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heathenness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
hea-then-ness
IPA
17
Scrabble Score
11
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Quality of being heathen.

Uncountable

Etymology

From Middle English hethenesse, from Old English hǣþennes (“heathenism, heathenry, heathendom”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþinnassī (“heathenness”), equivalent to heathen + -ness.

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Usage

Inflected Forms

heathenesse (alternative, obsolete)

Questions

What does heathenness mean?
Quality of being heathen.
Where does heathenness come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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