Word Meanings - SOUNDNESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith. Syn. -- Firmness; strength; solidity; healthiness; truth; rectitude.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SOUNDNESS)
- Probity
- Soundness
- virtue
- integrity
- honesty
- uprightness
- rectitude
- principle
- conscientiousness
- Sanity
- Rationality
- soundness
- reasonableness
- lucidity
- wisdom
- Sense
- Perception
- sensation
- feeling
- apprehension
- recognition
- understanding
- discernment
- appreciation
- sentiment
- view
- opinion
- judgment
- reason
- consciousness
- notion
- meaning
- import
- signification
- purport
- significance
- sagacity
Related words: (words related to SOUNDNESS)
- JUDGMENT
The final award; the last sentence. Note: Judgment, abridgment, acknowledgment, and lodgment are in England sometimes written, judgement, abridgement, acknowledgement, and lodgement. Note: Judgment is used adjectively in many self-explaining - SANITY
The condition or quality of being sane; soundness of health of body or mind, especially of the mind; saneness. - OPINIONATOR
An opinionated person; one given to conjecture. South. - SENSE
A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing, - HONESTY
Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty. - PURPORTLESS
Without purport or meaning. - REASONING
1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay. - IMPORTUNELY
In an importune manner. - APPREHENSION
1. The act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure; as, the hand is an organ of apprehension. Sir T. Browne. 2. The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest; as, the felon, after his apprehension, escaped. 3. The act of grasping with the - UPRIGHTNESS
the quality or state of being upright. - REASONLESS
1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak. - FEELINGLY
In a feeling manner; pathetically; sympathetically. - SENSATION
An impression, or the consciousness of an impression, made upon the central nervous organ, through the medium of a sensory or afferent nerve or one of the organs of sense; a feeling, or state of consciousness, whether agreeable or disagreeable, - UNDERSTANDINGLY
In an understanding manner; intelligibly; with full knowledge or comprehension; intelligently; as, to vote upon a question understandingly; to act or judge understandingly. The gospel may be neglected, but in can not be understandingly disbelieved. - SENTIMENTALLY
In a sentimental manner. - IMPORTUNATOR
One who importunes; an importuner. Sir E. Sandys. - REASONABLY
1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder. - PERCEPTION
The faculty of perceiving; the faculty, or peculiar part, of man's constitution by which he has knowledge through the medium or instrumentality of the bodily organs; the act of apperhending material objects or qualities through the senses; - INTEGRITY
1. The state or quality of being entire or complete; wholeness; entireness; unbroken state; as, the integrity of an empire or territory. Sir T. More. 2. Moral soundness; honesty; freedom from corrupting influence or motive; -- used especially with - WISDOM LITERATURE
The class of ancient Hebrew writings which deal reflectively with general ethical and religious topics, as distinguished from the prophetic and liturgical literature, and from the law. It is comprised chiefly in the books of Job, Proverbs, - MISDEMEAN
To behave ill; -- with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self. - DEMEANURE
Behavior. Spenser. - INSENSE
To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell. - DISHONESTY
1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness. - REMEANT
Coming back; returning. "Like the remeant sun." C. Kingsley. - ARAMAEAN; ARAMEAN
Of or pertaining to the Syrians and Chaldeans, or to their language; Aramaic. -- n. - PREAPPREHENSION
An apprehension or opinion formed before examination or knowledge. Sir T. Browne.