setness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality or state of being set; formality; obstinacy. countable,uncountable
    — the starched setness of a sententious writer

词形变化

setnesses plural

词源

From set + -ness. Not apparently continuing Old English setnes and Middle English setnesse, which are morphologically identical. First attested in the 1640s.
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