n. The quality of being abortive. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being abstersive. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being abstractive; abstractive property. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being abusive; rudeness of language, or violence to the person. [ 1913 Webster ]
Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground,
Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness. Herbert. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being adaptive; capacity to adapt. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality that gives an affront or offense. [ R. ] Bailey. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [ Chiefly in Phrenol. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality of being allusive. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being alternative, or of offering a choice between two. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Phren.) The faculty supposed to influence sexual desire; propensity to love. Combe. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. Good against venereal poison; antisyphilitic. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality of being appellative. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being appreciative; quick recognition of excellence. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being apprehensive. [ 1913 Webster ]
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a. [ Pref. bi- + ventral. ] (Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances;
n. A state of union; mass. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality of being communicative. Norris. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. an agressive willingness to compete.
n. The quality of being comprehensive; extensiveness of scope. [ 1913 Webster ]
Compare the beauty and comprehensiveness of legends on ancient coins. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality of being conclusive; decisiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of conducing. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being conjunctive. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Connivance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
a. [ L. connivens, p. pr. ]
n. The state or quality of being consecutive. [ 1913 Webster ]
a. The quality of being conservative. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. A state of being consumptive, or a tendency to a consumption. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state of being contemplative; thoughtfulness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. Quality of being correlative. [ 1913 Webster ]
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A reverend disputant of the same costiveness in public elocution with myself. Wakefield. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. (Phren.) Acquisitiveness. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being creative. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The power or habit of deceiving; tendency or aptness to deceive. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being definitive. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The state or quality of being demonstrative. [ 1913 Webster ]
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n. The quality of cleansing. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality of being detractive. [ 1913 Webster ]
n. The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. [ 1913 Webster ]
The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]