Etymology

slyness

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Today it means: The state or quality of being sly. Full definition →

Middle English slynesse
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  1. Middle English · inherited fromslynesse
  2. English todayslyness

From Middle English slynesse. By surface analysis, sly + -ness.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.