"readiness" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈɹɛdinəs/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-readiness.wav Forms: readinesses [plural]
Rhymes: -ɛdinəs Etymology: From ready + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|ready|ness}} ready + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} readiness (usually uncountable, plural readinesses)
  1. The state or degree of being ready; preparedness. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (state or degree of being ready): ἑτοιμότης (hetoimótēs) [feminine] (Ancient Greek), պատրաստակամություն (patrastakamutʻyun) (Armenian), պատրաստություն (patrastutʻyun) (Armenian), гато́ўнасць (hatóŭnascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), гато́ўнасьць (hatóŭnasʹcʹ) [Taraškievica, feminine] (Belarusian), гато́васць (hatóvascʹ) [feminine] (Belarusian), гато́васьць (hatóvasʹcʹ) [Taraškievica, feminine] (Belarusian), гото́вност (gotóvnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), připravenost [feminine] (Czech), preteco (Esperanto), valmidus (Estonian), valmius (Finnish), préparation [feminine] (French), Bereitschaft [feminine] (German), 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃 (muns) [masculine] (Gothic), 𐌼𐌰𐌽𐍅𐌹𐌸𐌰 (manwiþa) [feminine] (Gothic), ετοιμότητα (etoimótita) [feminine] (Greek), מוּכָנוּת (mukhanút) [feminine] (Hebrew), készenlét (Hungarian), készültség (Hungarian), innealtacht [feminine] (Irish), éascaíocht [feminine] (Irish), oirchill [feminine] (Irish), promptus [masculine] (Latin), appeeys (note: of fruit) [masculine] (Manx), arryltid [masculine] (Manx), arryltys [masculine] (Manx), appeeid (note: of fruit) [masculine] (Manx), beredskap [masculine, neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), beredskap [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), gotowość [feminine] (Polish), prontidão [feminine] (Portuguese), гото́вность (gotóvnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), pripravenosť [feminine] (Slovak), preparación [feminine] (Spanish), beredskap [common-gender] (Swedish), гото́вність (hotóvnistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian), гото́вість (hotóvistʹ) [feminine] (Ukrainian)
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  2. Willingness. Tags: uncountable, usually
    Sense id: en-readiness-en-noun-31rcqdvK

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  "etymology_text": "From ready + -ness.",
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        "plural"
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        "English terms with usage examples"
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        {
          "text": "readiness for civil emergencies",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter V, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:",
          "text": "We expressed our readiness, and in ten minutes were in the station wagon, rolling rapidly down the long drive, for it was then after nine. We passed on the way the van of the guests from Asquith.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1960 February, R. C. Riley, “The London-Birmingham services - Past, Present and Future”, in Trains Illustrated, page 99:",
          "text": "Euston is so traditionally a part of the London scene that many will lament the passing of the old station when rebuilding is complete in readiness for the new electric service, which will probably be by multiple-units between Euston and Wolverhampton.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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        "The state or degree of being ready; preparedness."
      ],
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          "preparedness"
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        "usually"
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        "English terms with usage examples"
      ],
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          "text": "his readiness to help",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1976 December 18, Tommi Avicolli, “Previn's Bleak Book Has Note of Hope”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 18:",
          "text": "It was a long, enduring scream — one that would send her back into a time and into a childhood which had been forgotten with the readiness that we forget unpleasant moments in our lives.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Willingness."
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          "Willingness",
          "willingness"
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        "uncountable",
        "usually"
      ]
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      "rhymes": "-ɛdinəs"
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    {
      "code": "hy",
      "lang": "Armenian",
      "roman": "patrastakamutʻyun",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "word": "պատրաստակամություն"
    },
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      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "word": "պատրաստություն"
    },
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      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hatóŭnascʹ",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гато́ўнасць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hatóŭnasʹcʹ",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "Taraškievica",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гато́ўнасьць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hatóvascʹ",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гато́васць"
    },
    {
      "code": "be",
      "lang": "Belarusian",
      "roman": "hatóvasʹcʹ",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "Taraškievica",
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гато́васьць"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "gotóvnost",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гото́вност"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "připravenost"
    },
    {
      "code": "eo",
      "lang": "Esperanto",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "word": "preteco"
    },
    {
      "code": "et",
      "lang": "Estonian",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "word": "valmidus"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "word": "valmius"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "préparation"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Bereitschaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "muns",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌼𐌿𐌽𐍃"
    },
    {
      "code": "got",
      "lang": "Gothic",
      "roman": "manwiþa",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "𐌼𐌰𐌽𐍅𐌹𐌸𐌰"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "etoimótita",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ετοιμότητα"
    },
    {
      "code": "grc",
      "lang": "Ancient Greek",
      "roman": "hetoimótēs",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "ἑτοιμότης"
    },
    {
      "code": "he",
      "lang": "Hebrew",
      "roman": "mukhanút",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "מוּכָנוּת"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "word": "készenlét"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "word": "készültség"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "innealtacht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "éascaíocht"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "oirchill"
    },
    {
      "code": "la",
      "lang": "Latin",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "promptus"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "note": "of fruit",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "appeeys"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arryltid"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "arryltys"
    },
    {
      "code": "gv",
      "lang": "Manx",
      "note": "of fruit",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "appeeid"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "beredskap"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "beredskap"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "gotowość"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "prontidão"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "gotóvnostʹ",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гото́вность"
    },
    {
      "code": "sk",
      "lang": "Slovak",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "pripravenosť"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "preparación"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "beredskap"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hotóvnistʹ",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гото́вність"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "hotóvistʹ",
      "sense": "state or degree of being ready",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "гото́вість"
    }
  ],
  "word": "readiness"
}

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