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Word entry · 8 letters

softness

Best crossword clue

"Gentle texture"

8 letters · collected on this word page

8 lettersPronunciation /ˈsɔftnəs/Part of speech nounSorted efnossstStarts with SEnds with S1 cluesCommon crossword word
1S2O3F4T5N6E7S8S

Definitions

  1. a disposition to be lenient in judging others

Word origin

From Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.

Used in a sentence

  • […] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]

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