importantness
nounEtymology From important + -ness.
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The quality of being important; importance.
- There was need also of an institution for savings that would reach the poorer classes of colored people, teach them the importantness of being industrious, of seeking steady employment.1885; reprinted 1996 in Richard Germain, Dollars Through the Doors: A Pre-1930 History of Bank Marketing in America, page 112
- This word "essential" is too easily made a convenience for the forceful indication of a primary quality of importantness;1997, Schuyler B. Jackson, William Harmon, Rational Meaning, page 273:
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- Their time is in most demand; they earn stature, prestige, and importantness for this.2005, Kerry Temple, Back to Earth: A Backpacker's Journey into Self and Soul, page 17: