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SNUGNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does snugness mean? 

SNUGNESS (noun)
  The noun SNUGNESS has 1 sense:

1. a state of warm snug comfortplay

  Familiarity information: SNUGNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SNUGNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A state of warm snug comfort

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

cosiness; coziness; snugness

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

comfort; comfortableness (a state of being relaxed and feeling no pain)

Derivation:

snug (enjoying or affording comforting warmth and shelter especially in a small space)

snug (offering safety; well protected or concealed)


 Context examples 


It was the complete idea of snugness.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

When all was finished, I thought Moor House as complete a model of bright modest snugness within, as it was, at this season, a specimen of wintry waste and desert dreariness without.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)



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