10 letter words ending in ness

Abjectness (n.) The state of being abject; abasement; meanness; servility.

Abruptness (n.) The state of being abrupt or broken; craggedness; ruggedness; steepness.

Abruptness (n.) Suddenness; unceremonious haste or vehemence; as, abruptness of style or manner.

Absentness (n.) The quality of being absent-minded.

Absurdness (n.) Absurdity.

Activeness (n.) The quality of being active; nimbleness; quickness of motion; activity.

Actualness (n.) Quality of being actual; actuality.

Adroitness (n.) The quality of being adroit; skill and readiness; dexterity.

Amazedness (n.) The state of being amazed, or confounded with fear, surprise, or wonder.

Animalness (n.) Animality.

Ardentness (n.) Ardency.

Arguteness (n.) Acuteness.

Artfulness (n.) The quality of being artful; art; cunning; craft.

Augustness (n.) The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

Averseness (n.) The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.

Awlessness (n.) The quality of being awless.

Barrenness (n.) The condition of being barren; sterility; unproductiveness.

Betterness (n.) The quality of being better or superior; superiority.

Betterness (n.) The difference by which fine gold or silver exceeds in fineness the standard.

Bitterness (n.) The quality or state of being bitter, sharp, or acrid, in either a literal or figurative sense; implacableness; resentfulness; severity; keenness of reproach or sarcasm; deep distress, grief, or vexation of mind.

Bitterness (n.) A state of extreme impiety or enmity to God.

Bitterness (n.) Dangerous error, or schism, tending to draw persons to apostasy.

Blitheness (n.) The state of being blithe.

Bloodiness (n.) The state of being bloody.

Bloodiness (n.) Disposition to shed blood; bloodthirstiness.

Bodi

Boyishness (n.) The manners or behavior of a boy.

Brahmaness (n.) A Brahmani.

Brassiness (n.) The state, condition, or quality of being brassy.

Brawniness (n.) The quality or state of being brawny.

Brazenness (n.) The quality or state of being brazen.

Breeziness (n.) State of being breezy.

Brightness (n.) The quality or state of being bright; splendor; luster; brilliancy; clearness.

Brightness (n.) Acuteness (of the faculties); sharpness 9wit.

Brokenness (n.) The state or quality of being broken; unevenness.

Brokenness (n.) Contrition; as, brokenness of heart.

Brotelness (n.) Brittleness.

Brushiness (n.) The quality of resembling a brush; brushlike condition; shagginess.

Bunchiness (n.) The quality or condition of being bunchy; knobbiness.

Candidness (n.) The quality of being candid.

Casualness (n.) The quality of being casual.

Chalkiness (n.) The state of being chalky.

Chasteness (n.) Chastity; purity.

Chasteness (n.) Freedom from all that is meretricious, gaudy, or affected; as, chasteness of design.

Chattiness (n.) The quality of being chatty, or of talking easily and pleasantly.

Cheeriness (n.) The state of being cheery.

Cheesiness (n.) The quality of being cheesy.

Chil

Chil

Chil

Choiceness (n.) The quality of being of particular value or worth; nicely; excellence.

Chuffiness (n.) The quality of being chuffy.

Citizeness (n.) A female citizen.

Clamminess (n.) State of being clammy or viscous.

Cleverness (n.) The quality of being clever; skill; dexterity; adroitness.

Clogginess (n.) The state of being clogged.

Cloudiness (n.) The state of being cloudy.

Clumsiness (n.) The quality of being clumsy.

Coarseness (n.) The quality or state of being coarse; roughness; inelegance; vulgarity; grossness; as, coarseness of food, texture, manners, or language.

Come

Commonness (n.) State or quality of being common or usual; as, the commonness of sunlight.

Commonness (n.) Triteness; meanness.

Convexness (n.) The state of being convex; convexity.

Cost

Covertness (n.) Secrecy; privacy.

Craftiness (n.) Dexterity in devising and effecting a purpose; cunning; artifice; stratagem.

Cragginess (n.) The state of being craggy.

Crankiness (n.) Crankness.

Crazedness (n.) A broken state; decrepitude; an impaired state of the intellect.

Creaminess (n.) The quality of being creamy.

Creepiness (n.) An uneasy sensation as of insects creeping on the skin.

Crustiness (n.) The state or quality of having crust or being like crust; hardness.

Crustiness (n.) The quality of being crusty or surly.

Curledness (n.) State of being curled; cur

Cursedness (n.) The state of being under a curse or of being doomed to execration or to evil.

Cursedness (n.) Wickedness; sin; cursing.

Cursedness (n.) Shrewishness.

Curvedness (n.) The state of being curved.

Daintiness (n.) The quality of being dainty; nicety; niceness; elegance; delicacy; deliciousness; fastidiousness; squeamishness.

Dauphiness (n.) Alt. of Dauphine

Dead

Demureness (n.) The state of being demure; gravity; the show of gravity or modesty.

Desertness (n.) A deserted condition.

Devoutness (n.) Quality or state of being devout.

Diluteness (n.) The quality or state of being dilute.

Directness (n.) The quality of being direct; straightness; straightforwardness; immediateness.

Dismalness (n.) The quality of being dismal; gloominess.

Divineness (n.) The quality of being divine; superhuman or supreme excellence.

Doggedness (n.) Sullenness; moroseness.

Doggedness (n.) Sullen or obstinate determination; grim resolution or persistence.

Doubleness (n.) The state of being double or doubled.

Doubleness (n.) Duplicity; insincerity.

Doughiness (n.) The quality or state of being doughy.

Dreaminess (n.) The state of being dreamy.

Dreariness (n.) Sorrow; wretchedness.

Dreariness (n.) Dismalness; gloomy solitude.

Dregginess (n.) Fullness of dregs or lees; foulness; feculence.

Dressiness (n.) The state of being dressy.

Drowsiness (n.) State of being drowsy.

Earthiness (n.) The quality or state of being earthy, or of containing earth; hence, grossness.

Earwitness (n.) A witness by means of his ears; one who is within hearing and does hear; a hearer.

Edibleness (n.) Suitableness for being eaten.

Elatedness (n.) The state of being elated.

Elengeness (n.) Lone

Elfishness (n.) The quality of being elfish.

Entireness (n.) The state or condition of being entire; completeness; fullness; totality; as, the entireness of an arch or a bridge.

Entireness (n.) Integrity; wholeness of heart; honesty.

Entireness (n.) Oneness; unity; -- applied to a condition of intimacy or close association.

Entireness (pl. ) of Entirety

Expertness (n.) Skill derived from practice; readiness; as, expertness in seamanship, or in reasoning.

Eyewitness (n.) One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view of anything.

Fallowness (n.) A well or opening, through the successive floors of a warehouse or manufactory, through which goods are raised or lowered.

Famousness (n.) The state of being famous.

Fangleness (n.) Quality of being fangled.

Faultiness (n.) Quality or state of being faulty.

Feebleness (n.) The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity.

Fickleness (n.) The quality of being fickle; instability; inconsonancy.

Filthiness (n.) The state of being filthy.

Filthiness (n.) That which is filthy, or makes filthy; foulness; nastiness; corruption; pollution; impurity.

Finiteness (n.) The state of being finite.

Fittedness (n.) The state or quality of being fitted; adaptation.

Flabbiness (n.) Quality or state of being flabby.

Flagginess (n.) The condition of being flaggy; laxity; limberness.

Flashiness (n.) The quality of being flashy.

Fleshiness (n.) The state of being fleshy; plumpness; corpulence; grossness.

Flimsiness (n.) The state or quality of being flimsy.

Flintiness (n.) The state or quality of being flinty; hardness; cruelty.

Flittiness (n.) Unsteadiness; levity; lightness.

Floridness (n.) The quality of being florid.

Fluentness (n.) The quality of being fluent.

Foistiness (n.) Fustiness; mustiness.

Frigidness (n.) The state of being frigid; want of heat, vigor, or affection; coldness; dullness.

Friskiness (n.) State or quality of being frisky.

Frostiness (n.) State or quality of being frosty.

Frothiness (n.) State or quality of being frothy.

Frozenness (n.) A state of being frozen.

Frugalness (n.) Quality of being frugal; frugality.

Fumishness (n.) Choler; fretfulness; passion.

Genialness (n.) The quality of being genial.

Gentleness (n.) The quality or state of being gentle, well-born, mild, benevolent, docile, etc.; gentility; softness of manners, disposition, etc.; mildness.

Giftedness (n.) The state of being gifted.

Gingerness (n.) Cautiousness; tenderness.

Glassiness (n.) The quality of being glassy.

Gloominess (n.) State of being gloomy.

Glossiness (n.) The condition or quality of being glossy; the luster or brightness of a smooth surface.

Good

Gourdiness (n.) The state of being gourdy.

Grassiness (n.) The state of abounding with grass; a grassy state.

Greasiness (n.) The quality or state of being greasy, oi

Greediness (n.) The quality of being greedy; vehement and selfish desire.

Gris

Grittiness (n.) The quality of being gritty.

Grogginess (n.) State of being groggy.

Grogginess (n.) Tenderness or stiffness in the foot of a horse, which causes him to move in a hobbling manner.

Guiltiness (n.) The quality or state of being guilty.

Heroicness (n.) Heroism.

Hoarseness (n.) Harshness or roughness of voice or sound, due to mucus collected on the vocal cords, or to swelling or looseness of the cords.

Hollowness (n.) State of being hollow.

Hollowness (n.) Insincerity; unsoundness; treachery.

Home

Home

Home

Home

Hookedness (n.) The state of being bent like a hook; incurvation.

Hornedness (n.) The condition of being horned.

Horridness (n.) The quality of being horrid.

Humbleness (n.) The quality of being humble; humility; meekness.

Impureness (n.) The quality or condition of being impure; impurity.

Infirmness (n.) Infirmity; feebleness.

Innateness (n.) The quality of being innate.

Insaneness (n.) Insanity; madness.

Intentness (n.) The state or quality of being intent; close application; attention.

Inwardness (n.) Internal or true state; essential nature; as, the inwardness of conduct.

Inwardness (n.) Intimacy; familiarity.

Inwardness (n.) Heartiness; earnestness.

Irefulness (n.) Wrathfulness.

Jauntiness (n.) The quality of being jaunty.

Jovialness (n.) Noisy mirth; joviality.

Kind

Kind

Kind

King

Knottiness (n.) The quality or state of being knotty or full of knots.

Knottiness (n.) Difficulty of solution; intricacy; complication.

Lavishness (n.) The quality or state of being lavish.

Liableness (n.) Quality of being liable; liability.

Like

Like

Limberness (n.) The quality or state of being limber; flexibleness.

Limpidness (n.) Quality of being limpid; limpidity.

Liquidness (n.) The quality or state of being liquid; liquidity; fluency.

Littleness (n.) The state or quality of being little; as, littleness of size, thought, duration, power, etc.

Live

Live

Live

Livingness (n.) The state or quality of being alive; possession of energy or vigor; animation; quickening.

Lone

Lone

Lone

Lone

Lord

Love

Lovingness (n.) Affection; kind regard.

Maimedness (n.) State of being maimed.

Marshiness (n.) The state or condition of being marshy.

Matureness (n.) The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

Meagerness (n.) Alt. of Meagreness

Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

Mellowness (n.) Quality or state of being mellow.

Mightiness (n.) The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity.

Mightiness (n.) Highness; excellency; -- with a possessive pronoun, a title of dignity; as, their high mightinesses.

Minuteness (n.) The quality of being minute.

Modernness (n.) The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.

Mouldiness (n.) The state of being moldy.

Morbidness (n.) The quality or state of being morbid; morbidity.

Moroseness (n.) Sourness of temper; sulenness.

Mortalness (n.) Quality of being mortal; mortality.

Movingness (n.) The power of moving.

Mucousness (n.) The quality or state of being mucous; sliminess.

Narrowness (n.) The condition or quality of being narrow.

Nativeness (n.) The quality or state of being native.

Nimbleness (n.) The quality of being nimble; lightness and quickness in motion; agility; swiftness.

Numbedness (n.) Numbness.

Obdureness (n.) Alt. of Obduredness

Oblateness (n.) The quality or state of being oblate.

Oblongness (n.) State or quality of being oblong.

Obtuseness (n.) State or quality of being obtuse.

Occultness (n.) State or quality of being occult.

Onwardness (n.) Progress; advancement.

Opaqueness (n.) The state or quality of being impervious to light; opacity.

Orientness (n.) The quality or state of being orient or bright; splendor.

Ornateness (n.) The quality of being ornate.

Over

Pallidness (n.) The quality or state of being pallid; paleness; pallor; wanness.

Paltriness (n.) The state or quality of being paltry.

Pickedness (n.) The state of being sharpened; pointedness.

Pickedness (n.) Fineness; spruceness; smartness.

Pitchiness (n.) Blackness, as of pitch; darkness.

Placidness (n.) The quality or state of being placid.

Pluckiness (n.) The quality or state of being plucky.

Poachiness (n.) The state of being poachy; marshiness.

Politeness (n.) High finish; smoothness; burnished elegance.

Politeness (n.) The quality or state of being polite; refinement of manners; urbanity; courteous behavior; complaisance; obliging attentions.

Poor

Porousness (n.) The quality of being porous.

Porousness (n.) The open parts; the interstices of anything.

Port

Port

Potentness (n.) The quality or state of being potent; powerfulness; potency; efficacy.

Prettiness (n.) The quality or state of being pretty; -- used sometimes in a disparaging sense.

Prolixness (n.) Prolixity.

Promptness (n.) Promptitude; readiness; quickness of decision or action.

Promptness (n.) Cheerful willingness; alacrity.

Properness (n.) The quality of being proper.

Properness (n.) Tallness; come

Publicness (n.) The quality or state of being public, or open to the view or notice of people at large; publicity; notoriety; as, the publicness of a sale.

Publicness (n.) The quality or state of belonging to the community; as, the publicness of property.

Putridness (n.) Putridity.

Quaintness (n.) The quality of being quaint.

Queasiness (n.) The state of being queasy; nausea; qualmishness; squeamishness.

Rakishness (n.) The quality or state of being rakish.

Rancidness (n.) The quality of being rancid.

Recentness (n.) Quality or state of being recent.

Remissness (n.) Quality or state of being remiss.

Robustness (n.) The quality or state of being robust.

Rotundness (n.) Roundness; rotundity.

Rovingness (n.) The state of roving.

Sa

Sallowness (n.) The quality or condition of being sallow.

Same

Savageness (n.) The state or quality of being savage.

Savingness (n.) The quality of being saving; carefulness not to expend money uselessly; frugality; parsimony.

Savingness (n.) Tendency to promote salvation.

Savoriness (n.) The quality of being savory.

Scabbiness (n.) The quality or state of being scabby.

Scantiness (n.) Quality or condition of being scanty.

Scarceness (n.) Alt. of Scarcity

Scrimpness (n.) The state of being scrimp.

Scurfiness (n.) Quality or state of being scurfy.

Scurfiness (n.) Scurf.

Scurviness (n.) The quality or state of being scurvy; vileness; meanness.

Searedness (n.) The state of being seared or callous; insensibility.

Secretness (n.) The state or quality of being secret, hid, or concealed.

Secretness (n.) Secretiveness; concealment.

Secureness (n.) The condition or quality of being secure; exemption from fear; want of vigilance; security.

Seem

Seldomness (n.) Rareness.

Selectness (n.) The quality or state of being select.

Sereneness (n.) Serenity.

Shabbiness (n.) The quality or state of being sghabby.

Shagginess (n.) The quality or state of being shaggy; roughness; shaggedness.

Shiftiness (n.) The quality or state of being shifty.

Shoa

Shrillness (n.) The quality or state of being shrill.

Sickerness (n.) Alt. of Sikerness

Sick

Silentness (n.) State of being silent; silence.

Simpleness (n.) The quality or state of being simple; simplicity.

Sinewiness (n.) Quality of being sinewy.

Singleness (n.) The quality or state of being single, or separate from all others; the opposite of doubleness, complication, or multiplicity.

Singleness (n.) Freedom from duplicity, or secondary and selfish ends; purity of mind or purpose; simplicity; sincerity; as, singleness of purpose; singleness of heart.

Skinniness (n.) Quality of being skinny.

Slabbiness (n.) Quality of being slabby.

Slanginess (n.) Quality of being slangy.

Sleaziness (n.) Quality of being sleazy.

Sleepiness (n.) The quality or state of being sleepy.

Sleetiness (n.) The state of being sleety.

Slightness (n.) The quality or state of being slight; slenderness; feebleness; superficiality; also, formerly, negligence; indifference; disregard.

Slippiness (n.) Slipperiness.

Sloppiness (n.) The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.

Slovenness (n.) Sloven

Smoothness (n.) Quality or state of being smooth.

Smudginess (n.) The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred.

Sneakiness (n.) The quality of being sneaky.

Socialness (n.) The quality or state of being social.

Solemnness (n.) The state or quality of being solemn; solemnity; impressiveness; gravity; as, the solemnness of public worship.

Somberness (n.) Alt. of Sombreness

Sombreness (n.) The quality or state of being somber; gloominess.

Sordidness (n.) The quality or state of being sordid.

Sparseness (n.) The quality or state of being sparse; as, sparseness of population.

Speediness (n.) The quality or state of being speedy.

Sponginess (n.) The quality or state of being spongy.

Spottiness (n.) The state or quality of being spotty.

Squareness (n.) The quality of being square; as, an instrument to try the squareness of work.

Stableness (n.) The quality or state of being stable, or firmly established; stability.

Stanchness (n.) The quality or state of being stanch.

Starchness (n.) Of or pertaining to starched or starch; stiffness of manner; preciseness.

Starriness (n.) The quality or state of being starry; as, the starriness of the heavens.

Stayedness (n.) Staidness.

Stayedness (n.) Solidity; weight.

Steadiness (n.) The quality or state of being steady.

Steaminess (n.) The quality or condition of being steamy; vaporousness; mistness.

Stee

Steepiness (n.) Steepness.

Stickiness (n.) The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.

Stinginess (n.) The quality or state of being stingy.

Stolidness (n.) Same as Stolidity.

Storminess (n.) The state of being stormy; tempestuousness; biosteruousness; impetuousness.

Straitness (n.) The quality or condition of being strait; especially, a pinched condition or situation caused by poverty; as, the straitnessof their circumstances.

Strictness (n.) Quality or state of being strict.

Stubbiness (n.) The state of being stubby.

Stuffiness (n.) The quality of being stuffy.

Stumpiness (n.) The state of being stumpy.

Sturdiness (n.) Quality of being sturdy.

Subtleness (n.) The quality or state of being subtle; subtlety.

Sugariness (n.) The quality or state of being sugary, or sweet.

Sultriness (n.) The quality or state of being sultry.

Suppleness (n.) The quality or state of being supple; flexibility; pliableness; pliancy.

Swarthness (n.) Swarthiness.

Swartiness (n.) Swarthiness.

Sweatiness (n.) Quality or state of being sweaty.

Tawdriness (n.) Quality or state of being tawdry.

Tenderness (n.) The quality or state of being tender (in any sense of the adjective).

Tetchiness (n.) See Techiness.

Thwartness (n.) The quality or state of being thwart; obliquity; perverseness.

Tickleness (n.) Unsteadiness.

Time

Torpidness (n.) The qualityy or state of being torpid.

Torridness (n.) The quality or state of being torrid or parched.

Touchiness (n.) The quality or state of being touchy peevishness; irritability; irascibility.

Towardness (n.) Quality or state of being toward.

Trashiness (n.) The quality or state of being trashy.

Trebleness (n.) The quality or state of being treble; as, the trebleness of tones.

Trickiness (n.) The quality of being tricky.

Trustiness (n.) The quality or state of being trusty.

Turbidness (n.) The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.

Unableness (n.) Inability.

Uneasiness (n.) The quality or state of being uneasy; restlessness; disquietude; anxiety.

Uneasiness (n.) The quality of making uneasy; discomfort; as, the uneasiness of the road.

Unfirmness (n.) Infirmness.

Unlikeness (n.) The quality or state of being unlike; want of resemblance; dissimilarity.

Unripeness (n.) Quality or state of being unripe.

Unru

Unwariness (n.) The quality or state of being unwary; carelessness; heedlessness.

Unwellness (n.) Quality or state of being unwell.

Usefulness (n.) The quality or state of being useful; utility; serviceableness; advantage.

Vulgarness (n.) The quality of being vulgar.

Wantonness (n.) The quality or state of being wanton; negligence of restraint; sportiveness; recklessness; lasciviousness.

Wateriness (n.) The quality or state of being watery; moisture; humidity.

Weanedness (n.) Quality or state of being weaned.

Wickedness (n.) The quality or state of being wicked; departure from the rules of the divine or the moral law; evil disposition or practices; immorality; depravity; sinfulness.

Wickedness (n.) A wicked thing or act; crime; sin; iniquity.

Wilderness (v. t.) A tract of land, or a region, uncultivated and uninhabited by human beings, whether a forest or a wide, barren plain; a wild; a waste; a desert; a pathless waste of any kind.

Wilderness (v. t.) A disorderly or neglected place.

Wilderness (v. t.) Quality or state of being wild; wildness.

Wilfulness (n.) See Willful, Willfully, and Willfulness.

Woefulness (n.) Alt. of Wofulness

Wontedness (n.) The quality or state of being accustomed.

Woodenness (n.) Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.

Wool

Worthiness (n.) The quality or state of being worthy; desert; merit; excellence; dignity; virtue; worth.

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