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repulsiveness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English repulsive 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 repulsiveness From repulsive + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The characteristic of being repulsive.
   • Out of the fact of this palatableness on the part of the one and repulsiveness on the part of the other has grown a singular condition in the southern states, where the trees as here once grew in equal profusion, side by side in the forests. 2011, Winthrop Packard, Forests and Fields Through the Year, page 343:

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