Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A cape or headland.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A point of land running into the sea; a promontory; a headland; a cape.
- noun A suffix of Anglo-Saxon origin, used to form, from adjectives, nouns denoting the abstract quality of the adjective, as goodness, sweetness, whiteness, humbleness, hopefulness, spiritualness, crookedness, neglectedness, obligingness, the quality or state of being good, sweet, white, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A promontory; a cape; a headland.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun geography A
promontory ; acape orheadland . (frequently used as a suffix in placenames)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a strip of land projecting into a body of water
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When resourcefulness and busy-ness is taught early in life, people tend to be happier and more content in life.
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I think our drought-ness is really just pointing towards our obsession with new-nes.
Raining In The Real World SVGL 2009
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But Harry's resistance to his chosen-ness is different, partly because unlike the Skywalker boys he has no choice about it --- resistance is futile in his case, which makes it more admirable but less heroic --- but mainly because in Rowling's conception being the Chosen One is not a heroic thing.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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When resourcefulness and busy-ness is taught early in life, people tend to be happier and more content in life.
Archive 2009-03-01 2009
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But for some reason my pissed-off-ness is still lingering?
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But Harry's resistance to his chosen-ness is different, partly because unlike the Skywalker boys he has no choice about it --- resistance is futile in his case, which makes it more admirable but less heroic --- but mainly because in Rowling's conception being the Chosen One is not a heroic thing.
Chosen ones 2009
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I love Laura …. her innocence (Imma gonna b in 17 magazine … look, thats me!) and efervescent hickey-ness is refreshing – not to mention she takes fabulous pics.
'America's Next Top Model' recap: The not-amazing race | EW.com 2009
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The Republicans, as befits their regional base, value beauty and born-agin 'ness over brains, hence the Palin phenomenon (and she is drop-dead gorgeous).
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Your "human" - ness is all too familiar, and at the same time very inspirational.
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Ms Priss – my pissed-off-ness is still lingering, too.
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