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swarthness

swarthness is the archaic form of swarthiness.

Meaning of swarthiness

Noun

swarthiness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being swarthy.

Origin of swarthness

From swarth + -ness.

Questions about swarthness

What is swarthness the archaic form of?
Swarthness is the archaic form of swarthiness.

Words near swarthness in the dictionary

  1. swarthiest
  2. swarthily
  3. swarthiness
  4. Swarthmoor
  5. Swarthmore
  6. swarthness
  7. Swarthout
  8. Swarthouts
  9. swarths
  10. swarthy
  11. swartiness

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Adapted from Wiktionary: swarthness (page history and authors); swarthiness (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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