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Etymology

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spreading +‎ -ness

Noun

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spreadingness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of spreading, or tending to spread
    • 2009 January 18, Art Winslow, “Ordinary Madness”, in New York Times[1]:
      Indeed, the “very cleverness and spreadingness of murder” may have gathered her father within its compass [] .