implicitness

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English implicit

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English implicitness

From implicit + -ness.

Noun

implicitness (countable and uncountable, plural implicitnesses)

1. The state or quality of being implicit.
   • 1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 20:

     He heard me calmly; and as calmly promised to further our attachment. The implicitness of my reliance stayed not to ask his sympathy. To talk of her was happiness, and my brother seemed a part of that home whither he was then returning.

Antonyms

• explicitness

Translations

Translations

• Polish: bezwarunkowość (pl) f

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin Eli Smith, editors (1895–1910), “implicitness”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “implicitness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.