This morpheme tends to mean "act or condition of". Some of the most representative words that include it are: assistance, endurance, importance. It's typically applied to nouns.
See the full list below:
- performance
- chance
- importance
- instance
- balance
- insurance
- distance
- finance
- appearance
- significance
- assistance
- maintenance
- resistance
- advance
- guidance
- alliance
- dance
- entrance
- acceptance
- substance
- allowance
- glance
- accordance
- assurance
- attendance
- stance
- relevance
- ambulance
- compliance
- inheritance
- renaissance
- ignorance
- dominance
- reluctance
- nuisance
- romance
- clearance
- reliance
- disturbance
- utterance
- surveillance
- tolerance
- resemblance
- allegiance
- variance
- disappearance
- abundance
- circumstance
- acquaintance
- reassurance
- defiance
- elegance
- arrogance
- avoidance
- annoyance
- imbalance
- ordnance
- vengeance
- brilliance
- deviance
- resonance
- conveyance
- fragrance
- freelance
- endurance
- reconnaissance
- intolerance
- lance
- impedance
- remembrance
- reflectance
- observance
- grievance
- provenance
- vigilance
- semblance
- trance
- predominance
- governance
- temperance
- appliance
- extravagance
- continuance
- deliverance
- severance
- inductance
- hindrance
- countenance
- preponderance
- pursuance
- penance
- capacitance
- perseverance
- exuberance
- repentance
- irrelevance
- ordinance
- durance
- insignificance
- sustenance
- radiance
- reappearance
- issuance
- remittance
- reinsurance
- furtherance
- dissonance
- pittance
- nuance
- concordance
- parlance
- conductance
- abeyance
- fiance
- self-reliance
- forbearance
- valance
- rance
- self-assurance
- admittance
- conformance
- pulsatance
- covariance
- contrivance
- nonchalance
- self-importance
- absorbance
- sundance
- discontinuance
- cognisance
- connivance
- petulance
- seance
- dalliance
- flamboyance
- insouciance
- repugnance
- consonance
- riddance
- obeisance
- reactance
- sufferance
- counterbalance
- clairvoyance
- off-chance
- recalcitrance
- invariance
- unimportance
- valiance
- irradiance
- pleasance
- encumbrance
- cognizance
- comeuppance
- come-uppance
- creance
- prance
- penetrance
- nance
- protuberance
- assonance
- purveyance
- remonstrance
- nurturance
- mischance
- disallowance
- intemperance
- noncompliance
- overbalance
- ambiance
- monstrance
- disinheritance
- superabundance
- luxuriance
- underperformance
- forbiddance
- transhumance
- discordance
- offchance
- misfeasance
- pharmacovigilance
- transmittance
- existance
- hance
- ascendance
- jouissance
- outperformance
- puissance
- inelegance
- occupance
- happenstance
- outrance
- complaisance
- sibilance
- incumbrance
- malignance
- luminance
- nonfeasance
- misalliance
- vibrance
- esperance
- recognizance
- appurtenance
- quittance
- readmittance
- f'rinstance
- itinerance
- nonconformance
- acquittance
- malfeasance
- overabundance
- microbalance
- hinderance
- susceptance
- equidistance
- abondance
- half-chance
- overreliance
- compearance
- obeyance
- exitance
- tendance
- exorbitance
- dependance
- breakdance
- poignance
- reacquaintance
- absorptance
- concomitance
- self-acceptance
- fer-de-lance
- subordinance
- emittance
- voidance
- redundance
- hesitance
- recognisance
- militance
- somnambulance
- usance
- underabundance
- conversance
- expectance
- brillance
- aberrance
- defeasance
- nonperformance
- indignance
- reverberance
- bancassurance
- co-dominance
- lifestance
- jubilance
- overperformance
- reacceptance
- delivrance
- pregnance
- plaisance
- reconaissance
- suffrance
- ensurance
- air-resistance
- forebearance
- survivance
- misguidance
- cabulance
- immunosurveillance
- confirmance
- sortance
- string distance
- banker's acceptance
- life-assurance
- surceasance
- reprobance
- global governance
- obdurance
- taxi distance
- piece de resistance
- underinsurance
- cyberromance
- pièce de résistance
- leg glance
- radioresistance
- overdominance
- manurance
- concert performance
- cognitive dissonance
- Schumann resonance
- contredance
- garavance
- disavowance
- act of independent significance
- homotolerance
- codominance
- immunotolerance
- arrivance
- resiance
- unobservance
- mésalliance
- whambulance
- seam allowance
- eyeglance
- utterance
- acro dance
- check and balance
- hyperabundance
- torquance
- sovenance
- disbalance
- Cartesian distance
- taxi-distance
- acro-balance
- cartesian distance
- vicariance
- teleassistance
- Euclidean distance
- creepage distance
- recontinuance
- multidistance
- usurance
- affirmance
- taxicab distance
- mayntenance
- thermal conductance
- extrance
- missemblance
- boundance
- noyance
- aquaintance
- fire lance
- overissuance
- autoguidance
- underdominance
- Buckley's chance
- allurance
- indurance
- polyresistance
- square dance
- maison de tolérance
- rutilance
- Eurodance
- line dance
- antiromance
- counterinstance
- nonappearance
- air ambulance
- touchdown dance
- defailance
- belly dance
- non-dance
- thermal lance
- microdistance
- social insurance
- discriminance
- demonstrance
- taxidistance
- tools of ignorance
- claircognizance
- Eurodominance
- contra dance
- nuclear magnetic resonance
- displeasance
- renal clearance
- coinheritance
- habitance
- acrobalance
- tea dance
- lion dance
- accumbrance
- assemblance
- morris dance
- reconveyance
- wieldance
- pance
- analysis of variance
- transadmittance
- autoperformance
- demilance
- braindance
- chemical imbalance
- clairgustance
- creeping elegance
- différance
- obstinance
- showmance
- magnetoimpedance
- electromotance
- perceivance
- step dance
- nondominance
- hypervigilance
- lap dance
- dog's chance
- polarizance
- radiation impedance
- disobeisance
- scance
- semidominance
- muscular endurance
- e-quaintance
- immittance
- nonpenetrance
- heterotolerance
- nuclear quadrupole resonance
- inconsonance
- superhero insurance
- oppugnance
- inshurance
- street dance
- transimpedance
- discompliance
- womance
- marriage guidance
- noncompearance
- nonresemblance
- sunderance
- cage dance
- mass surveillance
- hyperresistance
- belly-dance
- weasel war dance
- countersurveillance
- sorance
- linguistic imbalance
- æquidistance
- Manhattan distance
- hyperresonance
- inconstance
- bireflectance
- line of dance
- luminosity distance
- thermoreflectance
- effort distance
- appendance
- transresistance
- inquirance
- osmotolerance
- rolling resistance
- seroclearance
- fan dance
- preclearance
- radiative balance
- abaisance
- panresistance
- checkbox compliance
- pastance
- photoconductance
- upbuoyance
- lap-dance
- operance
- extuberance
- avengeance
- revengeance
- self-distance
- underattendance
- wambulance
- bromance
- outside chance
- ponderance
- nanosubstance
- frinstance
- spitting distance
- boastance
- subvariance
- coinsurance
- cryotolerance
- zone of avoidance
- incogitance
- nonsignificance
- chemical substance
- chrominance
- séance
- vociferance
- coordinance
- skirt dance
- argument from ignorance
- comeupance
- cyberfinance
- rain dance
- thermic lance
- break dance
- occurrance
- tarriance
- thermoresistance
- Chinaman's chance
- serodiscordance
- slam-dance
- snaphance
- incognisance
- American Renaissance
- unacceptance
- fartherance
- nonresistance
- recordance
- unholy alliance
- cyberformance
- nondance
- fan-dance
- sideglance
- Irish stepdance
- unreluctance
- galavance
- statistical significance
- liability insurance
- electron spin resonance
- sand lance
- clog dance
- step-dance
- superradiance
- antidominance
- incognizance
- contents insurance
- bioimpedance
- squinance
- round dance
- photoimpedance
- preacquaintance
- pseudodistance
- re-surveillance
- mountenance
- umbrella insurance
- cybersurveillance
- line-dance
- misperformance
- convertance
- pole dance
- midstance
- impact resistance
- nonresonance
- magnetoresistance
- overelegance
- fat chance
- dysbalance
- oxygen lance
- ozone resistance
- photoreconnaissance
- cost avoidance
- overcompliance
- illuminance
- bienséance
- pseudodominance
- reposance
- thrillmance
- total clearance
- extance
- disacquaintance
- memresistance
- photoreflectance
- exultance
- moderance
- unremembrance
- wahmbulance
- magnetoresonance
- memristance
- nontolerance
- Juba dance
- overbearance
- common parlance
- megafinance
- lapdance
- wanchance
- dissemblance
- distemperance
- appertinance
- unaccordance
- obeyance
- disordinance
- ground clearance
- interplant distance
- controlled substance
- noninheritance
- transcapacitance
- precognizance
- sonance
- edit distance
- war dance
- halotolerance
- court appearance
- thermobalance
- incessance
- disconsolance
- calavance
- admirance
- redeliverance
- highland dance
- radiotolerance
- biosurveillance
- avowance
- household appliance
- misissuance
- fiancé
- ultradistance
- inhabitance
- irredundance
- discernance
- pourveyance
- deniance
- stopping distance
- botherance
- medicine dance
- autumn romance
- folk dance
- jouisance
- preordinance
- nonusance
- subdominance
- abettance
- photoresistance
- reaffirmance
- perturbance
- exuperance
- autocovariance
- iterance
- adamance
- Roberval balance
- accustomance
- monodominance
- contradance
- mumchance
- stepdance
- suppliance
- connectance
- daliance
- suppliance
- malgovernance
- modern dance
- vanbulance
- tap dance
- pet insurance
- seismic performance
- incomitance
- affordance
- nonacceptance
- haemovigilance
- transonance
- fighting chance
- court of first instance
- Bhattacharyya distance
- reperformance
- thinking distance
- flagrance
- perpetuance
- disaffirmance
- Africanist dance
- nanobalance
- table dance
- monoresistance
- elastance
- emparlance
- Kapitza resistance
- tholance
- permeance
- fluctuance
- plebeiance
- court of second instance
- liegance
- song and dance
- air resistance
- consensus trance
- health insurance
- aidance
- resistance distance
- inbalance
- gravedance
- aboundance
- cash advance
- ecquaintance
- thermotolerance
- sciance
- slow dance
- aerotolerance
- unemployment insurance
- recoverance
- serosurveillance
- biodistance
- achievance
- lunar distance
- equiponderance
- microinsurance
- semitrance
- fascinance
- main chance
- acutance
- oxylance
- bivariance
- disagreeance
- omittance
- retardance
- thermoconductance
- noninstance
- metagovernance
- signifigance
- usherance
- unacquaintance
- aggrievance
- unrepentance
- bladed stance
- folkdance
- Sadie Hawkins dance
- tortfeasance
- antisurveillance
- noiance
- scale invariance
- desistance
- Levenshtein distance
- guardiance
- excedance
- disseverance
- tremble dance
- photo-romance
- comportance
- insitance
- game of chance
- enterparlance
- imparlance
- auto insurance
- heritance
- portance
- braking distance
- surseance
- happenchance
- memadmittance
- exceedance
- photoabsorbance
- surseance
- Roman balance
- amount of substance
- asshurance
- pararesonance
- impartance
- inobservance
- semivariance
- inacquaintance
- recreance
- representance
- failance
- writ of assistance
- univariance
- nonregardance
- quasidominance
- nonacquaintance
- torkance
- attractive nuisance
- necromance
- cap of maintenance
- affect perseverance
- supportance
- malefeasance
- home appliance
- chievance
- second distance
- classical inheritance
- Puissance
- disheritance
- oversurveillance
- horse stance
- country dance
- self acceptance
- wide stance
- demeanance
- ralliance
- trade acceptance
- sun dance
- susurrance
- quality assurance
- nonattendance
- red-green alliance
- absorbtance
- trade balance
- reascendance
- red-green-brown alliance
- chatoyance
- cumbrance
- wonderance
- teleguidance
- percussive maintenance
- auto-insurance
- country of provenance
- merry dance
- pharmacoresistance
- exosubstance
- autoresonance
- performative utterance
- impuissance
- game-of-chance
- buck dance
- zero tolerance
- barn dance
- undulance
- dataveillance
- bobance
- abidance
- transconductance
- dispurveyance
- microfinance
- subradiance
- weroance
- equisonance
- incomplete dominance
- reservance
- heat conductance
- hyperobservance
- jazz dance
- disencumbrance
- werowance
- overexuberance
- elastoresistance
- entreatance
- antibioresistance
- turnstile attendance
- undercompliance
- cytoresistance
- steric hindrance
- Hellinger distance
- mutterance
- country-dance
- sousveillance
- detailed balance
- alarm substance
- electrical conductance
- permittance
- perveance
- attemperance
- happy dance
- interdistance
- incompliance
- surveyance
- caravance
- Romance
- semiconductance
- commorance
- purtenance
- heat intolerance
- tax avoidance
- extenuating circumstance
- ligeance
- yieldance
- royal abundance
- Tinker to Evans to Chance
- faineance
- fauxmance
- giant magnetoresistance
- electrical inductance
- May-September romance
- prevenance
- Tinker to Evers to Chance
- mucosubstance
- crepance
- electrical resistance
- gyroresonance
- Hamming distance
- lead glance
- misremembrance
- amenance
- basic balance
- limerance
- unattendance
- irrepentance
- buckdance
- perdurance
- motor insurance
- intreatance
- snowball's chance
- nonobservance
- agreeance
- allegeance
- anchimeric assistance
- sorrance
- nonrelevance
- off chance
- biovigilance
- life assurance
- reconnoissance
- e-finance
- vraisemblance
- uberveillance
- convenance
- spooky action at a distance
- veil dance
- scientific romance
- invigilance
- multiple inheritance
- bioreactance
- subcovariance
- gubernance
- command performance
- preventative maintenance
- space guidance
- abearance
- abstenance
- St. Vitus' dance
- reutterance
- piquance
- attendance allowance
- bank balance
- pseudocapacitance
- sweet savage romance
- memcapacitance
- preperformance
- product variance
- Eurotrance
- immunoresistance
- preheritance
- heteroresistance
- chevisance
- counterresistance
- forgettance
- outrecuidance
- tax resistance
- preassurance
- præponderance
- cyberperformance
- meditance
- piezoresistance
- joyance
- protruberance
- omnirelevance
- miscontinuance
- mutual inductance
- brisance
- counterfaisance
- psytrance
- resultance
- symmetrical balance
- affiance
- e-governance
- ceilidh dance
- counterfeisance
- mutual insurance
- engendered reliance
- connusance
- xerotolerance
- enheritance
- sequence dance
- uninsurance
- lactose intolerance
- vernacular dance
- side entrance
- declared abundance
- geosurveillance
- magnetocapacitance
- e-guidance
- plate appearance
- invincible ignorance
- life insurance
- thromboresistance
- unresistance
- hemovigilance
- nonsubstance
- buzzword compliance
- coappearance
- buoyance
- equivariance
- misgovernance
- indisturbance
- considerance
- unchance
- Mexican hat dance
- microfragrance
- piss-elegance
- doubtance
- captivance
- hypertolerance
- tradesman's entrance
- cobordance
- irresistance
- reentrance
- adoptance
- equiveillance
- pith and substance
- gay-straight alliance
- reëntrance
- approvance
- trial balance
- counterfesance
- realliance
- chemoresistance
- memimpedance
- power balance
- stintance
- electroresistance
- space reconnaissance
- striking distance
- work-life balance
- gouvernance
- abodance
- hyperexuberance
- miscreance
- nonimportance
- transportance
- feasance
- standards compliance
- antiresonance
- unisonance
- reattendance
- surance
- magnetoconductance
- technofinance
- avant-dance
- bankassurance
Note: these words have been obtained from Wiktionary and have been classified and improved through automated computer linguistics processes.
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i hate these bc my mom is a karen
Written by: davontae word on 20/10/2021