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fellness

fellness noun: the state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.

Noun

fellness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
    • For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...].1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Origin of fellness

From fell + -ness.

Questions about fellness

What does fellness mean?
Fellness means the state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
What part of speech is fellness?
Fellness is a noun.

Words near fellness in the dictionary

  1. fellmongering
  2. fellmongers
  3. fellmongery
  4. Fellner
  5. Fellners
  6. fellness
  7. felloe
  8. felloes
  9. fellow
  10. fellow citizen
  11. fellow feeling

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