meaningfulness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English meaningful

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

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 meaningfulness

From meaningful + -ness.

Noun

meaningfulness (usually uncountable, plural meaningfulnesses)

1. The state or measure of being meaningful.

   Near-synonym: meaning

Translations

state or measure of being meaningful

• Czech: smysluplnost f
• Esperanto: senchaveco
• German: Sinnhaftigkeit (de) f
• Swedish: meningsfullhet (sv) c
• Turkish: anlamlılık (tr), manidarlık (tr)