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Definition: Staleness |
StalenessNoun1. Unoriginality as a result of being dull and hackneyed. 2. Having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "staleness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1608. (references) |
Synonym: StalenessSynonym: triteness (n). (additional references) |
| Antonym: freshness (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Staleness |
| English words defined with "staleness": rancid ♦ sour. (references) |
| "Staleness" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Staleness" is used about 17 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% | 17 | 85,106 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "staleness"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | قديم (ancient, antiquated, antique, archaic, back, classic, classical, hoary, immemorial, obsolete, of long standing, old, old fashioned, old hand, old time, old timer, old-established, oldster, once, out of date, outdated, outmoded, primitive, quondam, sometime, stale, stock, superannuate, time honored, time worn, very old), ذابل (blasted, dry, passe, sear, sere, shrivelled, tatty, withered, wizened), جفاء (brusqueness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 不新鲜. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ytimettömyys (lack of pithiness), ummehtuneisuus (mustiness, stuffiness), tympeys (disgust, distaste, flatness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | manque de nouveauté, manque de fraîcheur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schalheit (flatness, vapidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | μπαγιάτεμα (staling), μπαγιατίλα, εωλότησ, εωλότητα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | poshadtság, ízetlenség, áporodottság. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | pesantezza (gravity, heaviness, weight). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shennid (oldness, senescence), loauid (cariousness, foulness, putrefaction, putridity, rot, rottenness), gortid (acidity, illiberality, penuriousness), gearid (sourness), gartid, eighid (insipidity). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | alenessstay несвежесть. (various references) ustajalost, pretreniranost, otrcanost (shabbiness), bajatost (mustiness). (various references) yorgunluk (exhaustion, fag, fatigue, lassitude, tiredness, weariness), yıpranmışlık, bitkinlik (deadness, exhaustion, fag, fatigue, frazzle, languor, lassitude, over-fatigue, prostration, weariness), bayatlık (triteness). (various references) thịt (juice, juiceless, juicer, juiciness, juicy), tình trạng chớm thối, tình trạng cũ, tình trạng ôi. (various references) surni (sourness, tartness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "staleness": stalenesses. (additional references) | |
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"Staleness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scaliness, Staelens, stevenses. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "staleness" (pronounced 'Stale"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 "a-e-e-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
-1 letter: lateness, saltness, seatless, sensates. | |
-2 letters: assents, entases, lateens, leanest, lessens, nestles, netless, sateens, senates, sensate, tassels, teasels. | |
-3 letters: aneles, assent, assets, easels, elates, enates, lasses, lateen, latens, leases, leasts, lenses, lessen, nesses, nestle, sanest, sateen, senate, senses, slants, slates, sleets, stales, stanes, stases, steals, steels, stelae, steles, tassel, tasses, teasel, teases, tenses, teslas. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-l-n-s-s-s-t" | |
+1 letter: essentials, flatnesses, latenesses, saltnesses, stableness, tallnesses. | |
+2 letters: adultnesses, alertnesses, artlessness, beastliness, loathnesses, saltinesses, servantless, stainlesses, stalenesses, stateliness, sultanesses, talkinesses. | |
+3 letters: absoluteness, artfulnesses, basementless, desolateness, elatednesses, essentialism, essentialist, faultinesses, inessentials, masterliness, oblatenesses, paltrinesses, pathlessness, pleasantness, pliantnesses, sensualities, stablenesses, stealthiness, suitableness, tactlessness, tastefulness, unstableness, wastefulness. | |
+4 letters: artlessnesses, beastlinesses, belatednesses, dauntlessness, deathlessness, delicatessens, earthlinesses, essentialisms, essentialists, essentializes, essentialness, estimableness, eternalnesses, ethicalnesses, factualnesses, faithlessness, fatefulnesses, faultlessness, ghastlinesses, hatefulnesses, healthinesses, heartlessness, initialnesses, lastingnesses, literalnesses, loathsomeness, masterfulness, naturalnesses, neutralnesses, nonessentials, notablenesses, potablenesses, relatednesses, saintlinesses, seasonalities, statelessness, statelinesses, substanceless, tactfulnesses, tastelessness, tearfulnesses, tenablenesses, tessellations, thanklessness, tunablenesses, typicalnesses, valiantnesses, versatileness, waterlessness, wealthinesses. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Derivations 7. Rhymes 8. Anagrams | 9. Bibliography |
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