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ng sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

The quality or state of being tamable; tamableness.

The quality or state of being taxable; taxableness.

The quality, or state, of being tempestive; seasonableness. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

The quality or state of being tenable; tenableness.

The quality or state of being timely; seasonableness; opportuneness.

A lady's maid. Fashionableness of the tire-woman's making. Locke.

The quality or state of being towardly; docility; tractableness. The beauty and towardliness of these children moved her brethren to envy. Sir W. Raleigh.

The quality or state of being tractable or docile; docility; tractableness.

The quality of being unacceptable; unacceptableness.

The quality of being unanswerable; unanswerableness.

Uncharitableness. Tennyson. 'T were much uncharity in you. J. Webster.

The quality or state of being unconformable; unconformableness.

Want of profit; unprofitableness. [Obs.] Wyclif.

Want of reason; unreasonableness; absurdity. Abbot of Unreason. See Abbot of Misrule, under Abbot.

The quality or state of being unsociable; unsociableness.

Unseasonableness.

The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage. Addison.

The quality or state of being useful; usefulness; production of good; profitableness to some valuable end; as, the utility of manure upon land; the utility of the sciences; the utility of medicines. The utility of the enterprises was, however, so great and obvious that all opposition proved useless. Macaulay.…

The quality or state of being variable; variableness.