Definitions for fulness
ful·ness

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1. fulnessnoun

   Being full; completeness.

2. fulnessnoun

   The degree to which a space is full.

3. fulnessnoun

   (fig.) The degree to which fate has become known.

4. fulnessnoun

   A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected.

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1. Fulnessnoun

   Etymology: from full.

   1. The state of being filled so as to have no part vacant.

   Your heave-offering shall be reckoned the fulness of the wine-press. Numb. xviii. 27.

   To the houses I wished nothing more than safety, fulness, and freedom. Charles I .

   2. The state of abounding in any quality good or bad.3. Completeness; such as leaves nothing to be desired.

   Your enjoyments are so complete, I turn wishes into gratulations, and congratulating their fulness only wish their continuance. South.

   4. Completeness from the coalition of many parts.

   The king set forwards to London, receiving the acclamations and applauses of the people as he went; which indeed were true and unfeigned, as might well appear in the very demonstrations and fulness of the cry. Francis Bacon, Henry VII.

   5. Completeness; freedom from deficiency.

   He is the half part of a blessed man,
   Left to be finished by such as she;
   And she a fair divided excellence,
   Whose fulness of perfection lies in him. William Shakespeare, K. John.

   6. Repletion; satiety.

   I need not instance in the habitual intemperance of rich tables, nor the evil accidents and effects of fulness, pride and lust, wantonness and softness. Jeremy Taylor, Rule of living holy.

   7. Plenty; wealth.

   To lapse in fulness
   Is sorer than to lie for need; and falshood
   Is worse in kings than beggars. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.

   8. Struggling perturbation; swelling in the mind.

   A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. Francis Bacon, Essay 28.

   9. Largeness; extent.

   There wanted the fulness of a plot, and variety of characters to form it as it ought; and perhaps something might have been added to the beauty of the style. Dryden.

   10. Force of sound, such as fills the ear; vigour.

   This sort of pastoral derives almost its whole beauty from a natural ease of thought and smoothness of verse; whereas that of most other kinds consists in the strength and fulness of both. Alexander Pope.

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1. funless

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of fulness in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of fulness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of fulness in a Sentence

1. Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary", ch. 12:

   ...exaggerated turns of speech conceal mediocre affections: as if the fulness of the soul might not sometimes overflow in the emptiest of metaphors, since no one, ever, can give the exact measurements of his needs, nor of his conceptions, nor of his sufferings, and the human word is like a cracked cauldron upon which we beat out melodies fit for making bears dance when we are trying to move the stars to pity.

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References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Fulness
2. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=fulness