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ineffaceableness

ineffaceableness noun: the state or condition of being ineffaceable.

Noun

ineffaceableness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being ineffaceable.
    • [B]eautiful women […] seem, for a long interval, mysteriously exempt from the incantations of decay; for as the outward loveliness touch by touch departs, the interior beauty touch by touch replaces that departing bloom, with charms, which, underivable from earth, possess the ineffaceableness of...1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Origin of ineffaceableness

From ineffaceable + -ness.

Questions about ineffaceableness

What does ineffaceableness mean?
Ineffaceableness means the state or condition of being ineffaceable.
What part of speech is ineffaceableness?
Ineffaceableness is a noun.

Words near ineffaceableness in the dictionary

  1. ineffableness
  2. ineffables
  3. ineffably
  4. ineffaceability
  5. ineffaceable
  6. ineffaceableness
  7. ineffaceably
  8. ineffectible
  9. ineffective
  10. ineffectively
  11. ineffectiveness

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