-ence
noun suffix
1
: action or process
emergence
: instance of an action or process reference
2
: quality or state
despondence
Word History
Etymology
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Latin -entia, from -ent-, -ens, present participle ending + -ia -y entry 2
Kids Definition
-ence
noun suffix
əns,
ᵊns
1
: action or process
reference
2
: quality or state
existence
confidence
- insuperably
- insupportability
- insupportable
- insupportableness
- insupportablenesses
- insupportably
- insupposable
- insuppressible
- insuppressive
- insur
- insurabilities
- insurability
- insurable
- insurable value
- insurance
- assortative mating
- assortatively
- assorted
- assorter
- assorters
- assorting
- assortment
- assortments
- assorts
- assouans