Respectfulness

Definition: Respectfulness

Respectfulness

Noun

1. Courteous regard for people's feelings; "in deference to your wishes"; "out of respect for his privacy".

Date "respectfulness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1880. (references)

Synonyms: Respectfulness

Synonyms: deference (n), respect (n). (additional references)

"Respectfulness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Respectfulness" is used about 2 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%	2	245,945

Expression using "respectfulness": respectfulness of others. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "respectfulness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		nderim (compliments, consideration, credit, curtsey, curtsy, deference, devoirs, distinction, esteem, estimation, homage, honor, honour, obeisance, respect, respectability, reverence, salute, veneration). (various references)

Bulgarian		почтителност (court, deference, respect). (various references)

Czech		zdvořilost (civility, comity, courtesy, mannerliness, politeness, urbanity). (various references)

German		Ehrbietigkeit. (various references)

Greek		σεβασμόσ (consideration, deference, respect, veneration), ευγένεια (chivalry, civility, comity, complaisance, consideration for, courtesy, cousteousness, delicacy, gallantry, gentility, gentleness, graciousness, humaneness, ladyship, loftiness, nobility, nobleness, politeness, refinement, tactfulness, urbanity, urbanness). (various references)

Hungarian		tisztelettudás. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		恭倹 (deference, respectfulness and modesty). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		きょうけ�" (deference, ecclesiastical or educational authority, humility, mad dog, modesty, power of the state, respectfulness and modesty, robust health, strong throwing arm). (various references)

Pig Latin		espectfulnessray

Portuguese		respeitabilidade (decency, dignity, reputation, repute, respectability, well doing). (various references)

Russian		почтительность. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		osobito poštovanje. (various references)

Spanish		respetuosidad, acatamiento (abidance, observance, reverence). (various references)

Swedish		respektfullhet. (various references)

Ukranian		шанобливість (homage), повага (credit, deference, esteem, estimation, homage, obeisance, regard, respect). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "respectfulness": respectfulnesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "respectfulness": disrespectfulness. (additional references)
	Words containing "respectfulness": disrespectfulnesses. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-e-e-e-f-l-n-p-r-s-s-s-t-u"
	-3 letters: cruelnesses, perfectness, restfulness.
	-4 letters: centerless, curtnesses, cutenesses, persecutes, pertnesses, preselects, purenesses, refluences, respectful, sculptress, secureness, selectness, spruceness, truenesses.
	-5 letters: centuples, crestless, cruelness, crustless, electress, erectness, esculents, fenceless, fleetness, fulnesses, percusses, persecute, precesses, preelects, preselect, presences, pretences, pretenses, refluence, resculpts, resentful, rufescent, scentless, sesterces, steepness, stressful, streusels, supersets, suspenser, terseness, unperfect.
	Words containing the letters "c-e-e-e-f-l-n-p-r-s-s-s-t-u"
	+2 letters: respectfulnesses.
	+3 letters: disrespectfulness.
	+5 letters: disrespectfulnesses.
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