-ness

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"-ness" in a Sentence (10 examples)

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!

The adrenocortical carcinoma symptoms ... are moonface, abdominousness, high blood pressure, hirsutes, pink striae, plethora, decaleification, irrespective of sex...

The Czech people and countryside of Mr Lukas' camera are universal. In the aged peasants there is none of that wrinkled, ham, old gafferishness to which we have become accustomed by clever photography, but there is the feel of the earth by which these people have lived...

calm + -ness → calmness

eerie + -ness → eeriness

kind + -ness → kindness

one + -ness → oneness

that + -ness → thatness

tree + -ness → treeness

thug + -ness → thugness

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