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Definition: Fulsomeness |
FulsomenessNoun1. Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm. 2. Smug self-serving earnestness. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "fulsomeness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
Synonyms: FulsomenessSynonyms: oiliness (n), oleaginousness (n), smarm (n), smarminess (n), unction (n), unctuousness (n). (additional references) |
| Language | Translations for "fulsomeness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
German | Widerlichkeit (biliousness, distastefulness, loathsomeness, nastiness, nauseousness, odiousness, offensiveness, repulsiveness, sickliness, stinkingness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Hebrew | בחיל" (disgust, nausea, noisomemess, queasiness, revulsion, sickness). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 臭み (affectation, bad smell). (various references) | ||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | くさみ (affectation, bad smell). (various references) | ||||||||||
Manx | keoyeeaght (mustiness), greddeeys. (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | ulsomenessfay tính chất quá đáng (excessiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||
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Words beginning with "fulsomeness": fulsomenesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-m-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
-1 letter: foulnesses. | |
-2 letters: fulnesses. | |
-3 letters: foulness, fumeless, fuseless, menseful, noseless, selenous, selfness, senseful, soleness, soleuses, sulfones. | |
-4 letters: ensouls, flenses, flosses, fulness, fulsome, lessens, lessons, loesses, mousses, mussels, oneself, sonless, sulfone, sumless, sunless, useless. | |
-5 letters: ensoul, ensues, felons, fesses, flense, flumes, foemen, fosses, fusees, fusels, fusses, lemons, lenses, leones, lessen, lesson, losses, louses, lumens, melons, menses, mesnes. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-m-n-o-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: fulsomenesses. | |
+3 letters: mournfulnesses, remorsefulness. | |
+4 letters: mellifluousness. | |
+5 letters: remorsefulnesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 75 6C 73 6F 6D 65 6E 65 73 73 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. ..- .-.. ... --- -- . -. . ... ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01110101 01101100 01110011 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F u l s o m e n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0075 006C 0073 006F 006D 0065 006E 0065 0073 0073 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4087788581797180718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Translations: Modern 4. Derivations | 5. Anagrams 6. Orthography 7. Bibliography |
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