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newfangleness

newfangleness is the obsolete form of newfangledness.

Meaning of newfangledness

Noun

newfangledness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being newfangled.

Origin of newfangleness

From Middle English newfangelnesse, newfongilnes, from Old English *nīwefangelnes (compare Old English underfangelnes), equivalent to new- + fangle + -ness.

Questions about newfangleness

What is newfangleness the obsolete form of?
Newfangleness is the obsolete form of newfangledness.

Words near newfangleness in the dictionary

  1. newfangled
  2. newfangledly
  3. newfangledness
  4. newfanglement
  5. newfanglements
  6. newfangleness
  7. newfangles
  8. newfangling
  9. newfanglist
  10. newfanglists
  11. newfangly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: newfangleness (page history and authors); newfangledness (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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