Related WordNet synsets for SUMO concept SubjectiveAssessmentAttribute
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- kindness
- a kind act
- deed, feat, effort, exploit
- a notable achievement: "the book was her finest effort"
- masterpiece
- an outstanding achievement
- masterstroke
- an achievement demonstrating great skill or mastery
- credit
- used in the phrase "to your credit" to indicate an achievement deserving praise; "she already had several performances to her credit"
- derring-do
- brave and heroic deeds
- tour de force
- a masterly or brilliant feat
- overachievement
- better than expected performance (better than might have been predicted from intelligence tests)
- underachievement
- poorer than expected performance (poorer than might have been predicted from intelligence tests)
- record
- the sum of recognized accomplishments; "the lawyer has a good record"
- going, sledding
- advancing toward a goal; "persuading him was easy going" or "the proposal faces tough sledding"
- close call, close shave, squeak, squeaker, narrow escape
- something achieved (or escaped) by a narrow margin
- success
- an attainment that is successful; "his success in the marathon was unexpected"; "his new play was a great success"
- hit, bang, smash, strike
- a conspicuous success; "that song was his first hit and marked the beginning of his career"
- bell ringer, bull's eye, mark
- something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal; "the new advertising campaign was a bell ringer"; "scored a bull's_eye"; "hit the mark"
- conquest
- success in mastering something difficult; "the conquest of space"
- coup
- a brilliant and notable success
- failure
- an act that fails
- naught
- complete failure; "all my efforts led to naught"
- frustrating, frustration, thwarting, foiling
- an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts
- overturn, upset
- an improbable and unexpected victory; "the biggest upset since David beat Goliath"
- backsliding, lapse, lapsing, recidivism, relapse, relapsing, reversion, reverting
- a failure to maintain a higher state
- disappointing, disappointment, dashing hopes
- the act of disappointing someone
- copout
- a failure to face some difficulty squarely
- mistake, error, fault
- a wrong action attributable to bad judgment or ignorance or inattention; "the fault was all mine"
- blot, smear, smirch, spot, stain
- an act that brings discredit to the person who does it; "he made a huge blot on his copybook"
- backfire, boomerang
- a miscalculation that recoils on its maker
- distortion
- the mistake of misrepresenting the facts
- slip, slipup, miscue
- an inadvertent mistake
- oversight, lapse
- a mistake resulting from inattention
- omission, skip
- a mistake resulting from neglect
- blunder, blooper, bungle, foul-up, fuckup, flub, botch, boner, boo-boo, misdoing
- an embarrassing mistake
- snafu
- an acronym often used by soldiers in World War II: Situation Normal All Fucked Up
- spectacle
- a blunder that makes you look ridiculous; used in the phrase "make a spectacle of" yourself
- ballup, balls-up, cockup, mess-up
- (British) something badly botched or muddled
- bull
- a serious and ludicrous blunder; "he made a bad bull of the assignment"
- fluff
- a blunder (especially an actor's forgetting the lines)
- faux pas, gaffe, solecism, slip, gaucherie
- a socially awkward or tactless act
- clanger
- (British) a conspicuous mistake whose effects seem to reverberate; "he dropped a clanger"
- trip, stumble, misstep
- an unintentional but embarrassing blunder; "he recited the whole poem without a single trip"; "confusion caused his unfortunate misstep"
- misappropriation
- wrongful borrowing; "his explanation was a misappropriation of sociological theory"
- best
- the supreme effort one can make: "they did their best"
- worst
- the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of: "it was the worst he had ever done on a test"
- hit
- a successful stroke in an athletic contest (especially in baseball); "he came all the way around on Williams' hit"
- leading astray, leading off
- the act of enticing others into sinful ways
- seduction
- enticing someone astray from right behavior
- pis aller, last resort
- French for `worst going'
- desperate measure
- desperate actions taken as a means to an end; "he had to resort to desperate measures"
- open sesame
- any very successful means of achieving a result
- salvation
- a means of preserving from harm or unpleasantness; "tourism was their economic salvation"; "they turned to individualism as their salvation"
- tooth
- a means of enforcement; "the treaty had no teeth in it"
- equalization, equilisation, leveling
- the act of making equal or uniform
- stunt
- a difficult or unusual feat; usually done to gain attention
- fossilization
- becoming inflexible or out of date
- disaster
- an act that has disastrous consequences
- improvement
- the act of improving something: "Their improvements increased the value of the property"
- advancement, progress
- gradual improvement or growth or development: "advancement of knowledge"; "great progress in the arts"; "their research and development gave them an advantagte"
- forwarding, furtherance, promotion
- the advancement of some enterprise; "his experience in marketing resulted in the forwarding of his career"
- stride
- significant progress (especially in the phrase "make strides" or "make rapid strides")
- purge, purging, purgation
- the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge
- purification
- the act of purging of sin or guilt; "purification through repentance"
- correction, correcting, rectification
- the act of offering an improvement to replace a mistake
- redress, remedy, remediation
- act of correcting an error or a fault or an evil
- salve
- anything that remedies or heals or soothes; "he needed a salve for his conscience"
- retribution
- the act of correcting for your wrongdoing
- perfection
- the act of making something perfect
- reform
- a change for the better as a result of correcting abuses; "justice was for sale before the reform of the law courts"
- amelioration, melioration, betterment
- the act of relieving ills and changing for the better
- self-improvement, self-reformation
- the act of improving yourself
- reform
- self-improvement in behavior or morals by abandoning some vice; "the family rejoiced in the drunkard's reform"
- beautification
- the act of making something more beautiful
- glamorization
- the act of glamorizing; making something or someone more beautiful (often in a superficial way)
- decoration
- the act of decorating something (in the hope of making it more attractive)
- adornment
- the action of decorating yourself with something colorful and interesting
- enrichment
- act of making fuller or more meaningful or rewarding
- humanization, humanisation
- the act of making more humane
- modernization, modernisation, modernizing
- making modern in appearance of behavior; "the modernizing of Nigeria will be a long process"
- enhancement, sweetening
- an improvement that makes something more agreeable
- upturn
- an upward movement or trend as in business activity
- worsening
- changing something with the result that it becomes worse
- downturn, downswing
- a worsening of business or economic activity; "the market took a downturn"
- downspin
- a swift and dangerous downturn
- reclamation, renewal, revival, rehabilitation
- the conversion of waste land into land suitable for use of habitation or cultivation
- degradation, debasement
- changing to a lower state (a less respected state)
- dehumanization, dehumanisation
- the act of degrading people with respect to their best qualities; "science has been blamed for the dehumanization of modern life"
- brutalization, brutalisation, animalization, animalisation
- an act that makes people cruel or lacking normal human qualities
- barbarization, barbarisation
- an act that makes people primitive and uncivilized
- bastardization, bastardisation
- an act that debases or corrupts
- corruption
- destroying someone's honesty or loyalty or moral integrity: "corruption of a minor"
- demoralization
- destroying the moral basis for a doctrine or policy
- stultification, impairment, deadening
- the act of making something futile and useless (as by routine)
- popularization, popularisation, vulgarization, vulgarisation, coarsening
- the act of making something attractive to the general public
- humiliation, humbling, abasement
- depriving one of self-esteem
- comedown
- decline to a lower status or level
- contamination, pollution
- the act of contaminating or polluting; including (either intentionally or accidentally) unwanted substances or factors
- dust contamination
- the act of contaminating with dust particles
- decontamination
- the removal of contaminants
- back door
- a secret or underhand means of access (to a place or a position); "he got his job through the back door"
- overshoot, wave-off, go-around
- an approach that fails and gives way to another attempt
- march
- a steady advance; "the march of science"; "the march of time"
- plain sailing, clear sailing, easy going
- easy unobstructed progress: "after we solved that problem the rest was plain sailing"
- gait
- a person's manner of walking
- twiddle
- a series of small (usually idle) twists or turns
- wave
- a movement like that of an ocean wave; "a wave of settlers"; "troops advancing in waves"
- outreach
- the act of reaching out; "the outreach toward truth of the human spirit"
- red herring
- any diversion intended to distract attention from the main issue
- extenuation, mitigation, palliation
- to act in such a way as to cause an offense to seem less serious
- easing, alleviation, relief
- the act of reducing something unpleasant as pain; "he asked the nurse for relief from the constant pain"
- de-escalation
- a reduction in intensity (of a crisis or a war)
- detente
- the easing of tensions or strained relations (especially between nations)
- palliation
- easing the severity of a pain or a disease without removing the cause
- liberalization, liberalisation, relaxation
- the act of making less strict
- minimization, minimisation
- the act of minimizing something
- exhaustion
- the act of exhausting something entirely
- wilt, wilting
- causing to become limp or drooping
- exaggeration
- the act of making something more noticeable than usual; "the dance involved a deliberate exaggeration of his awkwardness"
- hyperextension
- greater than normal extension
- stretch
- extension to or beyond the ordinary limit; "running at full stretch"; "by no stretch of the imagination"; "beyond any stretch of his understanding"
- self-aggrandizement, self-aggrandisement, ego trip
- an act undertaken to increase your own power and influence or to draw attention to your own importance
- aggravation, exacerbation
- action that makes a problem or a disease (or its symptoms) worse; "the aggravation of her condition resulted from lack of care"
- union, unification, uniting
- making or becoming a single unit; "the union of opposing factions"; "he looked forward to the unification of his family for the holidays"
- reunion, reunification
- the act of coming together again
- umbrella
- having the function of uniting a group of similar things; "the Democratic Party is an umbrella for many liberal groups"; "under the umbrella of capitalism"
- transfiguration
- the act of transforming so as to exalt or glorify
- transmogrification
- changing into a different form or appearance especially a fantastic or grotesque one: "transmogrification into a porcupine"
- rehabilitation
- the restoration of someone to a useful place in society
- rejuvenation
- the act of restoring to a more youthful condition
- refreshment
- act of refreshing or renewing strength or liveliness
- free-living
- a way of life given to easy indulgence of the appetites
- primrose path
- a life of ease and pleasure
- straight and narrow
- the way of proper and honest behavior; "he taught his children to keep strictly to the straight and narrow"
- vanity fair
- a vain and frivolous way of life especially in large cities (after a fair held in the town of Vanity in Pilgrim's Progress)
- line of least resistance, path of least resistance
- the easiest way; "In marrying him she simply took the path of least resistance"
- mistreatment
- the practice of treating (someone or something) badly; "he should be punished for his mistreatment of his mother"
- maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse
- cruel or inhumane treatment
- persecution
- the act of persecuting (especially on the basis of race or religion)
- oppression, subjugation
- the act of subjugating by cruelty
- exasperation
- actions that cause great irritation (or even anger)
- witch-hunt
- searching out and harassing dissenters
- McCarthyism
- unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists)
- disregard, neglect
- lack of care and attention
- exploitation, victimization, victimisation, using
- an act that exploits or victimizes someone
- escape, escapism
- an inclination to retreat from unpleasant realities through diversion or fantasy; "he escaped into romantic novels"; "his alcohol problem was a form of escapism"
- folly, foolery, tomfoolery, indulgence
- foolish or senseless behavior
- buffoonery, clowning, frivolity, harlequinade, prank
- acting like a clown or buffoon
- liveliness, animation
- general activity and motion
- brouhaha
- a confused disturbance far greater than its cause merits
- circus, carnival
- a frenetic disorganized (and often comic) disturbance suggestive of a circus or carnival; "it was so funny it was a circus"; "the whole occasion had a carnival atmosphere"
- disruption, perturbation
- the act of causing disorder
- dislocation, breakdown
- the act of disrupting an established order
- furor, furore
- a sudden outburst (as of protest)
- havoc, mayhem
- violent and needless disturbance
- agitation, excitement, turmoil, upheaval, hullabaloo
- disturbance usually in protest
- outburst, tumultuous disturbance
- a sudden violent disturbance
- rampage, violent disorder
- violently angry and destructive behavior
- upset, derangement, overthrow
- the act of disturbing the mind or body; "his carelessness could have caused an ecological upset"; "she was unprepared for this sudden overthrow of their normal way of living"
- bustle, hustle, flurry, ado, fuss, stir
- a rapid bustling commotion
- burst, fit
- a sudden flurry of activity (often for no obvious reason); "a burst of applause"; "a fit of housecleaning"
- obstruction
- getting in someone's way
- cinch, picnic, snap, duck soup, child's play, pushover, walkover, piece of cake
- any activity that is easy to do; "marketing this product will be no picnic"
- job
- a damaging piece of work: "dry rot did the job of destroying the barn"; "the barber did a real job on my hair"
- busywork, make-work
- active work of little value; "while he was waiting he filled the days with busywork"
- loose end, unfinished business
- work that is left incomplete
- spiritualization, spiritualisation
- the act of making something spiritual; infusing it with spiritual content
- treadmill, salt mine
- a job involving drudgery and confinement
- hackwork
- professional work done according to formula
- haymaking
- taking full advantage of an opportunity while it lasts
- overwork, overworking
- the act working too much or too long; "he became ill from overwork"
- slavery
- work done under harsh conditions for little or no pay
- trouble, difficulty
- an effort that is inconvenient; "I went to a lot of trouble"; "he won without any trouble"; "had difficulty walking"; "finished the test only with great difficulty"
- least effort, least resistance
- the least effortful way to do something
- strain, straining, stress
- an intense or violent exertion
- pull
- a sustained effort; "it was a long pull but we made it"
- application, diligence
- a diligent effort; "it is a job requiring serious application"
- overkill
- any effort that seems to go farther than would be necessary to achieve its goal
- supererogation
- an effort above and beyond the call of duty
- overexertion
- the exertion of so much effort that discomfort or injury results
- second fiddle
- a secondary role or function; "he hated to play second fiddle to anyone"
- disagreeable task
- a chore that causes discomfort
- malversation
- misconduct in public office
- mischief, mischief-making, mischievousness, deviltry, devilry, devilment, rascality, roguery, roguishness, shenanigan
- reckless or malicious behavior that causes discomfort or annoyance in others
- hell, blaze
- noisy and unrestrained mischief; "raising blazes"
- ruffianism
- violent lawless behavior
- familiarity, impropriety, indecorum, liberty
- an act of undue intimacy
- deviation, deviance
- deviate behavior
- indecency, impropriety
- an indecent or improper act
- obscenity
- an obscene act
- indiscretion, peccadillo
- a petty misdeed
- infantilism
- infantile behavior in mature persons
- escape mechanism
- a form of behavior that evades unpleasant realities
- malingering, skulking
- evading duty or work by pretending to be incapacitated
- shirking, slacking, soldiering, goofing off, goldbricking
- the evasion of work or duty
- waste, wastefulness, dissipation
- useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly: "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipaton of natural resources"
- waste of effort, waste of energy
- a useless effort
- waste of material
- a useless consumption of material
- waste of money
- money spent for inadequate return; "the senator said that the project was a waste of money"
- waste of time
- the devotion of time to a useless activity; "the waste of time could prove fatal"
- extravagance, prodigality, lavishness
- excessive spending
- squandering
- spending money wastefully
- squandermania
- prodigious squandering (usually by a government)
- villainy
- a treacherous or vicious act
- deviltry, devilry
- wicked and cruel behavior
- enormity
- an act of extreme wickedness
- foul play
- unfair or treacherous behavior (especially involving violence)
- irreverence, violation
- a disrespectful act
- profanation, desecration, blasphemy, sacrilege
- blasphemous behavior
- depravity, turpitude
- a corrupt or depraved or degenerate act or practice: "the various turpitudes of modern society"
- vice
- a specific form of evildoing; "vice offends the moral standards of the community"
- pornography, porno, porn
- illegal activities designed to stimulate sexual desire
- intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence
- immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites
- profligacy, dissipation, dissolution, licentiousness
- dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
- dishonesty, knavery
- lack of honesty; acts of lying or cheating or stealing
- treachery, betrayal, treason, perfidy
- an act of deliberate betrayal
- double cross, double-crossing
- an act of betrayal; "he gave us the old double cross"; "I could no longer tolerate his impudent double-crossing"
- sellout
- an act of betrayal
- charlatanism, quackery
- the dishonesty of a charlatan
- trick
- an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent; "that offer was a dirty trick"
- goldbrick
- anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless
- jugglery
- artful trickery designed to achieve an end; "the senator's tax program was mere jugglery"
- gerrymander
- an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage)
- obscurantism
- a deliberate act intended to make something obscure
- fall
- a lapse into sin; a loss of innocence or of chastity; "a fall from virtue"
- pride, superbia
- unreasonable and inordinate self-esteem (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- envy, invidia
- spite and resentment at seeing the success of another (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- avarice, greed, covetousness, rapacity, avaritia
- reprehensible acquisitiveness; insatiable desire for wealth (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- sloth, laziness, acedia
- apathy and inactivity in the practice of virtue (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- wrath, anger, ire, ira
- belligerence aroused by a real or supposed wrong (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- gluttony, overeating, gula
- eating to excess (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- lust, luxuria
- self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)
- crime
- an evil act not necessarily punishable by law; "crimes of the heart"
- disorderly conduct, disorderly behavior, disturbance of the peace, breach of the peace
- any act of molesting or interrupting or hindering or disquieting or agitating or arousing from a state of repose or otherwise depriving inhabitants of the peace and quiet to which they are entitled
- indecent exposure, public nudity
- vulgar and offensive nakedness in a public place
- victimless crime
- an act that is legally a crime but that seem to have no victims; "he considers prostitution to be a victimless crime"
- forlorn hope
- a hopeless or desperate enterprise
- braving, confronting, coping with, grappling, tackling
- taking the bull by the horns
- face, facing
- the act of confronting bravely; "he hated facing the facts"; "he excelled in the face of danger"
- adventure, escapade, risky venture, dangerous undertaking
- a wild and exciting undertaking (not necessarily lawful)
- baby
- a project of personal concern to someone; "this project is his baby"
- marathon, endurance contest
- any long and arduous undertaking
- no-brainer
- (informal) anything that requires little thought
- tall order, large order
- a formidable task or requirement; "finishing in time was a tall order but we did it"
- sally, sallying forth
- a venture off the beaten path; "a sally into the wide world beyond his home"
- self-help
- the act of helping or improving yourself without relying on anyone else
- risk, peril, danger
- a venture undertaken without regard to possible loss or injury; "he saw the rewards but not the risks of crime"; "there was a danger he would do the wrong thing"
- chance
- a risk involving danger; "you take a chance when you let her drive"
- gamble
- a risky act or venture
- long shot
- a venture that involves great risk but promises great rewards
- momism, overprotection, overshielding
- excessive protection
- promiscuity, promiscuousness, sleeping around
- promiscuous sexual relations
- lechery
- unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
- rebound
- a reaction to a crisis or setback or frustration; "he is still on the rebound from his wife's death"
- overreaction
- an excessive reaction
- soul
- the human embodiment of something; "the soul of honor"
- personification, incarnation
- the act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
- misuse, abuse
- improper or excessive use
- capitalization, capitalisation
- the act of capitalizing on an opportunity
- meat grinder
- any action resulting in injury or destruction; "the meat grinder of politics destroyed his reputation" or "allied forces crumbled before the Wehrmacht meat grinder"
- redundancy
- repetition of an act needlessly
- reduplication
- an act of duplicating
- copying
- an act of copying
- duplication, duplicating
- the act of duplicating something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"
- reproduction, replication
- the act of reproducing
- perseverance, persistence, perseveration
- the act of persevering
- abidance
- the act of abiding (enduring without yielding)
- pursuance, prosecution
- the continuance of something begun with a view to its completion
- discontinuance, discontinuation
- the act of discontinuing
- indirection
- indirect procedure or action; "he tried to find out by indirection"
- rigmarole, rigamarole
- a long and complicated and confusing procedure; "all that academic rigmarole was a waste of time"
- routine, modus operandi
- an unvarying or habitual method of procedure
- rat race
- an exhausting routine that leaves no time for relaxation
- rut, groove
- a settled and monotonous routine that is hard to escape; "they fell into a conversational rut"
- ritualism
- exaggerated emphasis on the importance of rites or ritualistic forms in worship
- love match
- a marriage for love's sake; not an arranged marriage
- consecration
- a solemn dedication to a service or a goal; "his consecration to study"
- idolization, idolisation
- worshiping blindly and to excess
- idolatry, idol worship
- the worship of idols; the worship of images that are not God
- bardolatry
- idolization of William Shakespeare
- idolatry, devotion, veneration
- religious zeal; willingness to serve God
- idiolatry, autolatry, self-worship
- worship of yourself
- verbolatry, grammatolatry, word-worship
- worship of words
- symbolatry, symbololatry, symbol-worship
- worship of symbols
- anthropolatry, worship of man
- worship of human beings
- gyneolatry, gynaeolatry, woman-worship
- worship of women
- lordolatry
- worship of a lord because of his rank or title
- energizing, activating, activation
- the activity of causing to have energy and be active
- repudiation, debunking
- the exposure of falseness or pretensions; "the debunking of religion has been too successful"
- procrastination, cunctation, shillyshally
- the act of procrastinating
- dalliance, dawdling, trifling, wasting time
- the deliberate act of wasting time instead of working
- tarrying, tarriance, lingering
- the act of lingering
- heckling, barracking
- shouting to interrupt a speech with which you disagree
- abstinence
- act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
- self-denial, self-discipline, self-control
- the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses
- sobriety, temperance
- abstaining from excess
- tolerance
- the act of tolerating something
- lenience, leniency
- lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers
- clemency, mercifulness, mercy
- leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"
- pleasure
- an activity that affords enjoyment; "he puts duty before pleasure"
- enjoyment, delectation
- act of receiving pleasure from something
- satisfaction, satisfying
- act of fulfilling a desire or need or appetite; "the satisfaction of their demand for better services"
- gratification
- the act or an instance of gratifying or satisfying
- self-gratification
- the act of satisfying your own desires and giving yourself pleasure
- indulgence, indulging, pampering, humoring, pleasing
- the act of indulging or gratifying a desire
- overindulgence, excess
- excessive indulgence; "the child was spoiled by overindulgence"
- orgy
- any act of immoderate indulgence
- complication, complicating
- the act or process of complicating
- generosity, unselfishness
- acting generously
- wash
- (informal) any enterprise in which losses and gains cancel out
- land-office business
- very large and profitable volume of commercial activity
- domination
- social control by dominating
- mastery, subordination
- the act of mastering or subordinating someone
- monopolization, monopolisation
- domination (of a market or commodity) to the exclusion of others
- white man's burden
- the supposed responsibility of the white race to take of their non-white subjects
- obedience, respect
- behavior intended to please your parents; "their children were never very strong on obedience"; "he went to law school out of respect for his father's wishes"
- mismanagement
- management that is careless or inefficient
- short shrift
- brief and unsympathetic treatment
- restraint
- the act of restraining
- collar
- a figurative restraint; "a collar on program trading in the stock market"
- damper
- a depressing restraint; "rain put a damper on our picnic plans"
- bridle, check, curb
- the act of restraining power or action or limiting excess; "his common sense is a bridle to his quick temper"
- swaddling clothes
- restrictions placed on the immature
- appeasement, calming
- the act of appeasing
- pacification, mollification
- the act of pacifying
- placation, conciliation, propitiation
- the act of placating
- obedience
- dutiful or submissive behavior
- truckling
- the act of obeying (especially in a humble manner)
- acquiescence
- submission without protest
- discord, discordance
- a discordant act
- defiance
- a defiant act
- aggro
- (informal British usage) aggravation or aggression; "I skipped it because it was too much aggro"
- selflessness, self-sacrifice
- acting with less concern for yourself than for the success of the joint activity
- commitment, allegiance, loyalty, dedication
- the act of binding yourself (intellectually or emotionally) to a course of action; "his long commitment to public service"; "they felt no loyalty to a losing team"
- devotion
- commitment to some purpose; "the devotion of his time and wealth to science"
- faith
- loyalty or allegiance to a cause or a person; "keep the faith"; "they broke faith with their investors"
- fetish, fetich
- excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; "made a fetish of cleanliness"
- party spirit
- devotion to a political party
- boost, encouragement
- the act of giving hope or support to someone
- morale building, morale booster
- anything that serves to increase morale; "the sight of flowers every morning was my morale builder"
- consolation, comfort, solace
- the act of consoling; giving relief in affliction; "his presence was a consolation to her"
- simplification
- elimination of superfluous details
- oversimplification
- excessive simplification (to the point of misrepresentation)
- reassurance
- the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
- admiration, appreciation
- a favorable judgment; "a small token in admiration of your works"
- adoration, adulation, idolization, idolisation
- the act of admiring strongly
- glorification
- the act of glorifying (as in worship); "the glorification of God"
- idealization, idealisation, glorification
- a portrayal of something as ideal; "the idealization of rural life was very misleading"
- sentimentalization, sentimentalisation, romanticization, romanticisation
- the act of indulging in sentiment
- disparagement, dispraise
- the act of speaking contemptuously of
- belittling
- the act of belittling
- deprecation, denigration
- the act of depreciating
- aspersion, calumny, slander, defamation
- the act of defaming
- aggravation, irritation, provocation
- unfriendly behavior that aggravates or irritates someone
- exacerbation
- violent and bitter exasperation; "his foolishness was followed by an exacerbation of their quarrel"
- bitchery
- aggressive remarks and behavior like that of a spiteful malicious woman
- twitting, taunt, taunting
- aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing
- raising hell, hell raising
- making trouble just for the fun of it
- discourtesy, offense, offence, offensive activity
- a lack of politeness; a failure to show regard for others
- indelicacy
- an impolite act or expression
- insolence
- an offensive disrespectful impudent act
- insult, affront
- a deliberately offensive act or something producing the effect of an affront; "turning his back on me was a deliberate insult"
- indignity
- an affront to one's dignity or self-esteem
- scandalization, scandalisation, outrage
- the act of scandalizing
- rebuff, slight
- a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)
- snub, cut, cold shoulder
- a refusal to recognize someone you know; "the snub was clearly intentional"
- silent treatment
- an aloof refusal to speak to someone you know
- benevolence, benefaction
- an act intending or showing kindness and good will
- cupboard love
- a show of affection motivated by selfishness
- favor, favour
- an act of gracious kindness
- turn, good turn
- a favor for someone; "he did me a good turn"
- mercy
- alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"
- exculpation
- the act of freeing from guilt or blame
- endearment
- the act of showing affection
- politeness, civility
- the act of showing regard for others
- courtesy
- a courteous or respectful or considerate act
- beau geste
- a gracious (but usually meaningless) gesture
- attention
- a courteous act indicating affection; "she tried to win his heart with her many attentions"
- gallantry
- polite attentiveness to women
- consideration, thoughtfulness
- a considerate and thoughtful act
- mobilization, mobilisation, marshaling
- act of assembling or organizing and making ready for use or action: "mobiliation of the country's economic resources"; "marshaling public support"
- economic mobilization, economic mobilisation
- mobilization of the economy
- rallying
- the act of mobilizing for a common purpose; "the bell was a signal for the rallying of the whole neighborhood"
- incurrence
- the act of incurring (making yourself subject to something undesirable)
- vindication, exoneration, whitewash
- the act of vindicating; "subsequent events have proved to be a vindication of his position"
- stupidity, betise, folly, foolishness, imbecility
- a stupid mistake
- renewal
- the act of renewing
- buzz
- a confusion of activity and gossip; "the buzz of excitement was so great that a formal denial was issued"
- fun
- violent and excited activity; "she asked for money and then the fun began"; (colloquial) "they began to fight like fun"
- sin, hell
- (colloquial) violent and excited activity; "they began to fight like sin"
- spoil, spoiling, spoilage
- the act of spoiling
- face saver, face saving
- an act that avoids a loss of face (of dignity or prestige)
- emphasizing, accenting
- the act of giving special importance or significance to something
- release, outlet
- activity that releases or expresses creative energy or emotion; "she had no other outlet for her feelings"
- stayer
- a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverence: "the horse that won the race is a good stayer"
- giant
- any creature of exceptional size
- survivor
- an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"
- adornment
- a decoration of color or interest that is added to relieve plainness
- anachronism
- an artifact that belongs to another time
- bagatelle, fluff, frippery, frivolity
- something of little value or significance
- bangle, bauble, gaud, gewgaw, novelty, trinket, fallal
- cheap showy jewelry or ornament or clothing
- beehive
- any workplace where people are very busy
- burthen
- a variant of `burden'
- butt, stub
- the small unused part of something (especially the end of a cigarette that is left after smoking)
- change
- a thing that is different; "he inspected several changes before selecting one"
- charm, good luck charm
- something believed to bring good luck
- classic
- a creation of the highest excellence
- clutter
- many things in a disorderly state
- collector's item, showpiece, piece de resistance
- the outstanding item (the prize piece or main exhibit) in a collection
- curio, curiosity, oddity, oddment, peculiarity, rarity
- something unusual -- perhaps worthy of collecting
- etcetera
- more of the same
- fag end
- the frayed end of a length of cloth or rope
- fake, sham, postiche
- something false; not what it seems to be
- falderal, folderol, frills, gimcrackery, gimcracks, nonsense, trumpery
- ornamental objects of no great value
- fig leaf
- anything intended to conceal something regarded as shameful
- flagship
- the chief one of a related group; "it is their flagship newspaper"
- funk hole
- a place of safe retreat
- gem, treasure
- something highly prized for its beauty or perfection
- golden calf
- (Old Testament) an idol made by Aaron for the Israelites to worship; destroyed by Moses; it is now used to refer to anything worshipped undeservedly
- haven, oasis
- place of safety or sanctuary
- hoodoo
- something believed to bring bad luck
- horror
- something that inspires horror; something horrible; "the painting that others found so beautiful was a horror to him"
- idol, graven image, god
- a material object that is worshipped as a god; "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image"; "money was his god"
- je ne sais quois
- something indescribable
- jimdandy, jimhickey, crackerjack
- something excellent of its kind; "the bike was a jimdandy"
- juju, voodoo, hoodoo, fetish, fetich
- an object superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
- keepsake, souvenir, token, relic
- something of sentimental value
- kitsch
- art in pretentious bad taste
- lash-up, contrivance
- any improvised arrangement for temporary use
- love-token
- something given as a token of love
- magic bullet
- a drug or therapy or preventive that cures or prevents a disease: "there is no magic bullet against cancer
- magnum opus
- a great work of art or literature
- marker
- some conspicuous object used to distinguish or mark something; "the buoys were markers for the channel"
- middling
- any commodity of intermediate quality or size (especially when coarse particles of ground wheat are mixed with bran)
- millstone
- something difficult to carry
- overload, overburden
- an excessive burden
- proving ground
- a place for testing new equipment or ideas
- refuge, sanctuary, asylum
- a shelter from danger or hardship
- safehold
- a refuge from attack
- schlock, shlock
- (slang) merchandise that is shoddy or inferior
- scum
- a film of impurities or vegetation that can form on the surface of a liquid
- security blanket
- (informal) anything that a person uses to reduce their anxiety
- slack
- a cord or rope or cable that is hanging loosely; "he took of the slack"
- snorter
- something that is extraordinary or remarkable or prominent: "a snorter of a sermon"; "the storm wasn't long but it was a snorter"
- spectacle
- an elaborate and remarkable display on a lavish scale
- standby
- something that can be relied on when needed
- stock-in-trade
- anything constantly used as part of a profession or occupation; "friendliness is the salesman's stock in trade"
- tinsel
- a showy decoration that is basically valueless; "all the tinsel of self-promotion"
- top of the line
- the best (most expensive) in a given line of merchandise
- trivia, triviality, trifle, small beer
- something of small importance
- undercharge
- an insufficient charge
- variation
- something that deviates from a norm or standard
- web, entanglement
- an intricate trap that entangles or ensnares its victim
- whacker, whopper
- something especially big or impressive of its kind
- drama
- the quality of being arresting or highly emotional
- affectionateness, fondness, lovingness, warmth
- a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
- tenderness
- a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling
- uxoriousness
- foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife
- mawkishness, sentimentality
- falsely emotional in a maudlin way
- schmaltz, schmalz, mushiness
- (informal) excessive sentimentality
- heat, warmth, passion
- intense passion or emotion
- uncheerfulness
- not conducive to cheer or good spirits
- gloominess, lugubriousness
- excessive sadness and mournfulness
- animation, spiritedness
- quality of being active or spirited or vigorous
- chirpiness
- cheerful and lively
- liveliness, life, spirit, sprightliness
- animation and energy in action or expression; "it was a heavy play and the actors tried in vain to give life to it"
- airiness, delicacy
- lightness in movement or manner
- alacrity, briskness
- liveliness and eagerness; "he accepted with alacrity"
- energy, vigor, vigour, vim
- an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"
- vitality, verve
- an energetic style
- elan
- enthusiastic and assured vigor and liveliness; "a performance of great elan and sophistication"
- esprit
- liveliness of mind or spirit
- breeziness, jauntiness
- a breezy liveliness; "a delightful breeziness of manner"
- restfulness
- the attribute of being restful; "he longed for the restfulness of home"
- stodginess, stuffiness
- dull and pompous gravity
- companionability, companionableness
- suitability to be a companion
- chumminess, comaraderie, comradeliness, comradery
- the quality of affording easy familiarity and sociability
- familiarity, intimacy, closeness
- close or warm friendship; "the absence of fences created a mysterious intimacy in which no one knew privacy"
- camaraderie, good fellowship
- spirit of friendly familiarity and goodwill between comrades
- adaptability
- the ability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances
- flexibility
- the quality of being adaptable or variable; "he enjoyed the flexibility of his working arrangement"
- pliability, pliancy, pliantness
- the quality of being easily adaptable
- unadaptability
- the inability to change or be changed to fit changed circumstances
- inflexibility, rigidity
- the quality of being rigid and rigorously severe
- ladylikeness
- behavior befitting a lady
- maidenliness
- behavior befitting a young maiden
- passport
- any quality or characteristic that gains a person acceptance or admission; "his wealth was not a passport into the exclusive circles of society"
- simulacrum
- an insubstantial or vague semblance
- face value
- the apparent worth as opposed to the real worth
- speck, pinpoint
- a very small spot; "the plane was just a speck in the sky"
- beauty
- the qualities that give pleasure to the senses
- raw beauty
- beauty that is stark and powerfully impressive
- glory, resplendence, resplendency
- brilliant radiant beauty; "the glory of the sunrise"
- exquisiteness
- extreme beauty of a delicate sort
- picturesqueness
- visually vivid and pleasing
- pleasingness
- a likeable beauty; "the liveliness and pleasingness of dark eyes"- T.N. Carver
- pulchritude
- physical beauty (especially of a woman)
- glamor, glamour
- alluring beauty or charm (often with sex-appeal)
- comeliness, fairness, loveliness, beauteousness
- the quality of being good looking and attractive
- prettiness, cuteness
- the quality of being appealing in a delicate or graceful way (of a girl or young woman)
- handsomeness, good looks
- the quality of having regular well-defined features (especially of a man)
- attractiveness
- a beauty that appeals to the senses
- adorability, adorableness
- extreme attractiveness
- bewitchery, beguilement, animal magnetism
- magnetic personal charm
- charisma, personal appeal, personal magnetism
- a personal attractiveness that enables you to influence others
- sex appeal, desirability, desirableness, oomph
- attractiveness to the opposite sex
- appeal, appealingness, charm
- attractiveness that interests or pleases or stimulates
- winsomeness
- childlike charm or appeal
- attraction, attractiveness
- the quality of arousing interest; being attractive or something that attracts; "her personality held a strange attraction for him"
- affinity
- a natural attraction or feeling of kinship: "an affinity for politics"; "the mysterious affinity between them"; "James's affinity with Sam"
- allure, allurement, temptingness
- the power to entice or attract through personal charm
- binding
- the capacity to attract and hold something
- drawing power
- the capacity for attracting people (customers or supporters)
- lure, enticement, come-on
- qualities that attract by seeming to promise some kind of reward
- ugliness
- qualities that do not give pleasure to the senses
- unsightliness
- ugliness that is unpleasant to look at
- grotesqueness, grotesquery, grotesquerie
- ludicrous or incongruous unnaturalness or distortion
- garishness, gaudiness
- strident color or excessive ornamentation
- unpleasingness
- the quality of being unpleasant
- hideousness
- extreme ugliness
- unattractiveness
- ugliness that is not appealing
- homeliness, plainness
- an appearance that is not attractive or beautiful; "fine clothes could not conceal the girl's homeliness"
- blemish, defect
- a mark or flaw that spoils the appearance of something (especially on a person's body)
- eyesore
- something very ugly and offensive
- plainness
- the appearance of being plain and unpretentious
- chasteness, restraint, simplicity
- lack of ornamentation
- austereness, severeness
- extreme plainness
- bareness, starkness
- an extreme lack of furnishings or ornamentation
- ornateness, elaborateness
- an ornate appearance; being elaborately decorated
- baroque, baroqueness
- elaborate symmetrical ornamentation
- rococo
- fanciful asymmetric ornamentation
- flamboyance, floridness, showiness
- extravagant elaborateness
- fussiness
- unnecessary elaborateness in details
- decorativeness
- an appearance that serves to decorate and make something more attractive
- obviousness, noticeability, noticeableness
- the property of being easy to see and understand
- blatancy
- the property of being both obvious and offensive; "the blatancy of his attempt to whitewash the crime was unforgivable"
- obtrusiveness
- an unwelcome conspicuousness
- unobtrusiveness
- the quality of not sticking out in an unwelcome way
- ease, easiness, simplicity
- freedom from difficulty or hardship or effort: "he rose through the ranks with apparent ease"; "they put it into containers for ease of transportation"
- effortlessness
- the quality of requiring little effort; "such effortlessness is achieved only after hours of practice"
- facility, readiness
- a natural effortlessness; "a happy readiness of conversation"--Jane Austen
- smoothness
- the quality of being free from errors or interruptions
- difficulty, difficultness
- the quality of being difficult; "they agreed about the difficulty of the climb"
- effortfulness
- the quality of requiring deliberate effort
- arduousness, strenuousness
- extreme effortfulness
- laboriousness, operoseness, toilsomeness
- the quality of requiring extended effort
- asperity, grimness, hardship, rigor, rigour, severity, rigorousness
- something hard to endure; "the asperity of northern winters"
- hardness
- the quality of being difficult to do; "he assigned a series of problems of increasing hardness"
- formidability, toughness
- impressive difficulty
- burdensomeness, onerousness, oppressiveness
- unwelcome burdensome difficulty
- subtlety, niceness
- the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze; "you had to admire the subtlety of the distinctions he drew"
- troublesomeness, inconvenience, worriment
- a difficulty that causes anxiety
- awkwardness, cumbersomeness, unwieldiness
- trouble in carrying or managing caused by bulk or shape: "the movers cursed the unwieldiness of the big piano"
- flea bite
- a very minor inconvenience
- fly in the ointment
- an inconvenience that detracts from the usefulness of something
- compatibility
- capability of existing or performing in harmonious or congenial combination
- congenialness, congeniality
- compatibility between persons
- harmony, harmoniousness
- compatibility in opinion and action
- accord, rapport
- sympathetic compatibility
- congruity, congruousness, congruence
- the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
- incompatibility
- the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination
- antagonism
- being an opposing principle or force or factor: "inherent antagonism of capitalism and socialism"
- conflict
- an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"
- incongruity, incongruousness
- the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate
- irony
- incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs: "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"
- Socratic irony
- admission of your own ignorance and willingness to learn while exposing someone's inconsistencies by close questioning
- suitability, suitableness
- the quality of having the properties that are right for a specific purpose; "an important requirement is suitability for long trips"
- appropriateness
- the quality of being specially suitable
- felicity, felicitousness
- pleasing and appropriate manner or style esp of expression
- aptness, appositeness
- appropriateness; "the phrase had considerable aptness"
- fitness, fittingness
- the condition of being suitable; "they had to prove their fitness for the position"
- convenience
- the quality of being useful and convenient; "they offered the convenience of an installment plan"
- opportuneness, patness, timeliness
- timely convenience
- handiness, accessibility, availability, availableness
- the quality of being at hand when needed
- command
- availability for use; "the materials at the command of the potters grew"
- unsuitability, unsuitableness, ineptness
- the quality of having the wrong properties for a specific purpose
- inaptness, inappositeness
- in appropriateness; "greater inaptness of expression would be hard to imagine"
- inappropriateness
- the quality of not being particularly suitable
- infelicity
- inappropriate and unpleasing manner or style esp of expression
- unfitness
- the condition of not being suitable; "the judges agreed on his unfirness for the appointment"
- inconvenience
- the quality of not being useful or convenient
- inaccessibility, unavailability
- the quality of not being unavailable when needed
- inopportuneness, untimeliness
- the quality of occurring at an inconvenient time
- ethos
- the distinctive spirit of a people or an era; "the Greek ethos"
- air, aura, atmosphere
- a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing: "an atmosphere of defeat pervaded the candidate's headquarters"; "the place had an aura of romance"
- mystique
- an aura of heightened value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing
- note
- a characteristic emotional quality; "it ended on a sour note"; "there was a note of gaiety in her manner"; "he detected a note of sarcasm"
- quality, caliber, calibre
- a degree or grade of excellence or worth: "the quality of students has risen"; "an executive of low caliber"
- superiority, high quality
- the quality of being superior
- fineness, choiceness
- the quality of being very good indeed; "the inn is distinguished by the fineness of its cuisine"
- excellence
- the quality of excelling; possessing good qualities in high degree
- admirability, admirableness, wonderfulness
- admirable excellence
- impressiveness, grandness, magnificence
- splendid or imposing in size or appearance; "the grandness of the architecture"
- expansiveness
- a quality characterized by magnificence of scale; "the expansiveness of their extravagant life style was soon curtailed"
- stateliness, majesty, loftiness
- impressiveness in scale or proportion
- first class
- the highest rank in a classification
- first water
- the highest quality gems
- ingenuity, ingeniousness, cleverness
- the property of being ingenious; "a plot of great ingenuity"; "the cleverness of its design"
- inferiority, low quality
- an inferior quality
- poorness
- the quality of being poorly made or maintained; "she was unrecognizable because of the poorness of the photography"
- second class
- not the highest rank in a classification
- point, spot
- an outstanding characteristic; "his acting was one of the high points of the movie"
- hallmark, trademark, earmark, stylemark
- a distinctive characteristic or attribute
- inconstancy, changefulness
- the quality of being changeable and variable
- capriciousness, unpredictability
- the quality of being guided by sudden unpredictable impulses
- variability, variableness, variance
- the quality of being subject to variation
- variedness, variational
- characterized by variation
- diversity
- the condition or result of being variable
- progressiveness, progressivity
- advancement toward better conditions or policies or methods
- absoluteness
- the quality of being absolute; "the absoluteness of the Pope's decree could not be challenged"
- constancy, stability
- the quality of being free from change or variation
- unvariedness
- characterized by an absence of variation
- monotony, sameness
- the quality of wearisome constancy and lack of variety; "he had never grown accustomed to the monotony of his work"; "he hated the sameness of the food the college served"
- fixedness, unalterability
- the quality of being fixed and unchangeable; "the fixedness of his gaze upset her"
- vicissitude
- mutability in life or nature (especially successive alternation from one condition to another)
- similarity
- the quality of being similar
- analogy
- similarity in some respect between things that are otherwise dissimilar: "the operation of a computer presents an interesting analogy to the working of the brain"
- approximation
- the quality of of being similar (especially close in value)
- homology
- the quality of being similar or corresponding in position or value or structure or function
- likeness, alikeness, similitude
- similarity in appearance or character or nature between persons or things: "man created God in his own likeness"
- parallelism, correspondence
- similarity by virtue of correspondence
- uniformity, uniformness
- the quality of lacking diversity or variation (even to the point of boredom)
- homogeneity, homogeneousness
- the quality of being similar or comparable in kind or nature; "there is a remarkable homogeneity between the two companies"
- consistency, consistence
- a harmonious uniformity or agreement among things or parts
- approach
- a close approximation; "the nearest approach to genius"
- analogue, analog, parallel
- something having the property of being analogous to something else
- resemblance
- similarity in appearance or external or superficial details
- mutual resemblance
- symmetrical resemblance
- affinity
- inherent resemblance between persons or things
- parity
- functional equality
- evenness
- the quality of being balanced
- discrepancy, disagreement, divergence, variance
- a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions; "a growing divergence of opinion"
- allowance, leeway, margin, tolerance
- a permissible difference
- dissimilarity, unsimilarity
- the quality of being dissimilar
- disparateness, distinctiveness
- utter dissimilarity
- unlikeness, dissimilitude
- dissimilarity evidenced by an absence of likeness
- nonuniformity
- the quality of being diverse and interesting
- heterogeneity, heterogeneousness
- the quality of being diverse and not comparable in kind
- diverseness, diversity, multifariousness, variety
- noticeable heterogeneity; "a diversity of possibilities"; "the range and variety of his work is amazing"
- inconsistency
- the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts
- variety, change
- a difference that is usually pleasant; "he goes to France for variety"; "it is a refreshing change to meet a woman mechanic"
- far cry
- a disappointing disparity; "it was a far cry from what he had expected"
- gap, spread
- a conspicuous disparity or difference as between two figures: "gap between income and outgo"; "the spread between lending and borrowing costs"
- gulf
- an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"
- unevenness
- the quality of being unbalanced
- finality, conclusiveness, decisiveness
- the quality of being final or definitely settled: "the finality of death"
- fortuitousness
- the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance
- concreteness
- the quality of being concrete (not abstract)
- literalness
- adhereing to the concrete construal of something
- insubstantiality
- lacking substance or reality
- smoke
- (informal) something with no concrete substance; "his dreams all turned to smoke"; "it was just smoke and mirrors"
- reality
- the quality possessed by something that is real
- unreality
- the quality possessed by something that is unreal
- singularity, uniqueness
- the quality of being one of a kind; "that singularity distinguished him from all his companions"
- peculiarity, specialness, specialty, speciality, distinctiveness
- a distinguishing trait
- generality
- the quality of being general or widespread or having general applicability
- solidarity
- a union of interests or purposes or sympathies among members of a group
- pervasiveness
- the quality of filling or spreading throughout: "the pervasiveness of the odor of cabbage in tenement hallways"
- prevalence
- the quality of prevailing generally; being widespread; "the prevalence of dysentery is horrible"
- currency
- general acceptance or use: "the currency of ideas"
- universality, catholicity
- the quality of being universal; existing everywhere
- totality
- the quality of being complete and indiscriminate: "the totality of war and its consequences"; "the all-embracing totality of the state"
- simplicity, simpleness
- the quality of being simple or uncompounded; "the simplicity of a crystal"
- complexity, complexness
- the quality of being intricate and compounded; "he enjoyed the complexity of modern computers"
- complicatedness, complication, knottiness
- puzzling complexity
- elaborateness, elaboration, intricacy
- marked by elaborately complex detail
- tapestry
- something that is felt to resemble a tapestry in its complexity; "the tapestry of European history"
- regularity
- the quality of being characterized by a fixed principle or rate; "he was famous for the regularity of his habits"
- cyclicity, periodicity
- the quality of recurring at intervals
- rhythm, regular recurrence
- recurring at regular intervals; "the rhythm of the seasons"
- orderliness, methodicalness
- the quality of appreciating method and system
- organization, organisation, system
- an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized; "his compulsive organization was not an endearing quality"; "we can't do it unless we establish some system around here"
- uniformity
- a condition in which everything is regular and unvarying
- homogeneity
- the quality of being of uniform throughout in composition or structure
- evenness, invariability
- a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
- even spacing
- regularity of spacing
- steadiness
- the quality of being steady--regular and unvarying
- irregularity, unregularity
- not characterized by a fixed principle or rate; at irregular intervals
- fitfulness, jerkiness
- the quality of being spasmodic and irregular
- intermittence, intermittency
- the quality of being intermittent; subject to interruption or periodic stopping
- fluctuation, wavering
- the quality of being unsteady and subject to fluctuations; "he kept a record of price fluctuations"
- randomness, haphazardness
- the quality of lacking any predictable order or plan
- spasticity
- the quality of moving or acting in spasms
- unevenness, variability
- a quality of variability and lack of uniformity
- jaggedness
- something irregular like a bump or crack in a smooth surface
- patchiness
- unevenness in quality or performance
- personal equation
- variability attributable to individual differences
- unsteadiness
- the quality of being unsteady--varying and irregular
- looseness, play
- movement or space for movement; "there was too much play in the steering wheel"
- restlessness
- the quality of being ceaselessly moving or active; "the restlessness of the wind"
- wiggliness
- a jerky back and forth kind of mobility; "he walked with the wiggliness of a child on high heels"
- slack, slackness
- the condition of being loose (not taut); "he hadn't counted on the slackness of the rope"
- unsteadiness
- the quality of not being steady or securely fixed in place
- instability, unstableness
- the quality or attribute of being unstable
- shakiness, ricketiness
- the quality of being unstable and insecure; "the shakiness of the present regime"
- granite
- something having the quality of granite (unyielding firmness); "a man of granite"
- sureness
- the quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand"
- stability, stableness
- the quality or attribute of being stable
- pleasantness, sweetness
- the quality of giving pleasure; "he was charmed by the sweetness of her manner"; "the pleasantness of a cool breeze on a hot summer day"
- agreeableness, amenity
- pleasantness resulting from agreeable conditions; "a well trained staff saw to the agreeableness of our accommodations"; "he discovered the amenities of reading at an early age"
- enjoyableness
- pleasantness resulting from something that can be enjoyed; "the enjoyableness of an afternoon at the beach"
- niceness
- the quality of nice
- unpleasantness
- the quality of giving displeasure; "the recent unpleasantness of the weather"
- disagreeableness
- the quality of being disagreeable; and unpleasant
- nastiness
- the quality of being unpleasant; "I flinched at the nastiness of his wound"
- offensiveness, odiousness, distastefulness
- the quality of being offensive
- loathsomeness, repulsiveness, sliminess, vileness
- the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
- hatefulness, obnoxiousness, objectionableness
- the quality of being hateful
- beastliness
- (British) unpleasant nastiness; used especially of nasty weather
- awfulness, dreadfulness, horridness, terribleness
- a quality of extreme unpleasantness
- frightfulness
- the quality of being frightful
- ghastliness, grimness, gruesomeness, luridness
- the quality of being ghastly
- naturalness
- the quality of being natural or based on natural principles: "he accepted the naturalness of death"; "the spontaneous naturalness of his manner"
- unaffectedness
- not affected; a personal manner that is not consciously constrained
- simplicity
- absence of affectation or pretense
- sincerity, unassumingness
- a quality of naturalness and simplicity; "the simple sincerity of folk songs"
- spontaneity, spontaneousness
- the quality of being spontaneous and coming from natural feelings without constraint; "the spontaneity of his laughter"
- ease, informality
- freedom from constraint or embarrassment; "I am never at ease with strangers"
- unpretentiousness
- the quality of being natural and without pretensions
- naturalization
- the quality of being brought into conformity with nature
- unnaturalness
- the quality of being unnatural or not based on natural principles
- affectedness
- the quality of being false or artificial
- airs, pose
- affected manners intended to impress others; "don't put on airs with me"
- coyness, demureness
- the affectation of being demure in a provocative way
- preciosity
- the quality of being fastidious or excessively refined
- artificiality
- the quality of being produced by people and not occurring naturally
- staginess, theatricality
- an artificial and mannered quality
- pretension, pretence, pretense
- a false or unsupportable quality
- pretentiousness, pretension
- the quality of being pretentious (creating a false appearance of great importance or worth)
- ostentation
- pretentious or showy or vulgar display
- supernaturalism, supernaturalness
- the quality of being attributed to power that seems to violate or go beyond natural forces
- virtu, vertu
- artistic quality
- wholesomeness
- the quality of being beneficial and generally good for you
- harmfulness, noisomeness, noxiousness
- the quality of being noxious
- perniciousness, toxicity
- grave harmfulness or deadliness
- satisfactoriness
- the quality of giving satisfaction sufficient to meet a demand or requirement
- adequacy, adequateness
- the quality of being able to meet a need satisfactorily: "he questioned the adequacy of the usual sentimental interpretation of the Golden Rule
- acceptability, acceptableness
- satisfactoriness by virtue of conforming to approved standards
- admissibility
- acceptability by virtue of being admissible
- permissibility
- admissibility as a consequence of being permitted
- unsatisfactoriness
- the quality of being adequate or suitable
- inadequacy, inadequateness
- unsatisfactoriness by virtue of being inadequate
- unacceptability, unacceptableness
- unsatisfactoriness by virtue of not conforming to approved standards
- inadmissibility
- unacceptability as a consequence of not being admissible
- impermissibility
- inadmissibility as a consequence of not being permitted
- ordinariness
- the quality of being ordinary
- averageness, mediocrity
- ordinariness as a consequence of being average and not outstanding
- expectedness
- ordinariness as a consequence of being expected and not surprising
- commonness, commonplaceness, everydayness
- ordinariness as a consequence of being frequent and commonplace
- prosiness, prosaicness
- commonplaceness as a consequence of being humdrum and not exciting
- usualness
- commonness by virtue of not being unusual
- familiarity
- usualness by virtue of being familiar or well known
- extraordinariness
- the quality of being extraordinary and not commonly encountered
- unexpectedness, surprisingness
- extraordinariness by virtue of being unexpected; "the unexpectedness of the warm welcome"
- uncommonness
- extraordinariness as a consequence of being rare and uncommon
- unusualness
- uncommonness by virtue of being unusual
- unfamiliarity, strangeness
- unusualness as a consequence of not being well known
- oddity, queerness, quirk, quirkiness, crotchet
- a strange attitude or habit
- eeriness, ghostliness
- strangeness by virtue of being mysterious and inspiring fear
- abnormality, freakishness
- marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
- singularity
- strangeness by virtue of being remarkable or unusual
- outlandishness, bizarreness, weirdness
- strikingly out of the ordinary
- quaintness
- strangeness as a consequence of being old fashioned; "some words in her dialect had a charming quaintness"
- eccentricity
- strange and unconventional behavior
- oddity, oddness
- eccentricity that is not easily explained
- foreignness, strangeness, curiousness
- the quality of being alien or not native: "the strangeness of a foreigner"
- exoticism, exoticness, exotism
- the quality of being exotic; "he loved the exocitism of Egypt"
- alienage, alienism
- the quality of being alien
- nativeness
- the quality of belonging to or being connected with a certain place or region by virtue of birth or origin
- indigenousness, autochthony, endemism
- nativeness by virtue or originating or occurring naturally (as in a particular place)
- originality
- the quality of being new and original (not derived from something else)
- freshness, novelty
- originality by virtue of being refreshingly novel
- unorthodoxy, heterodoxy
- the quality of being unorthodox
- unconventionality
- unorthodoxy by virtue of being unconventional
- nonconformity
- unorthodoxy as a consequence of not conforming to expected standards or values
- unoriginality
- the quality of being unoriginal
- orthodoxy
- the quality of being orthodox (especially in religion)
- conventionality, convention, conventionalism
- orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional
- ossification, conformity
- hardened conventionality
- traditionalism, traditionality
- strict adherence to traditional methods or teachings
- scholasticism, academicism, academism
- orthodoxy of a scholastic variety
- exactness, exactitude
- the quality of being exact; "he demanded exactness in all details"; "a man of great exactitude"
- preciseness, precision
- the quality of being precise in amount or performance; "he handled it with the preciseness of an automaton"; "note the meticulous precision of his measurements"
- trueness
- exactness of adjustment; "I marveled at the trueness of his aim"
- fidelity
- accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal
- inaccuracy
- the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
- inexactness, inexactitude
- the quality of being inaccurate and having errors
- impreciseness, imprecision
- the quality of lacking precision
- infallibility
- the quality of never making an error
- inerrancy
- (Christianity) exemption from error; "biblical inerrancy"
- errancy
- a tendency to err
- errancy
- (Christianity) holding views that disagree with accepted doctrine
- instability
- unreliability attributable to being unstable
- fallibility
- the likelihood of making errors
- worthiness
- the quality or state of having merit or value
- deservingness, merit, meritoriousness
- the quality of being deserving (e.g., deserving assistance); "there were many children whose deservingness he recognized and rewarded"
- praiseworthiness
- the quality of being worthy of praise
- quotability
- the quality of being worthy of being quoted
- unworthiness
- the quality of being bad by virtue of lacking merit or value
- baseness, contemptibility, despicableness, despicability
- unworthiness by virtue of lacking higher values
- shamefulness, disgracefulness, ignominiousness
- unworthiness meriting public disgrace and dishonor
- scandalousness
- disgracefulness that offends public morality
- popularity
- the quality of being widely admired or accepted or sought after: "his charm soon won him affection and popularity"; "the universal popularity of American movies"
- hot stuff
- the quality of being popular; "skiing is hot stuff in New Hampshire"
- unpopularity
- the quality of lacking general approval or acceptance
- elegance
- a quality of refined gracefulness and good taste
- dash, elan, flair, panache, style
- distinctive and stylish elegance; "he wooed her with the confident dash of a cavalry officer"
- daintiness, delicacy, fineness
- the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"
- courtliness
- elegance suggestive of a royal court
- tastefulness
- elegance indicated by good taste
- refinement, breeding, genteelness, gentility
- elegance by virtue of fineness of manner and expression
- chic, chicness, modishness, smartness, stylishness, swank
- elegance by virtue of being fashionable
- jauntiness, nattiness, dapperness, rakishness
- stylishness as evidenced by a smart appearance
- magnificence, brilliance, splendor, splendour, grandeur, grandness
- the quality of being magnificent or splendid or grand
- eclat
- brilliant or conspicuous success or effect: "the eclat of a great achievement"
- pomp, eclat
- ceremonial elegance and splendor; "entered with much eclat in a coach drawn by eight white horses"
- class
- (informal) elegance in dress or behavior; "she has a lot of class"
- inelegance
- the quality of lacking refinement and good taste
- awkwardness, clumsiness, gracelessness, stiffness
- the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment)
- rusticity, gaucherie
- the quality of being rustic or gauche
- dowdiness, drabness, homeliness
- lacking stylishness or neatness
- shabbiness, seediness, manginess
- a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing
- raggedness
- shabbiness by virtue of being in rags
- coarseness, commonness, grossness, vulgarity, vulgarism
- the quality of lacking taste and refinement
- crudeness, roughness
- an unpolished unrefined quality; "the crudeness of frontier dwellings depressed her"
- boorishness, uncouthness
- inelegance by virtue of being an uncouth boor
- ostentation, ostentatiousness, pomposity, pompousness, pretentiousness, splashiness
- lack of elegance as a consequence of pomposity
- tastelessness
- inelegance indicated by a lack of good taste
- cheapness, tackiness, tat, sleaze
- tastelessness by virtue of being cheap and vulgar
- flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, brashness, meretriciousness, tawdriness, glitz
- tasteless showiness
- expressiveness
- the quality of being expressive
- clarity, lucidity, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity
- free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression
- focus
- maximum clarity or distinctness of an idea; "the controversy brought clearly into focus an important difference of opinion"
- coherence, coherency
- logical and orderly and consistent relation of parts
- preciseness, clearcutness
- clarity as a consequence of precision
- perspicuity, perspicuousness, plainness
- clarity as a consequence of being perspicuous
- unambiguity, unequivocalness
- clarity achieved by the avoidance of ambiguity
- explicitness
- clarity as a consequence of being explicit
- obscureness, obscurity, abstruseness, reconditeness
- the quality of being unclear or abstruse and hard to understand
- unintelligibility
- incomprehensibility as a consequence of being unintelligible
- unclearness
- incomprehensibility as a result of not being clear
- elusiveness
- the quality of being difficult to grasp or pin down: "the author's elusiveness may at times be construed as evasiveness"
- vagueness
- unclearness by virtue of being vague
- haziness
- vagueness attributable to being not clearly defined
- inexplicitness
- unclearness by virtue of not being explici
- implicitness
- inexplicitness as a consequence of being implied or indirect
- equivocation, evasiveness
- deliberate vagueness or ambiguity
- righteousness
- adhering to moral principles
- uprightness, rectitude
- uprightness as a consequence of being honorable and honest
- piety, piousness
- righteousness by virtue of being pious
- devoutness, religiousness
- piety by virtue of being devout
- religiosity, pietism
- exaggerated or affected piety
- dutifulness
- piety by virtue of devotion to duty
- godliness
- piety by virtue of being a godly person
- unrighteousness
- failure to adhere to moral principles
- sin, sinfulness, wickedness
- estrangement from god
- mark of Cain
- the mark that God set upon Cain now refers to a person's sinful nature
- impiety, impiousness
- unrighteousness by virtue of lacking respect for a god
- undutifulness
- impiety characterized by lack of devotion to duty
- irreligiousness, irreligion
- the quality of not being devout
- ungodliness, godlessness
- impiety by virtue of not being a godly person
- atrocity, atrociousness, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness
- the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane
- ferociousness, brutality, viciousness, savageness, savagery
- the trait of extreme cruelty
- murderousness, bloodthirstiness
- cruelty evidence by a capability to commit murder
- mercilessness, unmercifulness
- inhumaneness evidenced by an unwillingness to be kind or forgiving
- pitilessness, ruthlessness
- mercilessness characterized by a lack of pity
- relentlessness, inexorability, inexorableness
- mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit"
- generosity, generousness
- the trait of being willing to give your money or time
- charitableness
- generosity as manifested by practicing charity (as for the poor or unfortunate)
- bounty, bounteousness
- generosity evidenced by a willingness to give freely
- bigheartedness
- the quality of being kind and generous
- liberality, liberalness
- the trait of being generous in behavior and temperament
- munificence, largess, largesse, magnanimity, openhandedness
- extremely liberal generosity of spirit
- unselfishness
- the quality of not putting yourself first but being willing to give your time or money or effort etc. for others; "rural people show more devotion and unselfishness than do their urban cousins"
- altruism, selflessness
- the quality of unselfish concern for the welfare of others
- stinginess
- a lack of generosity; a general unwillingness to part with money
- meanness, minginess, niggardliness, niggardness, parsimony, parsimoniousness, tightness, tightfistedness, closeness
- extreme stinginess
- pettiness
- lack of generosity in trifling matters
- miserliness
- total lack of generosity with money
- presumption, presumptuousness, assumption
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
- uppityness, uppishness
- assumption of airs beyond one's station
- grace
- free and unmerited favor or beneficence of God: "there but for the grace of God go I"
- delicacy, diplomacy, discreetness, finesse
- subtly skillful handling of a situation
- savoir-faire, address
- social skill
- malevolence, malevolency, malice
- the quality of threatening evil
- cattiness, bitchiness, spite, spitefulness, nastiness
- malevolence by virtue of being malicious or spiteful or nasty
- malignity, malignancy, malignance
- quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will
- unhelpfulness
- an inability to be helpful
- bluntness
- the quality of being direct and outspoken; "the bluntness of a Yorkshireman"
- maleficence, mischief, balefulness
- the quality or nature of being harmful or evil
- saintliness
- the quality of resembling a saint
- corruption, degeneracy, depravity
- moral perversion; impairment of virtue and moral principles: "the luxury and corruption among the upper classes"; "moral degeneracy followed intellectual degeneration"; "its brothels; its opium parlors; its depravity"
- licentiousness, wantonness, sexual immorality
- the quality of being lewd and lascivious
- worst
- the greatest damage or wickedness of which one is capable: "the invaders did their worst"; "so pure of heart that his worst is another man's best"
- nefariousness, wickedness, vileness
- the quality of being wicked
- enormity
- the quality of extreme wickedness
- reprehensibility
- being reprehensible; worthy of and deserving reprehension or reproof
- villainy, villainousness
- the quality of evil by virtue of villainous behavior
- perversity
- deliberately deviating from what is good
- frailty, vice
- moral weakness
- corruptness, corruption
- lack of integrity or honesty; esp susceptibility to bribery; use of a position of trust for dishonest gain
- venality
- prostitution of talents or offices or services for reward
- divinity
- the quality of being divine; "ancient Egyptians believed in the divinity of the Pharaohs"
- holiness, sanctity
- the quality of being holy
- sacredness
- the quality of being sacred
- unholiness
- the quality of being unholy
- profaneness, unsanctification
- unholiness by virtue of being profane
- sacrilegiousness
- profaneness by virtue of committing sacrilege
- safeness
- the quality of being safe
- dangerousness
- the quality of not being safe
- precariousness
- extreme dangerousness
- heroism, gallantry, valor, valour, valorousness, valourousness, valiance, valiancy
- the qualities of a hero or heroine; exceptional or heroic courage when facing danger (especially in battle); "he showed great heroism in battle"; "he received a medal for valor"
- dauntlessness, intrepidity
- resolute courageousness
- Dutch courage
- courage resulting from intoxication
- daredevilry, daredeviltry
- boldness as manifested in rash and daredevil behavior
- audacity, audaciousness, temerity
- fearless daring
- shamelessness, brazenness
- behavior marked by a bold defiance of the proprieties and lack of shame
- cravenness
- mean-spirited cowardice
- pusillanimity, pusillanimousness
- contemptible fearfulness
- poltroonery
- abject pusillanimity
- dastardliness
- treacherous cowardice
- assiduity, assiduousness, concentration
- great diligence
- sanctimoniousness, sanctimony
- the quality of being hypocritically devout
- fulsomeness, oiliness, oleaginousness, smarminess, unctuousness, unction
- smug self-serving earnestness
- honorableness, honourableness
- the quality of deserving honor or respect; characterized by honor
- honor, honour
- the quality of being honorable and having a good name; "a man of honor"
- scrupulousness
- conformity to high standards of ethics or excellence
- incorruptibility
- the incapability of being corrupted
- nobility, magnanimousness, grandeur
- the quality of being exalted in character or ideals or conduct
- high-mindedness, idealism, noble-mindedness
- elevated ideals or conduct; the quality of believing that ideals should be pursued
- sublimity, the sublime
- nobility in thought or feeling or style
- respectability, reputability
- honorableness by virtue of being respectable and having a good reputation
- decency
- the quality of being polite and respectable
- good faith, straightness
- having honest intentions; "he acted in good faith"; "doubt was expressed as to the good faith of the immigrants"
- artlessness
- ingenuousness by virtue of being free from artful deceit
- parental quality
- a quality appropriate to a parent
- motherliness, maternal quality
- the tenderness and warmth and affection of or befitting a mother: "the girl's motherliness made her invaluable in caring for the children"
- fatherliness, paternal quality
- the benignity and protectiveness of or befitting a father: "the gentleness and fatherliness of the strange old man eased her fears"
- dishonorableness, dishonourableness
- the quality of not deserving honor or respect
- ignobleness
- the quality of being ignoble
- dishonor, dishonour
- lacking honor or integrity
- unscrupulousness
- the quality of unscrupulous dishonesty
- unrespectability, disreputability, disreputableness
- dishonorableness by virtue of lacking respectability or a good reputation
- dishonesty
- the quality of being dishonest
- speciousness, meretriciousness
- an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility: "the speciousness of his argument"
- fraudulence, deceit
- the quality of being fraudulent
- jobbery
- corruptness among public officials
- crookedness, deviousness
- the quality of being deceitful and underhanded
- rascality, shiftiness, slipperiness, trickiness
- the quality of being a slippery rascal
- disingenuousness
- the quality of being disingenuous and lacking candor
- craftiness, deceitfulness, guile
- the quality of being crafty
- artfulness
- the quality of being adroit in taking unfair advantage
- cunning
- drafty artfulness (especially in deception)
- insidiousness
- the quality of being designed to entrap
- sophistication, worldliness
- the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated through cultivation or experience or disillusionment
- naivete, naivety, naiveness
- lack of sophistication or worldliness
- artlessness, innocence, ingenuousness, naturalness
- the quality of innocent naivete
- taboo, tabu
- an inhibition or ban resulting from social custom or emotional aversion
- rakishness
- the quality of a rake
- intemperance
- the quality of being intemperate
- dignity, self-respect, self-esteem, self-regard
- the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect: "it was beneath his dignity to cheat"; "showed his true dignity when under pressure"
- boastfulness, vainglory
- outspoken conceit
- egotism, self-importance, swelled head
- an exaggerated opinion of your own importance
- posturing
- adopting a vain conceited posture
- superiority complex
- an exaggerated estimate of your own value and importance
- arrogance, haughtiness, lordliness
- overbearing pride evidenced by a superior manner toward inferiors
- hubris
- overbearing pride or presumption
- superiority
- displaying a sense of being better than others; "he hated the white man's superiority and condecension"
- absurdity, fatuity, fatuousness, silliness
- a ludicrous folly; "the crowd laughed at the absurdity of the clown's behavior"
- providence
- the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources
- foresight, foresightedness, foresightfulness
- providence by virtue of planning prudently for the future
- slatternliness, sluttishness
- in the manner of a slattern
- peasanthood
- an uncleanliness characteristic of peasants
- disarray, disorderliness
- untidiness (especially of clothing and appearance)
- priggishness, primness
- exaggerated and arrogant properness
- seemliness, grace
- a sense of propriety and consideration for others
- becomingness
- the quality of being becoming
- modesty
- freedom from vanity or conceit
- primness, prudishness, prudery, Grundyism
- excessive or affected modesty
- impropriety, improperness
- an improper demeanor
- gaminess, raciness, ribaldry, spiciness
- behavior or language bordering on indelicacy
- unseemliness
- a lack of consideration for others
- unbecomingness
- the quality of being unbecoming
- immodesty
- the trait of being vain and conceited
- outrageousness, enormity
- the quality of being outrageous
- smuttiness, dirtiness
- obscenity in speech or writing
- composure, calm, calmness, equanimity
- steadiness of mind under stress; "he accepted their problems with composure and she with equanimity"
- wildness
- a state of nature
- cussedness, orneriness
- mean-spirited disagreeable contrariness
- naughtiness, mischievousness, badness
- an attribute of mischievous children
- dignity, lordliness
- formality in bearing and appearance: "he behaved with great dignity"
- formality, formalness
- a manner that strictly observes all forms and ceremonies
- ceremoniousness
- a ceremonial manner
- stateliness
- a elaborate manner of doing something; "she served coffee with great stateliness"
- informality
- a manner that does not take forms and ceremonies seriously
- casualness, familiarity
- a casual manner
- slanginess
- casualness in use of language
- unceremoniousness
- an unceremonial manner
- courtesy, good manners
- a courteous manner
- politeness, niceness
- a courteous manner that respects accepted social usage
- urbanity
- polished courtesy; elegance of manner
- suavity, suaveness, blandness
- smooth and gracious in manner
- graciousness
- excellence of manners or social conduct
- chivalry, gallantry, politesse
- courtesy towards women
- deference, respect, respectfulness
- courteous regard for people's feelings; "in deference to your wishes"; "out of respect for his privacy"
- civility
- formal or perfunctory politeness
- discourtesy, rudeness
- a manner that is rude and insulting
- boorishness
- the manner of a rude or insensitive person
- impoliteness
- a discourteous manner that ignores accepted social usage
- bad manners, ill-breeding
- impoliteness resulting from ignorance
- ungraciousness
- an offensive lack of good manners
- crudeness, crudity, gaucheness
- an impolite manner that is vulgar and lacking tact or refinement; "the whole town was famous for its crudeness"
- incivility
- deliberate discourtesy
- directness, straightness
- trueness of course toward a goal: "rivaling a hawk in directness of aim"
- downrightness, straightforwardness
- the quality of being direct and straightforward; "what some people take for rudeness is really straightforwardness"
- immediacy, immediateness
- lack of an intervening or mediating agency: "the immediacy of television coverage"
- indirectness
- having the characteristic of lacking a true course toward a goal
- allusiveness
- a quality characterized by indirect reference
- mediacy, mediateness
- the quality of being mediate
- deviousness, obliqueness
- the quality of being oblique and rambling indirectly
- discursiveness
- the quality of being discursive
- oldness
- the opposite of newness
- obsolescence, obsoleteness, superannuation
- the property of being out of date and not current
- ancientness, antiquity
- extreme oldness
- old-fashionedness
- the property of being no longer fashionable
- quaintness
- the quality of being quaint and old-fshioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
- hoariness
- great age esp gray or white with age
- newness
- the opposite of oldness
- brand-newness
- the property of being very new
- freshness
- the property of being pure and fresh (as if newly made); not stale or deteriorated; "she loved the freshness of newly baked bread"; "the freshness of the air revived him"
- crispness
- a pleasing firmness and freshness: "crispness of new dollar bills"; "crispness of fresh lettuce"
- recency, recentness
- the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
- oldness
- the opposite of youngness
- staleness
- having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging
- mustiness, moldiness
- the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
- youngness
- the opposite of oldness
- youth, youthfulness, juvenility
- the freshness and vitality characteristic of a young person
- childishness, puerility
- a property characteristic of a child
- common touch
- the property of appealing to people in general (usually by appearing to have qualities in common with them)
- downiness, featheriness, fluffiness
- a light softness
- flabbiness, limpness, flaccidity
- a flabby softness
- mushiness
- a mushy pulpy softness
- lyricality, lyricism, songfulness
- the property of being suitable for singing
- boisterousness
- the property of being noisy and lively and unrestrained
- grace, gracility
- elegance and beauty of movement or expression
- agility, legerity, lightsomeness, nimbleness
- the gracefulness of a person or animal that is quick and nimble
- lissomeness, litheness, suppleness
- the gracefulness of a person or animal that is flexible and supple
- awkwardness, clumsiness
- the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are ungainly or inelegant
- gracelessness, ungracefulness
- an unpleasant carriage
- gawkiness, ungainliness
- the carriage of someone whose movements and posture are extremely ungainly and inelegant
- strength
- the property of being physically or mentally strong; "fatigue sapped his strength"
- good part
- a place of especial strength
- brawn, muscle, sinew
- muscular strength
- might, mightiness, power
- physical strength
- vigor, vigour
- active strength of body or mind
- robustness, hardiness, lustiness
- the property of strong in constitution
- huskiness, ruggedness, toughness
- the property of being big and strong
- stoutness, stalwartness
- the property of being strong and resolute
- sturdiness
- the property of something that is strongly built
- firmness, soundness
- the firmness and tone of healthy tissue: "his muscle firmness"
- indomitability, invincibility
- the property being difficult or impossible to defeat
- fortitude
- strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- backbone, grit, guts, sand, gumption
- (informal) fortitude; "he didn't have the guts to try it"
- endurance
- the power to withstand hardship or stress
- sufferance
- patient endurance esp of pain or destress
- stamina, staying power, toughness
- enduring strength and energy
- long-sufferance, long-suffering
- patient endurance of pain or unhappiness
- energy, vigor, vigour
- an exertion of force; "he plays tennis with great energy"
- athleticism, strenuosity
- intense energy; "his music is characterized by a happy athleticism"
- intensity, intensiveness
- high level or degree; the property of being intense
- badness, severity
- used of the degree of something undesirable e.g. pain or weather
- seriousness, distressfulness
- the quality of arousing fear or distress; "he learned the seriousness of his illness"
- vehemence, emphasis
- intensity or forcefulness of expression: "the vehemence of his denial" or "his emphasis on civil rights"
- top
- the greatest possible intensity: "he screamed at the top of his lungs"
- overemphasis
- too much emphasis
- ferocity, fierceness, furiousness, fury, vehemence, violence, wildness
- the property of being wild or turbulent; "the storm's violence"
- weakness
- the property of lacking physical or mental strength; liability to failure under pressure or stress or strain; "his weakness increased as he became older"; "the weakness of the span was overlooked until it collapsed"
- adynamia
- lack of strength or vigor esp from illness
- feebleness, tenuity
- the quality of lacking intensity or substance; "a shrill yet sweet tenuity of voice"- Nathaniel Hawthorne
- flimsiness, shoddiness
- the property of weakness by virtue of careless construction
- fragility, delicacy
- lack of physical strength
- insubstantiality
- lack of solid substance and strength
- enervation
- lack of vitality; "an enervation of mind greater than any fatigue"
- inanition, lassitude, lethargy
- lack of vitality or energy
- Achilles' heel
- a seemingly small but actual mortal weakness
- jugular
- a vital part that is vulnerable to attack; "he always goes for the jugular"
- underbelly
- the quality of being weak or unprotected; "the soft underbelly of the Axis"- Winston Churchill
- defenselessness, defencelessness, unprotectedness
- the property of being helpless in the face of attack
- rain, pelting
- anything happening rapidly or in quick successive; "a rain of bullets"; "a pelting of insults"
- seasonableness, timeliness
- being at the right time
- unseasonableness, untimeliness
- being at an inappropriate time
- presentness, nowness
- the quality of being the present: "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller
- currentness, currency, up-to-dateness
- the property of belonging to the present time: "the currency of a slang term"
- modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness
- the quality of being current or of the present: "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
- fleetness
- rapidity of movement: "fleetness of foot"
- celerity, quickness, rapidity
- a rate that is rapid
- immediacy, immediateness, instantaneousness, instancy
- the quickness of action or occurrence; "the immediacy of their response"; "the instancy of modern communication"
- dispatch, expedition, expeditiousness
- the property of being prompt and efficient; "it was done with dispatch"
- promptness, promptitude
- the characteristic of doing things without delay
- haste, hastiness, hurry, hurriedness
- overly eager speed (and possible carelessness); "he soon regretted his haste"
- abruptness, precipitateness, precipitance, precipitancy, suddenness
- the quality of happening with headlong haste or without warning
- pickup, getaway
- the attribute of being capable of rapid acceleration; "his car has a lot of pickup"
- precipitation
- an unexpected acceleration or hastening: "he is responsible for the precipitation of his own demise"
- graduality, gradualness
- the quality of being gradual or of coming about by gradual stages
- slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness
- a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
- leisureliness
- slowness by virtue of being leisurely
- dilatoriness, procrastination
- slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it
- abruptness, precipitousness, steepness
- the property possessed by a slope that is very steep
- gradualness, gentleness
- the property possessed by a slope that is very gradual
- composition, composing
- the spatial property resulting from the arrangement of parts in relation to each other and to the whole; "harmonious composition is essential in a serious work of art"
- proportion, balance
- harmonious arrangement or relation of parts or elements within a whole (as in a design): "in all perfectly beautiful objects there is found the opposition of one part to another and a reciprocal balance"- John Ruskin
- alignment
- the spatial property possessed by an arrangement or position of things in a straight line or in parallel lines
- true
- the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment: "out of true"
- misalignment
- the spatial property of things that are not properly aligned
- centrality
- the property of being central
- marginality
- the property of being marginal or on the fringes
- outwardness, externality
- the quality or state of being outside or directed toward or relating to the outside or exterior: "the outwardness of the world"
- inwardness
- the quality or state of being inward or internal: "the inwardness of the body's organs"
- malposition, misplacement
- faulty position
- openness
- without obstructions to passage or view: "the openness of the prairies"
- remove
- degree of figurative distance or separation: "just one remove from madness" or "it imitates at many removes a Shakespearean tragedy"
- degree
- the seriousness of something (e.g., a burn or crime); "murder in the second degree"; "a second degree burn"
- depth
- degree of psychological or intellectual depth
- profundity, profoundness
- intellectual depth; penetrating knowledge; keen insight; etc: "the depth of my feeling"; "the profoundness of the silence"
- superficiality, shallowness
- lack of depth of knowledge or thought or feeling
- glibness, slickness
- a kind of fluent easy superficiality; "the glibness of a high-pressure salesman"
- high
- a lofty level or position or degree: "summer temperatures reached an all-time high"
- low
- a low level or position or degree: "the stock market fell to a new low"
- extreme
- the furthest or highest degree of something; "he carried it to extremes"
- multiplicity
- the property of being multiple
- bulk, mass, volume
- the property of something that is great in magnitude; "it is cheaper to buy it in bulk"; "he received a mass of correspondence"; "the volume of exports"
- muchness
- (archaic) greatness of quantity or measure or extent
- thinness, tenuity, slenderness
- relatively small dimension through an object as opposed to its length or width: "the tenuity of a hair"; "the thinness of a rope"
- largeness, bigness
- the property of having a relatively great size
- ampleness
- the property of impressive largeness in size; "he admired the ampleness of its proportions"
- bulkiness, massiveness
- an unwieldy largeness
- enormousness, grandness, greatness, immenseness, immensity, sizeableness, vastness
- unusual largeness in size or extent
- capaciousness, roominess, spaciousness, commodiousness
- spatial largeness (especially inside a building)
- airiness
- the property of something spacious and abounding in fresh air
- fullness, voluminosity, voluminousness
- greatness of volume
- gigantism, giantism
- excessive largeness of stature
- smallness, littleness
- the property of having a relatively small size
- diminutiveness, minuteness, petiteness, tinyness, weeness
- the property of being very small in size
- delicacy, slightness
- smallness of stature
- puniness, runtiness, stuntedness
- smallness of stature
- dwarfishness
- smallness of stature
- quantity
- an adequate or large amount; "he had a quantity of ammunition"
- complement
- something added to complete or make perfect: "a fine wine is a perfect complement to the dinner"
- sufficiency, adequacy
- a quantity or number sufficient for a purpose
- ampleness
- the property of being more than sufficient; comfortable sufficiency; "the ampleness of her servings more than satisfied his hunger"
- insufficiency, inadequacy, deficiency
- lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
- meagerness, meagreness, poorness, scantiness, scantness, exiguity
- the quality of being meager; "an exiguity of cloth that would only allow of miniature capes"-George Eliot
- sparseness, spareness, sparsity
- the property of being scanty or scattered; lacking denseness
- abundance, copiousness
- the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply; "an age of abundance"
- amplitude, bountifulness, bounty
- the property of copious abundance
- plenty, plentifulness, plenteousness, plenitude, plentitude
- a full supply; "there was plenty of food for everyone"
- profusion, profuseness, richness, cornucopia
- the property of being extremely abundant
- wealth
- the quality of profuse abundance; "she has a wealth of talent"
- luxuriance, lushness
- the property of being lush and abundant
- overgrowth
- a profusion of growth on or over something else
- scarcity, scarceness
- a small and inadequate amount
- dearth, paucity
- an insufficient quantity or number
- rarity, rareness, infrequency
- noteworthy scarcity
- moderation, moderateness
- quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
- golden mean
- the middle between extremes
- reasonableness
- moderation in expectations; "without greater reasonableness by both parties we will never settle this matter!"
- immoderation, immoderateness
- the quality of being excessive and lacking in moderation
- excess, excessiveness, inordinateness
- immoderation as a consequence of going beyond sufficient or permitted limits
- exorbitance, outrageousness
- excessive excess
- luxury, extravagance
- something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
- overabundance, overmuch, overmuchness, superabundance
- a quantity that is more than what is appropriate; "four-year-olds have an overabundance of energy"
- excess, surplus, surplusage
- a quantity much larger than is needed
- bellyful
- an undesirable overabundance: "a bellyful of your complaints"
- nimiety, overplus, plethora, superfluity, embarrassment
- extreme excess; "an embarrassment of riches"
- redundancy, redundance
- the attribute of being superfluous and unneeded; "the use of industrial robots created redundancy among workers"
- numerousness, numerosity, multiplicity
- a large number
- multitudinousness
- a very large number (especially of people)
- innumerableness, countlessness
- a number beyond counting
- fewness
- the quality of being small in number
- coverage
- the extent to which something is covered; "the dictionary's coverage of standard English is excellent"
- limit, bounds, boundary
- the greatest possible degree of something: "what he did was beyond the bounds of acceptable behavior"; "to the limit of his ability"
- utmost, uttermost, maximum, level best
- the greatestest possible degree; "he tried his utmost"
- verge, brink
- the limit beyond which something happens or changes; "on the verge of tears"; "on the brink of bankruptcy"
- scope, range, reach, orbit, compass, ambit
- an area in which something acts or operates or has power or control: "the range of a supersonic jet"; "the ambit of municipal legislation"; "within the compass of this article"; within the scope of an investigation"; "outside the reach of the law"; "in the political orbit of a world power"
- confines
- a bounded scope; "he stayed with the confines of the city"
- latitude
- scope for freedom of e.g. action or thought; freedom from restriction
- horizon, view, purview
- the range of interest or activity that can be anticipated; "It is beyond the horizon of present knowledge"
- sweep, expanse
- a wide scope; "the sweep of the plains"
- gamut
- a complete extent or range: "a face that expressed a gamut of emotions
- spectrum
- broad range of related values or qualities or ideas or activities
- arm's length
- a distance sufficient to exclude intimacy
- elongation
- the quality of being elongated
- shortness
- the property of being of short spatial extent
- briefness
- the temporal property of being very short
- deepness, profundity, profoundness
- the quality of being physically deep: "the profundity of the mine was almost a mile"
- bottomlessness
- the property of being very deep; without limit
- shallowness
- the quality of lacking physical depth: "take into account the shallowness at that end of the pool before you dive"
- superficiality
- shallowness in terms of affecting only surface layers of something: "he ignored the wound because of its superficiality"
- thickness, heaviness
- used of a line or mark
- narrowness
- the property of being narrow
- fineness, thinness
- the property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair"
- highness, loftiness
- the condition of being high or lofty
- lowness
- the condition of being low; lacking height
- squatness, stubbiness
- the property of being short and broad
- shortness, truncation
- the property of being truncated or short
- worth
- the quality that renders something desirable or valuable or useful
- value
- the quality (positive or negative) that renders something desirable or valuable; "the Shakespearean Shylock is of dubious value in the modern world"
- merit, virtue
- any admirable quality or attribute; "work of great merit"
- demerit, fault
- the quality of being faulty or inadequate; "they discussed the merits and demerits of her novel"
- praisworthiness
- the property of deserving praise
- worthwhileness
- value sufficient to repay time or effort spent
- worthlessness
- having no qualities that would render it valuable or useful; "the drill sergeant's intent was to convince all the recruits of their worthlessness"
- fecklessness
- worthlessness due to being feeble and ineffectual
- paltriness, sorriness
- worthlessness due to insignificance
- valuelessness
- having none of the properties that endow something with value
- shoddiness, trashiness
- the quality of being cheaply imitative of something better
- damn, darn, hoot, shit, shucks, tinker's damn, tinker's dam
- something of little value; "it is not worth a damn"; "not worth shucks"
- vanity, emptiness
- the quality of being valueless or futile; "he rejected the vanities of the world"
- invaluableness, preciousness, pricelessness, valuableness
- the positive quality of being precious and beyond value
- price
- the high value or worth of something; "her price is far above rubies"
- desirability, desirableness
- the quality of being worthy of desiring
- undesirability
- the quality possessed by something that should be avoided
- good, goodness
- that which is good or valuable or useful: "weigh the good against the bad"; "among the highest goods of all are happiness and self-realization"
- benefit, welfare
- something that aids or promotes well-being: "for the common good"
- better
- something better: "I expected better of him"
- better
- the superior one of two alternatives: "chose the better of the two"
- optimum
- most favorable condition or greatest degree or amount possible under given circumstances
- better
- one having claim to precedence; a superior: "the common man has been kept in his place by his betters"
- bad, badness
- that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency: "take the bad with the good"
- worse
- something inferior in quality or condition or effect: "for better or for worse"; "accused of cheating and lying and worse"
- evil
- that which causes harm or destruction or misfortune: "the evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones"- Shakespeare
- expensiveness
- the quality of being high-priced
- costliness, dearness
- the quality possessed by something with a great price or value
- lavishness, luxury, sumptuosity, sumptuousness
- the quality possessed by something that is excessively expensive
- inexpensiveness
- the quality of being affordable
- reasonableness, moderateness, modestness
- the property of being moderate in price; "the store is famous for the reasonableness of its prices"
- bargain rate, cheapness, cut rate, cut price
- a price below the standard price
- fruitfulness, fecundity
- the quality of something that causes or assists healthy growth
- richness, prolificacy, fertility
- the property of producing abundantly and sustaining growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"
- fruitlessness, aridity, barrenness
- a condition yielding nothing of value
- poorness
- less than adequate; "the relative poorness of New England farmland"
- utility, usefulness
- the quality of being of practical use
- helpfulness
- the property of providing useful assistance
- serviceability, serviceableness, usableness
- the quality of being able to provide good service
- inutility, uselessness, unusefulness
- the quality of having to practical use
- futility
- uselessness as a consequence of having no practical result
- worthlessness
- the quality of being without practical use
- practicality
- concerned with actual use rather than theoretical possibilities
- sensibleness
- the quality of showing good sense or practical judgment
- realism
- the attribute of accepting the facts of life and favoring practicality and literal truth
- practicability, practicableness
- the quality of being usable
- feasibility, feasibleness
- the quality of being doable
- impracticality
- concerned with theoretical possibilities rather than actual use
- idealism
- impracticality by virtue of thinking of things in their ideal form rather than as they really are
- romanticism
- impractical romantic ideals and attitudes
- knight errantry, quixotism
- quixotic (romantic and impractical) behavior
- impracticability, impracticableness
- the quality of not being usable
- infeasibility, unfeasibility
- the quality of not being doable
- competence, competency
- the quality of being adequately or well qualified physically and intellectually
- fitness
- the quality of being qualified
- proficiency
- the quality of having great facility and competence
- incompetence, incompetency
- lack of physical or intellectual ability or qualifications
- asset, plus
- a useful or valuable quality
- resource
- a source of aid or support that may be drawn upon when needed: "the local library is a valuable resource"
- aid, assistance, help
- a resource: "visual aids in teaching"; "economic assistance to depressed areas"
- recourse, refuge, resort
- something or someone turned to for assistance or security: "his only recourse was the police"; "took refuge in lying"
- shadow
- refuge from danger or observation; "he felt secure in his father's shadow"
- resourcefulness
- the quality of being able to cope with a difficult situation: "a man of great resourcefulness"
- inner resources
- a resource provided by the mind or one's personal capabilities: "to have resource against loneliness"
- advantage, vantage
- the quality of having a superior or more favorable position; "he experience gave him the advantage over me"
- favor, favour
- an advantage to the benefit of someone or something; "the outcome was in his favor"
- leverage
- strategic advantage; power to act effectively: "relatively small groups can sometimes exert immense political leverage"
- bargaining chip
- leverage in the form of an inducement or a concession useful in successful negotiations
- handicap
- advantage given to a competitor to equalize chances of winning
- lead
- an advantage held by a competitor in a race: "he took the lead at the last turn"
- pull
- special advantage or influence; "the chairman's nephew has a lot of pull"
- start, head start
- advantage gained by an early start as in a race: "with an hour's start he will be hard to catch"
- profit, gain
- the advantageous quality of being beneficial
- account
- the quality of taking advantage; "she turned her writing skills to good account"
- profitableness, profitability
- the quality of affording gain or benefit or profit
- preference
- grant of favor or advantage to one over another (esp to a country or countries in matters of international trade such as levying duties)
- privilege
- a special advantage or immunity or benefit not enjoyed by all
- expedience, expediency
- the quality of being suited to the end in view
- superiority, favorable position
- the quality of being a competitive advantage
- edge
- a slight competitive advantage; "he had an edge on the competition"
- inside track
- a favorable position in a competition; "the boss's son had the inside track for that job"
- upper hand, whip hand
- position of advantage and control
- forte, long suit, metier, specialty, speciality, strong point, strength
- an asset of special worth or utility; "cooking is his forte"
- green thumb, green fingers
- a special ability to make plants grow
- weak point
- an attribute that is inadequate or deficient
- good
- benefit; "for your own good"; "what's the good of worrying?"
- common good, commonweal
- the good of a community
- wisdom, wiseness, soundness
- the quality of being prudent and sensible
- advisability
- the quality of being advisable; "they questioned the advisability of our policy"
- reasonableness
- goodness of reason and judgment; "the judiciary is built on the reasonableness of judges"
- favorableness, favourableness, advantageousness
- the quality of being encouraging or promising of a successful outcome
- auspiciousness, propitiousness
- the favorable quality of strongly indicating a successful result
- liability
- the quality of being something that holds you back
- disadvantage
- the quality of having an inferior or less favorable position
- unfavorableness, unfavourableness
- the quality of not being encouraging or indicative of success
- inauspiciousness, unpropitiousness
- the quality of suggesting an unsuccessful result
- limitation, restriction
- the quality of being limited or restricted; "it is a good plan but it has serious limitations"
- defect, shortcoming
- a failing or deficiency; "that interpretation is an unfortunate defect of our lack of information"
- awkwardness, inconvenience, nuisance value
- the quality of an embarrassing situation; "he sensed the awkwardness of his proposal"
- loss, deprivation
- the disadvantage that results from losing something; "his loss of credibility led to his resignation" or "losing him is no great deprivation"
- price, cost, toll
- value measured by what must be given or done or undergone to obtain something: "the cost in human life was enormous"; "the price of success is hard work"; "what price glory?"
- drawback
- the quality of being a hindrance; "he pointed out all the drawbacks to my plan"
- catch
- a hidden drawback; "it sounds good but what's the catch?"
- penalty
- the disadvantage or painful consequences of an action or condition: "neglected his health and paid the penalty"
- inadvisability
- the quality of being ill advised
- inferiority, unfavorable position
- the quality of being a competitive disadvantage
- inexpedience, inexpediency
- the quality of being unsuited to the end in view
- unprofitableness, unprofitability
- the quality of affording no gain or no benefit or no profit
- constructiveness
- the quality of serving to build or improve
- destructiveness
- the quality of causing destruction
- harmfulness, injuriousness
- destructiveness that causes harm or injury
- insidiousness
- subtle and cumulative harmfulness esp of a disease
- poison
- anything that harms or destroys; "the poison of fascism"
- virulence
- extreme harmfulness; "the virulence of the plague"
- importance
- the quality of being important and worthy of note; "the importance of a well-balanced diet"
- face
- status in the eyes of others; "he lost face"
- magnitude
- relative importance: "a problem of the first magnitude"
- account
- importance or value; "a person of considerable account"; "he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance"
- matter
- (used with negation) having consequence; "they were friends and it was no matter who won the games"
- momentousness
- utmost importance
- prominence
- relative importance
- greatness
- the property possessed by something or someone of outstanding importance
- significance
- the quality of being significant; "do not underestimate the significance of nuclear power"
- historicalness
- significance owing to its history
- meaningfulness
- the quality of having great value or significance
- consequence, import, moment
- having important effects or influence; "decisions of great consequence are made by the president himself"; "virtue is of more moment that security"
- hell to pay
- dire consequences; "when the pig ran away there was hell to pay"
- essentiality, essentialness
- basic importance
- indispensability, indispensableness, vitalness
- the quality possessed by something that you cannot possibly do without
- urgency
- pressing importance requiring speedy action: "the urgency of his need"
- edge, sharpness
- the attribute of urgency; "his voice had an edge to it"
- imperativeness, insistence, insistency, instancy
- urgently demanding attention; "the insistence of their hunger"; "he pressed his demand with considerable instancy"
- weight
- the relative importance granted to something; "his opinion carries great weight"
- unimportance
- the quality of not being important or worthy of note
- inessentiality
- not of baic importance
- dispensability, dispensableness
- the quality possessed by something that you can get along without
- pettiness, triviality, slightness
- the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
- insignificance
- the quality of having little or no significance
- meaninglessness
- the quality of having great value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him"
- inanity, senselessness, mindlessness, vacuity, pointlessness
- total lack of meaning or ideas
- inconsequence
- having no important effects or influence
- door
- anything providing a means of access (or escape); "we closed the door to Haitian immigrants"; "education is the door to success"
- open door
- freedom of access; "he maintained an open door for all employees"
- power, powerfulness, potency
- possession of controlling influence; "the deterrent power of nuclear weapons"; "the power of his love saved her"
- puissance
- power to influence or coerce; "the puissance of the labor vote"
- alchemy
- a power like that claimed by alchemists: "a mysterious alchemy brought the musician and the music to ultimate fusion"
- persuasiveness, strength
- the power to induce the taking of a course of action or the embracing of a point of view by means of argument or entreaty; "the strength of his argument settled the matter"
- convincingness
- the power of argument or evidence to cause belief
- interest, interestingness
- the power of attracting or holding one's interest (because it is unusual or exciting etc.); "they said nothing of great interest"; "primary colors can add interest to a room"
- newsworthiness, news
- the quality of being sufficiently interesting to be reported in news bulletins; "the judge conceded the newsworthiness of the trial"; "he is no longer news in the fashion world"
- color, colour, vividness
- interest and variety and intensity: "the Puritan Period was lacking in color"
- stranglehold, throttlehold
- complete power over a person or situation
- sway
- controlling influence
- influence
- a power to affect persons or events esp power based on prestige etc: "used her parents' influence to get the job"
- dead hand, dead hand of the past, mortmain
- the oppressive influence of past events of decisions
- force
- a powerful effect or influence: "the force of his eloquence easily persuaded them"
- grip, grasp
- a firm controlling influence; "he was in the grip of a powerful emotion" or "a terrible power had her its grasp"
- tentacle
- something that acts like a tentacle in its ability to grasp; "caught in the tentacles of organized crime"
- pressure
- a force that compels; "the public brought pressure to bear on the government"
- duress
- compulsory force or threat; "confessed under duress"
- lifeblood
- an essential or life-giving force; "water is the lifeblood of India"
- wheels
- forces that provide energy and direction; "the wheels of government began to turn"
- control
- power to direct or determine: "under control"
- hold
- power by which something or someone is affected or dominated: "he has a hold over them"
- rein
- any means of control; "he took up the reins of government"
- carte blanche
- complete freedom or authority to act
- disposal
- the power to use something or someone: "used all the resources at his disposal"
- reins
- power to control; "the reins of government"
- effectiveness, effectivity, effectualness, effectuality
- the power to be effective
- incisiveness, trenchancy
- keenness and forcefulness of thought or expression or intellect
- efficacy, efficaciousness
- capacity or power to produce a desired effect
- form
- an ability to perform well; "he was at the top of his form"; "the team was off form last night"
- powerlessness, impotence, impotency
- the quality of lacking strength or power; being weak and feeble
- helplessness, weakness, impuissance
- powerlessness revealed by an inability to act; "in spite of their weakness the group remains highly active"
- unpersuasiveness
- inability to persuade
- uninterestingness
- inability to capture or hold one's interest
- dullness, dulness
- the quality of lacking interestingness
- boringness, dreariness
- extreme dullness
- tediousness, tedium, tiresomeness
- dullness owing to length or slowness
- jejunity, jejuneness, tameness, vapidity, vapidness
- the quality of being vapid and unsophisticated
- ineffectiveness, ineffectualness, ineffectuality
- lacking the power to be effective
- inefficacy, inefficaciousness
- a lack of efficacy
- romanticism, romance
- an exciting and mysterious quality (as of a heroic time or adventure)
- stardust
- a dreamy romantic or sentimental quality
- analyticity
- the property of being analytic
- selectivity
- the property of being selective
- domesticity
- the quality of being domestic or domesticated: "a royal family living in unpretentious domesticity"
- solubility
- the quality of being soluble
- insolubility
- the quality of being insoluble
- stuff
- unspecified qualities required to do or be something; "the stuff of heros"; "you don't have the stuff to be a United States Marine"
- hot stuff
- (informal) the quality of being attractive and exciting (especially sexually exciting); "he thought she was really hot stuff"
- humor, humour
- the quality of being funny; "I fail to see the humor in it"
- pathos, poignancy
- a quality that arouses emotions (especially pity or sorrow); "the film captured all the pathos of their situation"
- tone
- the quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author; "the general tone of articles appearing in the newspapers is that the government should withdraw"; "from the tone of her behavior I gathered that I had outstayed my welcome"
- astuteness, profundity, profoundness, depth
- the intellectual ability to penetrate deeply into ideas
- sagacity, sagaciousness, judgment, judgement, discernment
- ability to make good judgments
- eye
- good discernment (either with the eyes or as if with the eyes); "she has an eye for fresh talent"; "he has an artist's eye"
- common sense, good sense, gumption, horse sense, sense, mother wit
- sound practical judgment; "he hasn't got the sense God gave little green apples"
- logic
- reasoned and reasonable judgment; "it made a certain kind of logic"
- nous
- (British) common sense; "she has great social nous"
- road sense
- good judgment in avoiding trouble or accidents on the road
- judiciousness
- good judgment
- discretion, discreetness, circumspection, prudence
- knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress; "the servants showed great tact and discretion"
- confidentiality
- discretion in keeping secret information
- caution, precaution, care, forethought
- judiciousness in avoiding harm or danger; "he exercised caution in opening the door"; "he handled the vase with care"
- injudiciousness, indiscreetness
- lacking good judgment
- pyrotechnics
- brilliance of display (as in the performance of music)
- acuteness, acuity, sharpness, keenness
- a quick and penetrating intelligence; "he argued with great acuteness"; "I admired the keenness of his mind"
- steel trap
- an acute intelligence (an analogy based on the well known sharpness of steel traps); "he's as sharp as a steel trap"; "a mind like a steel trap"
- brightness, cleverness, smartness
- intelligence as manifested in being quick and witty
- cunning
- shrewdness in deception; "as cunning as a fox"
- shrewdness, astuteness, perspicacity, perspicaciousness
- intelligence manifested by being astute (as in business dealings)
- insightfulness, acumen
- shrewdness shown by keen insight
- knowingness
- shrewdness demonstrated by knowledge
- craft, craftiness, cunning, foxiness, guile, slyness, wiliness
- shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception
- perfectibility, perfectability
- the capability of becoming perfect; "he believes in the ultimate perfectability of man"
- raw talent
- powerfully impressive talent
- fecundity, fruitfulness
- the intellectual fruitfulness of a creative imagination
- flight
- passing above and beyond ordinary bounds; "a flight of fancy"; "flights of rhetoric"; "flights of imagination"
- genius, wizardry
- exceptional creative ability
- fancy
- fancy was held by Coleridge to be more casual and superficial than imagination
- pipe dream, dream
- a fantastic but vain hope (from fantasies induced by the opium pipe); "I have this pipe dream about being emperor of the universe"
- fantasy life, phantasy life
- an imaginary life lived in a fantasy world
- fantasy world, phantasy world, fairyland
- a place existing solely in the imagination (but often mistaken for reality)
- contrivance
- the faculty of contriving; inven