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quintessentialness

quintessentialness noun: the quality of being quintessential.

Noun

quintessentialness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being quintessential.
    • For starkness of vision, "quintessentialness" of expression, boldness and solidity of thought, and freedom of form, a New England spinster who flourished between 1830 and 1886 in an elm-shaded college town above the Connecticut valley, might give the imagists “pointers”: here is a discovery to...1915, The New Republic 1915-08-14: Volume 4 Issue 41, New Republic, page 52
    • His quintessentialness made them aware that they were in France.2013, Gabrielle F. Culmer, Arrive by Dusk

Origin of quintessentialness

From quintessential + -ness.

Questions about quintessentialness

What does quintessentialness mean?
Quintessentialness means the quality of being quintessential.
What part of speech is quintessentialness?
Quintessentialness is a noun.

Words near quintessentialness in the dictionary

  1. quintessentialize
  2. quintessentialized
  3. quintessentializes
  4. quintessentializing
  5. quintessentially
  6. quintessentialness
  7. quintessentials
  8. quintet
  9. quintets
  10. quintett
  11. quintette

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