different between awesomenessness vs awesomeness

English

Etymology

Redundant suffixation: awesomeness +? -ness or awesome +? -ness +? -ness.

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ô?s?mn?sn?s, IPA^(key): /???s?mn?sn?s/

Noun

awesomenessness (uncountable)

1. (emphatic, nonce word, rare, nonstandard) awesomeness
   • 2006: “[email protected]”, The Pepper Cascade (Google group): Swimming

     PS we still have the coupons, so we have to consider the awesomenessness to receive a discount coupon. please post with a reason why you should deserve a discount coupon.

   • 2006: “CharlaX”, Gmail Help Discussion (Google group): CHat(caht)

     >.<?this is called a dragonfly
     when ewe type him in the chat box his wings wiggle awesomenessness

   • 2007: “Shantell Hoskin”, Chocolate 4 Life (Google group): awesomenessness!!!! (thread title)

     awesomenessness!!!!

Usage notes

• Awesomenessness carries no additional semantic information compared with its antecedent awesomeness. Forms having been triply and quadruply suffixed with -ness also see occasional use; in pragmatic terms, this is equivalent to appending a long chain of exclamation marks after a statement to lend it emphatic force.

English

Etymology

awesome +? -ness

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ô?s?mn?s, IPA^(key): /???s?mn?s/

Noun

awesomeness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being awesome.
   • 2004, Robert C. Solomon, In Defense of Sentimentality (page 151)

     Traditional religions try to capture the awesomeness and subdue the terror with their sense of fate, as did Nietzsche. We should not deny that such notions are naturalistic just because they are also religious.

Derived terms

• awesomenessness (nonce)

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