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markednesses

markednesses is the plural of markedness.

Meaning of markedness

Noun

markedness (countable and uncountable, plural markednesses)

  1. The quality of a word, form or phoneme that is considered to be more complicated, less natural or stranger than the usual form.
    • Using the word "comedienne" instead of "comedian" can be seen as an example of markedness.

Questions about markednesses

What is markednesses the plural of?
Markednesses is the plural of markedness.

Words near markednesses in the dictionary

  1. marked-up
  2. markedly
  3. markedness
  4. markedness constraint
  5. markedness constraints
  6. markednesses
  7. markee
  8. markees
  9. Markel
  10. Markell
  11. Markells

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Adapted from Wiktionary: markednesses (page history and authors); markedness (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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