Word.ws English Dictionary

riddenness

riddenness noun: the quality of condition of being ridden by something.

Noun

riddenness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of condition of being ridden by something.
    • The accent is not so much on the honest man's problems as on the lust-riddenness of the society.1964, Link, Volume 6, Issues 26-52, United India Periodicals

Origin of riddenness

From ridden + -ness.

Questions about riddenness

What does riddenness mean?
Riddenness means the quality of condition of being ridden by something.
What part of speech is riddenness?
Riddenness is a noun.

Words near riddenness in the dictionary

  1. ridden to hounds
  2. ridden up
  3. ridden up on
  4. ridden with
  5. ridden with the punches
  6. riddenness
  7. ridder
  8. riddered
  9. riddering
  10. Ridderkerk
  11. ridders

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: riddenness (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.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “riddenness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/riddenness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.