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brisknesses

brisknesses is the plural of briskness.

Meaning of briskness

Noun

briskness (usually uncountable, plural brisknesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being brisk.
    • [John] Evelyn was astonished at the immense number of pictures he saw in the Dutch fairs. He attributes the briskness of the trade in paintings to the necessary limitations of the country. The farmer or the citizen of sea-locked Holland, unable to lay out his gains on tracts of land, found a medium...1857 October, R. A. V., “Art History”, in Fraser’s Magazine for Town and Country, volume LVI, number CCCXXXIV, London: John W[illiam] Parker and Son, West Strand, →OCLC, page 500, column 1

Questions about brisknesses

What is brisknesses the plural of?
Brisknesses is the plural of briskness.

Words near brisknesses in the dictionary

  1. brisking up
  2. Briskis
  3. briskish
  4. briskly
  5. briskness
  6. brisknesses
  7. brisks
  8. brisks up
  9. brisky
  10. brisling
  11. brislings

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