different between fellness vs fullness

English

Etymology

From fell +? -ness.

Noun

fellness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being fell; awfulness, horror, cruelty.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, II.viii:

     For very felnesse lowd he gan to weepe, / And said, Caytiue, cursse on thy cruell hond [...].

English

Alternative forms

• fulness

Etymology

From Middle English fulnesse, folnesse, from Old English fulnes, fylnes, fyllnis (“completeness; abundance”), equivalent to full +? -ness. Cognate with Old High German folnissi (“fullness”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General American) IPA^(key): /?f?ln?s/
• Hyphenation: full?ness

Noun

fullness (usually uncountable, plural fullnesses)

1. Being full; completeness.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
2. The degree to which a space is full.(Can we add an example for this sense?)
3. (figuratively) The degree to which fate has become known. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
4. (bodybuilding): A measure of the degree to which a muscle has increased in size parallel to the axis of its contraction. A full muscle fills more of the space along the part of the body where it is connected.

Synonyms

• (being full): entirety, whole; see also Thesaurus:entirety

Derived terms

• fullness of time

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