Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being safe or of conferring safety.

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

  • noun The quality or state of being safe; freedom from hazard, danger, harm, or loss; safety; security; as the safeness of an experiment, of a journey, or of a possession.

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  • noun The property of being safe.

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

  • noun the quality of being safe

Etymologies

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safe +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • His method of accomplishing this feat proves what we have just said of his "safeness" -- he sounded the chute first, and then built a fire at the head of the island to run by.

    Mark Twain, a Biography — Volume III, Part 2: 1907-1910 Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • His method of accomplishing this feat proves what we have just said of his "safeness" -- he sounded the chute first, and then built a fire at the head of the island to run by.

    Mark Twain, a Biography. Complete Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

  • Thus there is this lingering cloud of "safeness", if not for the characters, then for the state of affairs for mankind.

    REVIEW: Star Wars: Death Troopers by Joe Schreiber 2009

  • Most will lack the talent/coordination/urge for organized sports, and few will have much social activity, prefering the "safeness" of their computers to the aspect of rejection.

    Computer Underground Digest Volume 3, Issue #3.01 1991

  • Thus there is this lingering cloud of "safeness", if not for the characters, then for the state of affairs for mankind.

    SF Signal 2009

  • The Entire City is named after a Max Ernst painting, and Walling casts her metropolis as both comfort and threat; the safeness and succor of Concrete Mother becomes suffocating claustrophobia on Nest, with its suspense-filled percussion, and the war-like rush of the eponymous track becomes stark isolation on Changelings.

    Gazelle Twin: The Entire City – review 2011

  • Deer drives, especially with rifles, are very dangerous, unless you are sure of the safeness of your fellow hunters.

    Has any of you guys ever been shot? 2009

  • Deer drives, especially with rifles, are very dangerous, unless you are sure of the safeness of your fellow hunters.

    Has any of you guys ever been shot? 2009

  • The safeness of many older model shotguns with full choke is iffy with steel shot.

    favorite shotgun for trap and upland birds? 2009

  • The safeness of many older model shotguns with full choke is iffy with steel shot.

    favorite shotgun for trap and upland birds? 2009

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