9 letter words ending in ness

Acridness (n.) The quality of being acrid or pungent; irritant bitterness; acrimony; as, the acridity of a plant, of a speech.

Acuteness (n.) The quality of being acute or pointed; sharpness; as, the acuteness of an angle.

Acuteness (n.) The faculty of nice discernment or perception; acumen; keenness; sharpness; sensitiveness; -- applied to the senses, or the understanding. By acuteness of feeling, we perceive small objects or slight impressions: by acuteness of intellect, we discern nice distinctions.

Acuteness (n.) Shrillness; high pitch; -- said of sounds.

Acuteness (n.) Violence of a disease, which brings it speedily to a crisis.

Adaptness (n.) Adaptedness.

Adeptness (n.) The quality of being adept; skill.

Adultness (n.) The state of being adult.

Agileness (n.) Agility; nimbleness.

Alertness (n.) The quality of being alert or on the alert; briskness; nimbleness; activity.

Algidness (n.) Algidity.

Aloneness (n.) A state of being alone, or without company; solitariness.

Aloofness (n.) State of being aloof.

Ampleness (n.) The state or quality of being ample; largeness; fullness; completeness.

Angriness (n.) The quality of being angry, or of being inc

Anileness (n.) Anility.

Anticness (n.) The quality of being antic.

Apartness (n.) The quality of standing apart.

Apertness (n.) Openness; frankness.

Apishness (n.) The quality of being apish; mimicry; foppery.

Awfulness (n.) The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.

Awfulness (n.) The state of being struck with awe; a spirit of solemnity; profound reverence.

Bawdiness (n.) Obscenity; lewdness.

Beaminess (n.) The state of being beamy.

Beeriness (n.) Beery condition.

Blackness (n.) The quality or state of being black; black color; atrociousness or enormity in wickedness.

Blandness (n.) The state or quality of being bland.

Blankness (n.) The state of being blank.

Blindness (n.) State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively.

Blondness (n.) The state of being blond.

Bluffness (n.) The quality or state of being bluff.

Bluntness (n.) Want of edge or point; dullness; obtuseness; want of sharpness.

Bluntness (n.) Abruptness of address; rude plainness.

Bonniness (n.) The quality of being bonny; gayety; handsomeness.

Boskiness (n.) Boscage; also, the state or quality of being bosky.

Braveness (n.) The quality of state or being brave.

Briefness (n.) The quality of being brief; brevity; conciseness in discourse or writing.

Brininess (n.) The state or quality of being briny; saltness; brinishness.

Briskness (n.) Live

Broadness (n.) The condition or quality of being broad; breadth; coarseness; grossness.

Brownness (n.) The quality or state of being brown.

Bruteness (n.) Brutality.

Bruteness (n.) Insensibility.

Budgeness (n.) Sternness; severity.

Bugginess (a.) The state of being infested with bugs.

Bulkiness (n.) Greatness in bulk; size.

Bur

Bushiness (n.) The condition or quality of being bushy.

Canniness (n.) Caution; crafty management.

Chariness (n.) The quality of being chary.

Cheapness (n.) Lowness in price, considering the usual price, or real value.

Childness (n.) The manner characteristic of a child.

Chillness (n.) Coolness; coldness; a chill.

Cleanness (n.) The state or quality of being clean.

Cleanness (n.) Purity of life or language; freedom from licentious courses.

Clearness (n.) The quality or state of being clear.

Closeness (n.) The state of being close.

Corkiness (n.) The quality of being corky.

Crankness (n.) Liability to be overset; -- said of a ship or other vessel.

Crankness (n.) Spright

Crassness (n.) Grossness.

Craziness (n.) The state of being broken down or weakened; as, the craziness of a ship, or of the limbs.

Craziness (n.) The state of being broken in mind; imbecility or weakness of intellect; derangement.

Crispness (n.) The state or quality of being crisp.

Crossness (n.) The quality or state of being cross; peevishness; fretfulness; ill humor.

Crudeness (n.) A crude, undigested, or unprepared state; rawness; unripeness; immatureness; unfitness for a destined use or purpose; as, the crudeness of iron ore; crudeness of theories or plans.

Cruelness (n.) Cruelty.

Curdiness (n.) The state of being curdy.

Cur

Curstness (n.) Peevishness; malignity; frowardness; crabbedness; sur

Dai

Deaconess (n.) A female deacon

Deaconess (n.) One of an order of women whose duties resembled those of deacons.

Deaconess (n.) A woman set apart for church work by a bishop.

Deaconess (n.) A woman chosen as a helper in church work, as among the Congregationalists.

Dinginess (n.) Quality of being dingy; a dusky hue.

Dirtiness (n.) The state of being dirty; filthiness; foulness; nastiness; baseness; sordidness.

Dizziness (n.) Giddiness; a whirling sensation in the head; vertigo.

Downiness (n.) The quality or state of being downy.

Dulceness (n.) Sweetness.

Dulciness (n.) See Dulceness.

Dumpiness (n.) The state of being dumpy.

Duskiness (n.) The state of being dusky.

Dustiness (n.) The state of being dusty.

Dyingness (n.) The state of dying or the stimulation of such a state; extreme languor; languishment.

Eagerness (n.) The state or quality of being eager; ardent desire.

Eagerness (n.) Tartness; sourness.

Ear

Emptiness (n.) The state of being empty; absence of contents; void space; vacuum; as, the emptiness of a vessel; emptiness of the stomach.

Emptiness (n.) Want of solidity or substance; unsatisfactoriness; inability to satisfy desire; vacuity; hollowness; the emptiness of earthly glory.

Emptiness (n.) Want of knowledge; lack of sense; vacuity of mind.

Equalness (n.) Equality; evenness.

Erectness (n.) Uprightness of posture or form.

Exactness (n.) The condition of being exact; accuracy; nicety; precision; regularity; as, exactness of jurgement or deportment.

Exactness (n.) Careful observance of method and conformity to truth; as, exactness in accounts or business.

Faintness (n.) The state of being faint; loss of strength, or of consciousness, and self-control.

Faintness (n.) Want of vigor or energy.

Faintness (n.) Feebleness, as of color or light; lack of distinctness; as, faintness of description.

Faintness (n.) Faint-heartedness; timorousness; dejection.

Falseness (n.) The state of being false; contrariety to the fact; inaccuracy; want of integrity or uprightness; double dealing; unfaithfulness; treachery; perfidy; as, the falseness of a report, a drawing, or a singer's notes; the falseness of a man, or of his word.

Fatalness (n.) Quality of being fatal.

Fattiness (n.) State or quality of being fatty.

Fetidness (n.) The quality or state of being fetid.

Fieriness (n.) The quality of being fiery; heat; acrimony; irritability; as, a fieriness of temper.

Filminess (n.) State of being filmy.

Fishiness (n.) The state or quality of being fishy or fishlike.

Fixedness (n.) The state or quality of being fixed; stability; steadfastness.

Fixedness (n.) The quality of a body which resists evaporation or volatilization by heat; solidity; cohesion of parts; as, the fixedness of gold.

Flakiness (n.) The state of being flaky.

Fleetness (n.) Swiftness; rapidity; velocity; celerity; speed; as, the fleetness of a horse or of time.

Fluidness (n.) The state of being flluid; fluidity.

Flushness (n.) The state of being flush; abundance.

Fogginess (n.) The state of being foggy.

Forkiness (n.) The quality or state or dividing in a forklike manner.

Frailness (n.) Frailty.

Frankness (n.) The quality of being frank; candor; openess; ingenuousness; fairness; liberality.

Freshness (n.) The state of being fresh.

Fumidness (n.) The state of being fumid; smokiness.

Fussiness (n.) The quality of being fussy.

Gaudiness (n.) The quality of being gaudy.

Gauziness (n.) The quality of being gauzy; flimsiness.

Gelidness (n.) The state of being gelid; gelidity.

Gemminess (n.) The state or quality of being gemmy; spruceness; smartness.

Ghastness (n.) Ghast

Giddiness (n.) The quality or state of being giddy.

Glariness (n.) Alt. of Glaringness

Glueyness (n.) Viscidity.

God

Goutiness (n.) The state of being gouty; gout.

Governess (n.) A female governor; a woman invested with authority to control and direct; especially, one intrusted with the care and instruction of children, -- usually in their homes.

Grandness (n.) Grandeur.

Graveness (n.) The quality of being grave.

Greatness (n.) The state, condition, or quality of being great; as, greatness of size, greatness of mind, power, etc.

Greatness (n.) Pride; haughtiness.

Greenness (n.) The quality of being green; viridity; verdancy; as, the greenness of grass, or of a meadow.

Greenness (n.) Freshness; vigor; newness.

Greenness (n.) Immaturity; unripeness; as, the greenness of fruit; inexperience; as, the greenness of youth.

Griminess (n.) The state of being grimy.

Grossness (n.) The state or quality of being gross; thickness; corpulence; coarseness; shamefulness.

Gumminess (n.) The state or quality of being gummy; viscousness.

Hairiness (n.) The state of abounding, or being covered, with hair.

Handiness (n.) The quality or state of being handy.

Happiness (n.) Good luck; good fortune; prosperity.

Happiness (n.) An agreeable feeling or condition of the soul arising from good fortune or propitious happening of any kind; the possession of those circumstances or that state of being which is attended enjoyment; the state of being happy; contentment; joyful satisfaction; felicity; blessedness.

Happiness (n.) Fortuitous elegance; unstudied grace; -- used especially of language.

Hardiness (n.) Capability of endurance.

Hardiness (n.) Hardihood; boldness; firmness; assurance.

Hardiness (n.) Hardship; fatigue.

Harshness (n.) The quality or state of being harsh.

Hastiness (n.) The quality or state of being hasty; haste; precipitation; rashness; quickness of temper.

Headiness (n.) The quality of being heady.

Heariness (n.) The quality of being hearty; as, the heartiness of a greeting.

Heaviness (n.) The state or quality of being heavy in its various senses; weight; sadness; sluggishness; oppression; thickness.

Hil

Hoariness (n.) The state of being hoary.

Horsiness (n.) The condition or quality of being a horse; that which pertains to a horse.

Horsiness (n.) Fondness for, or interest in, horses.

Huffiness (n.) The state of being huffish; petulance; bad temper.

Humanness (n.) The quality or state of being human.

Humidness (n.) Humidity.

Huskiness (n.) The state of being husky.

Huskiness (n.) Roughness of sound; harshness; hoarseness; as, huskiness of voice.

Ineptness (n.) Unfitness; ineptitude.

Inertness (n.) Want of activity or exertion; habitual indisposition to action or motion; sluggishness; apathy; insensibility.

Inertness (n.) Absence of the power of self-motion; inertia.

Itchiness (n.) The state of being itchy.

Jantiness (n.) See Jauntiness.

Jemminess (n.) Spruceness.

Jettiness (n.) The state of being jetty; blackness.

Jol

Juiciness (n.) The state or quality of being juicy; succulence plants.

Lankiness (n.) The condition or quality or being lanky.

Largeness (n.) The quality or state of being large.

Leafiness (n.) The state of being leafy.

Leakiness (n.) The quality of being leaky.

Leaviness (n.) Leafiness.

Leukeness (n.) See Luke, etc.

Levelness (n.) The state or quality of being level.

Lightness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being light or not heavy; buoyancy; levity; fickleness; nimbleness; delicacy; grace.

Lightness (n.) Illumination, or degree of illumination; as, the lightness of a room.

Lightness (n.) Absence of depth or of duskiness in color; as, the lightness of a tint; lightness of complexion.

Litheness (n.) The quality or state of being lithe; flexibility; limberness.

Lividness (n.) Lividity.

Loathness (n.) Unwillingness; reluctance.

Loftiness (n.) The state or quality of being lofty.

Looseness (n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being loose; as, the looseness of a cord; looseness of style; looseness of morals or of principles.

Lousiness (n.) The state or quality of being lousy.

Low

Low

Loyalness (n.) Loyalty.

Lucidness (n.) The quality of being lucid; lucidity.

Luckiness (n.) The state or quality of being lucky; as, the luckiness of a man or of an event.

Luckiness (n.) Good fortune; favorable issue or event.

Lustiness (n.) State of being lusty; vigor; strength.

Manginess (n.) The condition or quality of being mangy.

Man

Massiness (n.) The state or quality of being massy; ponderousness.

Mazedness (n.) The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment.

Mea

Meatiness (n.) Quality of being meaty.

Merriness (n.) The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.

Milkiness (n.) State or quality of being milky.

Mistiness (n.) State of being misty.

Moistness (n.) The quality or state of being moist.

Moldiness (n.) Alt. of Mouldiness

Moodiness (n.) The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

Mossiness (n.) The state of being mossy.

Muckiness (n.) The quality of being mucky.

Muddiness (n.) The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

Muddiness (n.) Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.

Mugginess (n.) The condition or quality of being muggy.

Murkiness (n.) The state of being murky.

Muskiness (n.) The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

Mustiness (n.) The quality or state of being musty.

Muzziness (n.) The state or quality of being muzzy.

Nakedness (n.) The condition of being naked.

Nakedness (n.) The privy parts; the genitals.

Nappiness (n.) The quality of having a nap; abundance of nap, as on cloth.

Nastiness (n.) The quality or state of being nasty; extreme filthness; dirtiness; also, indecency; obscenity.

Nasutness (n.) Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness.

Neediness (n.) The state or quality of being needy; want; poverty; indigence.

Nobleness (n.) The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; state

Noisiness (n.) The state or quality of being noisy.

Northness (n.) A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point to the north.

Obeseness (n.) Quality of being obese; obesity.

Oftenness (n.) Frequency.

One

Otherness (n.) The quality or state of being other or different; alterity; oppositeness.

Oughtness (n.) The state of being as a thing ought to be; rightness.

Patroness (n.) A female patron or helper.

Pettiness (n.) The quality or state of being petty or paltry; littleness; meanness.

Phitoness (n.) Pythoness; witch.

Pithiness (n.) The quality or state of being pithy.

Plainness (n.) The quality or state of being plain.

Plumpness (n.) The quality or state of being plump.

Pockiness (n.) The state of being pocky.

Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being first.

Primeness (n.) The quality or state of being prime, or excellent.

Proneness (n.) The quality or state of being prone, or of bending downward; as, the proneness of beasts is opposed to the erectness of man.

Proneness (n.) The state of lying with the face down; -- opposed to supineness.

Proneness (n.) Descent; declivity; as, the proneness of a hill.

Proneness (n.) Inclination of mind, heart, or temper; propension; disposition; as, proneness to self-gratification.

Prosiness (n.) The quality or state of being prosy; tediousness; tiresomeness.

Proudness (n.) The quality of being proud; pride.

Puffiness (n.) The quality or state of being puffy.

Pulpiness (n.) the quality or state of being pulpy.

Pursiness (n.) State of being pursy.

Putidness (n.) The quality or state of being putrid.

Pythoness (n.) The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.

Pythoness (n.) Any woman supposed to have a spirit of divination; a sort of witch.

Queerness (n.) The quality or state of being queer.

Quickness (n.) The condition or quality of being quick or living; life.

Quickness (n.) Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit.

Quickness (n.) Acuteness of perception; keen sensibility.

Quickness (n.) Sharpness; pungency of taste.

Quietness (n.) The quality or state of being quiet; freedom from noise, agitation, disturbance, or excitement; stillness; tranquillity; calmness.

Rabidness (n.) The quality or state of being rabid.

Racleness (n.) See Rakelness.

Raininess (n.) The state of being rainy.

Rapidness (n.) Quality of being rapid; rapidity.

Readiness (n.) The state or quality of being ready; preparation; promptness; aptitude; willingness.

Restiness (n.) The quality or state of being resty; sluggishness.

Rightness (n.) Straightness; as, the rightness of a

Rightness (n.) The quality or state of being right; right relation.

Rigidness (n.) The quality or state of being rigid.

Rockiness (n.) The state or quality of being rocky.

Roominess (n.) The quality or state of being roomy; spaciousness; as, the roominess of a hall.

Roughness (n.) The quality or state of being rough.

Roundness (n.) The quality or state of being round in shape; as, the roundness of the globe, of the orb of the sun, of a ball, of a bowl, a column, etc.

Roundness (n.) Fullness; smoothness of flow; as, the roundness of a period; the roundness of a note; roundness of tone.

Roundness (n.) Openess; plainess; boldness; positiveness; as, the roundness of an assertion.

Ruddiness (n.) The quality or state of being ruddy; as, the ruddiness of the cheeks or the sky.

Ruralness (n.) The quality or state of being rural.

Rushiness (n.) The quality or state of abounding with rushes.

Rustiness (n.) The quality or state of being rusty.

Sandiness (n.) The quality or state of being sandy, or of being of a sandy color.

Sapidness (n.) Quality of being sapid; sapidity.

Sappiness (n.) The quality of being sappy; juiciness.

Sauciness (n.) The quality or state of being saucy; that which is saucy; impertinent boldness; contempt of superiors; impudence.

Sca

Scantness (n.) The quality or condition of being scant; narrowness; smallness; insufficiency; scantiness.

Secreness (n.) Secrecy; privacy.

Seediness (n.) The quality or state of being seedy, shabby, or worn out; a state of wretchedness or exhaustion.

Sextoness (n.) A female sexton; a sexton's wife.

Shadiness (n.) Quality or state of being shady.

Shakiness (n.) Quality of being shaky.

Sharpness (n.) The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.

Shortness (n.) The quality or state of being short; want of reach or extension; brevity; deficiency; as, the shortness of a journey; the shortness of the days in winter; the shortness of an essay; the shortness of the memory; a shortness of provisions; shortness of breath.

Showiness (n.) The quality or state of being showy; pompousness; great parade; ostentation.

Sikerness (n.) The quality or state of being sicker, or certain.

Sikerness (n.) See 2d Sicker, Sickerly, etc.

Silkiness (n.) The quality or state of being silky or silken; softness and smoothness.

Silkiness (n.) Fig.: Effeminacy; weakness.

Sil

Slackness (n.) The quality or state of being slack.

Sleekness (n.) The quality or state of being sleek; smoothness and glossiness of surface.

Slickness (n.) The state or quality of being slick; smoothness; sleekness.

Sliminess (n.) The quality or state of being slimy.

Slopeness (n.) State of being slope.

Smallness (n.) The quality or state of being small.

Smartness (n.) The quality or state of being smart.

Smokiness (n.) The quality or state of being smoky.

Soapiness (n.) Quality or state of being soapy.

Soberness (n.) The quality or state of being sober.

Sogginess (n.) The quality or state of being soggy; soddenness; wetness.

Soi

Solemness (n.) Solemnness.

Solidness (n.) State or quality of being solid; firmness; compactness; solidity, as of material bodies.

Solidness (n.) Soundness; strength; truth; validity, as of arguments, reasons, principles, and the like.

Soothness (n.) Truth; reality.

Sootiness (n.) The quality or state of being sooty; fuliginousness.

Sorriness (n.) The quality or state of being sorry.

Soundness (n.) The quality or state of being sound; as, the soundness of timber, of fruit, of the teeth, etc.; the soundness of reasoning or argument; soundness of faith.

Southness (n.) A tendency in the end of a magnetic needle to point toward the south pole.

Spareness (n.) The quality or state of being lean or thin; leanness.

Spewiness (n.) The state of being spewy.

Spiciness (n.) The quality or state of being spicy.

Spininess (n.) Quality of being spiny.

Spuminess (n.) The quality or condition of being spumy; spumescence.

Staidness (n.) The quality or state of being staid; seriousness; steadiness; sedateness; regularity; -- the opposite of wildness, or levity.

Staleness (n.) The quality or state of being stale.

Starkness (n.) The quality or state of being stark.

Steepness (n.) Quality or state of being steep; precipitous declivity; as, the steepnessof a hill or a roof.

Steepness (n.) Height; loftiness.

Sternness (n.) The quality or state of being stern.

Stiffness (n.) The quality or state of being stiff; as, the stiffness of cloth or of paste; stiffness of manner; stiffness of character.

Stillness (n.) The quality or state of being still; quietness; silence; calmness; inactivity.

Stillness (n.) Habitual silence or quiet; taciturnity.

Stoniness (n.) The quality or state of being stony.

Stoutness (n.) The state or quality of being stout.

Stuntness (n.) Stuntedness; brevity.

Sulkiness (n.) The quality or state of being sulky; sullenness; moroseness; as, sulkiness of disposition.

Sultaness (n.) A sultana.

Sunniness (n.) The quality or state of being sunny.

Sur

Swartness (n.) The quality or state of being swart.

Sweetness (n.) The quality or state of being sweet (in any sense of the adjective); gratefulness to the taste or to the smell; agreeableness.

Swiftness (n.) The quality or state of being swift; speed; quickness; celerity; velocity; rapidity; as, the swiftness of a bird; the swiftness of a stream; swiftness of descent in a falling body; swiftness of thought, etc.

Taperness (n.) The quality or state of being taper; tapering form; taper.

Tardiness (n.) The quality or state of being tardy.

Tawniness (n.) The quality or state of being tawny.

Techiness (n.) The quality or state of being techy.

Testiness (n.) The quality or state of being testy; fretfulness; petulance.

Thickness (n.) The quality or state of being thick (in any of the senses of the adjective).

Tightness (n.) The quality or condition of being tight.

Tipsiness (n.) The state of being tipsy.

Tiredness (n.) The state of being tired, or weary.

Totalness (n.) The quality or state of being total; entireness; totality.

Toughness (n.) The quality or state of being tough.

Truthness (n.) Truth.

Turfiness (n.) Quality or state of being turfy.

Tyranness (n.) A female tyrant.

Undueness (n.) The quality of being undue.

Unharness (v. t.) To strip of harness; to loose from harness or gear; as, to unharness horses or oxen.

Unharness (v. t.) To disarm; to divest of armor.

Unsadness (n.) Infirmity; weakness.

Utterness (n.) The quality or state of being utter, or extreme; extremity; utmost; uttermost.

Vagueness (n.) The quality or state of being vague.

Validness (n.) The quality or state of being valid.

Viewiness (n.) The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.

Viridness (n.) Viridity; greenness.

Vocalness (n.) The quality of being vocal; vocality.

Washiness (n.) The quality or state of being washy, watery, or weak.

Wasteness (n.) The quality or state of being waste; a desolate state or condition; desolation.

Wasteness (n.) That which is waste; a desert; a waste.

Weariness (n.) The quality or state of being weary or tried; lassitude; exhaustion of strength; fatigue.

Weasiness (n.) Quality or state of being weasy; full feeding; sensual indulgence.

Weirdness (n.) The quality or state of being weird.

Whereness (n.) The quality or state of having a place; ubiety; situation; position.

Whiteness (n.) The quality or state of being white; white color, or freedom from darkness or obscurity on the surface.

Whiteness (n.) Want of a sanguineous tinge; paleness; as from terror, grief, etc.

Whiteness (n.) Freedom from stain or blemish; purity; cleanness.

Whiteness (n.) Nakedness.

Whiteness (n.) A flock of swans.

Wholeness (n.) The quality or state of being whole, entire, or sound; entireness; totality; completeness.

Windiness (n.) The quality or state of being windy or tempestuous; as, the windiness of the weather or the season.

Windiness (n.) Fullness of wind; flatulence.

Windiness (n.) Tendency to generate wind or gas; tendency to produce flatulence; as, the windiness of vegetables.

Windiness (n.) Tumor; puffiness.

Wittiness (n.) The quality of being witty.

Wofulness (n.) The quality or state of being woeful; misery; wretchedness.

Woodiness (n.) The quality or state of being woody.

Wordiness (n.) The quality or state of being wordy, or abounding with words; verboseness.

Wrongness (n.) The quality or state of being wrong; wrongfulness; error; fault.

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