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UTTERNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does utterness mean?
• UTTERNESS (noun)
The noun UTTERNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being complete or utter or extreme
Familiarity information: UTTERNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being complete or utter or extreme
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
absoluteness; starkness; utterness
Context example:
the starkness of his contrast between justice and fairness was open to many objections
Hypernyms ("utterness" is a kind of...):
bound; boundary; limit (the greatest possible degree of something)
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