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DIFFUSIBLENESS n.
Diffusibility.
DIFFUSIVENESS n.
The quality or state of being diffusive or diffuse; extensiveness; expansion; dispersion. Especially of style: Diffuseness; want of conciseness; prolixity. The fault that I find with a modern legend, it its diffusiveness. Addison.
DIGESTIBLENESS n.
The quality of being digestible; digestibility.
DILATORINESS n.
The quality of being dilatory; lateness; slowness; tardiness; sluggishness.
DILUTENESS n.
The quality or state of being dilute. Bp. Wilkins.
DIMINUTIVENESS n.
The quality of being diminutive; smallness; littleness; minuteness.
DIMNESS n. 2 definitions
Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception. Dr. H. More.
DINGINESS n.
Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.
DIOECIOUSNESS n.
The state or quality of being dioecious.
DIRECTNESS n.
The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.
DIRENESS n.
Terribleness; horror; woefulness. Shak.
DIRKNESS n.
Darkness. [Obs.] Chaucer.
DIRTINESS n.
The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.
DISAGREEABLENESS n.
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness.
DISCERNIBLENESS n.
The quality of being discernible.
DISCIPLINABLENESS n.
The quality of being improvable by discipline. Sir M. Hale.
DISCRIMINATENESS n.
The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
DISEASEDNESS n.
The state of being diseased; a morbid state; sickness. [R.] T. Burnet.
DISEASEFULNESS n.
The quality of being diseaseful; trouble; trial. [R.] Sir P. Sidney.
DISGUISEDNESS n.
The state of being disguised.
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