Etymology

fullness

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Today it means: Being full; completeness. Full definition →

Middle English fulnesse ← Old English fulnes
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  1. Old English · inherited fromfulnes
  2. Middle English · inherited fromfulnesse
  3. English todayfullness

From Middle English fulnesse, from Old English fulnes, fylnes, fyllnis (“completeness; abundance”), equivalent to full + -ness. Cognate with Old High German folnissi (“fullness”).

Words from the same roots

Old Englishfulnes all →

foulness

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