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Momentousness

Definition: Momentousness

Momentousness

Noun

1. Utmost importance.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "momentousness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references)


Usage Frequency: Momentousness

"Momentousness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Momentousness" is used about 3 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%3202,518

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Momentousness

Language Translations for "momentousness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

Wichtigkeit (concern, importance, meaningfulness, opportunity, primeness, significance). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

σπουδαιότησ (concernment, importance, moment, notableness, weight), σπουδαιότητα (concernment, consequence, import, importance, moment, notability, notableness, pregnancy, weight), σοβαρότησ (graveness, gravity, saturnineness, saturninity, sedateness, seriousness, soberness, solemnity, staidness), σοβαρότητα (graveness, notability, saturnineness, saturninity, sedateness, seriousness, soberness, solemity, solemnity, staidness). (various references)

   

Italian

  

importanza (account, caliber, calibre, concern, concernment, consequence, import, importance, magnitude, matter, moment, prominence, prominency, significance, stature), gravit (g, graveness, gravity, seriousness, severity). (various references)

   

Manx

  

scansh (consequence, importance, moment, regard, respect), imraaght, frioosaght. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

omentousnessmay

   

Spanish

  

trascendencia (implications, transcendence), suma importancia, decisivo (arbitrative, clinching, decisive, overriding, vital). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

ciddiyet (demureness, devoutness, earnestness, sedateness, seriousness, severity, solemnity, staidness, starch). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

tính chất trọng yếu (weightiness), tính chất quan trong. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Momentousness

Derivations

Words beginning with "momentousness": momentousnesses. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Momentousness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-m-m-n-n-o-o-s-s-s-t-u"

-4 letters: mesosomes, momentoes, momentous, monuments, summonses, sunstones.

-5 letters: mementos, mesosome, mestesos, momentos, monument, moonsets, muteness, neustons, omentums, osteoses, someones, stemsons, stenoses, sunstone, tenesmus.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-m-m-n-n-o-o-s-s-s-t-u"
 

+2 letters: momentousnesses.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Momentousness


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4D 6F 6D 65 6E 74 6F 75 73 6E 65 73 73

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--    ---    --    .    -.    -    ---    ..-    ...    -.    .    ...    ...

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001101 01101111 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101111 01110101 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#77 &#111 &#109 &#101 &#110 &#116 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004D 006F 006D 0065 006E 0074 006F 0075 0073 006E 0065 0073 0073

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

47817971808681878580718585

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Non-English Dictionaries with "Momentousness"

LanguageCoverageLanguage Translations

German

Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition"ερμανός, tedesco, Germaanish, Germaanagh, Garmane, Carmane, alemán, alman, $sisters german$ chị em ruột, $cousin german$ anh chị em con chú bác ruột, sister

Greek

λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφρασηgrieche, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, greco, Greagish, Greagagh, griego, yunanistan'a ait, yunanca, yunan, Yunanli, yunanlı, Rumca, rum, quân bạc bịp tôi không thể hiểu được điều đó thật l kỳ phùng địch thủ, kẻ lừa đảo, kẻ cắp b gi gặp nhau, người Hy-lạp tiếng Hy-lạp kẻ bịp bợm

Italian

dizionario, definizione, traduzioneitalienisch, Ιταλός, italiano, Iddaalish, italyanca, italyan

Manx

fockleyr, geyrid, meenaghey, keeayllaght, baghtmanx, Manninish, Manninagh, Gaelgagh, Yn Ghaelg, los habitantes de la isla de man, lengua de la isla de man, de la isla de man, man adası, man dili

Spanish

diccionario, definición, traducciónspanisch, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spagnolo, Spaainish, Spaainagh, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca

Turkish

sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercümetürkisch, τούρκικοσ, Yn Turkish, Turkagh, turco, türkçe, türk, tiếng Thổ nhĩ kỳ

Vietnamese

có tính chất sách vở, sự định rõ, sự định nghĩa, lời định nghĩa sự định, sự dịch, sự biến th nh sự giải thíchvietnamesin, vietnamesisch, vietnamese, 'ιετναμέζος, vietnamlı, vietnam dili, vietnam, người Việt nam tiếng Việt

English

Dictionary, Definition, Translationenglisch, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, inglese, Sostynagh, Sostnagh, Baarlagh, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce
 


INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage Frequency
3. Translations: Modern
4. Derivations
5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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