Definitions
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- noun The quality of being
important ;importance .
Etymologies
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From important + -ness.
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Examples
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ALL VOTES COUNT and no bit of statistics or individual utility should be used to justify laziness and and self importantness.
FREAK-TV: Why Economists Don’t Vote - Freakonomics Blog - NYTimes.com 2007
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Dear Jack, I'd say that each segment of this finanical meltdown has been dealt a plan leading them out of the morass they created because of their unique forms of greed, narrowmindness, arrogance, self-importantness and self-made superiorty.
Cafferty File 2009
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