importantness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English important 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 importantness From important + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being important; importance.
Their time is in most demand; they earn stature, prestige, and importantness for this.
2005, Kerry Temple, Back to Earth: A Backpacker's Journey into Self and Soul, page 17:This word "essential" is too easily made a convenience for the forceful indication of a primary quality of importantness;
1997, Schuyler B. Jackson, William Harmon, Rational Meaning, page 273:There was need also of an institution for savings that would reach the poorer classes of colored people, teach them the importantness of being industrious, of seeking steady employment.
1885; reprinted 1996 in Richard Germain, Dollars Through the Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America, page 112