NOBLENESS

Definition: NOBLENESS

NOBLENESS

Noun

1. The quality or state of being noble; greatness; dignity; magnanimity; elevation of mind, character, or station; nobility; grandeur; stateliness.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Date "NOBLENESS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1374. (references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Selfishness	Time-pleaser, time-server; tuft-hunter, fortune-hunter; jobber, worldling; egotist, egoist, monopolist, nepotist; dog in the manger, charity that begins at home; canis in praesepi, "foes to nobleness," temporizer, trimmer.
Virtue	Noun: virtue; virtuousness; Adjective: morality; moral rectitude; integrity; (probity); nobleness.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: NOBLENESS

English words defined with "NOBLENESS": Eugeny ♦ High-hearted ♦ Liberal education. (references)

Specialty definitions using "NOBLENESS": Himiltrude. (references)

Author	Quotation
Benjamin Franklin	To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.
Breville	When real nobleness accompanies the imaginary one of birth, the imaginary mixes with the real and becomes real too.
T. D. English	Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	This sight reminded me of falconry and what nobleness and poetry are associated with that sport.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"NOBLENESS" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "NOBLENESS" is used about 3 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%	3	202,518

Expression using "NOBLENESS": your nobleness. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "NOBLENESS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		bujari (benevolence, bounty, generosity, largess, largesse, liberalism, liberality, nobility, open-handedness). (various references)

Arabic		‏فخامة (grandeur, magnificence, majesty, splendor, splendour), ‏كرم النفس, ‏نبل (elevation, grandeur, greatness, nobility, royalty), ‏رفعة (mount, sublimate, sublimity, superiority), ‏شرف (credit, dignity, dominate, ennoble, follow up, grace, honour, laurels, preside, privilege, sublime, superintend). (various references)

Bulgarian		внушителност (gravity, portliness), величавост (majesty), благородство (elevation, generosity, honor, honour, magnanimity, nobility, noble-mindedness). (various references)

Czech		ušlechtilost (elevation, nobility, noble-mindedness). (various references)

Dutch		edelheid. (various references)

Esperanto		nobleco. (various references)

Finnish		ylevyys (loftiness, sublimity), jalous, aateluus (nobility). (various references)

French		grandeur. (various references)

German		Edelmut (gallantry, generosity, magnanimity), adel (aristocracy, nobility, peerage, title). (various references)

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

Hebrew		תואר �"אביר (knighthood), אצילות (aristocracy, lordship, magnanimity, nobility). (various references)

Hungarian		nemesség (nobility, peerage, persons of title). (various references)

Indonesian		keluhungan (magnificence, stateliness). (various references)

Italian		nobilt� (knuckle, nobility, noblesse). (various references)

Manx		ooashlys (nobility), ooashlid (fineness, gentility, illustriousness, nobility, peerage). (various references)

Pig Latin		oblenessnay

Portuguese		nobreza (aristocracy, elevation, gentility, grandfather, greatness, knighthood, magnanimity, nobility, peerage), mérito (desert, deserving, merit, quality, virtue, worth), elevação de espírito, dignidade (dignity, elevation, honor, honour, khedive, lordliness, manly, pride, queenhood, self respect, self-regard), aristocracia (aristocracy, gentility, nobility, peerage). (various references)

Russian		благородство (big heart, dignity, nobility, noble-mindedness). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		plemstvo (aristocracy, gentlefolk, gentlefolks, gentlehood, nobility, noblesse, peerage), plemenitost (high minded, liberality, noblesse). (various references)

Spanish		nobleza (aristocracy, gentlefolk, gentlefolks, gentlehood, honesty, nobility, noblesse, peerage, uprightness). (various references)

Swedish		ädelmod (generosity, magnanimity), ädelhet (nobility). (various references)

Thai		ความมีคุ�"ธรรมสูง. (various references)

Turkish		tevazu (humbleness, humility, modesty, submission, unpretentiousness), kibarlık (chivalry, civility, comity, gentility, grandeur, kid glove, mannerliness, niceness, polish, refinement, smartness, urbaneness, urbanity), asalet (blue blood, dignity, peerage, quality), alçakgönüllülük (delicacy, demureness, honesty, humbleness, humility, lowliness, meekness, modesty, pudency, simple-mindedness, submission, submissiveness). (various references)

Ukranian		шляхетність (grandeur, greatness, handsomeness, nobility, noble-mindedness), благородство (gentlehood, grandeur, greatness, honor, honour, nobility, noble-mindedness, noblesse). (various references)

Vietnamese		tính h� o hiệp (chivalrousness, knightliness, magnanimity, magnanimousness), tính cao nhã (nobility), sự cao quý tính cao thượng. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "NOBLENESS": noblenesses. (additional references)
	Words ending with "NOBLENESS": ignobleness. (additional references)
	Words containing "NOBLENESS": ignoblenesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"NOBLENESS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: doublenesse, nolens, unableness. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Words rhyming with "NOBLENESS" (pronounced 'No"ble*ness'): Abjectedness, Abjectness, Ableness, Abominableness, Abortiveness, Abruptness, Absentness, Absoluteness, Absorptiveness, Abstemiousness, Abstersiveness, Abstractedness, Abstractiveness, Abstractness, Abstruseness, Absurdness, Abusiveness, Acceptableness, Accessariness, Accessoriness, Accidentalness, Accommodableness, Accommodateness, Accurateness, Accustomedness, Acidness, Acquaintedness, Acquisitiveness, Acrimoniousness, Activeness, Actualness, Acuteness, Adaptedness, Adaptiveness, Adaptness, Addictedness, Addle-patedness, Adeptness, Adequateness, Adhesiveness, Admirableness, Adorableness, Adroitness, Adultness, Advantageousness, Adventurousness, Adverseness, Advisable-ness, Advisedness, Affableness. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "b-e-e-l-n-n-o-s-s"
	-1 letter: boneless, ennobles, loneness, noblesse.
	-2 letters: ennoble, nelsons, oneness.
	-3 letters: bennes, bonnes, lebens, lenses, leones, lessen, lesson, nelson, nobles.
	-4 letters: benes, benne, bless, boles, bones, bonne, ebons, enols, leben, lenes, lenos, lense, leone, lobes, loess, loses, nenes, neons, noble, noels, nones, noses, obese, seels, sense, slobs, sloes, snobs, soles, sones.
	-5 letters: been, bees, bels, bene, bens.
	Words containing the letters "b-e-e-l-n-n-o-s-s"
	+2 letters: ignobleness, noblenesses, notableness.
	+3 letters: nebulousness, nonreusables, unseasonable.
	+4 letters: belongingness, boundlessness, enjoyableness, honorableness, ignoblenesses, insolubleness, notablenesses.
	+5 letters: benevolentness, commonsensible, inexorableness, inviolableness, nebulousnesses, neighborliness, nonestablished, nonperishables, obligingnesses, pardonableness, personableness, reasonableness, seasonableness, unsociableness.
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