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confidingness

confidingness noun: the state or quality of being confiding.

Noun

confidingness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being confiding.
    • Birds of every kind abounded, and these it was our delight to pursue, with stones and clods of earth. Robins, in particular, thanks to their confidingness, we destroyed in great numbers.1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, [Paris]: Olympia Press, →OCLC

Origin of confidingness

From confiding + -ness.

Questions about confidingness

What does confidingness mean?
Confidingness means the state or quality of being confiding.
What part of speech is confidingness?
Confidingness is a noun.

Words near confidingness in the dictionary

  1. confiders
  2. confides
  3. confideth
  4. confiding
  5. confidingly
  6. confidingness
  7. confidings
  8. config
  9. configed
  10. configing
  11. configs

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