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becomingness

becomingness noun: the state or quality of being becoming (pleasingly suitable).

Noun

becomingness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being becoming (pleasingly suitable).
    • Miss Crawford smiled her perfect approbation; and hastened to complete the gift by putting the necklace round her, and making her see how well it looked. Fanny had not a word to say against its becomingness, and, excepting what remained of her scruples, was exceedingly pleased with an acquisition...1814 May 9, [Jane Austen], chapter XXVI, in Mansfield Park: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC
    • There would have been little becomingness in his hastening after her and his Lordship of Dunstanwolde; his court to her must be paid with grace and considerateness.1897, Frances Hodgson Burnett, chapter 17, in His Grace of Osmonde, New York: Scribner, page 231

Origin of becomingness

From becoming (“suitable, fit”) + -ness.

Words formed from becomingness

Questions about becomingness

What does becomingness mean?
Becomingness means the state or quality of being becoming (pleasingly suitable).
What part of speech is becomingness?
Becomingness is a noun.

Words near becomingness in the dictionary

  1. becoming
  2. becoming of
  3. becoming one flesh
  4. becoming the Joker
  5. becomingly
  6. becomingness
  7. becomings
  8. becompliment
  9. becomplimented
  10. becomplimenting
  11. becompliments

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