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Meanings of ness in English

Portuguese
cabo
Catalan
cap
Spanish
cabo

A strip of land projecting into a body of water.

cabo
Usage of ness in English
1
It is for this reason that London's let-them-eat-cake-ness needs to be highlighted.
The Guardian
2
Most games try, at least a little bit, to hide their game-y-ness.
Wired
3
Kay liked Connie, her vivacious-ness, her obvious fondness for her brother Michael.
The Godfather
4
Their shared dark good looks and big boned-ness made them appear alike.
The Guardian
5
And made facile and impertinent remarks, in the name of youthful artless-ness.
The sealed letter
6
They went so far as to smile quasi-maternally at his boyish busy-ness.
Mr. Prohack
7
Sometimes Hugh's sheer clueless-ness could calm Bethy down, even cheer her up.
Seeing stars
8
It was not like Nina to show such signs of nervous ness.
Carrion comfort
9
Decades of work have gone into reinforcing that idea of Good-ness.
The Guardian
10
But the 35 hours a week-ness of it was the problem.
The new yorker
11
Little she had ever heard of marriage; she found no sacred-ness in mine.
Olive: A Novel
12
Perhaps my new status of impending husband-hood and stepfather-ness was overwhelming my Passenger.
Dexter in the Dark
13
You was then still in uneasiness; by this time incident to your miny-ness.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1
14
Some probing articles have been rejected, underscoring the limits to the new open-ness.
Reuters
15
I'd never heard a tune that wallowed quite so much in its minor-ness.
Radio NZ
16
The war had all the capricious-ness of the sea-ofuncertain weather.
A Volunteer Poilu
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Translations for ness
Portuguese
cabo
Catalan
cap
Spanish
cabo
Ness through the time
Ness across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common