- a variation of dependability.
dependableness
Example Sentences
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The more I depended on them the greater was their dependableness, and the little girls grew more tender, the boys more chivalrous.
From The Girl and the Kingdom Learning to Teach by Wiggin, Kate Douglas Smith
She had been accustomed to hear charm and wit 51 and vivacity spoken of in those terms, but dependableness?
From The Camerons of Highboro by Gilchrist, Beth Bradford
A mighty comfortable soul she was, giving one the nice smooth mother-feeling a man likes in a woman, and yet giving also the clear intelligence and dependableness I used to assume to be masculine qualities.
From Herland by Gilman, Charlotte Perkins
Your greatest success will be achieved in some field of service where dependableness is a primary essential.
From Certain Success by Hawkins, Norval A.
It was like a breaking instinct of dependableness; and then he called up Dr. Bennington.
From Over the Pass by Palmer, Frederick