-NESS


Meaning of -NESS in English

~ is added to adjectives to form nouns which often refer to a state or quality. For example, ‘sadness’ is the state of being sad and ‘kindness’ is the quality of being kind.

‘This is not good,’ he said with great seriousness.

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