyms: double-dealing |
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(noun) a fraudulent or duplicitous representation | Synonyms: fraudulence |
eccentricity | (noun) strange and unconventional behavior | - |
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(noun) a circularity that has a different center or deviates from a circular path | - |
(noun) (geometry) a ratio describing the shape of a conic section; the ratio of the distance between the foci to the length of the major axis | - |
elasticity | (noun) the tendency of a body to return to its original shape after it has been stretched or compressed | Synonyms: snap |
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electricity | (noun) keen and shared excitement | - |
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(noun) a physical phenomenon associated with stationary or moving electrons and protons | - |
(noun) energy made available by the flow of electric charge through a conductor | Synonyms: electrical energy, power |
elicit | (verb) derive by reason | - |
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(verb) deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning) | Synonyms: draw out, educe, evoke, extract |
(verb) call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses) | Synonyms: arouse, enkindle, evoke, fire, kindle, provoke, raise |
elicitation | (noun) stimulation that calls up (draws forth) a particular class of behaviors | Synonyms: evocation, induction |
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elicited | (adjective) called forth from a latent or potential state by stimulation | Synonyms: evoked |
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ellipticity | (noun) the property possessed by a round shape that is flattened at the poles | Synonyms: oblateness |
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endocervicitis | (noun) inflammation of the mucous lining of the uterine cervix | - |
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episodicity | (noun) The quality of being sporadic, happening infrequently and irregularly. | - |
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ergodicity | (noun) an attribute of stochastic systems; generally, a system that tends in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions | - |
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ethnicity | (noun) an ethnic quality or affiliation resulting from racial or cultural ties | - |
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explicit | (adjective) precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication | Synonyms: expressed |
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(adjective) in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term | Synonyms: denotative |
explicitly | (adverb) in an explicit manner | - |
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explicitness | (noun) clarity as a consequence of being explicit | - |
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febricity | (noun) a rise in the temperature of the body; frequently a symptom of infection | Synonyms: febrility, fever, feverishness, pyrexia |
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felicitate | (verb) express congratulations | Synonyms: congratulate |
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felicitation | (noun) the act of acknowledging that someone has an occasion for celebration | Synonyms: congratulation |
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(noun) (usually plural) an expression of pleasure at the success or good fortune of another | Synonyms: congratulation |
felicitous | (adjective) exhibiting an agreeably appropriate manner or style | - |
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(adjective) marked by good fortune | Synonyms: happy |
felicitously | (adverb) in a felicitous manner | - |
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felicitousness | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicity |
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felicity | (noun) pleasing and appropriate manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | Synonyms: felicitousness |
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(noun) state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy | Synonyms: happiness |
hydroelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by water power | - |
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hydrophobicity | (noun) the property of being water-repellent; tending to repel and not absorb water | - |
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hydrostaticity | (noun) The condition of relating to fluids, especially to the pressure that they exert or transmit. | - |
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hypertonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypertonic | Synonyms: hypertonia, hypertonus |
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(noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a higher osmotic pressure than some other | - |
hypotonicity | (noun) (of muscular tissue) the state of being hypotonic | Synonyms: hypotonia, hypotonus |
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(noun) (of a solution) the extent to which a solution has a lower osmotic pressure than some other | - |
illicit | (adjective) contrary to accepted morality (especially sexual morality) or convention | - |
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(adjective) contrary to or forbidden by law | Synonyms: illegitimate, outlaw, outlawed, unlawful |
illicitly | (adverb) in a manner disapproved or not allowed by custom | Synonyms: illegitimately |
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(adverb) in an illegal manner | Synonyms: illegally, lawlessly |
illicitness | (noun) the quality of not conforming strictly to law | - |
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immunogenicity | (noun) the property of eliciting an immune response | - |
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implicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: inexplicit |
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(adjective) being without doubt or reserve | Synonyms: unquestioning |
implicitly | (adverb) without ever expressing so clearly | - |
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(adverb) without doubting or questioning | - |
implicitness | (noun) inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect | - |
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inelasticity | (noun) the lack of elasticity | - |
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inexplicit | (adjective) implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something | Synonyms: implicit |
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inexplicitness | (noun) unclearness by virtue of not being explicit | - |
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infelicitous | (adjective) not appropriate in application; defective | - |
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(adjective) marked by or producing unhappiness | Synonyms: unhappy |
infelicitously | (adverb) in an infelicitous manner | - |
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infelicity | (noun) inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style (especially manner or style of expression) | - |
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licit | (adjective) sanctioned by custom or morality especially sexual morality | - |
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(adjective) authorized, sanctioned by, or in accordance with law | Synonyms: lawful, legitimate |
licitly | (adverb) in a manner acceptable to common custom | Synonyms: lawfully, legitimately |
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licitness | (noun) the quality of strictly conforming to law | - |
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lubricity | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, prurience, pruriency |
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lysogenicity | (noun) the condition of a host bacterium that has incorporated a phage into its own genetic material | Synonyms: lysogeny |
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mendicity | (noun) the state of being a beggar or mendicant | Synonyms: beggary, mendicancy |
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metallicity | (noun) The state of possessing a similar aural resonance to metal. | - |
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multiplicity | (noun) a large number | Synonyms: numerosity, numerousness |
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(noun) the property of being multiple | - |
nontoxicity | (noun) The state or condition of not being toxic or poisonous. | - |
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oversolicitous | (adjective) excessively solicitous | - |
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periodicity | (noun) the quality of recurring at regular intervals | Synonyms: cyclicity |
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photoelectricity | (noun) electricity generated by light or affected by light | - |
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piezoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by mechanical pressure on certain crystals (notably quartz or Rochelle salt); alternatively, electrostatic stress produces a change in the linear dimensions of the crystal | Synonyms: piezo effect, piezoelectric effect |
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plasticity | (noun) the property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking | Synonyms: malleability |
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publicity | (noun) the quality of being open to public view | - |
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(noun) a message issued in behalf of some product or cause or idea or person or institution | Synonyms: packaging, promo, promotion, promotional material |
pyroelectricity | (noun) generation of an electric charge on certain crystals (such as tourmaline) as a result of a change in temperature | - |
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rhythmicity | (noun) the rhythmic property imparted by the accents and relative durations of notes in a piece of music | - |
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rusticity | (noun) the quality of being rustic or gauche | Synonyms: gaucherie |
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simplicity | (noun) freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort | Synonyms: ease, easiness, simpleness |
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(noun) lack of ornamentation | Synonyms: chasteness, restraint, simpleness |
(noun) the quality of being simple or uncompounded | Synonyms: simpleness |
(noun) absence of affectation or pretense | Synonyms: simmpleness |
(noun) a lack of penetration or subtlety | Synonyms: simple mindedness, simpleness |
solicit | (verb) make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently | Synonyms: beg, tap |
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(verb) approach with an offer of sexual favors | Synonyms: accost, hook |
(verb) incite, move, or persuade to some act of lawlessness or insubordination | - |
(verb) make a solicitation or petition for something desired | - |
(verb) make amorous advances towards | Synonyms: court, romance, woo |
solicitation | (noun) the act of enticing a person to do something wrong (as an offer of sex in return for money) | Synonyms: allurement |
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(noun) an entreaty addressed to someone of superior status | - |
(noun) request for a sum of money | Synonyms: appeal, collection, ingathering |
solicitor | (noun) a British lawyer who gives legal advice and prepares legal documents | - |
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(noun) a petitioner who solicits contributions or trade or votes | Synonyms: canvasser |
solicitorship | (noun) the position of solicitor | - |
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solicitous | (adjective) showing hovering attentiveness | - |
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(adjective) full of anxiety and concern | - |
solicitously | (adverb) in a concerned and solicitous manner | - |
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solicitousness | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitude |
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solicitude | (noun) a feeling of excessive concern | Synonyms: solicitousness |
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spasticity | (noun) the quality of moving or acting in spasms | - |
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specificity | (noun) the quality of being specific rather than general | - |
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(noun) the quality of being specific to a particular organism | - |
sphericity | (noun) the roundness of a 3-dimensional object | Synonyms: globosity, globularness, rotundity, rotundness, sphericalness |
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stochasticity | (noun) the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan | Synonyms: haphazardness, noise, randomness |
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syllabicity | (noun) the pattern of syllable formation in a particular language | - |
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synchronicity | (noun) the relation that exists when things occur at the same time | Synonyms: synchroneity, synchronisation, synchronism, synchronization, synchronizing, synchrony |
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thermoelectricity | (noun) electricity produced by heat (as in a thermocouple) | - |
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tonicity | (noun) the elastic tension of living muscles, arteries, etc. that facilitate response to stimuli | Synonyms: tone, tonus |
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toxicity | (noun) grave harmfulness or deadliness | Synonyms: perniciousness |
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(noun) the degree to which something is poisonous | - |
triplicity | (noun) the property of being triple | - |
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(noun) (astrology) one of four groups of the zodiac where each group consists of three signs separated from each other by 120 degrees | Synonyms: trigon |
unsolicited | (adjective) not requested or sought | Synonyms: unasked-for |
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