spreadingness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English spreading 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 spreadingness From spreading + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of spreading, or tending to spread
Indeed, the “very cleverness and spreadingness of murder” may have gathered her father within its compass[…].
2009 January 18, Art Winslow, “Ordinary Madness”, in New York Times: