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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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1,000+ words match “QUALITY”

IMMEASURABLENESS n.

The state or quality of being immeasurable. Eternity and immeasurableness belong to thought alone. F. W. Robertson.

IMMEDIATENESS n.

The quality or relations of being immediate in manner, place, or time; exemption from second or interventing causes. Bp. Hall.

The state or quality of being immense; inlimited or immeasurable extension; infinity; vastness in extent or bulk; greatness. Lost in the wilds of vast immensity. Blackmore. The immensity of the material system. I. Taylor.

IMMENSURABILITY n.

The quality of being immensurable.

IMMINENCE n. 2 definitions

The condition or quality of being imminent; a threatening, as of something about to happen. The imminence of any danger or distress. Fuller.

The condition or quality of being immobile; fixedness in place or state.

IMMODERATENESS n.

The quality of being immoderate; excess; extravagance. Puller.

IMMORALITY n. 2 definitions

The state or quality of being immoral; vice. The root of all immorality. Sir W. Temple.

IMMORTALITY n. 2 definitions

The quality or state of being immortal; exemption from death and annihilation; unending existance; as, the immortality of the soul. This mortal must put on immortality. 1 Cor. xv. 53.

IMMOVABILITY n.

The quality or state of being immovable; fixedness; steadfastness; as, immovability of a heavy body; immovability of purpose.

IMMOVABLENESS n.

Quality of being immovable.

IMMUTABILITY n.

The state or quality of being immutable; immutableness. Heb. vi. 17.

IMPALPABILITY n.

The quality of being impalpable. Jortin.

IMPARTIALITY n.

The quality of being impartial; freedom from bias or favoritism; disinterestedness; equitableness; fairness; as, impartiality of judgment, of treatment, etc. Impartiality strips the mind of prejudice and passion. South.

IMPARTIBILITY n. 2 definitions

The quality of being impartible; communicability. Blackstone.

IMPASSIBILITY a.

The quality or condition of being impassible; insusceptibility of injury from external things.

The quality of being insusceptible of feeling, pain, or suffering; impassiveness.

The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. W…

IMPECCABILITY n.

the quality of being impeccable; exemption from sin, error, or offense. Infallibility and impeccability are two of his attributes. Pope.

IMPELLENT a. 2 definitions

Having the quality of impelling.