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Pensile vs Pensileness - What's the difference?

pensile | pensileness |

As an adjective pensile

is hanging down, suspended.

As a noun pensileness is

state or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.

pensile

English

Alternative forms

* pensill (obsolete )

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Hanging down, suspended.
  • * 1658': However the account of the '''Pensill or hanging gardens of ''Babylon'' [...] is of no slender antiquity — Sir Thomas Browne, ''The Garden of Cyrus (Folio Society 2007, p. 165)

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    pensileness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • State or quality of being pensile; pendulousness.
    • (Webster 1913)