Meanings
- uncountablethe quality or state of being secure, security
A square seat, about as wide and unyielding as a table-top, was strapped securely to each donkey, and to this seat we clung, with no secureness at all.
1919, Ellen N. La Motte, Peking Dust2 more examples
And now, though there is none of that sweetness of stolen fruits, none of that creeping insecurity of former readings, there is an undisturbing, quiet secureness that makes our books more living to us.
1910, Compiled by Edwin Partridge Lehman and Julian Park, A Williams AnthologyThat's partly because of the high level of professionalism and efficiency of M. Seth Reines's staging of the show at Apple Tree Theatre; the very secureness of the production mitigates any feelings of insecurity the characters might want to communicate.
1990 December 21, Albert Williams, “Closer Than Ever”, in Chicago Reader
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe quality of being fixed in place as by some firm attachment
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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