inveterateness

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noun

inveteracy

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Meanings

nouninveterateness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableinveteracy

    Twas the first play he praised on mortality; and as time hath rendred him more perfect in the Art, so hath the inveterateness of his malice more ready in the execution

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC

Origin

From inveterate + -ness.

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inveterateness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inveterateness

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “inveterateness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/inveterateness.

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