Supervacaneous vs Supervacaneousness - What's the difference?
supervacaneous | supervacaneousness |
Added above what is (l) or (l); (l), (l).
* 1915 , (George Wharton James), Our American Woodlands :
* 1960 , (Nancy Mitford), Don't Tell Alfred :
*:‘It became all the more important for me to get out because my son Foster, aged now fifteen, is only ten points below genius and this genius would have been unavailing and supervacaneous , in other words wasted, behind the iron curtain.’
* 1972 , Aiko It? and Graeme Wilson, translating , (I Am a Cat) (2002 combined edition, , ISBN 080483265X), volume one, chapter III,
The state or quality of being supervacaneous.
* 1914 , The Alumni Association, Fortnightly Notes , Volume 2, Issue 3, page 30,
As an adjective supervacaneous
is added above what is (l) or (l); (l), (l).As a noun supervacaneousness is
the state or quality of being supervacaneous.supervacaneous
English
Adjective
(-)- It is an awful thing to find your efforts supervacaneous when you are so far away from home and friends, sympathy, and help.
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- If I were simply to discuss noses in disregard of their relation to other entities, then I would declare without fear of contradiction that the nose of Mrs. Goldfield is superb, superlative, and, though possibly supervacaneous , one well-placed to win first prize at any exhibition of nasal development which might be organized by the long-nosed goblins on Mount Kurama.
Synonyms
* (l), (l), (l), (l) (obsolete), (l) (obsolete)Derived terms
* (l), (l)References
* “supervacaneous, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989
supervacaneousness
English
Noun
(es)- The only excuse for fetching a sigh now is that the program was too long (four hours), and that a supervacaneousness of the wildfire kind of piano playing was at times felt.