Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or character of being notable, in any sense of that word.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality of being notable.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The quality of being
notable .
Etymologies
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Excerpt: My experiences have made me strongly question the idea of "notableness" on Wikipedia.
Wikipedia Inclusionism KaneCitizen 2007
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Excerpt: My experiences have made me strongly question the idea of "notableness" on Wikipedia.
Archive 2007-06-01 KaneCitizen 2007
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Does it not look as if she would have been an useful creature in the days of nightrail and notableness, had she been a wife in good time?
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All which they might study at home among their own children and dogs just as well; and should not come to the museum to plague the real students there, since there is not anything of especial notableness or unrivaled quality in the actual painting.
On the Old Road, Vol. 2 (of 2) A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature John Ruskin 1859
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The other notable notableness is that they blaze past 120Hz to 240Hz-also behind LG, who's claiming 480, booya.
Gizmodo 2009
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a little bonnet on her head, and looking the image of notableness.
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"'Can you write?' said I to the child [the eldest], a little stubby girl of about eight, with a broad flat red face and grey eyes, dressed in a chintz gown, a little bonnet on her head, and looking the image of notableness.
The Life of George Borrow Jenkins, Herbert 1912
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