softness
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- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 8
/ˈsɔftnəs/
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/ˈsɔftnəs/ · /ˈsɑftnəs/ · /ˈsɒftnəs/
Definition of softness
1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(uncountable, usually)The quality of being soft.
“[…] the informal dressers, with their "divided skirts" and stealthy advances towards confessed trouserdom, are the strong-minded sisterhood, to whom the softnesses of sex are abominations […]”
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Etymology
From Middle English softnesse, from Old English sōftnes, alteration of earlier sēftnes. Equivalent to soft + -ness.
Words you can make from softness
98 playable · top: SOFTENS (10 pts)
Best play softens 10 points6-letter words
7 words5-letter words
17 words4-letter words
31 words- EFTS 7 pts
- FENS 7 pts
- FESS 7 pts
- FEST 7 pts
- FETS 7 pts
- FOES 7 pts
- FONS 7 pts
- FONT 7 pts
- FOSS 7 pts
- SOFT 7 pts
- EONS 4 pts
- ESTS 4 pts
- NESS 4 pts
- NEST 4 pts
- NETS 4 pts
- NOES 4 pts
- NOSE 4 pts
- NOTE 4 pts
- ONES 4 pts
- OSES 4 pts
- SENT 4 pts
- SETS 4 pts
- SNOT 4 pts
- SONE 4 pts
- SONS 4 pts
- SOTS 4 pts
- TENS 4 pts
- TOES 4 pts
- TONE 4 pts
- TONS 4 pts
- TOSS 4 pts
3-letter words
28 words2-letter words
14 wordsFind your best play with softness
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