Definitions
A prepared state or willingness to act.
Word origin
From ready + -ness.
Used in a sentence
“readiness for civil emergencies”
“We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.”
“The very emphasis on reading readiness and on the methods employed to teach children the rudiments of reading has meant that the other, the higher, levels of reading have tended to be slighted.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Set-to-go state”9 letters
02“Prepared state”9 letters
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