Word.ws English Dictionary

tannishness

/ˈtænɨʃnɨs/

tannishness noun: the quality or state of being tannish.

Noun

tannishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being tannish.
    • not so much brownishness as tannishness
    • I wouldn't say that she was tanned, but there was a certain tannishness about her.

Origin of tannishness

From tannish + -ness or tan + -ish + -ness.

Questions about tannishness

What does tannishness mean?
Tannishness means the quality or state of being tannish.
What part of speech is tannishness?
Tannishness is a noun.
How do you pronounce tannishness?
Tannishness is pronounced /ˈtænɨʃnɨs/.

Words near tannishness in the dictionary

  1. tanniniferous
  2. tanninim
  3. tanninlike
  4. tannins
  5. tannish
  6. tannishness
  7. tannist
  8. tannists
  9. tanno-
  10. tannocaffeic acid
  11. tannoform

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tannishness (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: “tannishness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/tannishness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.