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# fullness

«fullness» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being full: a feeling of fullness after dinner** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (fullness — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Being full: a feeling of fullness after dinner. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#m1)

2) Being complete or whole: the fullness of the moon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#m2)

3) Being rich, deep or round: the fullness of her voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#m3)

4) «in the fullness of time» (formal) = in the end, when the right time comes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#m4)

5) Fullness can also mean the height or peak of a season, such as the fullness of summer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In science and health «fullness» is the feeling of a full stomach; in stories the moon in its fullness is the full moon; in formal talk «in the fullness of time» means «eventually». Phrases: «a feeling of fullness», «in the fullness of time».

### examples

- Eating slowly helps you notice fullness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#x1)
- The fullness of the moon lit up the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#x2)
- All will be explained in the fullness of time. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#x3)
- Singers practise for fullness of tone. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#x4)
- The fullness of the bucket made it heavy. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#x5)
- After Christmas dinner, everyone sat in happy fullness. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#x6)
- Looking to the south all the trees were green in the fullness of summer, and the day cicala and the night cricket chirruped loudly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/#x7)

### note

Spelled with two l's: full + ness = fullness (US also «fulness», rare). Uncountable.

### In the corpora

- [Therefore His people return hither; and waters of fullness are drained out by them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.1228/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «fullness» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/fullness/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.