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inveterateness

inveterateness noun: inveteracy.

Noun

inveterateness (uncountable)

  1. inveteracy
    • Twas the first play he praised on mortality; and as time hath rendred him more perfect in the Art, so hath the inveterateness of his malice more ready in the execution1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin of inveterateness

From inveterate + -ness.

Questions about inveterateness

What does inveterateness mean?
Inveterateness means inveteracy.
What part of speech is inveterateness?
Inveterateness is a noun.

Words near inveterateness in the dictionary

  1. inveteracies
  2. inveteracy
  3. inveterate
  4. inveterated
  5. inveterately
  6. inveterateness
  7. inveterates
  8. inveterating
  9. inveteration
  10. inveteratist
  11. inveteratists

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