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Wiseness

Definitions: Wiseness

Wiseness

Noun

1. The quality of being prudent and sensible.

2. The trait of utilizing knowledge and experience with common sense and insight.

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

Date "wiseness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1871. (references)

Note: Wiseness \Wise"ness\, noun. Wisdom. [obsolete]. (Websters 1913)


Synonyms: Wiseness

Synonyms: soundness (n), wisdom (n). (additional references)
Antonym: folly (n). (additional references)

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Derivations: Wiseness

Derivations

Words beginning with "wiseness": wisenesses. (additional references)

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

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Rhyming with "Wiseness"

Words rhyming with "wiseness" (pronounced 'Wise"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)

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Anagrams: Wiseness

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-i-n-s-s-s-w"

-1 letter: newsies.

-2 letters: nesses, newies, newsie, seines, seises, senses, sinews, wisses.

-3 letters: esses, newie, seine, seise, sense, sines, sinew, sises, swine, swiss, weens, wines, wises.

-4 letters: eses, ewes, ness, news, seen, sees, seis, sene, sewn, sews, sine, sins, ween, wees, wens, wine, wins, wise, wiss.

-5 letters: ens, ess, ewe, ins, nee, new, see, sei, sen, sew.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-i-n-s-s-s-w"
 

+1 letter: newsiness, witnesses.

 

+2 letters: dewinesses, screwiness, sweatiness, warinesses, wavinesses, waxinesses, widenesses, wildnesses, wilinesses, wirinesses, wisenesses.

 

+3 letters: bawdinesses, dowdinesses, gawkinesses, lowlinesses, newsinesses, rowdinesses, showinesses, snowinesses, swiftnesses, tawninesses, wackinesses, wearinesses, weedinesses, weirdnesses, westernises, whitenesses, wimpinesses, windinesses, wineglasses, winepresses, winsomeness, wispinesses, witlessness, wittinesses, woodinesses, woozinesses, wordinesses.

 

+4 letters: brawninesses, drowsinesses, earwitnesses, eyewitnesses, growlinesses, inwardnesses, owlishnesses, screwinesses, shrewishness, swampinesses, swankinesses, sweatinesses, sweepingness, tawdrinesses, tweedinesses, unwarinesses, waterinesses, waterishness, weaklinesses, wheezinesses, wickednesses, wifelinesses, wildernesses, winglessness, wintrinesses, wobblinesses, woollinesses, worthinesses.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Wiseness


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

57 69 73 65 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)

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

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

01010111 01101001 01110011 01100101 01101110 01100101 01110011 01110011

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#87 &#105 &#115 &#101 &#110 &#101 &#115 &#115

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0057 0069 0073 0065 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)

5775857180718585

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Derivations
4. Rhymes 		5. Anagrams
6. Orthography
7. Bibliography


  

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