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crampedness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English cramped Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English crampedness From cramped + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being cramped.
    • They hadn't reckoned with the attendant personality disorders, which the coldness, the darkness, the dampness, the crampedness and the loneliness were doing nothing to decrease. 1982, Douglas Adams, Life, the Universe and Everything, page 136:

Translations (5)

ru теснота́ (state or quality of being cramped) · tr sıkışıklık (state or quality of being cramped) · az darısqallıq (state or quality of being cramped) · sv trånghet (state or quality of being cramped) · sv trängsel (state or quality of being cramped)