Ness-a native English suffix attached to adjectives and participles, forming abstract nouns denoting quality and state
Raised where innovation was in the water. Old enough to have used a typewriter, to know what a Magic Margin was and how to use it, and that’s about all you need to know.
If you’d really like to learn more about Dan Ness, visit me on LinkedIn.
You think they’re not so everyday, but they keep popping up all over. There’s a Dan Ness that’s an artist in Portland, who’s also been in Berlin, Finland, Massachusetts, and Japan. There’s at least one Dan Ness who’s a realtor in Minnesota.
There are even companies with the Ness name. One that rents cranes doesn’t seem to have anyone working there with the name. Seems odd to have Ness Crane without a Ness.
It’s a great group, and maybe we ought to form a club!
Or how about a disambiguation page?
Some words ending in ness
abrasiveness
abruptness
absoluteness
abstemiousness
abstractedness
abstractness
abstruseness
absurdness
acceptableness
acquisitiveness
acridness
activeness
acuteness
adeptness
adequateness
adhesiveness
admirableness
adorableness
adroitness
advantageousness
adventurousness
affableness
affectedness
affectionateness
agedness
agelessness
aggressiveness
agreeableness
agribusiness
aimlessness
airiness
airsickness
airworthiness
alertness
aliveness
allusiveness
aloneness
aloofness
altitude sickness
amateurishness
amativeness
ambidextrousness (well beyond a right-handed compliment)
ambitiousness
amiableness
amicableness
amorousness
ampleness
ancientness
angriness
anomalousness
answerableness
anxiousness
apparentness
appreciativeness
apprehensiveness
appropriateness
aptness
arbitrariness
archness
arduousness
aridness
arlineness
artfulness
articulateness
artlessness
assertiveness
assiduousness
assuredness
astuteness
attainableness
attentiveness
attractiveness
audaciousness
audibleness
auspiciousness
austereness
availableness
averageness
awareness
awfulness
awkwardness
connectedness
Here are some words that emerged when I did.
Gotta love some of these – happy camper, fantabulous, overarousal, self-definition, smiley face, t distribution, and Zen-like.
In case you’ve found yourself looking for words that rhyme with ness, consider using Rhymezone, or take a look at this list:
1 syllable:
‘s, -less, -ness, bess, besse, bless, bress, bresse, cesse, ches, chess, cress, desse, dress, es, ess, esse, fess, fesse, fress, gess, gesse, ghess, gless, gress, guess, hess, hesse, jess, kess, kless, kness, kress, kresse, lecce, les, less, lesse, mess, messe, nes, nesse, pesce, pless, press, press’, presse, ques, ress, s, s., SNES (as many people pronounce it), stress, tess, thess, tress, vess, wes, wess, yes
2 syllables:
abscess, access, accresce, address, adpress, adresse, aggress, almesse, altesse, amess, assess, attests, cabesse, caress, cheese press, compress, concresce, confess, contests, de-access, depress, digests, digress, distress, drop press, duchesse, egress, ellesse, etess, excess, express, express’, finesse, fluoresce, forbess, frondesce, full dress, goldress, headdress, impress, ines, ingress, in esse, jeunesse, kermesse, kubes, l’express, land cress, largesse, ls, lutece, lyness, marsh cress, misguess, noblesse, obsess, oppress, outguess, payless, porpesse, portesse, possess, prepress, process, profess, progress, protests, punch press, recess, redress, regress, repress, requests, rock cress, siese, simplesse, spring cress, stone cress, success, suppress, the press, transgress, ts, tumesce, undress, unless, word stress, SNES (at least the way I pronounce it…)
3 syllables:
abs, acquiesce, belle isle cress, bitter cress, bouncing bess, c. b. s., catholicness, cbs, ccs, coalesce, cocktail dress, contactless, convalesce, cps, deliquesce, dinner dress, disk access, dispossess, diving dress, downy chess, dss, e. d. s., faithfulness, g. p. s., garden cress, garlic press, gps, h. h. s., i. n. s., i. r. s., intumesce, inverness, irs, lcs, letterpress, lyonnesse, meadow cress, more or less, morning dress, nonetheless, o. a. s., oas, overdress, p. b. s., plant process, printing press, public press, purple cress, reassess, recrudesce, refenes, reinvests, repossess, rocket cress, room access, scs, sentence stress, sms, sos, standing press, street address, t. b. s., tower cress, u. s. s., unkindness, uss, watercress, wedding dress, winter cress, with success
4 syllables:
abts, adss, body process, carbon process, civilian dress, cmos, durable press, hces, human process, hydraulic press, incline bench press, indian cress, japanese chess, name and address, nevertheless, officer’s mess, permanent press, printing process, return address, rotary press, solvay process, stds, tcas, transverse process, work in progress, ws
5 syllables:
american cress, bessemer process, bodily process, common garden cress, common watercress, computer address, cyanide process, damsel in distress, early winter cress, fractional process, freedom of the press, garden pepper cress, linguistic process, memory access, military press, mountain watercress, organic process, right to due process, service of process, surreptitiousness, unconscious process, yellow watercress
6 syllables:
alveolar process, economic process, metabolic process
7 syllables:
american watercress, basic cognitive process, geological process, higher cognitive process, mathematical process, pathological process, valedictory address
8 syllables:
psychoanalytic process, representational process
Quotes from the movie “Dan In Real Life”
Dan Burns: “Instead of telling our young people to plan ahead, we should tell them to plan to be surprised.”
Dan Burns: “You know that feeling in your heart? When your heart is just pounding, like it’s actually outside your ribs. Exposed, vulnerable, but wonderful and awful, and heartsick, and alive, all at the same time?”
Dan Burns: “What don’t I understand, Cara? Please, help me out. What is it? Is it frustrating that you can’t be with this person? That there’s something keeping you apart? That there’s something about this person that you can connect with? And whenever you’re near this person, you don’t know what to say, and you say everything that’s in your mind and in your heart, and you know that if you could just be together, that this person would help you become the best possible version of yourself?”
Marie: “I’m looking for a book… something that can help me deal with what might be an awkward situation. Something funny might be nice, but not necessarily big, ‘ha, ha, ha,’ ‘laugh, laugh, laugh’ funny, and certainly not make-fun-of-other-people funny but rather something human-funny. And, uh, if it could uh, sneak up on you, surprise you, and at the same time make you think that what you thought wasn’t only right, in a wrong kind of way, but when you’re wrong, there’s a certain rightness in your wrongness… Well, what I mean is, more importantly, I’m looking to be swept up! And at the same time, not.”
Dan Burns: “Well, you rarely find all that in one book.”
Words and phrases that contain the letters Ness:
happiness
darkness
ness
business
witness
sadness
madness
greatness
weakness
forgiveness
kindness
loneliness
sickness
fitness
emptiness
illness
goodness
wilderness
consciousness
awareness
sweetness
highness
tennessee
blackness
tenderness
harness
finesse
vanessa
bitterness
righteousness
stillness
fairness
neatness
brightness
quickness
nothingness
hennessy
blindness
wellness
fondness
selfishness
witnessed
craziness
foolishness
guiness
likeness
calmness
gratefulness
laziness
wickedness
coldness
hopelessness
closeness
witnesses
togetherness
weaknesses
holiness
softness
boldness
freshness
shyness
rudeness
cleanness
silliness
numbness
unhappiness
fullness
harkness
hennessey
liveliness
carelessness
hardness
seriousness
uniqueness
nervousness
thickness
cleanliness
cleverness
badness
gentleness
lateness
vastness
oneness
guinness
coolness
willingness
ugliness
eagerness
businessman
wetness
cockiness
businesses
cuteness
friendliness
swiftness
helplessness
peacefulness
toughness
meanness
dullness
richness
The names “Ness” and “-ness” have meanings in more than one language.
-ness in Old English
a native English suffix attached to adjectives and participles, forming abstract nouns denoting quality and state (and often, by extension, something exemplifying a quality or state): darkness; goodness; kindness; obligingness; preparedness.
Origin:
Middle English, Old English -nes, -nis, cognate with German -nis, Gothic -( n ) assus; suffix orig. *-assus; -n- by false division of words with adj. and past participle stems ending in -n-; compare Old English efnes (later efen-nys ) evenness
Ness in Hebrew
English Name: Ness
Hebrew Name: נֵס
Meaning:
1. Miracle, Magic, Wonder.
2. Flag, Pennant.
Origin: Bible
Numerological Value: 2
Numerological Analysis: Represents people who are peacemakers, sensitive, love to please, they hate arguments, tend to mediate complex and sensitive situations. Diplomats, with high intuition. Need love, warmth and touch. Quiet and friendly.
