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Compatibility

The quality or power of being compatible or congruous; congruity; as, a compatibility of tempers; a compatibility of properties.

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Accord 76% connected

Agreement or concurrence of opinion, will, or action; harmony of mind; consent; assent.

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Agreement 76% connected

State of agreeing; harmony of opinion, statement, action, or character; concurrence; concord; conformity; as, a good agreement subsists among the mem…

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Congeniality 76% connected

The state or quality of being congenial; natural affinity; adaptation; suitableness.

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Correspondence 76% connected

Friendly intercourse; reciprocal exchange of civilities; especially, intercourse between persons by means of letters.

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Harmony 76% connected

The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such…

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Characteristic 76% connected

Pertaining to, or serving to constitute, the character; showing the character, or distinctive qualities or traits, of a person or thing; peculiar; di…

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Sympathy 76% connected

Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if…

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Compatible 74% connected

Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with.

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Compatible 74% connected

Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with.

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Incompatibility 94% connected

The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

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Incompatibility 94% connected

The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.

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Care noun · 86% connection

a cause for feeling concern; "his major care was the illness of his wife"

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Quality noun · 85% connection

an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone; "the quality of mercy is not strained" - Shakespeare

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Water noun · 85% connection

a liquid necessary for the life of most animals and plants; "he asked for a drink of water"

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Wetland noun · 85% connection

a low area where the land is saturated with water

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Convention noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Conventionalism noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Conventionality noun · 85% connection

orthodoxy as a consequence of being conventional

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Electricity noun · 85% connection

keen and shared excitement; "the stage crackled with electricity whenever she was on it"

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Fertility noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Prolificacy noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Rankness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Richness noun · 85% connection

the property of producing abundantly and sustaining vigorous and luxuriant growth; "he praised the richness of the soil"; "weeds lovel…

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Ability noun · 84% connection

the quality of being able to perform; a quality that permits or facilitates achievement or accomplishment

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Accuracy noun · 84% connection

(mathematics) the number of significant figures given in a number; "the atomic clock enabled scientists to measure time with much grea…

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Adequacy noun · 84% connection

the quality of being sufficient for the end in view; "he questioned the sufficiency of human intelligence"

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Bad noun · 84% connection

that which is below standard or expectations as of ethics or decency; "take the bad with the good"

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Believability noun · 84% connection

the quality of being believable or trustworthy

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Fenland noun · 84% connection

low-lying wet land with grassy vegetation; usually is a transition zone between land and water; "thousands of acres of marshland"; "th…

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Words connected by meaning

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Acid noun · 78% connection

One of a class of compounds, generally but not always distinguished by their sour taste, solubility in water, and reddening of vegetab…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Become verb · 78% connection

To suit or be suitable to; to be congruous with; to befit; to accord with, in character or circumstances; to be worthy of, or proper f…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Becoming adjective · 78% connection

Appropriate or fit; congruous; suitable; graceful; befitting.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Becomingness noun · 78% connection

The quality of being becoming, appropriate, or fit; congruity; fitness.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Besort verb · 78% connection

To assort or be congruous with; to fit, or become.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Biomedical cloning noun · 78% connection

nuclear transplantation of a patient's own cells to make an oocyte from which immune-compatible cells (especially stem cells) can be d…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Bull verb · 78% connection

A grotesque blunder in language; an apparent congruity, but real incongruity, of ideas, contained in a form of expression; so called,…

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Compatibly adverb · 78% connection

In a compatible manner.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Competible adjective · 78% connection

Compatible; suitable; consistent.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Composition noun · 78% connection

Consistency; accord; congruity.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Conciator adjective · 78% connection

The person who weighs and proportions the materials to be made into glass, and who works and tempers them.

Its definition shares important concepts with this word: power, compatible, congruous, congruity, tempers.
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Conformity noun · 78% connection

Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between.

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