ability | (noun) the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment | - |
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(noun) possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done | Synonyms: power |
abnormality | (noun) behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality | Synonyms: irregularity |
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(noun) marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal | Synonyms: freakishness |
(noun) retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence | Synonyms: mental defectiveness |
(noun) an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies | Synonyms: abnormalcy |
absorptivity | (noun) (physics) the property of a body that determines the fraction of the incident radiation or sound flux absorbed or absorbable by the body | Synonyms: absorption factor |
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abstrusity | (noun) wisdom that is recondite and abstruse and profound | Synonyms: abstruseness, profoundness, profundity, reconditeness |
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absurdity | (noun) a ludicrous folly | Synonyms: fatuity, fatuousness, silliness |
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(noun) a message whose content is at variance with reason | Synonyms: absurdness, ridiculousness |
acceptability | (noun) satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards | Synonyms: acceptableness |
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accessibility | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: availability, availableness, handiness |
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(noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: approachability |
acclivity | (noun) an upward slope or grade (as in a road) | Synonyms: ascent, climb, raise, rise, upgrade |
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accountability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: answerability, answerableness |
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acerbity | (noun) a rough and bitter manner | Synonyms: acrimony, bitterness, jaundice, tartness, thorniness |
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(noun) a sharp sour taste | Synonyms: tartness |
(noun) a sharp bitterness | - |
achievability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: attainability, attainableness |
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achromaticity | (noun) the visual property of being without chromatic color | Synonyms: achromatism, colorlessness, colourlessness |
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acidity | (noun) pH values below 7 | - |
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(noun) the property of being acidic | Synonyms: sour, sourness |
(noun) the taste experience when something acidic is taken into the mouth | Synonyms: acidulousness |
acridity | (noun) extreme bitterness | Synonyms: acridness |
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(noun) the quality of being sharply disagreeable in language or tone | Synonyms: acridness |
(noun) having an acrid smell | - |
activity | (noun) any specific behavior | - |
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(noun) the trait of being active; moving or acting rapidly and energetically | Synonyms: activeness |
(noun) an organic process that takes place in the body | Synonyms: bodily function, bodily process, body process |
(noun) a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings) | Synonyms: action, natural action, natural process |
(noun) the state of being active | Synonyms: action, activeness |
(noun) (chemistry) the capacity of a substance to take part in a chemical reaction | - |
actuality | (noun) the state of actually existing objectively | - |
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acuity | (noun) a quick and penetrating intelligence | Synonyms: acuteness, keenness, sharpness |
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(noun) sharpness of vision; the visual ability to resolve fine detail (usually measured by a Snellen chart) | Synonyms: sharp-sightedness, visual acuity |
adaptability | (noun) the ability to change (or be changed) to fit changed circumstances | - |
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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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adiposity | (noun) having the property of containing fat | Synonyms: adiposeness, fattiness |
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admirability | (noun) admirable excellence | Synonyms: admirableness, wonderfulness |
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admissibility | (noun) acceptability by virtue of being admissible | - |
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adorability | (noun) extreme attractiveness | Synonyms: adorableness |
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adversity | (noun) a stroke of ill fortune; a calamitous event | - |
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(noun) a state of misfortune or affliction | Synonyms: hard knocks, hardship |
advisability | (noun) the quality of being advisable | - |
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affability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affableness, amiability, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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affinity | (noun) inherent resemblance between persons or things | - |
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(noun) a natural attraction or feeling of kinship | - |
(noun) the force attracting atoms to each other and binding them together in a molecule | Synonyms: chemical attraction |
(noun) (immunology) the attraction between an antigen and an antibody | - |
(noun) (anthropology) kinship by marriage or adoption; not a blood relationship | - |
(noun) (biology) state of relationship between organisms or groups of organisms resulting in resemblance in structure or structural parts | Synonyms: phylogenetic relation |
(noun) a close connection marked by community of interests or similarity in nature or character | Synonyms: kinship |
agility | (noun) the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble | Synonyms: legerity, lightness, lightsomeness, nimbleness |
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agreeability | (noun) a temperamental disposition to be agreeable | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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alacrity | (noun) liveliness and eagerness | Synonyms: briskness, smartness |
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algidity | (noun) prostration characterized by cold and clammy skin and low blood pressure | - |
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alkalinity | (noun) pH values above 7 | - |
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alterability | (noun) the quality of being alterable | - |
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ambidexterity | (noun) the property of being equally skillful with each hand | Synonyms: ambidextrousness |
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ambiguity | (noun) unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning | Synonyms: equivocalness |
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(noun) an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context | - |
amenability | (noun) the trait of being cooperative | Synonyms: amenableness, cooperativeness |
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amenity | (noun) pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions | Synonyms: agreeableness |
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amiability | (noun) a disposition to be friendly and approachable (easy to talk to) | Synonyms: affability, affableness, amiableness, bonhomie, geniality |
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(noun) a cheerful and agreeable mood | Synonyms: good humor, good humour, good temper |
amicability | (noun) having a disposition characterized by warmth and friendliness | Synonyms: amicableness |
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(noun) a disinclination to quarrel | Synonyms: amicableness |
amity | (noun) a cordial disposition | Synonyms: cordiality |
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(noun) a state of friendship and cordiality | - |
amorality | (noun) the quality of being amoral | - |
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analyticity | (noun) the property of being analytic | - |
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angularity | (noun) the property possessed by a shape that has angles | - |
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(noun) a shape having one or more sharp angles | Synonyms: angular shape |
animality | (noun) the physical (or animal) side of a person as opposed to the spirit or intellect | Synonyms: animal nature |
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animosity | (noun) a feeling of ill will arousing active hostility | Synonyms: animus, bad blood |
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annuity | (noun) income from capital investment paid in a series of regular payments | Synonyms: rente |
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anonymity | (noun) the state of being anonymous | Synonyms: namelessness |
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answerability | (noun) responsibility to someone or for some activity | Synonyms: accountability, answerableness |
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anteriority | (noun) the quality of being in front or (in lower animals) toward the head | - |
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(noun) preceding in time | Synonyms: antecedence, antecedency, precedence, precedency, priority |
anthropocentricity | (noun) an inclination to evaluate reality exclusively in terms of human values | Synonyms: anthropocentrism |
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antifertility | (adjective) capable of preventing conception or impregnation | Synonyms: contraceptive, prophylactic |
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antiquity | (noun) an artifact surviving from the past | - |
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(noun) extreme oldness | Synonyms: ancientness |
(noun) the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe | - |
applicability | (noun) relevance by virtue of being applicable to the matter at hand | Synonyms: pertinence, pertinency |
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approachability | (noun) the attribute of being easy to meet or deal with | Synonyms: accessibility |
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arability | (noun) the quality of land that is appropriate for cultivation | - |
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aridity | (noun) the quality of yielding nothing of value | Synonyms: barrenness, fruitlessness |
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(noun) a deficiency of moisture (especially when resulting from a permanent absence of rainfall) | Synonyms: aridness, thirstiness |
arity | (noun) the number of arguments that a function can take | - |
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aromaticity | (noun) The property of having an aroma. | - |
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artificiality | (noun) the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally | - |
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asexuality | (noun) having no evident sex or sex organs | Synonyms: sexlessness |
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asininity | (noun) the quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness | - |
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asperity | (noun) something hard to endure | Synonyms: grimness, hardship, rigor, rigorousness, rigour, rigourousness, severeness, severity |
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(noun) harshness of manner | Synonyms: sharpness |
assailability | (noun) vulnerability to forceful attack | - |
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assiduity | (noun) great and constant diligence and attention | Synonyms: assiduousness, concentration |
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assimilability | (noun) Capability of being taken in and utilized as nourishment. | - |
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associability | (noun) the capability of being easily associated or joined or connected in thought | Synonyms: associableness |
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atonality | (noun) the absence of a key; alternative to the diatonic system | Synonyms: atonalism |
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atonicity | (noun) lack of normal muscular tension or tonus | Synonyms: amyotonia, atonia, atony |
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atrocity | (noun) an act of atrocious cruelty | Synonyms: inhumanity |
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(noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness |
attainability | (noun) the state of being achievable | Synonyms: achievability, attainableness |
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atypicality | (noun) any state that is not typical | Synonyms: untypicality |
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audacity | (noun) fearless daring | Synonyms: audaciousness, temerity |
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(noun) aggressive boldness or unmitigated effrontery | Synonyms: audaciousness |
audibility | (noun) quality or fact or degree of being audible or perceptible by the ear | Synonyms: audibleness |
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austerity | (noun) the trait of great self-denial (especially refraining from worldly pleasures) | Synonyms: asceticism, nonindulgence |
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authenticity | (noun) undisputed credibility | Synonyms: genuineness, legitimacy |
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authority | (noun) the power or right to give orders or make decisions | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, dominance, potency, say-so |
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(noun) official permission or approval | Synonyms: authorisation, authorization, sanction |
(noun) freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities | Synonyms: assurance, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness |
(noun) an authoritative written work | - |
(noun) an administrative unit of government | Synonyms: agency, bureau, federal agency, government agency, office |
(noun) an expert whose views are taken as definitive | - |
(noun) (usually plural) persons who exercise (administrative) control over others | - |
autoimmunity | (noun) production of antibodies against the tissues of your own body; produces autoimmune disease or hypersensitivity reactions | - |
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availability | (noun) the quality of being at hand when needed | Synonyms: accessibility, availableness, handiness |
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avidity | (noun) a positive feeling of wanting to push ahead with something | Synonyms: avidness, eagerness, keenness |
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banality | (noun) a trite or obvious remark | Synonyms: bromide, cliche, commonplace, platitude |
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barbarity | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, brutality, savagery |
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(noun) the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane | Synonyms: atrociousness, atrocity, barbarousness, heinousness |
believability | (noun) the quality of being believable or trustworthy | Synonyms: credibility, credibleness |
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bellicosity | (noun) a natural disposition to fight | Synonyms: bellicoseness |
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bendability | (noun) the property of being easily bent without breaking | Synonyms: pliability |
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benignity | (noun) a kind act | Synonyms: kindness |
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(noun) the quality of being kind and gentle | Synonyms: benignancy, graciousness |
bestiality | (noun) sexual activity between a person and an animal | Synonyms: sodomy, zooerastia, zooerasty |
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(noun) the stupid brutal quality of a beast | - |
bilaterality | (noun) the property of being symmetrical about a vertical plane | Synonyms: bilateral symmetry, bilateralism |
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biodiversity | (noun) the diversity of plant and animal life in a particular habitat (or in the world as a whole) | - |
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bioelectricity | (noun) electric phenomena in animals or plants | - |
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bisexuality | (noun) sexual activity with both men and women | - |
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(noun) showing characteristics of both sexes | Synonyms: androgyny, hermaphroditism |
breakability | (noun) quality of being easily damaged or destroyed | Synonyms: fragility, frangibility, frangibleness |
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brevity | (noun) the attribute of being brief or fleeting | Synonyms: briefness, transience |
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(noun) the use of brief expressions | - |
brutality | (noun) a brutal barbarous savage act | Synonyms: barbarism, barbarity, savagery |
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(noun) the trait of extreme cruelty | Synonyms: ferociousness, savagery, viciousness |
burnability | (noun) the quality of being capable of igniting and burning | Synonyms: combustibility, combustibleness |
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calamity | (noun) an event resulting in great loss and misfortune | Synonyms: cataclysm, catastrophe, disaster, tragedy |
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calculability | (noun) The quality of being subject to or ascertainable by calculation. | - |
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callosity | (noun) devoid of passion or feeling; hardheartedness | Synonyms: callousness, hardness, insensibility, unfeelingness |
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(noun) an area of skin that is thick or hard from continual pressure or friction (as the sole of the foot) | Synonyms: callus |
capability | (noun) the quality of being capable -- physically or intellectually or legally | Synonyms: capableness |
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(noun) an aptitude that may be developed | Synonyms: capableness, potentiality |
(noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capacity |
capacity | (noun) the maximum production possible | - |
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(noun) a specified function | - |
(noun) capability to perform or produce | - |
(noun) tolerance for alcohol | - |
(noun) the power to learn or retain knowledge; in law, the ability to understand the facts and significance of your behavior | Synonyms: mental ability |
(noun) an electrical phenomenon whereby an electric charge is stored | Synonyms: capacitance, electrical capacity |
(noun) the amount that can be contained | Synonyms: content |
(noun) (computer science) the amount of information (in bytes) that can be stored on a disk drive | - |
(noun) the susceptibility of something to a particular treatment | Synonyms: capability |
capillarity | (noun) a phenomenon associated with surface tension and resulting in the elevation or depression of liquids in capillaries | Synonyms: capillary action |
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