THESAURUS
adamantness, aridity, barrenness, bloodlessness, buckram, ceremonial, ceremoniousness, ceremony, characterlessness, cohesiveness, colorlessness, costliness, deadness, dearness, dignity, dismalness, dourness, dragginess, dreariness, dryness, dullness, durability, dustiness, effeteness, emptiness, etiolation, extrinsicality, firmness, flatness, flintiness, form, formality, formalization, fundamentalism, gravity, great cost, grimness, hard-bittenness, hard-nosedness, hardiness, hardness, heaviness, highness, hollowness, immovability, immutability, impliability, inanity, inelasticity, inexcitability, inexorability, inflexibility, infrangibility, insipidity, insipidness, intransigeance, intransigence, intransigency, intransigentism, irreconcilability, jejunity, lastingness, leadenness, leatherlikeness, lifelessness, lowness of spirit, luxuriousness, obduracy, obdurateness, obstinacy, orthodoxy, paleness, pallor, pointlessness, pokiness, pomp, pomposity, ponderousness, precisianism, primness, purism, puritanism, relentlessness, renitence, renitency, resistance, richness, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigorism, rigorousness, ritual, rituality, ropiness, slowness, solemnity, spiritlessness, stamina, starchiness, steeliness, steepness, sterility, sternness, stiff temper, stiltedness, stodginess, strength, stringiness, stubbornness, stuffiness, stylization, sumptuousness, superficiality, tastelessness, tautness, tediousness, tenacity, tenseness, tension, tensity, tightness, toughness, unalterability, unbendingness, unbreakability, unbreakableness, unchangeability, uncompromisingness, ungivingness, uninterestingness, unliveliness, unrelentingness, unyieldingness, vapidity, vapidness, viscidity, vitality, weight, woodenness
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Inelegance
N
inelegance,
stiffness, unlettered Muse, barbarism, slang, solecism, mannerism, euphuism, fustian, cacophony, words that break the teeth, words that dislocate the jaw, marinism, inelegant, graceless, ungraceful, harsh, abrupt, dry, stiff, cramped, formal, guinde, forced, labored, artificial, mannered, ponderous, awkward, uncourtly, unpolished, turgid, affected, euphuistic, barbarous, uncouth, grotesque, rude, crude, halting, offensive to ears polite, Spoken Language.
Stability
N
stability, immutability, unchangeability unchangeableness, constancy, stable equilibrium, immobility, soundness, vitality, stabiliment,
stiffness, ankylosis, solidity, aplomb, establishment, fixture, rock, pillar, tower, foundation, leopard's spots, Ethiopia's skin, permanence, obstinacy, unchangeable, immutable, unaltered, unalterable, not to be changed, constant, permanent, invariable, undeviating, stable, durable, perennial, fixed, steadfast, firm, fast, steady, balanced, confirmed, valid, fiducial, immovable, irremovable, riveted, rooted, settled, established, vested, incontrovertible, stereotyped, indeclinable, tethered, anchored, moored, at anchor, on a rock, rock solid, firm as a rock, firmly seated, firmly established, deep-rooted, ineradicable, inveterate, obstinate, transfixed, stuck fast, aground, high and dry, stranded, stuck, jammed, unremovable, quiescent, deterioration, indefeasible, irretrievable, intransmutable, incommutable, irresoluble, irrevocable, irreversible, reverseless, inextinguishable, irreducible, indissoluble, indissolvable, indestructible, undying, imperishable, incorruptible, indelible, indeciduous, insusceptible, insusceptible of change, Int, stet, littera scripta manet.
Affectation
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affectation, affectedness, acting a part, pretense boasting, charlatanism, quackery, shallow profundity, pretension, airs, pedantry, purism, precisianism, euphuism, teratology, mannerism, simagree, grimace, conceit, foppery, dandyism, man millinery, coxcombry, puppyism,
stiffness, formality, buckram, prudery, demureness, coquetry, mock modesty, minauderie, sentimentalism, mauvais honte, false shame, affector, performer, actor, pedant, pedagogue, doctrinaire, purist, euphuist, mannerist, grimacier, lump of affectation, precieuse ridicule, bas bleu, blue stocking, poetaster, prig, charlatan, petit maitre, flatterer, coquette, prude, puritan, affected, full of affectation, pretentious, pedantic, stilted, stagy, theatrical, big-sounding, ad captandum, canting, insincere, not natural, unnatural, self-conscious, maniere, artificial, overwrought, overdone, overacted, euphuist, stiff, starch, formal, prim, smug, demure, tire a quatre epingles, quakerish, puritanical, prudish, pragmatical, priggish, conceited, coxcomical, foppish, dandified, finical, finikin, mincing, simpering, namby-pamby, sentimental, conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
