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awesomeness

noun
/ˈɔːsəmnəs/UK

Etymology

From awesome + -ness.

  1. derived from *h₂egʰ-✻
  2. derived from *agaz✻ — “terror, dread”
  3. derived from agi
  4. inherited from aw
  5. suffixed as awesome — “awe + some”
  6. suffixed as awesomeness — “awesome + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being awesome.

    • Traditional religions try to capture the awesomeness and subdue the terror with their sense of fate, as did Nietzsche. We should not deny that such notions are naturalistic just because they are also religious.
    • The bogan likes playing Epic Leads because the bogan is on an inexorable quest for maxtreme awesomeness.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for awesomeness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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