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unrelentingness

unrelentingness noun: the quality of being unrelenting.

Noun

unrelentingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unrelenting.
    • It plausibly pressed upon him, that as all the evidences of his mother's dying unrelentingness toward him were negative; and the only positive evidence—so to speak—of even that negativeness, was the will which omitted all mention of Pierre […]1852, Herman Melville, Pierre: or, The Ambiguities, page 213

Origin of unrelentingness

From unrelenting + -ness.

Questions about unrelentingness

What does unrelentingness mean?
Unrelentingness means the quality of being unrelenting.
What part of speech is unrelentingness?
Unrelentingness is a noun.

Words near unrelentingness in the dictionary

  1. unreleasing
  2. unrelegated
  3. unrelented
  4. unrelenting
  5. unrelentingly
  6. unrelentingness
  7. unrelentless
  8. unrelentlessly
  9. unrelentlessness
  10. unrelentor
  11. unrelentors

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