Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The property or character of being winning.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being winning.

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  • noun The quality or state of being winning.

Etymologies

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winning +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Or, all players can earn "winningness" scores based on performance, accumulating them over the course of their careers, like baseball statistics.

    Archive 2007-02-01 2007

  • But apparently the sponsors, overwhelmed by Thompson's winningness, have decided to "retire the trophy" to her, and make a new one for next year's winner.

    Archive 2006-05-01 Roger Sutton 2006

  • But apparently the sponsors, overwhelmed by Thompson's winningness, have decided to "retire the trophy" to her, and make a new one for next year's winner.

    I touched Kevin's. Roger Sutton 2006

  • I just won a Jumpstart To Green Kit and, if you read the post that describes my winningness, you can enter to win Horizon Organic Eggnog.

    Woo Hoo baggyk 2008

  • DAVIS: Now as for Phil Jackson, he is not here in person helping out his friend Bill Bradley tonight, too busy keeping the Los Angeles Lakers the winningness team in basketball, undoubtedly what he is hoping for the Bradley team here in Iowa tonight.

    CNN Transcript - Special Event: Bush and Gore Win in Iowa; Forbes and Keyes Beat Expectations - January 24, 2000 2000

  • Elfrida widened her eyes again and smiled with a vague impersonal winningness.

    A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and fine exquisiteness of suggestion, are disappointed in Burke: they even find him stiff and over-coloured.

    Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" Various

  • Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and exquisite suggestion, are disappointed in Burke; they even find him stiff and over-coloured.

    Burke Morley, John 1907

  • For the beauty, the poetry, the winningness of Catholic worship and Catholic life Arnold had the keenest admiration.

    Matthew Arnold Russell, G W E 1904

  • The younger sister grew more cynical -- not to say acid -- in her ways; and the winningness of the elder wore thin.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

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