Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or quality of being hearty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being hearty.

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  • noun The characteristic of being hearty; fillingness; wholesomeness.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of hearty sincerity
  • noun active strength of body or mind

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Examples

  • I attribute its whole grain heartiness to the combination of flaxseeds and whole wheat flour in the dough, although the bread is moister and less crumbly than a completely whole grain bread might be because I included some all purpose flour to try and keep prevent it from getting too heavy.

    Honey and Flaxseed Bread | Baking Bites 2009

  • His heartiness was a tonic, and her vanity responded to the unaffected admiration in his eyes; but his chief claim to her regard lay in the fact that it was the general, and not herself, whom he endeavoured to propitiate.

    The Voice of the People Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow 1909

  • He said it with that curious heartiness which is the reverse of hospitality.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • He said it with that curious heartiness which is the reverse of hospitality.

    The Complete Father Brown 2003

  • At this point, however, the door opened and a tall burly man entered the room, came forward and shook Helen's hand with an emotional kind of heartiness, Willoughby himself, Rachel's father,

    The Voyage Out 1915

  • At this point, however, the door opened and a tall burly man entered the room, came forward and shook Helen's hand with an emotional kind of heartiness, Willoughby himself, Rachel's father, Helen's brother-in-law.

    The Voyage Out Virginia Woolf 1911

  • That stopped me, set me off in a laugh at my own expense, he joining in with a kind of heartiness I did not like, though I did not venture to check him.

    The Deluge David Graham Phillips 1889

  • Mr. Windibrook evidently had no "heartiness" for non-subscribing humor.

    From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869

  • She was glad to get away from Mr. Windibrook's "heartiness" and console herself with Mr.. Windibrook's constitutional depression, which was partly the result of nervous dyspepsia and her husband's boisterous cordiality.

    From Sand Hill to Pine Bret Harte 1869

  • He came probably of a tradesman's family, for he describes better than any of his fellows in art the life of the lower middle class, and enters into the thoughts and feelings of that class with a heartiness which is possible only after long and familiar association.

    Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

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