| abbess | (noun) the superior of a group of nuns | Synonyms: mother superior, prioress |
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| abdominousness | (noun) the bodily property of a protruding belly | Synonyms: paunchiness |
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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 | - |
| abruptness | (noun) the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning | Synonyms: precipitance, precipitancy, precipitateness, precipitousness, suddenness |
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| (noun) the property possessed by a slope that is very steep | Synonyms: precipitousness, steepness |
| (noun) an abrupt discourteous manner | Synonyms: brusqueness, curtness, gruffness, shortness |
| abscess | (noun) symptom consisting of a localized collection of pus surrounded by inflamed tissue | - |
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| absentmindedness | (noun) preoccupation so great that the ordinary demands on attention are ignored | - |
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| absoluteness | (noun) the quality of being absolute | - |
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| (noun) the quality of being complete or utter or extreme | Synonyms: starkness, utterness |
| abstemiousness | (noun) moderation in eating and drinking | - |
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| (noun) restricted to bare necessities | - |
| abstractedness | (noun) preoccupation with something to the exclusion of all else | Synonyms: abstraction |
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| abstractness | (noun) the quality of being considered apart from a specific instance or object | - |
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| 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 |
| absurdness | (noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdity, ridiculousness |
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| acceptableness | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptability |
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| access | (noun) the act of approaching or entering | - |
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| (noun) a way of entering or leaving | Synonyms: approach |
| (noun) (computer science) the operation of reading or writing stored information | Synonyms: memory access |
| (noun) the right to enter | Synonyms: accession, admission, admittance, entree |
| (noun) the right to obtain or make use of or take advantage of something (as services or membership) | - |
| (noun) a code (a series of characters or digits) that must be entered in some way (typed or dialed or spoken) to get the use of something (a telephone line or a computer or a local area network etc.) | Synonyms: access code |
| (verb) reach or gain access to | Synonyms: get at |
| (verb) obtain or retrieve from a storage device; as of information on a computer | - |
| acidulousness | (noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidity |
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| acquisitiveness | (noun) strong desire to acquire and possess | - |
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| acridness | (noun) extreme bitterness | Synonyms: acridity |
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| (noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone | Synonyms: acridity |
| 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 |
| actress | (noun) a female actor | - |
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| 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 | - |
| address | (noun) the ability to do or say what is appropriate for the occasion | Synonyms: savoir-faire |
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| (noun) the stance assumed by a golfer in preparation for hitting a golf ball | - |
| (noun) the act of delivering a formal spoken communication to an audience | Synonyms: speech |
| (noun) a sign in front of a house or business carrying the conventional form by which its location is described | - |
| (noun) written directions for finding some location; written on letters or packages that are to be delivered to that location | Synonyms: destination, name and address |
| (noun) the manner of speaking to another individual | - |
| (noun) (computer science) the code that identifies where a piece of information is stored | Synonyms: computer address, reference |
| (noun) the place where a person or organization can be found or communicated with | - |
| (verb) adjust and aim (a golf ball) at in preparation of hitting | - |
| (verb) speak to | Synonyms: turn to |
| (verb) speak to someone | Synonyms: accost, come up to |
| (verb) give a speech to | Synonyms: speak |
| (verb) put an address on (an envelope) | Synonyms: direct |
| (verb) act on verbally or in some form of artistic expression | Synonyms: cover, deal, handle, plow, treat |
| (verb) direct a question at someone | - |
| (verb) address or apply oneself to something, direct one's efforts towards something, such as a question | - |
| (verb) access or locate by address | - |
| (verb) greet, as with a prescribed form, title, or name | Synonyms: call |
| adeptness | (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adroitness, deftness, facility, quickness |
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| 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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| adroitness | (noun) skillful performance or ability without difficulty | Synonyms: adeptness, deftness, facility, quickness |
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| adulteress | (noun) a woman adulterer | Synonyms: fornicatress, hussy, jade, loose woman, slut, strumpet, trollop |
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| adulterousness | (noun) The quality of being adulterous, involving sexual intercourse by a married person with someone other than their spouse. | - |
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| advantageousness | (noun) the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome | Synonyms: favorableness, favourableness, positiveness, positivity, profitableness |
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| adventuress | (noun) a woman adventurer | - |
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| adventurousness | (noun) the trait of being adventurous | Synonyms: venturesomeness |
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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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| affectedness | (noun) a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display | Synonyms: affectation, mannerism, pose |
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| (noun) the quality of being false or artificial (as to impress others) | - |
| 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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| agedness | (noun) the property characteristic of old age | Synonyms: senescence |
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| ageless | (adjective) continuing forever or indefinitely | Synonyms: aeonian, eonian, eternal, everlasting, perpetual, unceasing, unending |
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| agelessness | (noun) the quality of being timeless and eternal | - |
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| aggress | (verb) take the initiative and go on the offensive | Synonyms: attack |
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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 |
| agribusiness | (noun) a large-scale farming enterprise | Synonyms: agriculture, factory farm |
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| aimless | (adjective) aimlessly drifting | Synonyms: adrift, afloat, directionless, planless, rudderless, undirected |
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| (adjective) continually changing especially as from one abode or occupation to another | Synonyms: drifting, floating, vagabond, vagrant |
| aimlessness | (noun) the quality of lacking any definite purpose | Synonyms: purposelessness |
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| airiness | (noun) the property of something weightless and insubstantial | Synonyms: buoyancy |
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| (noun) the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air | - |
| (noun) lightness in movement or manner | Synonyms: delicacy |
| airless | (adjective) lacking fresh air | Synonyms: close, stuffy, unaired |
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| airsickness | (noun) motion sickness experienced while traveling by air (especially during turbulence) | Synonyms: air sickness |
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| airworthiness | (noun) fitness to fly | - |
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| alertness | (noun) lively attentiveness | Synonyms: on the qui vive, sharp-sightedness |
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| (noun) the process of paying close and continuous attention | Synonyms: vigilance, wakefulness, watchfulness |
| (noun) a state of readiness to respond | Synonyms: alerting |
| 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 |
| allegoricalness | (noun) The state or quality of being allegorical. | - |
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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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| aloofness | (noun) a disposition to be distant and unsympathetic in manner | Synonyms: remoteness, standoffishness, withdrawnness |
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| (noun) indifference by personal withdrawal | Synonyms: distance |
| amateurishness | (noun) something that demonstrates a lack of professional competency | - |
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| amativeness | (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
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| ambassadress | (noun) a woman ambassador | - |
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| ambidextrousness | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidexterity |
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| ambitionless | (adjective) having little desire for success or achievement | Synonyms: unambitious |
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| ambitiousness | (noun) a strong drive for success | Synonyms: ambition |
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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 |
| amorousness | (noun) a feeling of love or fondness | Synonyms: enamoredness |
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| (noun) the arousal of feelings of sexual desire | Synonyms: amativeness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
| ampleness | (noun) the property of impressive largeness in size | - |
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| (noun) the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency | - |
| ancestress | (noun) a woman ancestor | - |
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| ancientness | (noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: antiquity |
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| angriness | (noun) the state of being angry | Synonyms: anger |
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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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| anomalousness | (noun) deviation from the normal or common order or form or rule | Synonyms: anomaly |
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| answerableness | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerability |
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| antiquatedness | (noun) The state or quality of being outmoded or discredited by reason of age, of being out of style or fashion. | - |
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| antiqueness | (noun) the quality or state of being in the style or fashion of former times. | - |
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| antireligiousness | (noun) The state or condition of being opposed to religion. | - |
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| anxiousness | (noun) a feeling of mild anxiety about possible developments | Synonyms: disquiet |
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| (noun) (psychiatry) a relatively permanent state of worry and nervousness occurring in a variety of mental disorders, usually accompanied by compulsive behavior or attacks of panic | Synonyms: anxiety |
| apocryphalness | (noun) The property of being of doubtful authenticity, of lacking authority, or of not being regarded as canonical. | - |
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| (noun) The property of being of dubious veracity; of questionable accuracy or truthfulness. | - |
| apparentness | (noun) the property of being apparent | Synonyms: apparency |
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| appealingness | (noun) attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates | Synonyms: appeal, charm |
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| appetisingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetizingness |
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| appetizingness | (noun) the property of stimulating the appetite | Synonyms: appetisingness |
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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 |
| aptness | (noun) appropriateness for the occasion | Synonyms: appositeness |
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| (noun) a disposition to behave in a certain way | Synonyms: propensity |
| arbitrariness | (noun) the trait of acting unpredictably and more from whim or caprice than from reason or judgment | Synonyms: capriciousness, flightiness, whimsey, whimsicality, whimsy |
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| archduchess | (noun) a wife or widow of an archduke or a princess of the former ruling house of Austria | - |
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| archness | (noun) inappropriate playfulness | Synonyms: impertinence, perkiness, pertness, sauciness |
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| arduousness | (noun) extreme effortfulness | Synonyms: strenuousness |
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| aridness | (noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridity, thirstiness |
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| armless | (adjective) having no arms | - |
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| artfulness | (noun) the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage | - |
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| articulateness | (noun) the quality of being facile in speech and writing | Synonyms: fluency, volubility |
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| artless | (adjective) simple and natural; without cunning or deceit | - |
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| (adjective) characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious | Synonyms: ingenuous |
| (adjective) (of persons) lacking art or knowledge | Synonyms: uncultivated, uncultured |
| (adjective) showing lack of art | - |
| artlessness | (noun) ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit | - |
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| (noun) the quality of innocent naivete | Synonyms: ingenuousness, innocence, naturalness |
| assertiveness | (noun) aggressive self-assurance; given to making bold assertions | Synonyms: self-assertiveness |
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| assess | (verb) evaluate or estimate the nature, quality, ability, extent, or significance of | Synonyms: appraise, evaluate, measure, valuate, value |
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| (verb) estimate the value of (property) for taxation | - |
| (verb) set or determine the amount of (a payment such as a fine) | Synonyms: tax |
| (verb) charge (a person or a property) with a payment, such as a tax or a fine | - |