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verbness

verbness noun: quality of being a verb.

Noun

verbness (uncountable)

  1. Quality of being a verb.
    • The verbal patterns of foreign, especially non-Indo-European, languages contrasts so sharply with those of English that the learner virtually has no basis on which to build except a vague concept of "verbness".1985, Robert Burchfield, The English Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 170

Origin of verbness

From verb + -ness. From verb + -ness.

Questions about verbness

What does verbness mean?
Verbness means quality of being a verb.
What part of speech is verbness?
Verbness is a noun.

Words near verbness in the dictionary

  1. verbless clause
  2. verbless clauses
  3. verblessly
  4. verblessness
  5. verblike
  6. verbness
  7. verbnoun
  8. verbnouns
  9. verboid
  10. verboids
  11. verbolatry

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