{"id":2139,"date":"2008-01-17T11:01:00","date_gmt":"2008-01-17T11:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2139"},"modified":"2008-01-17T11:01:00","modified_gmt":"2008-01-17T11:01:00","slug":"ness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2139","title":{"rendered":"-ness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an interesting article about Chinese finance <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200801\/fallows-chinese-dollars\">here <\/a>which, on page 4, has this sentence: &#8220;The opaqueness about intentions and goals is always the issue.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Am I the only person who finds this common resort to adding -ness onto the end of a word clumsy and lazy? Why couldn&#8217;t the word &#8216;opacity&#8217; be used?<\/p>\n<p>Here are some other examples where I don&#8217;t think it works:<\/p>\n<p>cohesiveness instead of cohesion<br \/>conciseness instead of concision<br \/>fierceness instead of ferocity<br \/>aggressiveness instead of aggression<\/p>\n<p>and one where I think it&#8217;s justifiable:<br \/>attractiveness rather than attraction (because attraction has a subtly different sense and could lead to confusion)<\/p>\n<p>Is this just the difference between a UK-English ear and a US-English ear? I&#8217;d be interested to know.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading an interesting article about Chinese finance here which, on page 4, has this sentence: &#8220;The opaqueness about intentions and goals is always the issue.&#8221; Am I the only person who finds this common resort to adding -ness onto the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=2139\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s3npsc-ness","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}