Home › Words › A › againnessagainnessagainness means the quality of being or happening again; repetition.EtymologyFrom again + -ness.nounThe quality of being or happening again; repetition.e.g.“Only on the hypothesis that what is learnt in one generation is remembered by the next, can there be any feeling of againness or of expectancy.” — 1922, The British journal of psychology: Volume 12:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.afterness 64% match — The state or quality of being or coming after. vs againness →recurrency 64% match — The act or process of recurring; recurrence. vs againness →agedness 62% match — The state or quality of being aged. vs againness →repetitiousness 62% match — The state of being repetitious. vs againness →eventness 61% match — The quality of not being utterly predictable; the specificity that characterizes an occurrence as meaningful. vs againness →repetitiveness 61% match — The state of being repetitive. vs againness →ingemination 61% match — Repetition; reduplication; reiteration. vs againness →gaincoming 61% match — Return; a coming again; second coming or advent. vs againness →