8 letter words ending in ness

Ableness (n.) Ability of body or mind; force; vigor.

Acidness (n.) Acidity; sourness.

Agedness (n.) The quality of being aged; oldness.

Airiness (n.) The state or quality of being airy; openness or exposure to the air; as, the airiness of a country seat.

Airiness (n.) Lightness of spirits; gayety; levity; as, the airiness of young persons.

Albiness (n.) A female albino.

Archness (n.) The quality of being arch; cleverness; sly humor free from malice; waggishness.

Aridness (n.) Aridity; dryness.

Baldness (n.) The state or condition of being bald; as, baldness of the head; baldness of style.

Bareness (n.) The state of being bare.

Baroness (n.) A baron's wife; also, a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right; as, the Baroness Burdett-Coutts.

Baseness (n.) The quality or condition of being base; degradation; vileness.

Blueness (n.) The quality of being blue; a blue color.

Boldness (n.) The state or quality of being bold.

Boniness (n.) The condition or quality of being bony.

Business (n.) That which busies one, or that which engages the time, attention, or labor of any one, as his principal concern or interest, whether for a longer or shorter time; constant employment; regular occupation; as, the business of life; business before pleasure.

Business (n.) Any particular occupation or employment engaged in for livelihood or gain, as agriculture, trade, art, or a profession.

Business (n.) Financial dealings; buying and selling; traffic in general; mercantile transactions.

Business (n.) That which one has to do or should do; special service, duty, or mission.

Business (n.) Affair; concern; matter; -- used in an indefinite sense, and modified by the connected words.

Business (n.) The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal.

Business (n.) Care; anxiety; diligence.

Calmness (n.) The state of quality of being calm; quietness; tranquillity; self-repose.

Canoness (n.) A woman who holds a canonry in a conventual chapter.

Chopness (n.) A kind of spade.

Coldness (n.) The state or quality of being cold.

Coolness (n.) The state of being cool; a moderate degree of cold; a moderate degree, or a want, of passion; want of ardor, zeal, or affection; calmness.

Coolness (n.) Calm impudence; self-possession.

Coziness (n.) The state or quality of being cozy.

Curtness (n.) The quality of bing curt.

Cuteness (n.) Acuteness; cunning.

Daftness (n.) The quality of being daft.

Dampness (n.) Moderate humidity; moisture; fogginess; moistness.

Darkness (n.) The absence of light; blackness; obscurity; gloom.

Darkness (n.) A state of privacy; secrecy.

Darkness (n.) A state of ignorance or error, especially on moral or religious subjects; hence, wickedness; impurity.

Darkness (n.) Want of clearness or perspicuity; obscurity; as, the darkness of a subject, or of a discussion.

Darkness (n.) A state of distress or trouble.

Deafness (n.) Incapacity of perceiving sounds; the state of the organs which prevents the impression which constitute hearing; want of the sense of hearing.

Deafness (n.) Unwillingness to hear; voluntary rejection of what is addressed to the understanding.

Dearness (n.) The quality or state of being dear; cost

Dearness (n.) Fondness; preciousness; love; tenderness.

Deepness (n.) The state or quality of being deep, profound, mysterious, secretive, etc.; depth; profundity; -- opposed to shallowness.

Deepness (n.) Craft; insidiousness.

Deftness (n.) The quality of being deft.

Demoness (n.) A female demon.

Dewiness (n.) State of being dewy.

Direness (n.) Terribleness; horror; woefulness.

Dirkness (n.) Darkness.

Doziness (n.) The state of being dozy; drowsiness; inclination to sleep.

Dullness (n.) The state of being dull; slowness; stupidity; heaviness; drowsiness; bluntness; obtuseness; dimness; want of luster; want of vividness, or of brightness.

Dumbness (n.) The quality or state of being dumb; muteness; silence; inability to speak.

Duskness (n.) Duskiness.

Eariness (n.) Fear or timidity, especially of something supernatural.

Easiness (n.) The state or condition of being easy; freedom from distress; rest.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from difficulty; ease; as the easiness of a task.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from emotion; compliance; disposition to yield without opposition; unconcernedness.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from effort, constraint, or formality; -- said of style, manner, etc.

Easiness (n.) Freedom from jolting, jerking, or straining.

Evenness (n.) The state of being ven, level, or disturbed; smoothness; horizontal position; uniformity; impartiality; calmness; equanimity; appropriate place or level; as, evenness of surface, of a fluid at rest, of motion, of dealings, of temper, of condition.

Evilness (n.) The condition or quality of being evil; badness; viciousness; malignity; vileness; as, evilness of heart; the evilness of sin.

Fairness (n.) The state of being fair, or free form spots or stains, as of the skin; honesty, as of dealing; candor, as of an argument, etc.

Fastness (a.) The state of being fast and firm; firmness; fixedness; security; faithfulness.

Fastness (a.) A fast place; a stronghold; a fortress or fort; a secure retreat; a castle; as, the enemy retired to their fastnesses in the mountains.

Fastness (a.) Conciseness of style.

Fastness (a.) The state of being fast or swift.

Featness (n.) Skill; adroitness.

Fellness (n.) The quality or state of being fell or cruel; fierce barbarity.

Ferdness (n.) Fearfulness.

Fineness (a.) The quality or condition of being fine.

Fineness (a.) Freedom from foreign matter or alloy; clearness; purity; as, the fineness of liquor.

Fineness (a.) The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins.

Fineness (a.) Keenness or sharpness; as, the fineness of a needle's point, or of the edge of a blade.

Firmness (n.) The state or quality of being firm.

Flatness (n.) The quality or state of being flat.

Flatness (n.) Eveness of surface; want of relief or prominence; the state of being plane or level.

Flatness (n.) Want of vivacity or spirit; prostration; dejection; depression.

Flatness (n.) Want of variety or flavor; dullness; insipidity.

Flatness (n.) Depression of tone; the state of being below the true pitch; -- opposed to sharpness or acuteness.

Fondness (n.) The quality or state of being fond; foolishness.

Fondness (n.) Doting affection; tender liking; strong appetite, propensity, or relish; as, he had a fondness for truffles.

Foulness (n.) The quality or condition of being foul.

Foxiness (n.) The state or quality of being foxy, or foxlike; craftiness; shrewdness.

Foxiness (n.) The state of being foxed or discolored, as books; decay; deterioration.

Foxiness (n.) A coarse and sour taste in grapes.

Foziness (n.) The state of being fozy; spiritlessness; dullness.

Freeness (n.) The state or quality of being free; freedom; liberty; openness; liberality; gratuitousness.

Fullness (n.) The state of being full, or of abounding; abundance; completeness.

Fusiness (n.) A fusty state or quality; moldiness; mustiness; an ill smell from moldiness.

Gameness (n.) Endurance; pluck.

Gastness (n.) See Ghastness.

Gladness (n.) State or quality of being glad; pleasure; joyful satisfaction; cheerfulness.

Glibness (n.) The quality of being glib.

Glumness (n.) Moodiness; sullenness.

Goneness (n.) A state of exhaustion; faintness, especially as resulting from hunger.

Goodness (n.) The quality of being good in any of its various senses; excellence; virtue; kindness; benevolence; as, the goodness of timber, of a soil, of food; goodness of character, of disposition, of conduct, etc.

Grayness (n.) The quality of being gray.

Grimness (n.) Fierceness of look; sternness; crabbedness; forbiddingness.

Halfness (n.) The quality of being half; incompleteness.

Hardness (n.) The quality or state of being hard, literally or figuratively.

Hardness (n.) The cohesion of the particles on the surface of a body, determined by its capacity to scratch another, or be itself scratched;-measured among minerals on a scale of which diamond and talc form the extremes.

Hardness (n.) The peculiar quality exhibited by water which has mineral salts dissolved in it. Such water forms an insoluble compound with soap, and is hence unfit for washing purposes.

Haziness (n.) The quality or state of being hazy.

Highness (n.) The state of being high; elevation; loftiness.

Highness (n.) A title of honor given to kings, princes, or other persons of rank; as, His Royal Highness.

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Idleness (n.) The condition or quality of being idle (in the various senses of that word); uselessness; fruitlessness; triviality; inactivity; laziness.

Inkiness (n.) The state or quality of being inky; blackness.

Justness (n.) The quality of being just; conformity to truth, propriety, accuracy, exactness, and the like; justice; reasonableness; fairness; equity; as, justness of proportions; the justness of a description or representation; the justness of a cause.

Keenness (n.) The quality or state of being keen.

Kindness (a.) The state or quality of being kind, in any of its various senses; manifestation of kind feeling or disposition beneficence.

Kindness (a.) A kind act; an act of good will; as, to do a great kindness.

Lameness (n.) The condition or quality of being lame; as, the lameness of an excuse or an argument.

Lankness (n.) The state or quality of being lank.

Lateness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.

Laziness (n.) The state or quality of being lazy.

Leanness (n.) The condition or quality of being lean.

Likeness (n.) The state or quality of being like; similitude; resemblance; similarity; as, the likeness of the one to the other is remarkable.

Likeness (n.) Appearance or form; guise.

Likeness (n.) That which closely resembles; a portrait.

Likeness (n.) A comparison; parable; proverb.

Liminess (n.) The state or quality of being limy.

Limpness (n.) The quality or state of being limp.

Loneness (n.) Solitude; seclusion.

Longness (n.) Length.

Loudness (n.) The quality or state of being loud.

Maziness (n.) The state or quality of being mazy.

Meanness (n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

Meanness (n.) A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.

Meekness (n.) The quality or state of being meek.

Meetness (n.) Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

Mildness (n.) The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

Miriness (n.) The quality of being miry.

Moreness (n.) Greatness.

Muchness (n.) Greatness; extent.

Muteness (n.) The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.

Nearness (n.) The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

neatness (n.) The state or quality of being neat.

Niceness (n.) Quality or state of being nice.

Nighness (n.) The quality or state of being nigh.

Numbness (n.) The condition of being numb; that state of a living body in which it loses, wholly or in part, the power of feeling or motion.

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Openness (n.) The quality or state of being open.

Paleness (n.) The quality or condition of being pale; want of freshness or ruddiness; a sickly whiteness; lack of color or luster; wanness.

Pertness (n.) The quality or state of being pert.

Piedness (n.) The state of being pied.

Pinkness (n.) Quality or state of being pink.

Platness (n.) Flatness.

Poorness (n.) The quality or state of being poor (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Poriness (n.) Porosity.

Primness (n.) The quality or state of being prim; affected formality or niceness; preciseness; stiffness.

Puniness (n.) The quality or state of being puny; littleness; pettiness; feebleness.

Pureness (n.) The state of being pure (in any sense of the adjective).

Quakness (n.) The state of being quaky; liability to quake.

Raciness (n.) The quality of being racy; peculiar and piquant flavor.

Rankness (n.) The condition or quality of being rank.

Rareness (n.) The state or quality of being rare.

Rashness (n.) The quality or state of being rash.

Realness (n.) The quality or condition of being real; reality.

Richness (n.) The quality or state of being rich (in any sense of the adjective).

Ripeness (n.) The state or quality of being ripe; maturity;; completeness; perfection; as, the ripeness of grain; ripeness of manhood; ripeness of judgment.

Ropiness (n.) Quality of being ropy; viscosity.

Rosiness (n.) The quality of being rosy.

Safeness (n.) The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

Sageness (n.) The quality or state of being sage; wisdom; sagacity; prudence; gravity.

Saltness (n.) The quality or state of being salt, or state of being salt, or impregnated with salt; salt taste; as, the saltness of sea water.

Sameness (n.) The state of being the same; identity; absence of difference; near resemblance; correspondence; similarity; as, a sameness of person, of manner, of sound, of appearance, and the like.

Sameness (n.) Hence, want of variety; tedious monotony.

Saneness (n.) The state of being sane; sanity.

Seedness (n.) Seedtime.

Selfness (n.) Selfishness.

Sickness (n.) The quality or state of being sick or diseased; illness; sisease or malady.

Sickness (n.) Nausea; qualmishness; as, sickness of stomach.

Silkness (n.) Silkiness.

Siziness (n.) The quality or state of being sizy; viscousness.

Slimness (n.) The quality or state of being slim.

Slowness (n.) The quality or state of being slow.

Smugness (n.) The quality or state of being smug.

Snugness (n.) The quality or state of being snug.

Softness (n.) The quality or state of being soft; -- opposed to hardness, and used in the various specific senses of the adjective.

Soleness (n.) The state of being sole, or alone; singleness.

Soreness (n.) The quality or state of being sore; tenderness; painfull; as, the soreness of a wound; the soreness of an affliction.

Sourness (n.) The quality or state of being sour.

Sureness (n.) The state of being sure; certainty.

Tallness (n.) The quality or state of being tall; height of stature.

Tameness (n.) The quality or state of being tame.

Tartness (n.) The quality or state of being tart.

Thinness (n.) The quality or state of being thin (in any of the senses of the word).

Tidiness (n.) The quality or state of being tidy.

Trigness (n.) The quality or state of being trig; smartness; neatness.

Trimness (n.) The quality or state of being trim; order

Trueness (n.) The quality of being true; reality; genuineness; faithfulness; sincerity; exactness; truth.

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Vainness (n.) The quality or state of being vain.

Vastness (n.) The quality or state of being vast.

Voidness (n.) The quality or state of being void; /mptiness; vacuity; nullity; want of substantiality.

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