1. The quality of being dear; tender affectionateness.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• defness,
• darnkess,
• demoness,
• heartness,
• earnes,
• arness,
• weatness,
• dealnews,
• soarness,
• geatness,
• aearness,
• darness,
• deress,
• dakness,
• fiarness,
• dearlers,
• detainess,
• deacness,
• hareness,
• deadneses

• derangement,
• deafness,
• neatness,
• darkness,
• darns,
• dearing,
• Dearmas,
• dermestidae,
• derringer,
• deering,
• dermis,
• harness,
• deranged,
• dering,
• deramus,
• nearness,
• derange.

The adjective form of the word "dearness" is "dear".

The plural of the "dearness" can be the "dearnesses".

The singular of the "dearness" can be the "dearness".