"offensiveness" meaning in English

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Noun

Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Wodencafe-offensiveness.wav [US] Forms: offensivenesses [plural]
Etymology: offensive + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|offensive|ness}} offensive + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} offensiveness (countable and uncountable, plural offensivenesses)
  1. The quality of being offensive. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-offensiveness-en-noun-JHyOv4RO Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

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