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Dourness vs Fourness - What's the difference?

dourness | fourness |

As nouns the difference between dourness and fourness

is that dourness is the characteristic of being dour; gloominess; sternness while fourness is the property of being four in number.

dourness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The characteristic of being dour; gloominess; sternness.

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    fourness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The property of being four in number.
  • * 2005 , John Dillon, The Heirs of Plato: A Study of the Old Academy (347-274 BC)
    • There is such a thing as threeness, or fourness , and the threeness of three cannot be added to the fourness of four.