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English
Etymology
From implicit + -ness.
Noun
implicitness (countable and uncountable, plural implicitnesses)
- The state or quality of being implicit.
1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “The Morality of Diamonds”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. , volume I, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC, page 20:He heard me calmly; and as calmly promised to further our attachment. The implicitness of my reliance stayed not to ask his sympathy. To talk of her was happiness, and my brother seemed a part of that home whither he was then returning.
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- “implicitness”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “implicitness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.