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Origin of ness

First recorded before 900; Middle English -nes(s) (in placenames), in part continuing Old English næs, in part from Old Norse nes; akin to nose

Words nearby ness

Nesacaine, Nesbit, nescience, nesh, nesosilicate, ness, Nesselrode, Nessie, nesslerize, Nessler's reagent, Nessus

Other definitions for ness (2 of 2)

a native English suffix attached to adjectives and participles, forming abstract nouns denoting quality and state (and often, by extension, something exemplifying a quality or state): darkness; goodness; kindness; obligingness; preparedness.

Origin of -ness

Middle English, Old English -nes, -nis, cognate with German -nis, Gothic -(n)assus; suffix originally (unattested) -assus; -n- by false division of words with adjective and past participle stems ending in -n-; compare Old English efnes (later efen-nys ) evenness

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Words related to ness

arm, beak, bill, finger, foreland, head, headland, jetty, mole, naze, neck, peninsula, point, tongue, bluff, cape, cliff, peak, promontory, ridge

How to use ness in a sentence

  • That his face is quite different from mine if you look for anything other than "Asian-ness."

  • This year, the show has even resurrected Eliot Ness, seen making a pompous speech to reporters about bringing Capone to justice.

  • Now it appears Boardwalk Empire is not only going to feed us more fiction but, with the addition of Ness, recycled fiction.

  • He was a gay bro, whose gay-ness was probably the most matter-of-fact thing about him.

  • At the same time, playing an animal does require more feral-ness, so to speak.

  • You will be in again this week, she said coaxingly, you can give me ten minutes out of your busy-ness.

  • The boys took the carriage around to the barn and left it in charge of Jack Ness, the man of all work.

  • The lads ran down to the barn and had Jack Ness hitch up a fresh team to a buckboard.

  • This really is asking for the "man-ness" of a man, something characteristic of him, and inseparable from him.

  • I run across him five years ago in Arizona, where he had been in the stage-robbin' bus'ness.

British Dictionary definitions for ness (1 of 3)

noun

  1. archaic a promontory or headland
  2. (capital as part of a name) Orford Ness

Word Origin for ness

Old English næs headland; related to Old Norse nes, Old English nasu nose

British Dictionary definitions for ness (2 of 3)

noun

Loch Ness a lake in NW Scotland, in the Great Glen: said to be inhabited by an aquatic monster. Length: 36 km (22.5 miles). Depth: 229 m (754 ft)

British Dictionary definitions for ness (3 of 3)

suffix forming nouns

indicating state, condition, or quality, or an instance of one of these greatness; selfishness; meaninglessness; a kindness

Word Origin for -ness

Old English -nes, of Germanic origin; related to Gothic -nassus

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Ness Definition in a Sentence

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