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cluefulness

noun
/ˈkluːˌfʌl.nəs/UK

Etymology

* clueful + -ness

  1. inherited from *glew-✻ — “to ball up, clump together; lump, swelling”
  2. inherited from *kliuwīną✻
  3. inherited from *kliuwīn✻ — “ball, clump”
  4. inherited from clēowen
  5. inherited from clew
  6. suffixed as clueful — “clue + ful”
  7. suffixed as cluefulness — “clueful + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being clueful, knowledgeable

    • Major Peter had the qualities making for a great leader of a Fighter Squadron, utter sincerity of purpose, high personal courage, and those general attributes of air-leadership consolidated in the pilot’s word, “cluefulness”
    • Jon used to complain that not enough people wanted towrite these: “All the clueful writers want to write about stuff that displays their cluefulness,” he once told me.
    • G is Gifting. It is defined as the amount of natural clufulness you were given “at the factoty.”¶ L is Learning. It is defined as the rate at which you gain (or lose) clufulness over time

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for cluefulness. 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