importantness

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noun

The quality of being important; importance.

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Meanings

nounimportantness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being important; importance.

    Their time is in most demand; they earn stature, prestige, and importantness for this.

    2005, Kerry Temple, Back to Earth: A Backpacker's Journey into Self and Soul, page 17
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    There was need also of an institution for savings that would reach the poorer classes of colored people, teach them the importantness of being industrious, of seeking steady employment.

    1885; reprinted 1996 in Richard Germain, Dollars Through the Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America, page 112

    This word "essential" is too easily made a convenience for the forceful indication of a primary quality of importantness;

    1997, Schuyler B. Jackson, William Harmon, Rational Meaning, page 273

Origin

From important + -ness.

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APA

importantness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/importantness

MLA

“importantness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/importantness. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “importantness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/importantness.

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