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单词 mereness
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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).
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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).
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