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| -ess |
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Etymology: From -esse.
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| -less |
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Etymology: :From Common (Ger.) - lausaz (not related to less <
- laisiz)
Derived Terms: (rel-top5, Derived terms)
- affectless
- ageless
- aimless
- airless
- artless
- baseless
- beachless
- blameless
- bloodless
- bodiless
- bootless
- borderless
- bottomless
- boundless
- brainless
- breathless
- careless
- ceaseless
- changeless
- cheerless
- classless
- clueless
- cohesionless
- colorless
- cordless
- countless
- dateless
- dauntless
- deathless
- doubtless
- dripless
- ductless gland
- earless seal
- effortless
- emotionless
- endless
- exhaustless
- expressionless
- faceless
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- fadeless
- faithless
- fatherless
- fathomless
- faultless
- fearless
- featureless
- feckless
- flawless
- flightless
- flushless toilet
- footless
- formless
- fruitless
- futureless
- godless
- gormless
- graceless
- groundless
- guileless
- guiltless
- gutless
- hairless
- hapless
- harmless
- headless
- heartless
- heedless
- helpless
- homeless
- hopeless
- horseless carriage
- humorless
- hurtless
- irregardless
- jawless fish
- jobless
- joyless
- kindless
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- landless
- lawless
- lidless
- lifeless
- limitless
- listless
- loveless
- luckless
- lusterless
- massless
- matchless
- meaningless
- measureless
- meatless
- merciless
- mindless
- mirthless
- motherless
- motionless
- nameless
- natheless
- needless
- nerveless
- noiseless
- numberless
- odorless / odourless
- painless
- paperless
- paperless office
- passionless
- peerless
- penniless
- pitiless
- pointless
- powerless
- priceless
- purposeless
- rayless
- reckless
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- recoilless
- regardless
- relentless
- remorseless
- resistless
- restless
- roadless
- roofless
- rootless
- rudderless
- rustless
- ruthless
- sapless
- scoreless
- seamless
- searchless
- seedless
- selfless
- senseless
- sexless
- shameless
- shapeless
- shiftless
- shitless
- sightless
- sleepless
- smokeless
- soulless
- soundless
- spaceless
- speechless
- spineless
- spiritless
- spotless
- stainless
- stainless steel
- stateless
- strapless
- stressless
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- sugarless
- sunless
- tactless
- tasteless
- termless
- thankless
- Thompson seedless
- thoughtless
- thriftless
- timeless
- tireless
- toneless
- tongueless
- toothless
- topless
- trackless
- tubeless
- tuneless
- useless
- valueless
- victimless crime
- viewless
- visionless
- voiceless
- voteless
- wakeless
- waterless
- weariless
- weightless
- wingless
- wireless
- wireless telegraphy
- wireless telephone
- witless
- wordless
- worthless
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| -lessness |
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Derived Terms: - homelessness
- senselessness
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| Aboyne dress |
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noun
- The dance costume prescribed for females performing the Scottish National dances in competitions at Highland games gatherings. Named for the Aboyne Highland Gathering whose organizing committee designed it.
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| abashedness |
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noun
- The state of being abashed.
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| abashless |
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adjective
- unabashed, Unabashed.
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| abbess |
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noun
- A female superior or governess of a nunnery, or convent of nuns, having the same authority over the nuns which the abbots have over the monks.
- The abbess was always after the nuns to keep the convent immaculately clean.
- (1811) A bawd, the mistress of a brothel (1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue).
Translations: - Spanish: abadesa, Abadesa
Etymology: From Old French abaesse, abeesse, French abbesse, Latin abbatissa, feminine of abbas, abbatis, abbot.
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| abjectedness |
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noun
- (rare) A very abject or low condition; abjectness - Boyle
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| abjectness |
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noun
- The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.
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| able-bodiedness |
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noun
- The quality of being able-bodied.
Etymology: Dervative of able-bodied
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| ableness |
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noun - (obsolete, rare) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.
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| abominableness |
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noun - The characteristic of being abominable; odiousness.
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| abortiveness |
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noun - The characteristic of being abortive.
Etymology: From abort + -ive + -ness.
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| abrasiveness |
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noun
- the property or quality of being abrasive
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| abruptness |
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noun
- The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.
- suddenness, Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.
Translations: Etymology: abrupt + -ness
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| abscess |
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noun (abscess, es)
- (pathology) A cavity caused by tissue destruction, usually because of infection, filled with pus and surrounded by inflame, inflamed tissue.
Translations: - Spanish: absceso , flemón (gums)
verb (abscess, es)
- (intransitive) To form such a collection of pus.
Translations: Etymology: Latin abscessus, a going away, gathering of humors, abscess; past participle of absedere (ab, abs + cedere) to go away , to go off, to retire. See cede
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| absent-mindedness |
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noun - The characteristic of being easily distracted or preoccupied.
- I don't mean to make mistakes; it's just .
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| absentmindedness |
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noun
- (alternative form of, absent-mindedness)
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| absentness |
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noun - The quality of being absent-minded.
Etymology: Derivative of absent
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| absoluteness |
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noun
- The quality of being absolute; independence of everything extraneous; unlimitedness; absolute power; independent reality; positiveness.
Translations: Etymology: Derivative of absolute
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| absorptiveness |
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noun - The quality of being absorptive; absorptive power.
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| abstemiousness |
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noun - The quality of being abstemious, temperate, or sparing in the use of food and strong drinks. It expresses a greater degree of abstinence than (term, temperance).
Etymology: Derivative of abstemious
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| abstersiveness |
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noun - The quality of being abstersive. - Fuller
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| abstractedness |
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noun
- The state of being abstracted; abstract character.
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