Softness: alternatives and connections

The material organized substance of an animal, whether living or dead, as distinguished from the spirit, or vital principle; the physical person.

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Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy.

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Alt. of Consistency

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The condition of standing or adhering together, or being fixed in union, as the parts of a body; existence; firmness; coherence; solidity.

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The quality or nature of the female sex; womanliness.

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The act of indulging or humoring; the quality of being indulgent; forbearance of restrain or control.

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Alt. of Leniency

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The quality or state of being lenient; lenity; clemency.

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Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.

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The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

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The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.

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The state of being opaque; the quality of a body which renders it impervious to the rays of light; want of transparency; opaqueness.

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The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity.

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That which underlies all outward manifestations; substratum; the permanent subject or cause of phenomena, whether material or spiritual; that in whic…

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The quality of being compressible of being compressible; as, the compressibility of elastic fluids.

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The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor.

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With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sig…

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In a gradually diminishing manner; with abatement of tone; decrescendo; -- expressed on the staff by Dim., or Dimin., or the sign.

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The state or quality / being dim; lack of brightness, clearness, or distinctness; dullness; obscurity.

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State of being disabled; deprivation or want of ability; absence of competent physical, intellectual, or moral power, means, fitness, and the like.

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Deprivation of ability; incapacity.

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The quality or state of being downy.

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The act of depriving of virility, or the state of being so deprived; castration.

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The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

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The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

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Quality or state of being flabby.

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The state of being flaccid.

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Frailty.

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The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or se…

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An allowance of a certain amount of time or distance in starting, granted in a race to the competitor possessing inferior advantages; or an additiona…

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The state of being impaired; injury.

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The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infir…

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The quality or state of being limp.

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Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)

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Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.)

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the quality or state of being pulpy.

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The quality or state of being spongy.

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The quality or state of being vague.

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The condition of a valetudinarian; a state of feeble health; infirmity.

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Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.

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Filled or abounding with fog, or watery exhalations; misty; as, a foggy atmosphere; a foggy morning.

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Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeab…

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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Easily yielding to pressure; easily impressed, molded, or cut; not firm in resisting; impressible; yielding; also, malleable; -- opposed to hard; as,…

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To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…

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To make unsuitable or incompetent; to deprive of the strength, skill, or proper qualities for anything; to disable; to incapacitate; to disqualify; a…

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Characteristic quality of a woman, such as softness, luxuriousness, delicacy, or weakness, which is unbecoming a man; womanish delicacy or softness;…

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The state of being effeminate; unmanly softness.

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The state of being foggy.

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The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

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The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; ind…

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The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

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The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

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The state or quality of being fit; as, the fitness of measures or laws; a person's fitness for office.

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The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

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The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

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The quality or state of being loud.

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The quality or state of being loud.

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