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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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7,497 words match “NESS”

AFFLUENTNESS n.
Great plenty. [R.]
AFFRONTIVENESS n.
The quality that gives an affront or offense. [R.] Bailey.
AGEDNESS n.
The quality of being aged; oldness. Custom without truth is but agedness of error. Milton.
AGILENESS n.
Agility; nimbleness. [R.]
AGREEABLENESS n. 3 definitions
atisfaction or moderate pleasure to the mind or senses. That author . . . has an agreeableness that charms us. Pope.
AIRINESS n. 2 definitions
The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.
ALACRIOUSNESS n.
Alacrity. [Obs.] Hammond.
ALBINESS n.
A female albino. Holmes.
ALERTNESS n.
The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.
ALGIDNESS n.
Algidity. [Obs.]
ALIMENTARINESS n.
The quality of being alimentary; nourishing quality. [R.]
ALIMENTIVENESS n.
The instinct or faculty of appetite for food. [Chiefly in Phrenol.]
ALLNESS n.
Totality; completeness. [R.] The allness of God, including his absolute spirituality, supremacy, and eternity. R. Turnbull.
ALLOWABLENESS n.
The quality of being allowable; permissibleness; lawfulness; exemption from prohibition or impropriety. South.
ALLUSIVENESS n.
The quality of being allusive.
ALMIGHTINESS n.
Omnipotence; infinite or boundless power; unlimited might. Jer. Taylor.
ALONENESS n.
A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness. [R.] Bp. Montagu.
ALOOFNESS n.
State of being aloof. Rogers (1642). The . . . aloofness of his dim forest life. Thoreau.
ALTERABLENESS n.
The quality of being alterable; variableness; alterability.
ALTERNATENESS n.
The quality of being alternate, or of following by turns.
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