Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

single-heartedness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.17 in modern English

Syllables: sin-gle--heart-ed-ness
IPA

22

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.

Uncountable

noun

Straightforwardness; lack of duplicity.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"Just as Augustine notes that a true virgin must be a virgin physically and spiritually, so too a monk's single-heartedness of purpose in Christ cannot be left to an ethereal realm."
"...the result of which congress was an unanimous declaration of their forgiveness of a piece of thoughtless levity on the part of the giddy girl ; and every allowance being pleaded for her single-heartedness and ingenuousness, it was determined that no allusion whatever should again be made to the disagreeable subject;"

Etymology

From single-hearted + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: single-hearted

Usage

Uncountable

Inflected Forms

singleheartedness (alternative)

Questions

What does single-heartedness mean?: Devotion; commitment and lack of distraction or ambivalence.
Where does single-heartedness come from?: From single-hearted + -ness.

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