accustomedness

accustomedness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English accustom
Middle English -ed
English -ed
English accustomed
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 accustomedness

    From accustomed + -ness.

    Pronunciation

    • (US) IPA(key): /əˈkʌs.təmd.nɪs/

    Noun

    accustomedness (uncountable)

    1. Habituation; the quality of being used to something.
      • 1910, Elizabeth Lynn Linton, The Second Youth of Theodora Desanges:
        if we caught the mystery of life and knew the origin of things , should we not have the same feeling of satiety from the accustomedness of knowledge as we have now from the accustomedness of emotion ?
      • 1912, R. G. Badger et al., Psychotherapeutics:
        Those who do not depend upon reason must grow into feeling by accustomedness
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