fillingness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English filling 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 fillingness From filling + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The property of being filling, of making full.
The stew’s fillingness was legendary: no one had ever managed to finish a second bowl.
[S]eeing that Gods all-fillingneſs cannot be halv'd, but is vvhat is is vvholly, and this is vvhat it is halfly, it follovvs, That becauſe this Being cannot reach half of it, or all of it, it can reach none at all of it.
1674, N[athaniel] Fairfax, chapter VI, in A Treatise of the Bulk and Selvedge of the World. Wherein the Greatness, Littleness and Lastingness of Bodies are Freely Handled. […], London: […] Robert Boulter, […], →OCLC, page 167: