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n. The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than temperance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being acrimonious; asperity; acrimony. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Profitableness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being adventurous; daring; venturesomeness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Alacrity. [ Obs. ] Hammond. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ambidextrous; ambidexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Ambiguity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being ambitious; ambition; pretentiousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being amorous, or inclined to sexual love; lovingness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being anomalous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being anonymous. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being anxious; great solicitude; anxiety. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being apetalous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wateriness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being arduous; difficulty of execution. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the quality of being shockingly cruel and inhumane.
Syn. -- atrocity, barbarity, barbarousness, heinousness. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality of being audacious; impudence; audacity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being barbarous; barbarity; barbarism. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being bilious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being boisterous; turbulence; disorder; tumultuousness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Conceitedness. [ Colloq. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being calcareous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. lack of passion or feeling.
Syn. -- unfeelingness, hardness, insensibility. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality of being musical. [ 1913 Webster ]

He chooses his language for its rich canorousness. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being capacious, as of a vessel, a reservoir a bay, the mind, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Captious disposition or manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being cautious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality, or practice, of being ceremonious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State of being commodious; suitableness for its purpose; convenience; roominess. [ 1913 Webster ]

Of cities, the greatness and riches increase according to the commodiousness of their situation. Sir W. Temple. [ 1913 Webster ]

The commodiousness of the harbor. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being compendious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being conscientious; a scrupulous regard to the dictates of conscience. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one's own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

Consciousness is thus, on the one hand, the recognition by the mind or “ego” of its acts and affections; -- in other words, the self-affirmation that certain modifications are known by me, and that these modifications are mine. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. See the Note under Attention. [ 1913 Webster ]

Annihilate the consciousness of the object, you annihilate the consciousness of the operation. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

And, when the steam
Which overflowed the soul had passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left.
. . . images and precious thoughts
That shall not die, and can not be destroyed. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The consciousness of wrong brought with it the consciousness of weakness. Froude. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Feeling, persuasion, or expectation; esp., inward sense of guilt or innocence. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An honest mind is not in the power of a dishonest: to break its peace there must be some guilt or consciousness. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being contagious. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disposition to or manifestion of contempt; insolence; haughtiness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being copious; abudance; plenty; also, diffuseness in style. [ 1913 Webster ]

To imitatethe copiousness of Homer. Dryden.

Syn. -- Abudance; plenty; richness; exuberance. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being courageous; courage. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being courteous; politeness; courtesy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Strong desire. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

When workmen strive to do better than well,
They do confound their skill in covetousness. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A strong or inordinate desire of obtaining and possessing some supposed good; excessive desire for riches or money; -- in a bad sense. [ 1913 Webster ]

Covetousness, by a greed of getting more, deprivess itself of the true end of getting. Sprat.

Syn. -- Avarice; cupidity; eagerness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Readiness to believe on slight evidence; credulity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Beyond all credulity is the credulousness of atheists. S. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being crustaceous or having a crustlike shell. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Carefulness; painstaking. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

My father's care
With curiousness and cost did train me up. Massinger. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being curious; exactness of workmanship; ingenuity of contrivance. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Inquisitiveness; curiosity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being deciduous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The quality of being delicious; as, the deliciousness of a repast. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Luxury. “To drive away all superfluity and deliciousness.” Sir T. North. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state or quality of being desidiose, or indolent. [ Obs. ] N. Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being desirous. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being dexterous; dexterity. [ 1913 Webster ]

a., adv., n. Same as Dexterous, Dexterously, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Biol.) The state or quality of being diœcious. [ 1913 Webster ]