tellingness

noun

Etymology

From telling + -ness.

  1. derived from *dol-✻ — “calculation, fraud”
  2. derived from *talą✻
  3. inherited from *taljaną✻
  4. inherited from *talljan✻
  5. inherited from tellan — “to count, tell”
  6. inherited from tellen — “to count, tell”
  7. suffixed as telling — “tell + ing”
  8. suffixed as tellingness — “telling + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being telling.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA