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abandonness

noun

Etymology

From abandon + -ness.

  1. derived from *bʰeh₂-✻
  2. derived from *bannaną✻ — “to proclaim, command”
  3. derived from *ban✻
  4. derived from bannum — “proclamation”
  5. derived from abandoner
  6. inherited from abandounen
  7. suffixed as abandonness — “abandon + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state, quality, or condition of abandon

    The state, quality, or condition of abandon; abandonment

    • Ten thousand particulars are now told of the female historian's insolence, capriciousness, and even abandonness.
    • Here they can be grown at almost all seasons and almost without attention; here they can be grown without labor or effort — grown wild and in wanton abandonness.
    • With an abandonness Thirumathi Ananthanayaki said 'Perhaps we have developed immunity to these poisons (from adulterants) that is why we do not seem to have much ill effects'.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA