merenessn.

Brit.

/ˈmɪənəs/, U.S.

/ˈmɪ(ə)rnəs/

Forms: see mere adj.² and -ness suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mere adj.², -ness suffix.

Etymology: < mere adj.² + -ness suffix.

†1. Purity. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > [noun]

freshnessa1398

sweetnessc1400

purity?1440

pureness1528

mereness1648

sterility1877

drivenness1894

1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Louterheydt, purety, Meerenesse, or Cleanenesse.

2. The state or quality of being merely something, or of being small or insignificant (cf. mere adj.² 5c).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality

simpleness1440

toyousness1581

triflingnessa1586

triviality1598

pusillage1610

inconsiderableness1646

shrimpishness1651

unsignificancy1659

trivialnessa1687

no great things1776

cobwebbery1837

mereness1909

picayunity1948

1909 Mind 18 54 All that is thus removed is at most, we may say, the mereness of immediacy.

1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 193/3 Your reviewer..and others have made something of the fact that Bevin used to refer to Lord Attlee as the Little Man. Lloyd George's colleagues used exactly the same phrase about him: both Prime Ministers lacked inches. Is it wise to see a value judgment in this statement of physical mereness?

1966 W. V. Quine in Jrnl. Philos. 63 658 The word ‘concept’, which Russell applied to these nonexistents, connotes mereness.

a1995 D. Davie Poems (1996) 40 The mereness of him, of his or of any childhood in those years and for people of our rank is hard to imagine.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	mereness
释义	merenessn. Brit. /ˈmɪənəs/, U.S. /ˈmɪ(ə)rnəs/ Forms: see mere adj.² and -ness suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: mere adj.², -ness suffix. Etymology: < mere adj.² + -ness suffix. †1. Purity. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > freedom from impurities > [noun] freshnessa1398 sweetnessc1400 purity?1440 pureness1528 mereness1648 sterility1877 drivenness1894 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck Louterheydt, purety, Meerenesse, or Cleanenesse. 2. The state or quality of being merely something, or of being small or insignificant (cf. mere adj.² 5c). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > little importance or triviality simpleness1440 toyousness1581 triflingnessa1586 triviality1598 pusillage1610 inconsiderableness1646 shrimpishness1651 unsignificancy1659 trivialnessa1687 no great things1776 cobwebbery1837 mereness1909 picayunity1948 1909 Mind 18 54 All that is thus removed is at most, we may say, the mereness of immediacy. 1960 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Mar. 193/3 Your reviewer..and others have made something of the fact that Bevin used to refer to Lord Attlee as the Little Man. Lloyd George's colleagues used exactly the same phrase about him: both Prime Ministers lacked inches. Is it wise to see a value judgment in this statement of physical mereness? 1966 W. V. Quine in Jrnl. Philos. 63 658 The word ‘concept’, which Russell applied to these nonexistents, connotes mereness. a1995 D. Davie Poems (1996) 40 The mereness of him, of his or of any childhood in those years and for people of our rank is hard to imagine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1648
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