Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

hearsomeness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: hear-some-ness
IPA

17

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Obedience; submission to authority.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Thus the hearsomeness of the burger felicitates the whole of the polis."
"[…] his awakened "hearsomeness" causing him to misconstrue the sound, along Aristotelean lines, as the sound of thunder."
"The cultural "bonum" that arrives by her Grace, issuing from the "malo" (apple/evil) of this "foenix culprit," consists in her streaming urine/words, which the Jarl's felicitous "hearsomeness" — his passion to keep her within his hearing and heir-ing […]"

Etymology

From Middle English hersumnesse, from Old English hīersumnes (“obedience”), equivalent to hearsome + -ness. Cognate with West Frisian hearsumens (“obedience”).

Origin

Source language: Middle English

Word Breakdown

Root: hersumnesse, hīersumnes
Suffix: hearsome

Usage

Uncountable

Frequently Paired Words

hearsome

Questions

What does hearsomeness mean?: Obedience; submission to authority.
Where does hearsomeness come from?: It is traced to Middle English.

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