oftness
English edit
Etymology edit
Noun edit
oftness (uncountable)
- (archaic, rare) The quality of happening often; frequency.
- 1888, Richard Hooker, John Keble, The Works, volume 2, page 411:
- Often fasting which was a virtue in John's disciples could not in them of itself be a vice, and therefore not the oftness of their fasting but their hypocrisy therein was blamed.
Synonyms edit
- frequency; see also Thesaurus:commonness