Etymology of the English suffix -ness

Derivations in English

airiness, allness, archness, belongingness, bigness, biuniqueness, blueness, bushiness, busyness, carsickness, chariness, childness, conciseness, consciousness, crossness, currentness, doneness, enormousness, fitness, foreverness, forwardness, frankness, gaminess, handedness, happiness, illness, indebtedness, jewishness, meanness, nothingness, otherness, pastiness, pastness, preparedness, publicness, relativeness, responsiveness, rockiness, sameness, selfness, sensitiveness, showiness, singleness, skewness, thingness, togetherness, wariness, washiness, goneness, crashworthiness, interconnectedness, blackness, broadness, doubleness, fondness, hardiness, inwardness, strangeness, wateriness, wickedness, fineness, kindliness, brightness, darkness, easiness, fastness, fatness, fewness, forgiveness, foulness, goodness, greenness, highness, holiness, kindness, lightness, likeness, madness, muchness, neediness, oneness, readiness, redness, righteousness, rightness, sickness, stillness, suchness, thickness, weakness, whiteness

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Word found in Modern English