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importantness

importantness noun: the quality of being important; importance.

Noun

importantness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being important; importance.
    • There was need also of an institution for savings that would reach the poorer classes of colored people, teach them the importantness of being industrious, of seeking steady employment.1885; reprinted 1996 in Richard Germain, Dollars Through the Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America, page 112
    • This word "essential" is too easily made a convenience for the forceful indication of a primary quality of importantness;1997, Schuyler B. Jackson, William Harmon, Rational Meaning, page 273

Origin of importantness

From important + -ness.

Questions about importantness

What does importantness mean?
Importantness means the quality of being important; importance.
What part of speech is importantness?
Importantness is a noun.

Words near importantness in the dictionary

  1. important bird area
  2. important bird areas
  3. importanter
  4. importantest
  5. importantly
  6. importantness
  7. importation
  8. importations
  9. importazole
  10. imported
  11. imported cabbage worm

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