incisiveness

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality or state of being incisive; incisivity. uncountable
    — "Merely an amateur," put in Carrados, suavely, but with the incisiveness of a scalpel.

词源

Etymology tree
English incisive
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English incisiveness
From incisive + -ness.
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