Word.ws English Dictionary

demureness

demureness noun: the state or quality of being demure.

Noun

demureness (usually uncountable, plural demurenesses)

  1. (usually) The state or quality of being demure.
    • She would laugh, high and loud, and the shopkeepers would laugh with her, their laughter softer than hers, a thoughtful demureness that was mindful of the fact that she was the customer […] and therefore should not be upstaged.2009, Chika Unigwe, On Black Sisters’ Street, Vintage (2010), pages 257-258
    • “Don’t be coy. Haven’t I sent you nice gifts? Haven’t I been sweet to you? You play at demureness, but now? Why him? Why not me?”2016, C Pam Zhang, How Much of These Hills Is Gold, Virago, page 222

Forms of demureness

pluraldemurenesses

Origin of demureness

From demure + -ness.

Questions about demureness

What does demureness mean?
Demureness means the state or quality of being demure.
What part of speech is demureness?
Demureness is a noun.
What is the plural of demureness?
The plural of demureness is demurenesses.

Words near demureness in the dictionary

  1. demur
  2. demure
  3. demure as a whore at a christening
  4. demured
  5. demurely
  6. demureness
  7. demurenesses
  8. demurer
  9. demures
  10. demurest
  11. demuring

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: demureness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “demureness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/demureness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.