tentativeness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The characteristic of being tentative. uncountable,usually
    — There are also some delightful love scenes between Jean and Esther. Russ does an excellent job of capturing the blend of excitement, tentativeness and panic present in the culmination of something so lusted after and so feared.

词形变化

tentativenesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English tentative
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 tentativeness
From tentative + -ness.
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