"wrungness" meaning in English

See wrungness in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: From wrung + -ness. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|wrung|ness}} wrung + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} wrungness (uncountable)
  1. The quality of being wrung. Tags: uncountable
    Sense id: en-wrungness-en-noun-9YtY1HYD Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness, Pages with 1 entry
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wrung",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "wrung + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wrung + -ness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wrungness (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -ness",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1878, James Hinton, Ellice Hopkins, Life and Letters of James Hinton, page 273",
          "text": "There are two things awry; on the one hand, the acting for self (a distinct tension and wrungness); and, on the other, the relations of life are distorted, and made to be against the natural demands; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, page 42",
          "text": "Our social and psychological sciences stand helpless before the terrible things done by human beings, but the warpedness and wrungness of the human will is something we cannot admit into “serious” conversation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being wrung."
      ],
      "id": "en-wrungness-en-noun-9YtY1HYD",
      "links": [
        [
          "wrung",
          "wring"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wrungness"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "wrung",
        "3": "ness"
      },
      "expansion": "wrung + -ness",
      "name": "suffix"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From wrung + -ness.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "-"
      },
      "expansion": "wrungness (uncountable)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms suffixed with -ness",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1878, James Hinton, Ellice Hopkins, Life and Letters of James Hinton, page 273",
          "text": "There are two things awry; on the one hand, the acting for self (a distinct tension and wrungness); and, on the other, the relations of life are distorted, and made to be against the natural demands; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2021, Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, page 42",
          "text": "Our social and psychological sciences stand helpless before the terrible things done by human beings, but the warpedness and wrungness of the human will is something we cannot admit into “serious” conversation.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The quality of being wrung."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "wrung",
          "wring"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "wrungness"
}

Download raw JSONL data for wrungness meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-09-01 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-08-20 using wiktextract (8e41825 and f99c758). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.