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dinginesses

dinginesses is the plural of dinginess.

Meaning of dinginess

Noun

dinginess (usually uncountable, plural dinginesses)

  1. (usually) The state or quality of being dingy.
    • His nether garments were of a blueish gray—violent in its colours once, but sobered now by age and dinginess—and were so stretched and strained in a tough conflict between his braces and his straps, that they appeared every moment in danger of flying asunder at the knees.1842 December – 1844 July, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1844, →OCLC, page 34

Questions about dinginesses

What is dinginesses the plural of?
Dinginesses is the plural of dinginess.

Words near dinginesses in the dictionary

  1. Dingilian
  2. Dingilians
  3. dingily
  4. Dinginan
  5. dinginess
  6. dinginesses
  7. dinging
  8. dinging up
  9. dingir
  10. dingirs
  11. dingiso

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