All keeping synonyms
keep·ing
K k noun keeping
- custody — Custody is the legal right to keep and look after a child, especially the right given to a child's mother or father when they get divorced.
- possession — the act or fact of possessing.
- care — If you care about something, you feel that it is important and are concerned about it.
- trust — reliance on the integrity, strength, ability, surety, etc., of a person or thing; confidence.
- charge — If you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them to pay that amount for something that you have sold to them or done for them.
- protection — the act of protecting or the state of being protected; preservation from injury or harm.
- guardianship — the position and responsibilities of a guardian, especially toward a ward.
- observance — an act or instance of following, obeying, or conforming to: the observance of traffic laws.
- preservation — to keep alive or in existence; make lasting: to preserve our liberties as free citizens.
- safekeeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
- consistency — Consistency is the quality or condition of being consistent.
- agreement — An agreement is a formal decision about future action which is made by two or more countries, groups, or people.
- balance — If you balance something somewhere, or if it balances there, it remains steady and does not fall.
- conformity — If something happens in conformity with something such as a law or someone's wishes, it happens as the law says it should, or as the person wants it to.
- harmony — agreement; accord; harmonious relations.
- uniformity — the state or quality of being uniform; overall sameness, homogeneity, or regularity: uniformity of style.
adjective keeping
- retaining — to keep possession of.