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Definition: Snugness |
SnugnessNoun1. A state of warm snug comfort. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "snugness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1814. (references) |
Synonyms: SnugnessSynonyms: cosiness (n), coziness (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Pleasure | Well-being; good; snugness, comfort, ease; cushion; sans souci, mind at ease. |
Seclusion Exclusion | Noun: seclusion, privacy; retirement; reclusion, recess; snugness; Adjective: delitescence; rustication, rus in urbe; solitude; solitariness; (singleness); isolation; loneliness; Adjective: estrangement from the world, voluntary exile; aloofness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| "Snugness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Snugness" is used about 6 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% | 6 | 143,867 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
snugness | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "snugness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | přiléhavost (close fitting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Gemütlichkeit (approachability, comfortableness, coziness, friendliness, good-naturedness, informality, leisure, pleasantness, sociability, unhurriedness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αναπαυτικότησ (reposefulness, restfulness), αναπαυτικότητα (reposefulness, restfulness), θαλπωρή (warmth). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kényelem (comfort, convenience, conveniences, leisure, well being, well-being). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 寝心地 (sleeping comfort or snugness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ね""ち (sleeping comfort or snugness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | souyrid (comfort, comfortableness), skeoighid (cosiness, neatness, smartness, spruceness, tidiness, trimness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ugnesssnay comoditate (comfortableness, convenience, cosiness, ease, handiness, sloth). (various references) уютность (cosiness). (various references) placidez (placidity, sociability). (various references) tính ấm áp (richness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "snugness": snugnesses. (additional references) | |
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"Snugness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Shungsep. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "snugness" (pronounced 'Snug"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-g-n-n-s-s-s-u" | |
-3 letters: genus, guess, negus, snugs, sunns. | |
-4 letters: engs, gens, genu, gnus, guns, ness, nuns, segs, snug, sues, sung, sunn, suns, suss, uses. | |
-5 letters: eng, ens, ess, gen, gnu, gun, nun, nus, seg, sen, sue, sun, uns, use. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-g-n-n-s-s-s-u" | |
+2 letters: snugnesses. | |
+3 letters: amusingness, gauntnesses, songfulness, youngnesses. | |
+4 letters: generousness, hungrinesses, sanguineness, trustingness. | |
+5 letters: amusingnesses, analogousness, congruousness, cunningnesses, dangerousness, gainfulnesses, genuinenesses, ingeniousness, ingenuousness, languidnesses, naughtinesses, songfulnesses, ungodlinesses, unsightliness. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 6E 75 67 6E 65 73 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -. ..- --. -. . ... ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01101110 01110101 01100111 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S n u g n e s s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 006E 0075 0067 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)5380877380718585 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage Frequency 4. Expressions: Internet | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Orthography 10. Bibliography |
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