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Definition: Relentlessness |
RelentlessnessNoun1. Mercilessness characterized by an unwillingness to relent or let up; "the relentlessness or their pursuit". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "relentlessness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1902. (references) |
Synonyms: RelentlessnessSynonyms: inexorability (n), inexorableness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Relentlessness |
| English words defined with "relentlessness": inexorability, inexorableness. (references) |
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| "Relentlessness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Relentlessness" is used about 5 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% | 5 | 157,705 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "relentlessness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 坚持不懈 (Perseverance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σκληρότησ (cruelty, crustiness, hardness, inclemency, stoniness, toughness), σκληρότητα (bristliness, cruelty, crustiness, fellness, flintiness, hardness, harshness, inclemency, stoniness, toughness), αδυσώπητο (inexorability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kiengesztelhetetlenség, könyörtelenség (sternness), kérlelhetetlenség (implacability, rigor, rigour), hajthatatlanság (inexorability, rigidity, rigidness, rigor, rigour), hajlíthatatlanság (inflexibility, sternness), engesztelhetetlenség (implacability). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuvyghinid (barbarity, ruthlessness), neuhrocairys (ruthlessness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | elentlessnessray intransigenţã (intransigence, intransigency). (various references) неотступность. (various references) nemilosrdnost (ruthlessness, sternness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "relentlessness": relentlessnesses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-e-l-l-n-n-r-s-s-s-s-t" | |
-3 letters: sternnesses, tensenesses, tersenesses. | |
-4 letters: relentless, sereneness. | |
-5 letters: seeresses, senseless, sternness, tenseness, terseness. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-e-l-l-n-n-r-s-s-s-s-t" | |
+2 letters: relentlessnesses. | |
+3 letters: crestfallennesses. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 6C 65 6E 74 6C 65 73 73 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .-.. . -. - .-.. . ... ... -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01101100 01100101 01101110 01110100 01101100 01100101 01110011 01110011 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e l e n t l e s s n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 006C 0065 006E 0074 006C 0065 0073 0073 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)5271787180867871858580718585 |
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