Meaning

1 senses
  1. (rare, uncountable)The quality of nearly being something, or nearly reaching a point; incomplete state.

Origin

From nearly + -ness.

From nearly + -ness.

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Word family

1 related words
Relatedalmostness

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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