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LOVINGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lovingness mean?
• LOVINGNESS (noun)
The noun LOVINGNESS has 2 senses:
1. a loving feeling
2. a quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
Familiarity information: LOVINGNESS used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A loving feeling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Synonyms:
caring; lovingness
Hypernyms ("lovingness" is a kind of...):
love (a strong positive emotion of regard and affection)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lovingness"):
warmheartedness; warmth (a warmhearted feeling)
Derivation:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A quality proceeding from feelings of affection or love
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
affectionateness; fondness; lovingness; warmth
Hypernyms ("lovingness" is a kind of...):
emotionalism; emotionality (emotional nature or quality)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lovingness"):
tenderness (a tendency to express warm and affectionate feeling)
uxoriousness (foolish fondness for or excessive submissiveness to one's wife)
Derivation:
loving (feeling or showing love and affection)
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