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jantiness

jantiness is the obsolete form of jauntiness.

Meaning of jauntiness

Noun

jauntiness (countable and uncountable, plural jauntinesses)

  1. The quality of being jaunty.
    • That jauntiness of air I was once master of

Origin of jantiness

From janty + -ness.

Questions about jantiness

What is jantiness the obsolete form of?
Jantiness is the obsolete form of jauntiness.

Words near jantiness in the dictionary

  1. janthinids
  2. janthinobacteria
  3. janthinobacterial
  4. janthinobacterium
  5. jantily
  6. jantiness
  7. janting
  8. Janto
  9. jants
  10. jantu
  11. janty

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jantiness (page history and authors); jauntiness (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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