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SNUGNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does snugness mean?
• SNUGNESS (noun)
The noun SNUGNESS has 1 sense:
1. a state of warm snug comfort
Familiarity information: SNUGNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A state of warm snug comfort
Classified under:
Nouns denoting stable states of affairs
Synonyms:
Hypernyms ("snugness" is a kind of...):
comfort; comfortableness (a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain)
Derivation:
snug (enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space)
snug (offering safety; well protected or concealed)
Context examples
It was the complete idea of snugness.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
When all was finished, I thought Moor House as complete a model of bright modest snugness within, as it was, at this season, a specimen of wintry waste and desert dreariness without.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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