SECURENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does secureness mean? 

• SECURENESS (noun)
  The noun SECURENESS has 2 senses:

1. the state of freedom from fear or danger

2. the quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

  Familiarity information: SECURENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SECURENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of freedom from fear or danger

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("secureness" is a kind of...):

security (the state of being free from danger or injury)

Antonym:

insecureness (the state of being exposed to risk or anxiety)

Derivation:

secure (immune to attack; incapable of being tampered with)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

fastness; fixedness; fixity; fixture; secureness

Hypernyms ("secureness" is a kind of...):

immovability; immovableness (not capable of being moved or rearranged)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "secureness"):

lodgement; lodging; lodgment (the state or quality of being lodged or fixed even temporarily)

Derivation:

secure (not likely to fail or give way)