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Rurality

The quality or state of being rural.

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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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Trait 76% connected

A stroke; a touch.

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Ruralism 92% connected

The quality or state of being rural; ruralness.

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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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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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Air noun · 84% connection

a distinctive but intangible quality surrounding a person or thing; "an air of mystery"; "the house had a neglected air"; "an atmosphe…

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Appearance noun · 84% connection

outward or visible aspect of a person or thing

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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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Agrestic adjective · 78% connection

Pertaining to fields or the country, in opposition to the city; rural; rustic; unpolished; uncouth.

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Agronomy noun · 78% connection

The management of land; rural economy; agriculture.

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Arcadia noun · 78% connection

A mountainous and picturesque district of Greece, in the heart of the Peloponnesus, whose people were distinguished for contentment an…

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Arcadic adjective · 78% connection

Of or pertaining to Arcadia; pastoral; ideally rural; as, Arcadian simplicity or scenery.

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Archpriest noun · 78% connection

A chief priest; also, a kind of vicar, or a rural dean.

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Barleybreak noun · 78% connection

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who…

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Birlaw noun · 78% connection

A law made by husbandmen respecting rural affairs; a rustic or local law or by-law.

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Bucolic noun · 78% connection

A pastoral poem, representing rural affairs, and the life, manners, and occupation of shepherds; as, the Bucolics of Theocritus and Vi…

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Chorepiscopus noun · 78% connection

A "country" or suffragan bishop, appointed in the ancient church by a diocesan bishop to exercise episcopal jurisdiction in a rural di…

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Corruption noun · 78% connection

destroying someone's (or some group's) honesty or loyalty; undermining moral integrity; "corruption of a minor"; "the big city's subve…

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Countrify verb · 78% connection

To give a rural appearance to; to cause to appear rustic.

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Country adverb · 78% connection

Rural regions, as opposed to a city or town.

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Countryside noun · 78% connection

A particular rural district; a country neighborhood.

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