Definitions

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  • noun Love.

Etymologies

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From love (v) +‎ -ness.

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Examples

  • This is a portrait which is if not a likeness surely a loveness.

    Doctorow’s Pack Rats - Paper Cuts Blog - NYTimes.com 2009

  • Well, in any case, i have more negative feelings about running that i wont share here, but i will tell you that in school i used to run, not really out of desire but more out of that miserable stress and in - loveness that you can only outrun and sidles up to you when you stop, climbing onto your back again.

    i-claudius Diary Entry i-claudius 2003

  • Before I know it I am going to feel sorry for her, and then good-by to in-loveness for me!

    Kitty Canary Kate Langley Bosher 1898

  • The extremist far-right wackaloons good and godly people in the loving Christian community of lovingful loving loveness figured out a while back that their message of hate, hypocrisy and ignorance love and apple-pie decency was a much easier sell when it came from the mouths of photogenic blondes.

    The Atheist Experience 2009

  • The extremist far-right wackaloons good and godly people in the loving Christian community of lovingful loving loveness figured out a while back that their message of hate, hypocrisy and ignorance love and apple-pie decency was a much easier sell when it came from the mouths of photogenic blondes.

    The Atheist Experience 2009

  • It is very hard to find spiritual loveness in the world when you see shit like this.

    what the fuck is wrong with people. « Love | Peace | Ohana 2008

  • i don. t know who those people are, but maybe if they even knew what the hell you were talking about, some light would be shed on the situation. but they don. t need to know, loveness.

    xbystanderx Diary Entry xbystanderx 2005

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