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offensiveness

offensiveness noun: the quality of being offensive.

Noun

offensiveness (countable and uncountable, plural offensivenesses)

  1. The quality of being offensive.
    • Some slurs like “slut” and “retard” vary in their perceived offensiveness to those polled, but also include some incredibly offensive words like the “N-word.”2011 September 21, Erica Ho, “Poll Finds Young People Aren’t Bothered by Slurs Used Online”, in Time, archived from the original on 18 Sep 2019

offensiveness meaning in Tamil and Urdu

offensiveness in Tamil

நொய்ம்மை, சொற்குற்றம்

offensiveness in Urdu

برائی, گستاخی, جارحیت, ناگواری

Forms of offensiveness

pluraloffensivenesses

Origin of offensiveness

From offensive + -ness.

Questions about offensiveness

What does offensiveness mean?
Offensiveness means the quality of being offensive.
What is offensiveness in Tamil?
Offensiveness in Tamil is நொய்ம்மை, சொற்குற்றம். See Offensiveness meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is offensiveness?
Offensiveness is a noun.
What is the plural of offensiveness?
The plural of offensiveness is offensivenesses.

Words near offensiveness in the dictionary

  1. offensive tackles
  2. offensive to pious ears
  3. offensive zone
  4. offensive zones
  5. offensively
  6. offensiveness
  7. offensivenesses
  8. offensives
  9. offensivity
  10. offer
  11. offer a knee

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Adapted from Wiktionary: offensiveness (page history and authors); offensiveness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); offensiveness (Urdu Wiktionary) (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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