Definitions for -ness
-ness

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. -nesssuffix

   Appended to adjectives to form nouns meaning "the state of (the adjective)", "the quality of (the adjective)", or "the measure of (the adjective)".

2. -nesssuffix

   Appended to words of other parts of speech to form nouns (often nonce words or terms in philosophy) meaning the state/quality/measure of the idea represented by these words.

3. Etymology: from -nis, -nes, from -nassuz, alteration (by false division) of -n- (adjective and verbal terminating consonant) + -assuz. Akin to -nissi, -nussi (Dutch -nis), -nissa, -nassi, -nussi (German -nis), Gothic -inasus, -inassus

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:1.0 / 1 vote

1. -ness

   a suffix used to form abstract nouns expressive of quality or state; as, goodness, greatness

How to pronounce -ness?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say -ness in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of -ness in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of -ness in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of -ness in a Sentence

1. Neil Gemmell:

   Eels are very plentiful in the loch system - every single sampling site that we went to pretty much had eels and the sheer volume of it was a bit of a surprise, we can't exclude the possibility that there's a giant eel in Loch Ness but we don't know whether these samples we've collected are from a giant beast or just an ordinary one - so there's still this element of 'we just don't know.'.

2. Salman Rushdie:

   These are not good days for liberty. If you look around the world, you see that the idea of freedom, freedom which contains a sense of carefree-ness, seems everywhere in retreat, hounded by guns and bombs.

3. Hubert Humphrey:

   The great challenge which faces us is to assure that, in our society of big-ness, we do not strangle the voice of creativity, that the rules of the game do not come to overshadow its purpose, that the grand orchestration of society leaves ample room for the man who marches to the music of another drummer.

4. Jojakim Cortis:

   There are many miniatures that we did which were of faked or staged events, loch Ness is obviously faked. And there are stories on the web where people think Stanley Kubrick faked these moon pictures.

5. Richard Freeman:

   I dont believe the eel theory has killed off the Loch Ness Monster, quite the reverse in fact, a giant eel, which can grow up to 30 feet, is a monster in every sense of the word.

References

1. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-Ness
2. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/-ness