HEARTINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does heartiness mean? 

• HEARTINESS (noun)
  The noun HEARTINESS has 2 senses:

1. active strength of body or mind

2. the quality of hearty sincerity

  Familiarity information: HEARTINESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HEARTINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Active strength of body or mind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dynamism; heartiness; vigor; vigour

Hypernyms ("heartiness" is a kind of...):

strength (the property of being physically or mentally strong)

Derivation:

hearty (consuming abundantly and with gusto)

hearty (endowed with or exhibiting great bodily or mental health)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of hearty sincerity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

heartiness; wholeheartedness

Hypernyms ("heartiness" is a kind of...):

sincerity (the quality of being open and truthful; not deceitful or hypocritical)

Derivation:

hearty (without reservation)

hearty (showing warm and heartfelt friendliness)

 Context examples 

It was a heartiness, and a warmth, and a sincerity which Anne delighted in the more, from the sad want of such blessings at home.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

He was delighted to see me, and gave me welcome, with great heartiness, to his little room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

"Goodbye, dear," and with these words, uttered in the tone she liked, Laurie left her, after a handshake almost painful in its heartiness.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

The openness and heartiness of her manner more than atoned for that want of recollection and elegance which made her often deficient in the forms of politeness; her kindness, recommended by so pretty a face, was engaging; her folly, though evident was not disgusting, because it was not conceited; and Elinor could have forgiven every thing but her laugh.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

The ale-drinking, the rude good-fellowship, the heartiness, the laughter at discomforts, the craving to see the fight—all these may be set down as vulgar and trivial by those to whom they are distasteful; but to me, listening to the far-off and uncertain echoes of our distant past, they seem to have been the very bones upon which much that is most solid and virile in this ancient race was moulded.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The heartiness of the ejaculation startled Mr. Dick exceedingly; and me, too, if I am to tell the truth.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Ha, ha! laughed Mr. Peggotty, sitting down beside us, and rubbing his hands in his sense of relief from recent trouble, and in the genuine heartiness of his nature; there's not a woman in the wureld, sir—as I tell her—that need to feel more easy in her mind than her!

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Observing that he slightly faltered, and comprehending that in the goodness of his heart he was fearful of giving me some pain by what he had said, I expressed my concurrence with a heartiness that evidently relieved and pleased him greatly.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

We parted with great heartiness on both sides; and when I had seen Traddles to his own door, and was going home alone, I thought, among the other odd and contradictory things I mused upon, that, slippery as Mr. Micawber was, I was probably indebted to some compassionate recollection he retained of me as his boy-lodger, for never having been asked by him for money.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It being now pretty late, we took our candles and went upstairs, where we parted with friendly heartiness at his door, and where I found my new room a great improvement on my old one, it not being at all musty, and having an immense four-post bedstead in it, which was quite a little landed estate.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)