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/nəs/ · suffix
Appended in general, often informally, stylistically, or jocularly, for reification of an attribute..
1865 Lewis Carrol: Alice in Wonderland; CHAPTER VII: A Mad Tea-Party. You know you say things are "much of a muchness.." — did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness!
The adrenocortical carcinoma symptoms ... are moonface, abdominousness, high blood pressure, hirsutes, pink striae, plethora, decaleification, irrespective of sex...
The Czech people and countryside of Mr Lukas' camera are universal. In the aged peasants there is none of that wrinkled, ham, old gafferishness to which we have become accustomed by clever photography, but there is the feel of the earth by which these people have lived...
calm + -ness → calmness
eerie + -ness → eeriness
kind + -ness → kindness
one + -ness → oneness
that + -ness → thatness
Use -ness when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
-ness means Appended in general, often informally, stylistically, or jocularly, for reification of an attribute..
Common synonyms include -ability, -dom, -hood, -ibility.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
1865 Lewis Carrol: Alice in Wonderland; CHAPTER VII: A Mad Tea-Party. You know you say things are "much of a muchness.." — did you ever see such a thing as a drawing of a muchness!
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