heediness

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/ˈhiːdɪnəs/

noun

The quality of being heedy.

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Meanings

nounheediness (uncountable)
  1. obsoleteuncountableThe quality of being heedy.

    And evermore that craven coward knight / Was at his back with heartless heediness, / Waiting if he unwares him murder might.

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book VI, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 26

Origin

From heedy + -ness.

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