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单词 goodiness
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goodinessn.

Brit. /ˈɡʊdɪnəs/, U.S. /ˈɡʊdinəs/
Forms: 1800s– goodiness, 1800s– goodyness.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: goody adj., -ness suffix.
Etymology: < goody adj. + -ness suffix, after goodness n.
Goodness of a weak and sentimental kind; affected or self-conscious conformity to conventional moral standards or good manners. Frequently in explicit contrast with goodness. Cf. goody adj. 2.
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society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun]
hypocrisy?c1225
pope-holya1425
saunteringc1440
pope-holiness1528
Pharisaism?1573
lip-holiness1591
lip-religion1597
hypocrism1605
lip-devotion1613
sanctimonya1618
lip-worship1656
sanctimoniousness1679
unction1692
sanctification1768
goodiness1808
pietism1829
lip-reverencec1843
Pecksniffery1848
mawwormism1850
goody-good1851
lip-homage1858
devil-dodging1866
goody-goodiness1868
goody-goodyism1868
piosity1883
unctuosity1884
1808 H. C. Robinson Let. 7 May in Notes & Lect. on Shakespeare (1849) I. 327 [Summarizing a lecture by Coleridge] This is not virtue but vanity:—Such books and such lessons do not teach goodness, but, if I might hazard such a word, goodiness.
1810 S. T. Coleridge in Courier 20 Jan. Whose goodness, or (if I may be allowed to coin a word, which the times, if not the language require) whose goodiness, consists [etc.].
1841 Edinb. Rev. 73 367 Clifford's extreme goodness (to borrow a phrase from Coleridge) not unfrequently degenerates into goodiness.
1871 W. Cory Let. 26 Dec. in Lett. & Jrnls. (1897) 278 The small-townish, old-maidish goodyness of Eugénie Grandet.
1898 Dublin Rev. Jan. 218 The obtrusive goodyness which has been apt to make Catholic children shy of Catholic literature.
1920 Amer. Jrnl. Urol. & Sexol. Jan. 44 These very girls, educated in this primness, this goodiness, when set free from the restraints of education indulge more extensively than any other women in liaisons.
1985 R. Davies What's bred in Bone i. 18 Tedious manifestations of the moral conscience..pulling for Sunday-school rightness and goodiness.
2006 C. M. Coope in T. Chappell Values & Virtues i. 36 Nietzsche would have talked of decadence: meaning here the replacement of good sense by goodyness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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