Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being safe or of conferring safety.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the
safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.
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- noun The property of being
safe .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being safe
Etymologies
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Examples
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His method of accomplishing this feat proves what we have just said of his "safeness" -- he sounded the chute first, and then built a fire at the head of the island to run by.
Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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His method of accomplishing this feat proves what we have just said of his "safeness" -- he sounded the chute first, and then built a fire at the head of the island to run by.
Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899
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Thus there is this lingering cloud of "safeness", if not for the characters, then for the state of affairs for mankind.
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Most will lack the talent/coordination/urge for organized sports, and few will have much social activity, prefering the "safeness" of their computers to the aspect of rejection.
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Thus there is this lingering cloud of "safeness", if not for the characters, then for the state of affairs for mankind.
SF Signal 2009
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The Entire City is named after a Max Ernst painting, and Walling casts her metropolis as both comfort and threat; the safeness and succor of Concrete Mother becomes suffocating claustrophobia on Nest, with its suspense-filled percussion, and the war-like rush of the eponymous track becomes stark isolation on Changelings.
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Deer drives, especially with rifles, are very dangerous, unless you are sure of the safeness of your fellow hunters.
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Deer drives, especially with rifles, are very dangerous, unless you are sure of the safeness of your fellow hunters.
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The safeness of many older model shotguns with full choke is iffy with steel shot.
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The safeness of many older model shotguns with full choke is iffy with steel shot.
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