spreadingness

spreadingness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree
English spreading
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 spreadingness

    From spreading + -ness.

    Noun

    spreadingness (uncountable)

    1. The quality of spreading, or tending to spread
      • 2009 January 18, Art Winslow, “Ordinary Madness”, in New York Times‎[1]:
        Indeed, the “very cleverness and spreadingness of murder” may have gathered her father within its compass […] .
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