-ness

/nəs/

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Tanımlar (İngilizce)

  1. sonek 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!”

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

    “calm + -ness → calmness”

  3. sonek 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.

    “that + -ness → thatness”