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fanciness

noun

fanciness is a noun meaning “The property of being fancy” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-A-N-C-I-N-E-S-S, and it appears about once in every 51 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fanciness is fancinesses.

What does fanciness mean?

noun

  1. 1

    The property of being fancy.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fanciness

  • fancinesses plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fanciness?

Fanciness appears about once in every 51 million words in written English, the 222,788th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fanciness come from?

From fancy + -ness.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).