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earnesty

earnesty noun: earnestness.

Noun

earnesty (uncountable)

  1. (nonstandard) Earnestness.

Origin of earnesty

Attested since at least the 1500s, from earnest + -y. Modern uses may be modelled on honest→honesty.

Questions about earnesty

What does earnesty mean?
Earnesty means earnestness.
What part of speech is earnesty?
Earnesty is a noun.

Words near earnesty in the dictionary

  1. earnestly
  2. earnestness
  3. earnestnesse
  4. earnestnesses
  5. earnests
  6. earnesty
  7. earneth
  8. Earney
  9. Earneys
  10. earnful
  11. Earnhardt

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Adapted from Wiktionary: earnesty (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.

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