Fineness

Definitions: Fineness

Fineness

Noun

1. The quality of being very good indeed; "the inn is distinguished by the fineness of its cuisine".

2. The property of being very narrow or thin; "he marvelled at the fineness of her hair".

3. Having a very fine texture; "the fineness of the sand on the beach".

4. The quality of being beautiful and delicate in appearance; "the daintiness of her touch"; "the fineness of her features".

Date "fineness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Fineness \Fine"ness\, noun. [From Fine,]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Industry	A general term used for textile fibres, yarns, and fabrics with special reference to their transverse dimensions and measured in a variety of units, such as weight per unit lengths, or length per unit weight, cross-sectional area, and diameter. Source: European Union. (references)
Mining	A. The proportion of pure silver or gold in jewelry, bullion, or coins; often expressed in parts per thousand; American silver coin is nine-tenths or 0.900 fine; English gold coin is eleven-twelfths or 0.9166 fine b. A measure of specific surface area or particle-size distribution. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Fineness

Synonyms: choiceness (n), daintiness (n), delicacy (n), powderiness (n), thinness (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Texture	Texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap. (roughness); flatness (smoothness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Domain	Title
Books	A comparison of subjective and objective estimation of yield and fineness of greasy wool (reference) Current Golds and Silver Coins of all countries, their Weight and Fineness, their intrinsic Value in English Money with Facsimiles of the Coins (reference) Fineness of Cement/Stp473 (reference) Fineness of cement; a symposium presented at the seventy-first annual meeting, American Society for Testing and Materials, San Francisco, Calif., 23-28 June 1968 (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Saul Bellow	Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	For the purpose of this Article the gold coins mentioned above shall be defined as being of the weight and fineness of gold as enacted by law on January 1, 1914. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The material was sand of every degree of fineness and of various rich colors, commonly mixed with a little clay.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Fineness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Fineness" is used about 46 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	46	50,285

Expressions using "fineness": fineness of alloy ♦ fineness ratio. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "fineness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		përsosuri (nonpareil, Nonsuch, transcendence), përqindje e arit, kualitet i lartë. (various references)

Arabic		‏نعومة (daintiness, mellowness, neatness, smoothness, softness, velvet), ‏صفاء (clarity, lucidity, pureness, purity, serenity), ‏جودة (goodness, quality), ‏أناقة (chic, daintiness, deftness, elegance, finery, neatness, richness, smartness, sophistication, sport, style, stylishness, suavity), ‏رهافة (delicacy, flimsiness, sleeplessness, slimness, tenuousness, thinness), ‏رقة (airiness, benignity, daintiness, delicacy, finesse, flimsiness, forgiveness, geniality, gentleness, graciousness, loveliness, neatness, polish, refinement, sensitiveness, sensitivity, sleeplessness, softness, suavity, subtlety, tenderling, tenderness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness), ‏دهاء (artfulness, craft, cunning, finesse, guile, malignity, maneuver, manoeuvre, ploy, resource, sagacity, sharpness, slyness, wit), ‏دقة (accuracy, closeness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, finesse, fussiness, nicety, preciseness, precision, promptitude, punctuality, refinement, reliability, rigor, rigour, strictness, subtlety, sureness, tenuity, thoroughness, veracity), ‏درجة نقاوة الذهب. (various references)

Bulgarian		хубост (beauty, comeliness, fairness, prettiness, sightliness), финес (daintiness, delicacy, nicety, refinement, subtlety), тънкост (delicacy, exility, subtlety, tenuity), острота (acridity, acrimony, acuteness, bitterness, cutting edge, edge, incision, nip, penetration, poignancy, pungency, sharpness, stridency), елегантност (cachet, dash, distinction, elegance, elegancy, grace, gracefulness, graces, neatness, polish, style, stylishness), проницателност (acuity, acumen, discernment, edge, fathom, insight, penetration, perspicacity, sagacity, shrewdness), превзетост (flamboyance, mannerism, preciosity, primness), изостреност, деликатност (consideration, delicacy, fragility, frailness, nicety, tenderness). (various references)

Chinese		精致 (Dapper). (various references)

Czech		krása (amenity, beauty, fairness, glory). (various references)

Danish		finholdighed, finhed, finesse (finesse). (various references)

Dutch		fijnheid (gauge, tenderness), scherpte (acerbity, acrimony, acuity, angularity, definition, pungent stimulus, sharpness), goudgehalte. (various references)

Finnish		hienopitoisuus. (various references)

French		finesse (finesse). (various references)

German		feinheit (acuteness, delicacy, delicateness, excellence, finesse, intricacy, keenness, niceness, nicety, nuance, poshness, refinement, sensitivity, smartness, subtlety, thinness), feingehalt. (various references)

Greek		λεπτότητα (comity, consideration, daintiness, delicacy, finesse, flimsiness, gauziness, niceness, nicety, polish, refinement, sleaziness, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtlety, tact, tactfulness, tenuity, tenuousness, thinness, ticklishness, waspishness). (various references)

Hebrew		ע�"י� ות (daintiness, delicacy, finesse, gentleness, grace, niceness, refinement, softness, subtlety, tenderness), ע�"ון (delight, elegance, enjoyment, refinement, sublimation), �"קות (delicacy, flimsiness, niceness, nicety, subtlety, tenuity, thinness). (various references)

Hungarian		finomság (daintiness, delicacy, elegance, elegancy, finesse, gentility, morbidezza, subtlety, tenuity, tenuousness, title), szépség (beaut, beauty, Belle, bloom, fairness, finery, finesse, niceness, pulchritude). (various references)

Italian		finezza (acuteness, finesse, nicety, thinness). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		繊度 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せ�"ど (crisis in a battle, death, freshness, kurtosis, recently, thousand times). (various references)

Korean		� 움. (various references)

Manx		ooashlid (gentility, illustriousness, nobility, nobleness, peerage), meeinid (blandness, gentleness, patience, silkiness, smoothness, softness, tameness), keylid (narrowness, slenderness, slightness, thinness, waist, waist of instrument, weakness, weakness of mixture), glennid (chastity, clarity, cleanliness, flatness, hygiene, purity, sharpness, thoroughness), braewid (braveness, handsomeness, splendour). (various references)

Norwegian		finhet. (various references)

Pig Latin		inenessfay

Portuguese		finura (daintiness, finesse, subtlety, tact, tenderness, tenuity). (various references)

Romanian		frumuseţe (beauty, fairness, good looks, goodliness, handsomeness, loftiness, loveliness, peach, picture), fineţe (delicacy, finesse, nicety, refinement, subtlety), subtilitate (acuteness, exility, finesse, nicety, refinement, sagacity, shrewdness, subtlety), strãlucire (bravery, brightness, brilliance, brilliancy, coruscation, eclat, effulgence, fire, flame, flash, flashing, flush, gaiety, glitter, gloss, glow, gorgeousness, grandeur, irradiance, irradiation, lucency, luminosity, luster, lustre, panoply, pomp, radiance, radiancy, radiation, refulgence, resplendence, richness, scintillation, sheen, shine, sparkle, splendor, splendour), seninãtate (cloudlessness, serenity), eleganţã (daintiness, distinction, elegance, fashionableness, grace, handsomeness, jauntiness, polish, smartness, swellishness), delicateţe (daintiness, dainty, delicacy, gentleness, nicety, refinement, softness, tactfulness, tenderness, thinness). (various references)

Russian		тонкость (exility, fine point, finesse, shrewdness, subtleness, subtlety, thinness, twists and turns). (various references)

Scottish		fìnealtachd. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		finoća (subtlety). (various references)

Spanish		finura (discrimination, finesse, finicalness, grace, lovableness, niceness, nicety, refinement, suavity, subtlety), fineza. (various references)

Swedish		finhet (daintiness, delicacy, gentility, gentillity, nicety, tenuity). (various references)

Thai		ความละเอีย�". (various references)

Turkish		zarafet (daintiness, dainty, elegance, grace, gracefulness, graciousness, pulchritude, spruceness, stylishness), incelik (civility, courtesy, daintiness, delicacy, discretion, elaborateness, finesse, fragility, grace, gracefulness, keenness, niceness, nicety, point, polish, politeness, refinement, slenderness, slightness, slimness, subtility, subtlety, tact, thinness, touch), güzellik (beauty, charms, comeliness, cosmetic, fairness, feminene charms, handsomeness, niceness, prettiness, pulchritude). (various references)

Ukranian		тонкість (delicacy, finesse, polish, quiddity, quillet, subtlety), високопробність, вишуканість (chic, courtliness, daintiness, delicacy, elegance, nicety, smartness). (various references)

Vietnamese		vẻ đẹp đẽ tính tế nhị. (various references)

Welsh		meinder (slenderness). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	pulchritudo, pulchritudo pulchritudinis. (various references)
Middle French	1400-1600	finesse. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "fineness": finenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Fineness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Fennessy, findness, finness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "fineness" (pronounced 'Fine"ness'): Abruptness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Acuteness, Adaptness, Adeptness, Adroitness, Adultness, Albiness, Alertness, Allness, Aloneness, Aloofness, Animoseness, Antiqueness, Apartness, Apertness, Aptness, Archness, Arguteness, Augustness, Austereness, Averseness, Badness, Baldness, Bareness, Baseness, Bigness, Blackness, Blandness, Blankness, Blindness, Blitheness, Blondness, Blueness, Bluffness, Bluntness, Boldness, Braveness, Briefness, brightness, Briskness, Broadness, Brownness, Brusqueness, Bruteness, Budgeness, Business, Calmness, Cavalierness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "e-e-f-i-n-n-s-s"
	-1 letter: finesse.
	-2 letters: seines.
	-3 letters: fesse, fines, neifs, nenes, nines, seifs, seine, seise, sense, sines.
	-4 letters: eses, fees, fens, fess, fine, fins, inns, neif, nene, ness, nine, seen, sees, seif, seis, sene, sine, sins.
	-5 letters: efs, ens, ess, fee, fen, fie, fin, ifs, inn, ins, nee, see, sei, sen, sin, sis.
	Words containing the letters "e-e-f-i-n-n-s-s"
	+2 letters: finenesses, finiteness.
	+3 letters: faintnesses, fancinesses, feelingness, foreignness, funkinesses, funninesses, intensifies, unfitnesses.
	+4 letters: definiteness, enfranchises, feminineness, fiendishness, finitenesses, fleetingness, flintinesses, friendliness, infiniteness, intensifiers, sinfulnesses, sniffinesses, unfairnesses.
	+5 letters: confirmedness, defensiveness, differentness, feelingnesses, feloniousness, fenestrations, finicalnesses, finickinesses, fittingnesses, foreignnesses, frankincenses, franticnesses, frontogenesis, gainfulnesses, ineffableness, infusibleness, mindfulnesses, offensiveness, painfulnesses, plentifulness, unfeelingness, uniformnesses, unselfishness.
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