readiness
/ˈɹɛdinəs/
readiness noun: the state or degree of being ready; preparedness.
Noun
readiness (usually uncountable, plural readinesses)
- The state or degree of being ready; preparedness.
- readiness for civil emergencies
- We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC
- Willingness.
- his readiness to help
- It was a long, enduring scream — one that would send her back into a time and into a childhood which had been forgotten with the readiness that we forget unpleasant moments in our lives.1976 December 18, Tommi Avicolli, “Previn's Bleak Book Has Note of Hope”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 18
readiness meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
readiness in Hindi
- state or degree of being ready
- तत्परता tatpartā
readiness in Tamil
- ஆயத்த நிலை, ஆயத்தம், விரைவு, அணியம், அணிகம், மூட்டம்
readiness in Marathi
- readiness
- तयारी tayārī
readiness in Urdu
- readiness
- تیاری taiyārī
More languagesFewer languages
- readiness in Bengali
- প্রস্তুতি, তৎপরতা
- readiness in Telugu
- ఆలాయము ālāyamu, సిద్ధము siddhamu, తయారు tayāru
- readiness in Malayalam
- സന്നദ്ധത sannaddhata
- readiness in Kannada
- ಒಪ್ಪಿಗೆ, ಅಣಿ, ಇಷ್ಟ, ಆಸಕ್ತಿ
Examples of readiness in a sentence
- The very emphasis on reading readiness and on the methods employed to teach children the rudiments of reading has meant that the other, the higher, levels of reading have tended to be slighted.1972, Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren, How to Read a Book, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 26:
- Meanwhile, 68018 has been debranded and lost its DRS colours, in readiness for its transfer to Chiltern as a standby rescue locomotive.2025 November 12, “News in Brief: Latest Chiltern makeover”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 13:
Forms of readiness
| plural | readinesses |
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Origin of readiness
From ready + -ness.
Words formed from readiness
Questions about readiness
- What does readiness mean?
- Readiness means the state or degree of being ready; preparedness.
- What is readiness in Hindi?
- Readiness in Hindi is तत्परता (tatpartā). See Readiness meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use readiness in a sentence?
- The very emphasis on reading readiness and on the methods employed to teach children the rudiments of reading has meant that the other, the higher, levels of reading have tended to be slighted.
- What part of speech is readiness?
- Readiness is a noun.
- How do you pronounce readiness?
- Readiness is pronounced /ˈɹɛdinəs/.
- What is the plural of readiness?
- The plural of readiness is readinesses.
Words near readiness in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: readiness (page history and authors); readiness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); तयारी (Marathi) (page history and authors); تیاری (Urdu) (page history and authors); Readiness (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ఆలాయము (Telugu) (page history and authors); സന്നദ്ധത (Malayalam) (page history and authors); readiness (Kannada 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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