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heathenness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English hethenesse, from Old English hǣþennes (“heathenism, heathenry, heathendom”), from Proto-West Germanic *haiþinnassī (“heathenness”), equivalent to heathen + -ness.

  1. inherited from *haiþinnassī✻ — “heathenness”
  2. inherited from hǣþennes — “heathenism, heathenry, heathendom”
  3. inherited from hethenesse

Definitions

  1. Quality of being heathen.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for heathenness. 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