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Meaning of "leadenness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF LEADENNESS

leadenness  [ˈledənnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LEADENNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Leadenness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES LEADENNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of leadenness in the English dictionary

The definition of leadenness in the dictionary is heaviness.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LEADENNESS


alienness
ˈeɪlɪənnəs
brazenness
ˈbreɪzənnəs
brokenness
ˈbrəʊkənnəs
cravenness
ˈkreɪvənnəs
crestfallenness
ˌkrestˈfɔːlənnəs
crimsonness
ˈkrɪmz ənnəs
heartbrokenness
ˈhɑːtˌbrəʊkənnəs
heathenness
ˈhiːðənnəs
hiddenness
ˈhɪdənnəs
humanness
ˈhjuːmənnəs
modernness
ˈmɒdənnəs
oftenness
ˈɒftənnəs
plainspokenness
ˌpleɪnˈspəʊkənnəs
proletarianness
ˌprəʊlɪˈteərɪənnəs
soddenness
ˈsɒdənnəs
superhumanness
ˌsuːpəˈhjuːmənnəs
swollenness
ˈswəʊlənnəs
unbrokenness
ʌnˈbrəʊkənnəs
uncertainness
ʌnˈsɜːtənnəs
uncommonness
ʌnˈkɒmənnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LEADENNESS

lead(II) acetate
lead(II) oxide
Leadbeater´s cockatoo
Leadbelly
leaded
leaded petrol
leaden
leaden-eyed
leaden-limbed
leadenly
leader
Leader of the House of Commons
Leader of the House of Lords
leaderboard
leaderene
leaderette
leaderless
leadership
leading
leading aircraftman

WORDS THAT END LIKE LEADENNESS

betweenness
business
cleanness
commonness
drunkenness
evenness
foreignness
greenness
Guinness
leanness
McGuinness
meanness
openness
plainness
rottenness
sternness
stubbornness
thinness
uncleanness
unevenness
wantonness

Synonyms and antonyms of leadenness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «leadenness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LEADENNESS

Find out the translation of leadenness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of leadenness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «leadenness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

leadenness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

leadenness
570 millions of speakers

English

leadenness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

leadenness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

leadenness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

leadenness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

leadenness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

leadenness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

leadenness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kepimpinan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

leadenness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

leadenness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

leadenness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Kepemimpinan
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

leadenness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

leadenness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

लीडनियनेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

leadenness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

leadenness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

leadenness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

leadenness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

leadenness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

leadenness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

leadenness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

leadenness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

leadenness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of leadenness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LEADENNESS»

The term «leadenness» is used very little and occupies the 159.598 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LEADENNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «leadenness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «leadenness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about leadenness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LEADENNESS»

Discover the use of leadenness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to leadenness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Developing Zeami: The Noh Actor's Attunement In Practice
THE STYLE OF ROUGHNESS AND LEADENNESS (SOENFU) This lowest level has little to redeem it. According to Zeami, performance that is rough and leaden will lack "detailed movement," that is, the quality of saido. "Detailed movement" ...
Shelley Fenno Quinn, 2005
2
The Path of Purification: Visuddhimagga
Ageing is the basis for the bodily and mental suffering that arises owing to many conditions such as leadenness in all the limbs, decline and warping of the faculties, vanishing of youth, undermining of strength, loss of memory and intelligence, ...
Buddhaghosa, 1991
3
In the Lap of the Buddha
The onlything moving was the imperceptible growth of my willingness to sit with the leadenness. One day, the hardness changed a tinybit. Itfelt a little alive, like the hardness of aflower bud, still young, green,and very tightly closed.
Gavin Harrison, 2013
4
The Writings of Oscar Wilde: Lady Windermere's fan; The ...
It was a dream, the glade is tenantless, No soft Ionian laughter moves the air, The Thames creeps on in sluggish leadenness, And from the copse left desolate and bare Pled is young Bacchus with his revelry, Yet still from Nuneham wood there ...
Oscar Wilde, Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, Lady Wilde, 1907
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The Monthly Review
He is perfectly right in saying that the active classes miss the excitement and interestingness of their old, wild, gambling life ; and are oppressed by the leadenness of our rule. So, however, did the wild, aboriginal tribes of India miss the still ...
Sir Henry John Newbolt, Charles Hanbury-Williams, 1902
6
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems
It was a dream, the glade is tenantless, No soft Ionian laughter moves the air, The Thames creeps on in sluggish leadenness, And from the copse left desolate and bare Fled is young Bacchus with his revelry, Yet still from Nuneham wood there ...
Oscar Wilde, 1909
7
Philip Augustus; Or, The Brothers in Arms
Besides this obliquity, they were endowed with a cold, leadenness of stare, which would have rendered the whole face as meaningless as a mask, had not, every now and then, a still, keen, sharp glance stolen out of them for a moment, like ...
George Payne Rainsford James, 1845
8
The International Studio
... brassiness of brass, the leadenness of lead, must all be sympathetically understood and expreSsed. And this can only be achieved by hand work, or at any rate by hand finish. Timber, which it has been found expedient to cut into planks by ...
‎1906
9
The Living Age
Is not even the gloomy hypochondria of a Cromwell or a Johnson a better ideal than the docility of a mind which, when it is weary of its own stagnation, — of the leadenness of its own efforts as it tries to overtake the duties before it, — can at ...
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1887
10
The Poetical Works of Oscar Wilde
It was a dream, the glade is tenantless, No soft Ionian laughter moves the air, The Thames creeps on in sluggish leadenness, And from the copse left desolate and bare Fled is young Bacchus with his revelry, Yet still from Nuneham wood there ...
Oscar Wilde, 1913

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LEADENNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term leadenness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Holy Knight Anime Review
There really isn't that much sexiness in the series so much as sexual assault that leadenness only the darkest parts of anime and it's adult ... «The Fandom Post, Mar 15»
2
Community's sixth season should be its last
But the episodes as a whole have a lumpy, leadenness to them. The problem is not an issue of of characterization or tone, but of pacing. «Pacific Northwest Inlander, Mar 15»
3
How the agile businesses will win
... while maintaining full control over physical infrastructure, yet doing away with inefficiencies of and leadenness of hardware ownership. «ITProPortal, Mar 15»
4
Keep Helen Hayes On Her Little Marquee; Nathan Lane's Hickey …
The night I saw the show, the acting—particularly Moss-Bachrach's—was faltering to the point of leadenness and none of the characters ... «Deadline.com, Feb 15»
5
MOVIE REVIEW: 'Are You Here' tries, fails to mix heart and humor
Wilson's better in his scenes with Galifianakis, but the leadenness of their dialogue undercuts their comedic chemistry. And while I see the arc ... «Shelby Township Source Newspapers, Aug 14»
6
God's Pocket review: Philip Seymour Hoffman in stolid black comedy
Too often mistaking leadenness for gravitas, God's Pocket is neither quite funny enough nor tragic enough to succeed as anything beyond a ... «Digital Spy UK, Aug 14»
7
BMW i8 vs Porsche 911 Carrera (2014) twin test review
... and progressive travel underfoot, and none of the leadenness usually found when regenerative and hydraulic systems are trying to combine. «CAR Magazine, Aug 14»
8
The unbelievable life and death of Michael C. Ruppert
Later, he said, "There's a leadenness out there in the world right now that weighs on us like a blanket." At 7PM, Ruppert said goodbye to his ... «The Verge, Jul 14»
9
The Monuments Men
... names, will lead some to expect a rollicking adventure, but when Clooney goes for laughs there's a leadenness that drags the scenes down. «Screen International, Jan 14»
10
Silence and the Soul
My head frets about the home front, my ambitions, and leadenness of a cold. I try to draw a zone of separation around me but oddly enough the ... «Huffington Post, Nov 13»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Leadenness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/leadenness>. Apr 2024 ».
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