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moderateness
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mercifulness
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a disposition to be kind and forgiving; "in those days a wife had to depend on the mercifulness of her husband"
the feeling that motivates compassion
related words >
acceptance
,
bleeding heart
,
bowels of compassion
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
compassion
,
compassionateness
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
gentleness
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
patience
,
pity
,
ruthfulness
,
softheartedness
,
softness
,
tenderness
,
tolerance
unimportance
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the quality of not being important or worthy of note
related words >
daintiness
,
delicacy
,
diminutiveness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
fewness
,
homeliness
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
ingloriousness
,
innocuousness
,
insignificance
,
insufficiency
,
littleness
,
lowlihood
,
lowliness
,
meagerness
,
meanness
,
meekness
,
minuteness
,
moderateness
,
modesty
,
pettiness
,
picayunishness
,
plainness
,
poorness
,
puniness
,
scantiness
,
simpleness
,
slightness
,
smallness
,
submissiveness
,
teachableness
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
unpretentiousness
self-discipline
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the trait of practicing self discipline
related words >
abnegation
,
aplomb
,
composure
,
constraint
,
control
,
denial
,
discipline
,
forbearance
,
frugality
,
golden mean
,
independence
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
nothing in excess
,
possession
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
restraint
,
self-command
,
self-conquest
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-government
,
self-mastery
,
self-possession
,
self-restraint
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
willpower
clemency
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leniency and compassion shown toward offenders by a person or agency charged with administering justice; "he threw himself on the mercy of the court"
related words >
acceptance
,
benevolence
,
caritas
,
charity
,
clementness
,
commiseration
,
compassion
,
condolence
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
endurance
,
equitableness
,
fairness
,
favor
,
feeling
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forgiveness
,
gentleness
,
grace
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
indulgence
,
just
,
kindness
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
mitigation
,
moderateness
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
pity
,
quarter
,
relief
,
reprieve
,
ruth
,
self-pity
,
softness
,
sufferance
,
sympathy
,
tenderness
,
tolerance
,
toleration
middle ground
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related words >
average
,
balance
,
center
,
compromise
,
fence
,
generality
,
golden mean
,
half measures
,
half-and-half measures
,
halfway measures
,
happy medium
,
juste-milieu
,
mean
,
median
,
mediocrity
,
medium
,
middle
,
middle course
,
middle point
,
middle position
,
middle state
,
middle way
,
middle-of-the-road
,
midpoint
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
neutral ground
,
norm
,
normal
,
par
,
rule
,
run
,
via media
insignificance
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the quality of having little or no significance
related words >
aimlessness
,
daintiness
,
dead letter
,
delicacy
,
diminutiveness
,
emptiness
,
empty sound
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
fewness
,
futility
,
immateriality
,
inanity
,
inconsequence
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
indifference
,
ineffectuality
,
inferiority
,
insufficiency
,
irrelevance
,
littleness
,
low priority
,
marginality
,
meagerness
,
meaninglessness
,
meanness
,
mere noise
,
minuteness
,
moderateness
,
negligibility
,
noise
,
nonsensicality
,
nullity
,
pettiness
,
phatic communion
,
picayune
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
puniness
,
purposelessness
,
scantiness
,
secondariness
,
senselessness
,
slightness
,
smallness
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
unimportance
,
unimpressiveness
,
unmeaningness
,
unnoteworthiness
,
unsignificancy
middle of the road
collapse
related words >
average
,
balance
,
center
,
compromise
,
fence
,
generality
,
golden mean
,
half measures
,
half-and-half measures
,
halfway measures
,
happy medium
,
juste-milieu
,
mean
,
median
,
mediocrity
,
medium
,
middle
,
middle course
,
middle ground
,
middle point
,
middle position
,
middle state
,
middle way
,
middle-of-the-road
,
midpoint
,
moderantism
,
moderate position
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderatism
,
neutral ground
,
norm
,
normal
,
par
,
rule
,
run
,
third force
,
via media
conservatism
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a political or theological orientation advocating the preservation of the best in society and opposing radical changes
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
backwardness
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservativeness
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
evenness
,
fogyism
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
old school tie
,
old-fashionedness
,
pacifism
,
political conservatism
,
prudence
,
repose
,
resistance to change
,
restraint
,
rightism
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
standpattism
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
ultraconservatism
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unprogressiveness
,
via media
pity
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an unfortunate development; "it's a pity he couldn't do it"
related words >
abomination
,
acceptance
,
ache
,
atrocity
,
be sorry for
,
bleed
,
bleed for
,
chanty
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
commiserate
,
commiseration
,
compassion
,
compassionate
,
condole with
,
condolence
,
crime
,
dejection
,
desecration
,
disgrace
,
distress
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
feel
,
feel for
,
feel sorrow for
,
feel sorry for
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
gentleness
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
ignominy
,
infamy
,
lament for
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
melancholy
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
misfortune
,
moderateness
,
patience
,
profanation
,
rue
,
ruth
,
sacrilege
,
sadness
,
scandal
,
shame
,
sin
,
softness
,
sorrow
,
sympathize
,
sympathize with
,
sympathy
,
tenderness
,
terrible thing
,
tolerance
,
violation
,
weep for
frugality
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prudence in avoiding waste
related words >
abnegation
,
austerity
,
austerity program
,
canniness
,
care
,
carefulness
,
chariness
,
cheeseparing
,
constraint
,
denial
,
economic planning
,
economicalness
,
economy
,
economy of assumption
,
economy of means
,
elegance
,
false economy
,
forbearance
,
forehandedness
,
frugalness
,
golden mean
,
good management
,
husbandry
,
law of parsimony
,
management
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
nothing in excess
,
parsimoniousness
,
parsimony
,
pinching
,
providence
,
prudence
,
prudential administration
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
restraint
,
scrimping
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-restraint
,
skimping
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
sparingness
,
stinting
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
thrift
,
thriftiness
,
tight purse strings
,
unwastefulness
moderation
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the action of lessening in severity or intensity; "the object being control or moderation of economic depressions"
quality of being moderate and avoiding extremes
related words >
abnegation
,
boundary
,
bounds
,
center
,
compromise
,
confinement
,
constraint
,
continence
,
denial
,
discipline
,
fence
,
forbearance
,
frugality
,
golden mean
,
gravity
,
half measures
,
half-and-half measures
,
halfway measures
,
happy medium
,
limit
,
limitation
,
mean
,
measure
,
medium
,
middle course
,
middle ground
,
middle way
,
moderateness
,
neutral ground
,
nothing in excess
,
prescription
,
proscription
,
qualification
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
restrain
,
restraint
,
restriction
,
sedateness
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-restraint
,
seriousness
,
sober-mindedness
,
soberness
,
sobersidedness
,
sobersides
,
sobriety
,
solemnity
,
sophrosyne
,
staidness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
via media
scantiness
collapse
related words >
Lenten fare
,
austerity
,
chinchiness
,
chintziness
,
daintiness
,
dearth
,
defalcation
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
delicacy
,
diminutiveness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
fewness
,
inadequacy
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
infrequency
,
insignificance
,
insufficiency
,
jejuneness
,
jejunity
,
lack
,
leanness
,
littleness
,
meagerness
,
meanness
,
minuteness
,
miserliness
,
moderateness
,
narrowness
,
niggardliness
,
paltriness
,
parsimony
,
paucity
,
pettiness
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
poverty
,
puniness
,
rareness
,
rarity
,
restrictedness
,
scant sufficiency
,
scantness
,
scarceness
,
scarcity
,
scrawniness
,
scrimpiness
,
shortage
,
shortness
,
skimpiness
,
slenderness
,
slightness
,
slim pickings
,
slimness
,
smallness
,
spareness
,
sparseness
,
sparsity
,
stinginess
,
stringency
,
thinness
,
tightness
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
uncommonness
,
underage
,
undersize
,
unimportance
juste milieu
collapse
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
average
,
balance
,
calm
,
calmness
,
center
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
evenness
,
generality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
lenity
,
mean
,
meden agan
,
median
,
mediocrity
,
medium
,
middle
,
middle course
,
middle ground
,
middle point
,
middle position
,
middle state
,
middle way
,
middle-of-the-road
,
midpoint
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
norm
,
normal
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
par
,
prudence
,
repose
,
restraint
,
rule
,
run
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
via media
compassion
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the humane quality of understanding the suffering of others and wanting to do something about it
a deep awareness of and sympathy for another's suffering
related words >
acceptance
,
affectionateness
,
benevolence
,
benignancy
,
benignity
,
brotherhood
,
charity
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
commiseration
,
condolence
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
empathy
,
favor
,
feeling
,
feeling of kinship
,
fellow feeling
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forgiveness
,
fraternal feeling
,
gentleness
,
goodness
,
goodness of heart
,
grace
,
graciousness
,
heart of gold
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
kindheartedness
,
kindliness
,
kindly disposition
,
kindness
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
loving kindness
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
mitigation
,
moderateness
,
niceness
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
pity
,
quarter
,
relief
,
reprieve
,
rue
,
ruth
,
self-pity
,
softheartedness
,
softness
,
soul of kindness
,
sympathy
,
tenderheartedness
,
tenderness
,
tolerance
,
warmheartedness
,
warmth
,
warmth of heart
exiguity
collapse
related words >
Lenten fare
,
airiness
,
airy texture
,
attenuation
,
austerity
,
chinchiness
,
chintziness
,
daintiness
,
delicacy
,
diaphanousness
,
dilutedness
,
dilution
,
diminutiveness
,
ethereality
,
exiguousness
,
exility
,
fewness
,
fineness
,
flimsiness
,
frailty
,
gauziness
,
gossameriness
,
gracility
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
infrequency
,
insignificance
,
insubstantiality
,
insufficiency
,
jejuneness
,
jejunity
,
laciness
,
leanness
,
lightness
,
littleness
,
meagerness
,
meanness
,
minuteness
,
miserliness
,
mistiness
,
moderateness
,
narrowness
,
niggardliness
,
paltriness
,
paperiness
,
parsimony
,
paucity
,
pettiness
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
puniness
,
rarity
,
restrictedness
,
scantiness
,
scantness
,
scarcity
,
scrawniness
,
scrimpiness
,
shortness
,
skimpiness
,
slenderness
,
slightness
,
slim pickings
,
slimness
,
smallness
,
spareness
,
sparseness
,
sparsity
,
stinginess
,
stringency
,
subtility
,
tenuity
,
thinness
,
tightness
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
undersize
,
unimportance
,
vagueness
,
wateriness
,
weakness
,
wispiness
happy medium
collapse
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
average
,
balance
,
calm
,
calmness
,
center
,
compromise
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
evenness
,
fence
,
generality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
half measures
,
half-and-half measures
,
halfway measures
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
mean
,
meden agan
,
median
,
mediocrity
,
medium
,
middle
,
middle course
,
middle ground
,
middle point
,
middle position
,
middle state
,
middle way
,
middle-of-the-road
,
midpoint
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutral ground
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
norm
,
normal
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
par
,
prudence
,
repose
,
restraint
,
rule
,
run
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
via media
impartiality
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an inclination to weigh both views or opinions equally
related words >
Olympian detachment
,
abnegation
,
abstention
,
abstinence
,
anythingarianism
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
cop-out
,
detachment
,
disinterest
,
disinterestedness
,
dispassion
,
dispassionateness
,
equitability
,
evasion
,
evenhandedness
,
evenness
,
fairness
,
fence-sitting
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
independence
,
indifference
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
justness
,
lenity
,
loftiness
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
mugwumpery
,
mugwumpism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
nonalignment
,
noncommitment
,
noninvolvement
,
nonpartisanism
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
nothingarianism
,
objectivity
,
pacifism
,
prudence
,
repose
,
restraint
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
selflessness
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
strict neutrality
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unbias
,
unbiasedness
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unopinionatedness
,
unprejudicedness
,
unselfishness
,
via media
mercy
collapse
alleviation of distress; showing great kindness toward the distressed; "distributing food and clothing to the flood victims was an act of mercy"
something for which to be thankful; "it was a mercy we got out alive"
related words >
acceptance
,
act of grace
,
act of kindness
,
benefaction
,
beneficence
,
benefit
,
benevolence
,
benignancy
,
benignity
,
blessing
,
caritas
,
charity
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
commiseration
,
compassion
,
condolence
,
consideration
,
courtesy
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
favor
,
feeling
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forgiveness
,
generosity
,
gentleness
,
good deed
,
good offices
,
good turn
,
goodwill
,
grace
,
graciousness
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
indulgence
,
kind deed
,
kind offices
,
kindliness
,
kindly act
,
kindness
,
labor of love
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
liberality
,
magnanimity
,
mercifulness
,
mildness
,
mitigation
,
mitzvah
,
moderateness
,
obligation
,
office
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
pity
,
quarter
,
relief
,
reprieve
,
ruth
,
self-pity
,
service
,
softness
,
sympathy
,
tenderness
,
thoughtfulness
,
tolerance
,
turn
self-restraint
collapse
exhibiting restraint imposed on the self; "an effective temperateness in debate"
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
aplomb
,
assurance
,
balance
,
calm
,
calmness
,
composure
,
confidence
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
denial
,
discipline
,
dispassion
,
equability
,
equanimity
,
equilibrium
,
evenness
,
forbearance
,
frugality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
impartiality
,
independence
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
level head
,
levelheadedness
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
poise
,
possession
,
presence of mind
,
prudence
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
restraint
,
self-abnegation
,
self-assurance
,
self-command
,
self-confidence
,
self-conquest
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-government
,
self-mastery
,
self-possession
,
serenity
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
via media
,
well-regulated mind
,
willpower
temperance
collapse
the act of tempering
the trait of avoiding excesses
related words >
Rechabitism
,
abnegation
,
abstemiousness
,
abstinence
,
asceticism
,
austerity
,
calm
,
calmness
,
cardinal virtues
,
charity
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
eschewal
,
evenness
,
faith
,
forbearance
,
forgoing
,
fortitude
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
gravity
,
happy medium
,
hope
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
justice
,
lenity
,
love
,
measure
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
mortification
,
natural virtues
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
prohibition
,
prudence
,
reasonableness
,
refrainment
,
repose
,
restraint
,
sacrifice
,
sedateness
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
seriousness
,
sober-mindedness
,
soberness
,
sobersidedness
,
sobersides
,
sobriety
,
solemnity
,
stability
,
staidness
,
steadiness
,
supernatural virtues
,
teetotalism
,
temperateness
,
theological virtues
,
tranquillity
,
undrunkenness
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
uninebriatedness
,
unintoxicatedness
,
via media
abnegation
collapse
renunciation of your own interests in favor of the interests of others
the denial and rejection of a doctrine or belief; "abnegation of the Holy Trinity"
related words >
abstinence
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
contradiction
,
control
,
cool
,
declension
,
declination
,
declinature
,
declining
,
denial
,
deprivation
,
disagreement
,
disallowance
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
disobedience
,
dispassion
,
dissent
,
evenness
,
forbearance
,
frugality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
holding back
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
nay
,
naysaying
,
negation
,
negative
,
negative answer
,
negative attitude
,
negativeness
,
negativism
,
negativity
,
neutrality
,
nix
,
no
,
nonacceptance
,
noncompliance
,
nonconsent
,
nonobservance
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
prudence
,
recantation
,
refusal
,
rejection
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
repudiation
,
restraint
,
retention
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
thumbs-down
,
tranquillity
,
turndown
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unwillingness
,
via media
,
withholding
insufficiency
collapse
lack of an adequate quantity or number; "the inadequacy of unemployment benefits"
(pathology) inability of a bodily part or organ to function normally
a lack of competence; "pointed out the insufficiencies in my report"; "juvenile offenses often reflect an inadequacy in the parents"
related words >
arrear
,
arrearage
,
arrears
,
asymmetry
,
baseness
,
contrariety
,
daintiness
,
decline
,
defalcation
,
default
,
defectiveness
,
deficiency
,
deficit
,
delicacy
,
delinquency
,
difference
,
diminutiveness
,
disability
,
disablement
,
disequilibrium
,
disparity
,
disproportion
,
disqualification
,
dissatisfactoriness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
failure
,
falling short
,
fewness
,
heterogeneity
,
imbalance
,
imbecility
,
imperfection
,
inability
,
inadequacy
,
inadmissibility
,
incapability
,
incapacitation
,
incapacity
,
incompetence
,
incompetency
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
indefensibility
,
inefficiency
,
ineptitude
,
inequality
,
inequity
,
infancy
,
inferiority
,
injustice
,
insignificance
,
intolerability
,
irregularity
,
legal incapacity
,
littleness
,
maladroitness
,
meagerness
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
minority
,
minuteness
,
moderateness
,
nonuniformity
,
objectionability
,
odds
,
overbalance
,
pettiness
,
picayunishness
,
puniness
,
scantiness
,
shabbiness
,
short measure
,
shortage
,
shortcoming
,
shortfall
,
slightness
,
slump
,
smallness
,
subnormality
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
unacceptability
,
unbalance
,
underage
,
undesirability
,
unevenness
,
unfair discrimination
,
unfitness
,
unimportance
,
unsatisfactoriness
,
unskillfulness
,
unsuitability
,
untenability
,
vulgarity
,
wardship
laxness
collapse
the quality of being lax and neglectful
the condition of being physiologically lax; "baths can help the laxness of the bowels"
related words >
Fabian policy
,
Micawberism
,
abandon
,
abandonment
,
acceptance
,
backwardness
,
bagginess
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
compassion
,
culpa
,
culpable negligence
,
default
,
dereliction
,
dilatoriness
,
disregard
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
failure
,
flabbiness
,
flaccidity
,
flaccidness
,
floppiness
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
gentleness
,
hesitation
,
hold-off
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
immoderacy
,
inadvertence
,
inadvertency
,
inattention
,
incontinence
,
indiscipline
,
intemperance
,
irrepressibility
,
laches
,
laissez-faire
,
lapse
,
laxation
,
laxity
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
licentiousness
,
limpness
,
looseness
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
mugwump
,
neglect
,
neglectfulness
,
negligence
,
noncoercion
,
nonfeasance
,
noninterference
,
nonintimidation
,
nonperformance
,
nonrestriction
,
omission
,
overlooking
,
oversight
,
patience
,
permissiveness
,
pity
,
poor stewardship
,
procrastination
,
relaxation
,
remissness
,
ricketiness
,
riotousness
,
rubberiness
,
shakiness
,
slackness
,
slight
,
sloppiness
,
slowness
,
softness
,
stall
,
temporization
,
tenderness
,
tolerance
,
unconstraint
,
uncontrol
,
uninhibitedness
,
unreserve
,
unrestraint
,
unrigorousness
,
unruliness
,
unstrictness
,
wantonness
,
wildness
nonviolence
collapse
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
evenness
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
impartiality
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
irenicism
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
meditation
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
peaceableness
,
peaceful coexistence
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
prudence
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
repose
,
restraint
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unpugnaciousness
,
vegetation
,
via media
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
pacifism
collapse
the belief that all international disputes can be settled by arbitration
the doctrine that all violence in unjustifiable
related words >
a wise passiveness
,
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
calm
,
calmness
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
contemplation
,
contemplative life
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dispassion
,
do-nothing policy
,
do-nothingism
,
do-nothingness
,
dormancy
,
evenness
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
idleness
,
immobility
,
impartiality
,
inaction
,
inactivity
,
indolence
,
inertia
,
inertness
,
irenicism
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
laissez-aller
,
laissez-faire
,
laissez-faireism
,
lenity
,
meden agan
,
meditation
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutralism
,
neutrality
,
neutralness
,
noninvolvement
,
nonparticipation
,
nonresistance
,
nonviolence
,
nonviolent resistance
,
nothing in excess
,
paralysis
,
passive resistance
,
passive self-annihilation
,
passiveness
,
passivism
,
passivity
,
peaceableness
,
peaceful coexistence
,
policy
,
procrastination
,
prudence
,
quiescence
,
quietism
,
repose
,
restraint
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
stagnancy
,
stagnation
,
standpattism
,
stasis
,
steadiness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unpugnaciousness
,
vegetation
,
via media
,
vita contemplativa
,
waiting game
,
watching and waiting
mildness
collapse
good weather with comfortable temperatures
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
acceptance
,
affability
,
amiability
,
bonhomie
,
calm
,
calmness
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
compassion
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
cordiality
,
deadness
,
dispassion
,
dovelikeness
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
evenness
,
flatness
,
flavorlessness
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
geniality
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
good disposition
,
good humor
,
good nature
,
good temper
,
goodnaturedness
,
goodtemperedness
,
happy medium
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
humility
,
impartiality
,
inanity
,
insipidity
,
insipidness
,
jejuneness
,
jejunity
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lamblikeness
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
lifelessness
,
meden agan
,
meekness
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
middle way
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
patience
,
peaceableness
,
pity
,
prudence
,
quietness
,
repose
,
restraint
,
saplessness
,
savorlessness
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sobriety
,
softness
,
stability
,
staleness
,
steadiness
,
sweetness
,
tameness
,
tastelessness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tenderness
,
thinness
,
tolerance
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unsavoriness
,
vapidity
,
via media
,
weakness
,
wishy-washiness
lackluster
collapse
lacking luster or shine; "staring with lackluster eyes"; "lusterless hair"
lacking brilliance or vitality; "a dull lackluster life"; "a lusterless performance"
related words >
absence of color
,
achromatic
,
achromaticity
,
achromatism
,
achromic
,
anemic
,
ashen
,
ashy
,
betwixt and between
,
bled white
,
blind
,
bloodless
,
cadaverous
,
chloranemic
,
colorless
,
colorlessness
,
dead
,
deadened
,
deadly pale
,
deathly pale
,
dim
,
dimmed
,
dingy
,
discolored
,
drab
,
dull
,
dullness
,
etiolated
,
exsanguinated
,
exsanguine
,
exsanguineous
,
faded
,
faint
,
fair
,
fair to middling
,
fairish
,
fairishness
,
fallow
,
flat
,
ghastly
,
gray
,
haggard
,
hueless
,
huelessness
,
hypochromic
,
indifference
,
indifferent
,
insipid
,
leaden
,
lifeless
,
livid
,
lurid
,
lusterless
,
mat
,
mealy
,
mediocre
,
mediocreness
,
mediocrity
,
medium
,
middling
,
middlingness
,
moderate
,
moderateness
,
modest
,
modestness
,
modesty
,
muddy
,
muted
,
namby-pamby
,
neutral
,
of a kind
,
of a sort
,
of sorts
,
pale
,
pale as death
,
pale-faced
,
pallid
,
passable
,
passableness
,
pasty
,
prosaic
,
prosy
,
respectability
,
respectable
,
rusty
,
sallow
,
sickly
,
so-so
,
somber
,
tallow-faced
,
tarnished
,
tedious
,
tediousness
,
tolerable
,
tolerableness
,
toneless
,
tonelessness
,
uncolored
,
vapid
,
wan
,
washed-out
,
waxen
,
weak
,
whey-faced
,
white
,
wishy-washy
serenity
collapse
related words >
Buddha-like composure
,
Oriental calm
,
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
aplomb
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
calm
,
calm disposition
,
calm of mind
,
calmness
,
composure
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
contemplation
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
coolheadedness
,
coolness
,
countenance
,
dispassion
,
easy mind
,
evenness
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
icy calm
,
impartiality
,
imperturbability
,
imperturbation
,
indisturbance
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
law and order
,
lenity
,
lucid stillness
,
marmoreal repose
,
meden agan
,
mental composure
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
neutrality
,
nirvana
,
nonchalance
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
order
,
orderliness
,
pacifism
,
peace
,
peace and quiet
,
peace of mind
,
peaceableness
,
peacefulness
,
philosophic composure
,
philosophicalness
,
philosophy
,
placidity
,
placidness
,
poise
,
prudence
,
quiescence
,
quiescency
,
quiet
,
quiet life
,
quiet mind
,
quietism
,
quietness
,
quietude
,
repose
,
rest
,
restfulness
,
restraint
,
sangfroid
,
satori
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-possession
,
self-restraint
,
silence
,
silken repose
,
sleep
,
slumber
,
sobriety
,
soothingness
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
stillness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unexcitability
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unruffledness
,
via media
,
wise passiveness
renunciation
collapse
the act of renouncing; sacrificing or giving up or surrendering (a possession or right or title or privilege etc.)
an act (spoken or written) declaring that something is surrendered or disowned
related words >
abandonment
,
abdication
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
abrogation
,
absolute contradiction
,
annulment
,
apostasy
,
breakoff
,
capitulation
,
cease
,
ceasing
,
cessation
,
cession
,
close
,
closing
,
cold storage
,
constraint
,
contradiction
,
contrary assertion
,
contravention
,
controversion
,
countering
,
crossing
,
crossing-over
,
defection
,
degeneration
,
denial
,
desertion
,
desinence
,
desistance
,
disaffirmation
,
disallowance
,
disavowal
,
disclaimer
,
disclamation
,
discontinuance
,
discontinuation
,
disowning
,
disownment
,
dispensation
,
disposal
,
disposition
,
disproof
,
dropping out
,
dumping
,
eschewing
,
expatriation
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forgoing
,
forswearing
,
frugality
,
gainsaying
,
getting rid of
,
giving in
,
giving over
,
giving up
,
golden mean
,
handing over
,
impugnment
,
letting go
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
nonexercise
,
nothing in excess
,
nullification
,
palinode
,
palinody
,
recantation
,
recedence
,
recession
,
refutation
,
rejection
,
release
,
relinquishment
,
reneging
,
renouncement
,
reoccupy
,
repossess
,
repudiation
,
resignation
,
restraint
,
retake
,
retractation
,
retraction
,
retreat
,
revocation
,
revokement
,
riddance
,
sacrifice
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-restraint
,
self-sacrifice
,
shutdown
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stopping
,
surcease
,
surrender
,
suspension
,
swearing off
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
termination
,
treason
,
unsaying
,
waiver
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawing
,
yielding
humanity
collapse
the quality of being humane
related words >
Adam
,
Hominidae
,
Homo sapiens
,
acceptance
,
affectionateness
,
beneficence
,
benevolence
,
benignancy
,
benignity
,
brotherhood
,
charitableness
,
clay
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
commiseration
,
community
,
compassion
,
condolence
,
consideration
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
fallen humanity
,
favor
,
feeling
,
feeling of kinship
,
fellow feeling
,
flesh
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forgiveness
,
frailty
,
fraternal feeling
,
generation of man
,
generosity
,
gentleness
,
genus Homo
,
goodness
,
goodness of heart
,
grace
,
graciousness
,
heart of gold
,
helpfulness
,
hominid
,
homo
,
human equation
,
human family
,
human frailty
,
human nature
,
human race
,
human species
,
human weakness
,
humaneness
,
humankind
,
humanness
,
kindheartedness
,
kindliness
,
kindly disposition
,
kindness
,
laxness
,
le genre humain
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
loving kindness
,
magnanimity
,
man
,
mankind
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
mitigation
,
moderateness
,
mortal flesh
,
mortality
,
mortals
,
niceness
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
people
,
pity
,
quarter
,
race of man
,
relief
,
reprieve
,
ruth
,
self-pity
,
sensitivity
,
society
,
softheartedness
,
softness
,
soul of kindness
,
sympathy
,
tenderheartedness
,
tenderness
,
the masses
,
the public
,
tolerance
,
understanding
,
unselfishness
,
warmheartedness
,
warmth
,
warmth of heart
,
weakness
pettiness
collapse
lack of generosity in trifling matters
the quality of being unimportant and petty or frivolous
narrowness of mind or ideas or views
related words >
abjectness
,
abominableness
,
atrociousness
,
authoritarianism
,
baseness
,
beggarliness
,
bigotry
,
blind side
,
blind spot
,
blinders
,
closed mind
,
contemptibility
,
contemptibleness
,
cramped ideas
,
crumminess
,
daintiness
,
debasement
,
deficiency
,
degradation
,
delicacy
,
depravity
,
despicableness
,
diminutiveness
,
enormity
,
execrableness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
failure
,
fanaticism
,
fewness
,
foulness
,
fulsomeness
,
grossness
,
heinousness
,
hideboundness
,
illiberality
,
immateriality
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
incompetence
,
inconsequence
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
indifference
,
ineffectuality
,
inferiority
,
insignificance
,
insufficiency
,
insularism
,
insularity
,
irrelevance
,
little-mindedness
,
littleness
,
low priority
,
lowness
,
maladroitness
,
marginality
,
meagerness
,
mean mind
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
minginess
,
minuteness
,
miserableness
,
moderateness
,
monstrousness
,
narrow sympathies
,
narrow views
,
narrow-mindedness
,
narrowness
,
nearsightedness
,
nefariousness
,
negligibility
,
niggardliness
,
obnoxiousness
,
odiousness
,
odium theologicum
,
paltriness
,
parochialism
,
petty mind
,
picayune
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
poorness
,
provincialism
,
puniness
,
purblindness
,
rankness
,
scabbiness
,
scantiness
,
scrubbiness
,
scruffiness
,
scumminess
,
scurviness
,
secondariness
,
shabbiness
,
shoddiness
,
shortsightedness
,
shut mind
,
slightness
,
smallness
,
squalor
,
stinginess
,
straitlacedness
,
stuffiness
,
subnormality
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
uncatholicity
,
ungenerousness
,
unimportance
,
unimpressiveness
,
unmagnanimousness
,
unnoteworthiness
,
unskillfulness
,
vileness
,
vulgarity
,
wretchedness
continence
collapse
the exercise of self constraint in sexual matters
voluntary control over urinary and fecal discharge
related words >
Encratism
,
Friday
,
Lenten fare
,
Platonic love
,
Pythagoreanism
,
Pythagorism
,
Rechabitism
,
Shakerism
,
Spartan fare
,
Stoicism
,
abnegation
,
abstainment
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence
,
asceticism
,
avoidance
,
bachelordom
,
bachelorhood
,
bachelorism
,
bachelorship
,
banyan day
,
boundary
,
bounds
,
calm
,
calmness
,
celibacy
,
chasteness
,
chastity
,
confinement
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continency
,
control
,
cool
,
discipline
,
dispassion
,
eschewal
,
evenness
,
fast
,
fish day
,
fruitarianism
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
gymnosophy
,
happy medium
,
impartiality
,
intactness
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
limit
,
limitation
,
maidenhead
,
maidenhood
,
meden agan
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
misogamy
,
misogyny
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
monachism
,
monasticism
,
nephalism
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
plain living
,
prescription
,
proscription
,
prudence
,
purity
,
qualification
,
refraining
,
refrainment
,
repose
,
restrain
,
restraint
,
restriction
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sexual abstinence
,
simple diet
,
single blessedness
,
single state
,
singleness
,
sobriety
,
spare diet
,
spinsterhood
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
teetotalism
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
the pledge
,
total abstinence
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unwed state
,
vegetarianism
,
via media
,
virgin state
,
virginity
modesty
collapse
formality and propriety of manner
freedom from vanity or conceit
related words >
aloofness
,
altruism
,
backwardness
,
bashfulness
,
blankness
,
boggle
,
boggling
,
chilliness
,
coldness
,
commitment
,
compunction
,
consecration
,
constraint
,
coolness
,
decency
,
decorousness
,
decorum
,
dedication
,
delicacy
,
demur
,
demurral
,
detachment
,
devotion
,
diffidence
,
discreetness
,
discretion
,
disinterest
,
disinterestedness
,
distance
,
dullness
,
elegance
,
expressionlessness
,
fairishness
,
falter
,
faltering
,
frigidity
,
frostiness
,
guardedness
,
hesitance
,
hesitancy
,
hesitation
,
homeliness
,
humbleness
,
humility
,
iciness
,
impassiveness
,
impassivity
,
impersonality
,
inaccessibility
,
indifference
,
ingloriousness
,
innocuousness
,
introversion
,
lackluster
,
lowlihood
,
lowliness
,
meanness
,
mediocreness
,
mediocrity
,
meekness
,
middlingness
,
moderateness
,
modestness
,
objection
,
passableness
,
pause
,
plainness
,
poorness
,
propriety
,
protest
,
pudency
,
pudicity
,
qualm
,
qualm of conscience
,
qualmishness
,
recoil
,
remoteness
,
repression
,
reserve
,
reservedness
,
respectability
,
restraint
,
reticence
,
reticency
,
retirement
,
sacrifice
,
scruple
,
scrupulosity
,
scrupulousness
,
seemliness
,
self-abasement
,
self-abnegation
,
self-denial
,
self-devotion
,
self-effacement
,
self-forgetfulness
,
self-immolation
,
self-neglect
,
self-neglectfulness
,
self-renouncement
,
self-sacrifice
,
self-subjection
,
selflessness
,
shame
,
shrinking
,
shyness
,
simpleness
,
smallness
,
standoffishness
,
stickling
,
subduedness
,
submissiveness
,
suppression
,
teachableness
,
tediousness
,
tolerableness
,
unacquisitiveness
,
unaffability
,
unapproachability
,
uncongeniality
,
undemonstrativeness
,
unexpansiveness
,
unimportance
,
unpossessiveness
,
unpretentiousness
,
unselfishness
,
withdrawal
,
withdrawnness
self-denial
collapse
the act of denying yourself; controlling your impulses
related words >
Albigensianism
,
Catharism
,
Franciscanism
,
Sabbatarianism
,
Trappism
,
Waldensianism
,
Yoga
,
abnegation
,
abstaining
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence
,
altruism
,
anchoritic monasticism
,
anchoritism
,
aplomb
,
asceticism
,
austerity
,
calm
,
calmness
,
commitment
,
composure
,
consecration
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
control
,
cool
,
dedication
,
denial
,
desisting
,
devotion
,
discipline
,
disinterest
,
disinterestedness
,
dispassion
,
eremitism
,
evenness
,
fasting
,
flagellation
,
forbearance
,
frugality
,
gentleness
,
giving up
,
golden mean
,
happy medium
,
hardship
,
humility
,
impartiality
,
independence
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
maceration
,
magnanimity
,
meden agan
,
mendicantism
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
modesty
,
monachism
,
monasticism
,
mortification
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
pacifism
,
possession
,
privation
,
prudence
,
puritanism
,
refusal
,
refusing
,
renouncement
,
renouncing
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
restraint
,
rigor
,
sacrifice
,
self-abasement
,
self-abnegation
,
self-command
,
self-conquest
,
self-control
,
self-devotion
,
self-discipline
,
self-effacement
,
self-forgetful
,
self-forgetfulness
,
self-government
,
self-immolation
,
self-mastery
,
self-mortification
,
self-neglect
,
self-neglectfulness
,
self-possession
,
self-renouncement
,
self-restraint
,
self-sacrifice
,
self-sacrificing
,
self-subjection
,
selflessness
,
serenity
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
sophrosyne
,
stability
,
steadiness
,
suffering
,
swearing off
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
unacquisitiveness
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unpossessiveness
,
unselfishness
,
via media
,
voluntary poverty
evenness
collapse
the quality of being balanced
a quality of uniformity and lack of variation
the parity of even numbers (divisible by two)
related words >
abnegation
,
abstinence
,
accordance
,
balance
,
bilateral symmetry
,
calm
,
calmness
,
clockwork regularity
,
coequality
,
coextension
,
conformity
,
congruity
,
conservatism
,
consistency
,
consonance
,
constancy
,
constraint
,
continence
,
continuity
,
control
,
cool
,
correspondence
,
dispassion
,
downiness
,
dynamic symmetry
,
equability
,
equality
,
equanimity
,
equation
,
equilibrium
,
equipoise
,
equipollence
,
equiponderance
,
equity
,
equivalence
,
equivalency
,
eurythmics
,
eurythmy
,
finish
,
flatness
,
flushness
,
frictionlessness
,
gentleness
,
glabriety
,
glabrousness
,
glossiness
,
golden mean
,
greasiness
,
happy medium
,
harmony
,
homogeneity
,
horizontalism
,
horizontality
,
horizontalness
,
identity
,
impartiality
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
justice
,
keeping
,
lenity
,
levelness
,
likeness
,
lubricity
,
meden agan
,
methodicalness
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
monolithism
,
multilateral symmetry
,
neutrality
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
oiliness
,
pacifism
,
par
,
parallelism
,
parity
,
persistence
,
planeness
,
poise
,
polarity
,
proportion
,
proportionality
,
prudence
,
punctuality
,
regularity
,
repetition
,
repose
,
restraint
,
satininess
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
shapeliness
,
silkiness
,
sleekness
,
slickness
,
slipperiness
,
smoothness
,
sobriety
,
stability
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
suavity
,
symmetricalness
,
symmetry
,
systematicalness
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tranquillity
,
trilateral symmetry
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
uniformity
,
unity
,
unruffledness
,
velvetiness
,
via media
forbearance
collapse
a delay in enforcing rights or claims or privileges; refraining from acting; "his forbearance to reply was alarming"
related words >
abandonment
,
abeyance
,
abjuration
,
abjurement
,
abnegation
,
acceptance
,
avoidance
,
avoiding reaction
,
benevolence
,
cessation
,
charitableness
,
charity
,
circumvention
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
cold storage
,
commiseration
,
compassion
,
condolence
,
condonation
,
constraint
,
defense mechanism
,
denial
,
desistance
,
discontinuance
,
disregard
,
dodge
,
duck
,
easiness
,
easygoingness
,
elusion
,
elusiveness
,
endurance
,
equivocation
,
escape
,
evasion
,
evasive action
,
evasiveness
,
favor
,
feeling
,
forbearing
,
forbearingness
,
forestalling
,
forestallment
,
forgiveness
,
forgivingness
,
fortitude
,
frugality
,
generousness
,
gentleness
,
getting around
,
golden mean
,
grace
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
indulgence
,
jink
,
kindness
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
long-sufferance
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
magnanimity
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
mitigation
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
neutrality
,
nonexercise
,
nonintervention
,
noninvolvement
,
nothing in excess
,
overlooking
,
pardon
,
pathos
,
patience
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
permissiveness
,
perseverance
,
pity
,
prevention
,
quarter
,
refraining
,
relief
,
relinquishment
,
renouncement
,
renunciation
,
reprieve
,
resignation
,
restraint
,
ruth
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-discipline
,
self-mastery
,
self-pity
,
self-restraint
,
shunning
,
shunting off
,
shy
,
sidestep
,
sidetracking
,
slip
,
soberness
,
sobriety
,
softness
,
sophrosyne
,
stoicism
,
sufferance
,
suspension
,
sweet reasonableness
,
sympathy
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
tenderness
,
the runaround
,
thoughtful
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
uncomplainingness
,
unrevengefulness
,
waiting game
,
waiting it out
,
waiver
,
zigzag
littleness
collapse
related words >
abjectness
,
abominableness
,
atrociousness
,
authoritarianism
,
baseness
,
beggarliness
,
bigotry
,
blind side
,
blind spot
,
blinders
,
brevity
,
briefness
,
closed mind
,
compactness
,
compendiousness
,
conciseness
,
contemptibility
,
contemptibleness
,
cramped ideas
,
crumminess
,
curtness
,
daintiness
,
debasement
,
deficiency
,
degradation
,
delicacy
,
depravity
,
despicableness
,
diminutiveness
,
enormity
,
execrableness
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
failure
,
fanaticism
,
fewness
,
foulness
,
fulsomeness
,
grossness
,
heinousness
,
hideboundness
,
illiberality
,
immateriality
,
imperfection
,
inadequacy
,
incompetence
,
inconsequence
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
indifference
,
ineffectuality
,
inferiority
,
insignificance
,
instantaneousness
,
insufficiency
,
insularism
,
insularity
,
irrelevance
,
little-mindedness
,
low priority
,
lowness
,
maladroitness
,
marginality
,
meagerness
,
mean mind
,
meanness
,
mediocrity
,
minginess
,
minuteness
,
miserableness
,
moderateness
,
monstrousness
,
narrow sympathies
,
narrow views
,
narrow-mindedness
,
narrowness
,
nearsightedness
,
nefariousness
,
negligibility
,
niggardliness
,
obnoxiousness
,
odiousness
,
odium theologicum
,
paltriness
,
parochialism
,
pettiness
,
petty mind
,
picayune
,
picayunishness
,
pokiness
,
poorness
,
provincialism
,
puniness
,
purblindness
,
rankness
,
scabbiness
,
scantiness
,
scrubbiness
,
scruffiness
,
scumminess
,
scurviness
,
secondariness
,
shabbiness
,
shoddiness
,
short time
,
shortness
,
shortsightedness
,
shut mind
,
slightness
,
smallness
,
squalor
,
stinginess
,
straitlacedness
,
stuffiness
,
subnormality
,
succinctness
,
summariness
,
tininess
,
transience
,
triviality
,
uncatholicity
,
ungenerousness
,
unimportance
,
unimpressiveness
,
unmagnanimousness
,
unnoteworthiness
,
unskillfulness
,
vileness
,
vulgarity
,
wretchedness
abstinence
collapse
act or practice of refraining from indulging an appetite
the trait of abstaining (especially from alcohol)
related words >
Albigensianism
,
Catharism
,
Encratism
,
Franciscanism
,
Friday
,
Lenten fare
,
Platonic love
,
Pythagoreanism
,
Pythagorism
,
Rechabitism
,
Sabbatarianism
,
Shakerism
,
Spartan fare
,
Stoicism
,
Trappism
,
Waldensianism
,
Yoga
,
abnegation
,
abstainment
,
abstemiousness
,
abstention
,
abstinence from food
,
anchoritic monasticism
,
anchoritism
,
asceticism
,
austerity
,
avoidance
,
banyan day
,
calm
,
calmness
,
celibacy
,
chastity
,
conservatism
,
constraint
,
continence
,
continency
,
control
,
cool
,
desuetude
,
dispassion
,
disuse
,
eremitism
,
eschewal
,
evenness
,
fast
,
fasting
,
fish day
,
flagellation
,
fruitarianism
,
gentleness
,
golden mean
,
gymnosophy
,
happy medium
,
impartiality
,
intactness
,
judiciousness
,
juste-milieu
,
lenity
,
maceration
,
maidenhead
,
maidenhood
,
meden agan
,
mendicantism
,
middle way
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
moderation
,
moderationism
,
monachism
,
monasticism
,
mortification
,
nephalism
,
neutrality
,
nonemployment
,
nonprevalence
,
nonuse
,
nonviolence
,
nothing in excess
,
obsolescence
,
obsoleteness
,
obsoletion
,
obsoletism
,
pacifism
,
pensioning off
,
plain living
,
prudence
,
punishment of Tantalus
,
puritanism
,
refraining
,
refrainment
,
renunciation
,
repose
,
restraint
,
restriction of intake
,
retirement
,
rigor
,
self-abnegation
,
self-control
,
self-denial
,
self-mortification
,
self-restraint
,
serenity
,
sexual abstinence
,
simple diet
,
sobriety
,
spare diet
,
stability
,
starvation
,
steadiness
,
superannuation
,
teetotalism
,
temperance
,
temperateness
,
the pledge
,
total abstinence
,
tranquillity
,
unexcessiveness
,
unextravagance
,
unextremeness
,
unprevalence
,
vegetarianism
,
via media
,
virginity
,
voluntary poverty
patience
collapse
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
related words >
acceptance
,
application
,
assiduity
,
assiduousness
,
ataraxia
,
ataraxy
,
benevolence
,
bovinity
,
bulldog tenacity
,
calmness
,
charitableness
,
charity
,
clemency
,
clementness
,
compassion
,
composure
,
concentration
,
condonation
,
constancy
,
cool
,
determination
,
diligence
,
dispassion
,
dispassionateness
,
disregard
,
dogged perseverance
,
doggedness
,
dullness
,
easiness
,
easy temper
,
easygoingness
,
endurance
,
engrossment
,
equanimity
,
even temper
,
fidelity
,
firmness
,
forbearance
,
forbearing
,
forgiveness
,
forgivingness
,
fortitude
,
generousness
,
gentleness
,
good temper
,
humaneness
,
humanity
,
impassiveness
,
impassivity
,
imperturbability
,
imperturbableness
,
indefatigability
,
indulgence
,
industriousness
,
industry
,
inexcitability
,
inexcitableness
,
inirritability
,
insistence
,
insistency
,
kindness
,
laxness
,
lenience
,
leniency
,
lenientness
,
lenity
,
long-suffering
,
longanimity
,
loyalty
,
magnanimity
,
mercifulness
,
mercy
,
mildness
,
moderateness
,
nonresistance
,
obstinacy
,
overlooking
,
passiveness
,
patience of Job
,
patientness
,
permanence
,
permissiveness
,
perseverance
,
persistence
,
persistency
,
pertinaciousness
,
pertinacity
,
pity
,
plodding
,
plugging
,
preoccupation
,
relentlessness
,
resignation
,
resolution
,
resolve
,
restraint
,
sedulity
,
sedulousness
,
self-control
,
serenity
,
single-mindedness
,
singleness of purpose
,
slogging
,
smooth temper
,
softness
,
stability
,
stamina
,
staying power
,
steadfastness
,
steadiness
,
stick-to-itiveness
,
stoicism
,
stolidity
,
stubbornness
,
submission
,
submissiveness
,
sufferance
,
suffering
,
tenaciousness
,
tenacity
,
tenderness
,
tirelessness
,
tolerance
,
toleration
,
uncomplainingness
,
unirritableness
,
unnervousness
,
unpassionateness
,
unremittingness
,
unrevengefulness
,
unswerving attention
daintiness
collapse
the quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features"
related words >
acquired taste
,
airiness
,
amiable weakness
,
appreciation of excellence
,
ascent
,
asepsis
,
breakability
,
brittleness
,
bubbliness
,
buoyancy
,
changeableness
,
choiceness
,
civilized taste
,
civilizedness
,
cleanliness
,
cleanly habits
,
cleanness
,
collapse
,
cultivated taste
,
cultivation
,
culture
,
cunningness
,
cuteness
,
delicacy
,
delicateness
,
destructibility
,
diminutiveness
,
discrimination
,
disintegration
,
down
,
downiness
,
effeminacy
,
elegance
,
ethereality
,
excellence
,
exiguity
,
exiguousness
,
exquisiteness
,
fastidiousness
,
fewness
,
filminess
,
fine-grainedness
,
fineness
,
finesse
,
flimsiness
,
floatability
,
fluff
,
fluffiness
,
foaminess
,
fragility
,
frailty
,
frangibility
,
freshness
,
frothiness
,
fuzz
,
fuzziness
,
gentleness
,
good taste
,
gossameriness
,
grace
,
gracefulness
,
gracility
,
graciosity
,
graciousness
,
hospital cleanliness
,
human frailty
,
immaculacy
,
immaculateness
,
inconsequentiality
,
inconsiderableness
,
indecisiveness
,
infirmity of will
,
inherent vice
,
insignificance
,
insufficiency
,
irresolution
,
lack of weight
,
levitation
,
levity
,
lightness
,
littleness
,
meagerness
,
meanness
,
minuteness
,
moderateness
,
moral weakness
,
niceness
,
nicety
,
peach fuzz
,
pettiness
,
picayunishness
,
polish
,
pubescence
,
puniness
,
pureness
,
purity
,
quality
,
refinement
,
satin
,
satininess
,
scantiness
,
silk
,
silkiness
,
sleaziness
,
slightness
,
smallness
,
smoothness
,
softness
,
sophistication
,
spotlessness
,
stainlessness
,
sterility
,
subtlety
,
taste
,
tastefulness
,
tenderness
,
tidiness
,
tininess
,
triviality
,
unheaviness
,
unimportance
,
unspottedness
,
unsubstantiality
,
velleity
,
velvet
,
velvetiness
,
volatility
,
weightlessness
,
whiteness
,
wispiness
,
womanishness
,
yeastiness
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