セイ
Meanings
Noun
1. nature (of a person)
2. sex; gender
3. sex (i.e. sexual attraction, activity, etc.)
4. gender
Suffix
5. -ty; -ity; -ness; -cy
indicating quality or condition
Pitch accent
Used in vocabulary (818 in total)
reason; reasoning power; (one's) sense
character (of a person); personality; disposition; characteristics; nature (of a thing, event, etc.)
water-based; aqueous; water-soluble
man; male; masculine gender
nature; natural constitution; innate disposition
potentiality; likelihood; possibility; availability
individuality; personality; quirk; idiosyncrasy; character; individual characteristic
sexual desire; sex drive; lust
sexual act; sexual intercourse
disposition; inclination; characteristic; sexual disposition; fetish
directionality; directivity
acute (illness)
botanical; vegetable; vegetal; vegetative
sex life; sexual activities
dissociative disorder
reversibility
woman; female
attribute; property; context; character class, type, fetish, etc.
nature; property; disposition
resistance (e.g. to antibiotics); tolerance (e.g. drug tolerance)
ability; performance; efficiency
the opposite sex; isomerism
intelligence
gender; distinction of sex; sex
birth; lineage; identity; background; provenance; origin
genitals
riskiness; (level of) danger
true character; real nature
relationship; relation
sensitivity; sensitiveness; sense (of ...)
(relating to) gender; sex; sexual
same sex
authenticity; credibility
humanity; human nature
by nature; naturally; by birth; innately; congenitally
importance; gravity
neutrality (incl. chemical, electrical, etc.); indifference; sexlessness; androgyny; neuter gender
wildness (plants, animals, etc.); uncouth; rough; unpolished
hasty; rash; rushed; hurried; impatient; impetuous
safety; security
lawfulness; propriety; reasonableness; appropriateness; legality; legitimacy
ill-natured; inconstancy
necessity; inevitability
sexual intercourse
sexual feelings
relatedness; associativity; relation; relationship; relevance
flexibility; pliability; softness; elasticity
toxicity; virulence; toxic; virulent; poisonous
practicality; utility; usefulness
sensitivity; susceptibility
cooperativeness; spirit of cooperation
divine nature; spirituality
sexual love; eros
character
superiority; predominance
diversity; variety
cavalry; mobility; maneuverability
versatility; multiplicity of use
unpredictability; element of surprise
rationality; reasonableness
productivity
autonomy; independence
future prospects; promise
convenience; user-friendliness
malignant (cancer); virulent; pernicious (anemia, anaemia)
prompt efficiency; immediate effectivity
hostile nature; inimical character
integrity; consistency; conformity; compliance
assertiveness; positiveness; initiative; spirit of enterprise
spirituality; spiritual nature
abnormality
divinity
criminal nature; criminality
nocturnality; nocturnal habits
credibility; authenticity; confidence; reliability
regularity
aggressiveness; aggression
planning; planning ability; deliberateness
sociability
law-like nature; regularity
functionality
inborn nature; genuine; intrinsic; essential
stability; security; equilibrium
special characteristics; peculiarity; distinctiveness
newsworthiness; news hook; topicality; popularity (of a topic, issue, etc.)
consistency
sex slave; sexual slavery
singularity; peculiarity; idiosyncrasy; specificity
agility; nimbleness
brutality; animal nature
concreteness; feasibility
validity; effectiveness
transient (symptom, phenomenon); temporary; passing; fleeting
scarcity; rarity
acidity; acidic
independence of will or action; self-direction; autonomy; initiative; identity
positive (result); positive (attitude); cheerful; optimistic
innate goodness of man
intrinsic goodness
hereditary; congenital
national traits or character; nationality
uniformity; integrity
artistry; artistic quality; artistic character
adhesion; stickiness; viscosity
venereal disease; sexually transmitted infection; sexually transmitted disease; VD; STI; STD
sexual relations
universality; ubiquity; omnipresence; catholicity
poisonous; toxic; addictiveness
dual nature; bilateral character; two-facedness; two-sidedness
originality; distinctiveness; uniqueness; individuality
creativity; ingenuity
sex education
nature; disposition
negative (result); gloomy; negative (e.g. attitude); pessimistic
vulnerability; weakness; fragility
adaptability; flexibility
adaptability; flexibility
compatibility
elasticity; resilience; flexibility; adaptability
elasticity
dependence
air-permeability; breathability
realistic; practical; feasible
independence
confidentiality
importance; seriousness
reproducibility; repeatability; duplicability
validity; verification; propriety
animal (in nature); animal (in origin)
difference between the sexes; sexual difference
combustibility; inflammability; combustible; inflammable
probability; likelihood
denaturation; degeneration
resemblance; similarity; analogy
practicability; feasibility; operability; expected implementation
motility; mobility; maneuverability
operability; usability; user friendliness; ease of use; maneuverability; manoeuvrability
musicianship
contingency; fortuity; randomness; unpredictability; haphazardry
sexual perversion
both sexes
volatility
displacement
asexual
illegality
alkalinity; alkaline
sexual characteristics
communality; community; having something in common
playability; game-like quality
specialization; specialty; speciality; expertise
sexual techniques
virginity; maidenhood; maidenhead
fidelity; truth; authenticity; credibility
hardness; rigidity
airtightness
possibility; potential; expandability
metallic quality
human nature; instinct; humanity; humanism
sexual relief; masturbation
liveability; livability
identical (of twins); monozygotic; unioval; uniovular
durability
fire resistance
acquired; a posteriori
dominance; dominant
racial or national characteristics
mind; disposition; nature
inheritable character; inheritable; hereditary; inherited
compatibility; conformance; fitness; adaptability
impossibility
brutal (nature); brutality; blood lust; cruelty; ferocity
contagiousness
homeostasis; homoeostasis; constancy
liquidity (esp. financial); fluidity; mobility (social, job, etc.)
fraternal (of twins); diovular; dizygotic; biovular
omnivorousness; polyphagia; omnivorous; polyphagous
infectiousness
effectiveness
male characteristics; manliness
nervous; neural; neurogenic
credibility; trustworthiness
moral character or consciousness
progressive (worsening disease or condition)
augmentability
causality
stress-induced; stress-related
character and conduct
water resistance
continuity; continuance
activity; motility
heat-resisting property
waterproof property
criminality; criminal propensity
subjectivity
sexual discrimination; sex discrimination; sexism
inventive step; invention (with respect to prior art)
star quality
persistent; permanence
embodiment; physicality
supremacy; predominance
stimulative; incentive; irritative
feeding habit (e.g. of an animal); feeding habitat
accidental quality (philosophy, logic); accidence
self-motivation; spontaneity; spontaneousness
uncertainty; indeterminacy; unreliability; unauthenticity
visibility; noticeability; perceptibility
(sense of) story; (sense of) narrative; storytelling (within a work); plot; storyline
(sense of) story; (sense of) narrative; storytelling (within a work); plot; storyline
sexual experience
radioactive
transparency
sexually transmitted disease; sexually transmitted infection; STD; STI
sexual expression; expression of sexuality; gender expression (role)
adaptability; flexibility; malleability
relativity; interconnectedness; correlation
sexual prodigy; stud; Don Juan
carcinogenic; cancer causing
complexity; complex; complicated
causticity; corrosiveness
sex maniac; sex fiend
habit-forming; habitual
one's characteristics as a writer; characteristics of a creator
plasticity
sex toy; sex aid
masculinity
temporality
serviceability; maintainability; ease of maintaining
carnivorousness; carnivorous
early-onset Alzheimer's disease
economy (saving money)
appropriateness; finality (philosophy); purposiveness
hemorrhagic; haemorrhagic
inflammatory; pro-inflammatory
water absorbency
individuality; personality; idiosyncrasy
abstractness; abstraction
publicness (degree to which a particular action will affect society as large); public nature; commonality
various facets (aspects)
pathogenicity; virulence
multiple; poly-
promptness; timeliness
quietness; low noise
toughness (of a material); tenacity; fracture toughness
ability to fit into any situation
realism; reality
obsessive-compulsive disorder; OCD
slight acidity
sexual experience
voltinism
sexual culture; sexual mores; prostitution
transparency; permeability
invariance
earthquake-proof
uncertainty principle
heterogeneity; heterogenecity
profitability
particular interest; fondness
(Goedel's) incompleteness theorem
quick-drying; fast-drying
extreme brutality; atrocity; heinousness; heinous nature
profitability
intentionality
explosiveness; explosivity; explosibility
inductive; inducible
passivity; negativity; halfheartedness
common property or characteristic
gender identity
lawfulness; legality; validity; legitimacy
characteristics
individuality
paraphilia; sexual deviancy
homing instinct
excitability; irritability
pluripotency; multipotency
significance (esp. in statistics)
encephalitis lethargica
connectivity
three-dimensionality; solidity
tubercular; tuberculous
sexual violence; gender-related violence
aplastic anemia; aplastic anaemia
practicality
idiopathic; spontaneous
maintainability; serviceability
saline; halophytic
absorbability; absorbency
mobility; migration; rambling; mobile; moving; ambulatory
bacterial; bacillary
portability
versatile
intersex
finiteness; finitude
third gender; third sex
cold resistance
conductivity
softness; flexibility; elasticity
non-inflammability; incombustibility
hardness
extraordinariness
herbivorous; graminivorous
absorbency; hygroscopicity
simultaneity
paroxysmal
seasonality; seasonal
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis; ALS; Lou Gehrig's disease
totipotency
aspiration pneumonia
arbitrariness
sex instinct
sexual function
inverse; reverse; retro-; contra-
vine-like; climbing; creeping
contingency; eventuality
gender identity
sexual morality
interstitial
cyclic; periodic
conductivity
one's nature; one's disposition
sexual liberation
sex (sexual) behavior (behaviour)
eligibility
duality; dualism
driving characteristics; road handling ability
norm of reciprocity
alterity; otherness; state of being different
divisibility
effervescence; fizziness; foamability
sex hormone (e.g. estrogen, testosterone)
bidirectionality; interactivity
early-onset dementia; presenile dementia
readability; legibility
unisexual
insolubility
basicity; alkalinity; basic; alkaline
universality
iron-deficiency anemia; iron-deficiency anaemia
flexibility; elasticity
common quality
malleability
osmosis; permeability
dominance
reaction; response
somatic sensation; somesthesis
confidentiality; secrecy
septic; putrefactive
backwardness; underdevelopment
distinction of the sexes
linkage; co-movement; interrelation; interconnectedness
solubility
gonad; sexual gland
properties of water
ambiguity (of a word); polysemy
sex pheromone
inducibility
homogeneity
complementarity; complementation
Mediterranean climate
anaerobic
irritable bowel syndrome; IBS
contradiction; inconsistency
sexual victimization
cerebral
liquidity; fluidity; humoral
availability
introversion
immanence; inherence; indwelling
permanence; perpetuity
nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug; NSAID
symbol characteristic; nature of a symbol
discontinuity; incoherence
novelty (patentability requirement)
villous; chorionic
gonarthrosis; osteoarthritis of the knee
brothel; sex establishment
dispersiveness
soil texture; earth (in Wu Xing)
sudden deafness; SD; sudden sensorineural hearing loss; SSHL
malignancy; viciousness; underhandedness
indigestible; digestion-resistant; hard-to-digest
antibacterial
marketability
chronic myelogenous (myeloid) leukemia; CML
oneness; unity; integrity; inclusion
allergenic; allergic
ambiguity; fuzziness
late-onset (usu. disease, etc.); delayed onset; tardive
marine; maritime; oceanic; oceanity
allopatry; heterotopy; heterotopia; allopatric; aberrant
legality; lawfulness; legitimacy
sclerotic
vitiligo; vitiligo vulgaris
volcanic earthquake
exanthem subitum; Roseola infantum
lupus erythematosus
deterministic language
associativity; connectivity
habit is a second nature
proliferative; productive; proliferating; multiplicative
functionality
continental; continentality
commonness; the common touch
representativeness; (level of) representation
localized; circumscribed
character traits of the people of a prefecture
innovativeness; originality; innovation
connectivity
ability to make plans
marketability; saleability
chronic obstructive pulmonary disease; COPD
externalities
hemolytic disease of the newborn (haemolytic); erythroblastosis fetalis
gender role; sex role
weather resistance (e.g. in building material)
biodegradable; biodegradability
catarrhal
compliance; conformance
degenerative; regressive; retrogressive
angioedema; angiooedema
sexual selection
generalized anxiety disorder; GAD
vascular dementia; cerebrovascular disease
portability; upgradability; upwards compatibility; transitional
extroversion
pseudo; fake; imitation
sexual maturation
isochronous
thermoplasticity
hydrophobic
nature
congestive heart failure; CHF
transparency
maintainability; integrity
polymorphism
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD
punctuality (in reference to public transport); reliability
sweat absorbency
suffocating; asphyxiating
necrotizing fasciitis; necrotising fasciitis; flesh-eating bacteria syndrome
aerotropism; aerobic; aerotropic
sexual addiction; sex addiction
compressibility
anisotropy
constitutionality
heliotropism; actinotropism; disposition (in flowers) to turn toward the sun; phototropism
sexual freedom
permeability
projectile vomiting
seborrheic dermatitis; seborrheic eczema
sexual selection
cell-mediated immunity; cellular immunity
hydrophilic
borderline personality disorder; BPD
infertility (esp. of animals)
narcissistic personality disorder; NPD
electromagnetic compatibility; EMC
memory
wind resistance
reciprocity
heterodont
efferent; centrifugal
chronic obstructive respiratory disease
coxarthrosis; osteoarthritis of the hip
rheumatoid arthritis; arthritis rheumatica
positivity
photosensitivity
deciduous (e.g. tree)
avoidant personality disorder; AvPD; anxious personality disorder
polytonality
navigability; accessibility; ease of getting around; schooling behavior (in fish)
backward compatibility; downward compatibility
heat dissipation
heat resistance
culpability
compression
upward compatibility; forward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for higher tier or later systems, versions, etc.; downward compatibility; backward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for lower tier or older systems, versions, etc.
compressibility
analyticity
downward compatibility; backward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for lower tier or older systems, versions, etc.; upward compatibility; forward compatibility; compatibility with input or components intended for higher tier or later systems, versions, etc.
single standard; monometallism; monometalism
central (nervous system)
applicability
equivalency; equivalency property
negative properties
fissionable
eccentric personality
orthogonal; quadrature component
optical activity
miscibility
slow-acting fertilizer; slow-acting fertiliser
quick-acting fertilizer; quick-acting fertiliser
continental climate; inland climate
moisture resistance; humidity resistance
hypertrophic rhinitis
negotiable deposit
crushable; breakable; friability
consonantal
natural gender
obliqueness
grammaticality
thixotrophy (property of certain gels to liquefy when subjected to vibratory forces)
unconstitutionality
photosensitivity
aneuploidy; heteroploidy
rhinitis sicca anterior
color-sensitivity; colour-sensitivity
persistent organic pollutant; POP
invasive tumor; invasive tumour
sexual dysfunction
sex ratio
ductal carcinoma in situ; DCIS
sluggishness
embryonic; embryonal
wettability
polycrystalline
positive polarity; straight polarity
negative polarity
ability to oppose the thumb; opposable thumb
acute disseminated encephalomyelitis; ADEM
iatrogenic (disease or condition caused by medical treatment)
co-ed dormitory; mixed student accommodation
primary immunodeficiency syndrome
poliomyelitis; polio; infantile paralysis
Bacillus coagulans, species of lactic acid-forming Bacillus bacteria
streptococcal throat infection; strep throat
neo-Confucianism (esp. from the Song period)
heterogeneity
AWGN; additive white gaussian noise
highlighting
usability test; fitness-for-use test
ordering; alignment
performance management
interconnection; interoperability
interoperability
device independence
polymorphism
tamper resistant
being stationary (of a process)
reachability
synonymy; synonymity
quasi-synonymy; quasi-synonymity
non-incendive; non-firing
ionicity; ionic
sexual characteristic
sexual culture; sexual mores
cellular slime mold
inflammable liquid; inflammable fluid
nonspecificity; nonspecific; non-specific
negativity
multimodality; multimodal
afferent nerve; afferent neuron; afferent
attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD
volcanic tremor
histrionic personality disorder
altricial; altricious
paralytic dementia
insectivorous; entomophagous
sideroblastic anemia; sideroblastic anaemia
orientation
orthostatic
thixotropy
muscular toothache
optic aphasia; visual aphasia
flaccid paralysis
pyogenic granuloma; granuloma telangiectaticum
pyogenic granuloma; granuloma telangiectaticum
xeroderma pigmentosum
self-regulation
automaticity; automatism
membranous
embryonal carcinoma
cor pulmonale
alveolar pneumonia; alveolar pneumonitis
disease resistance; disease tolerance
aromaticity; aromatic property
inhibitory; inhibiting; suppressor
antiperspirant; antisudorific
venous ulcers; stasis ulcers; varicose ulcers; ulcus cruris
fissility; fissile; fissionable
transmissible spongiform encephalopathy; TSE
pervasive developmental disorder; PDD
occupational hearing loss; occupational deafness
flame-resistant; flameproof
endometrial cyst; endometrioma; chocolate cyst
histoincompatibility
chemical resistance; resistant to chemicals; chemical proof
muscle-contraction headache; tension headache
premenstrual dysphoric disorder; PMDD
endogeneity
contravariance
thrownness; philosophical concept (Geworfenheit in German) introduced by Heidegger
avoidant personality disorder
avoidant personality
paradoxical incontinence
urinary urge incontinence
commutativity
aseptic; sterile; abacterial
sexology
noise-induced hearing loss; NIHL
non-alcoholic steatohepatitis; NASH
sinus arrhythmia; irregular heartbeat
thermophile; thermophilic bacteria
acne vulgaris; acne
forward compatibility; upward compatibility
sexual abuse victim
transitivity
quantum supremacy; quantum advantage
intersectionality (social and political identity framework)
sexual liberation; emancipation from gender restrictions
non-fungible token; NFT
feature
sexual assault; sexual abuse
Examples (7 in total)
Use acrylic paint.
That island has a tropical climate.
Our country's climate is temperate.