Etymograph

English

sinlessness

From sinless + -ness.

Formed from sinless + -ness

Proto-Indo-European *h₁es- ‘to be’

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Proto-West Germanic *sunnju ‘actuality, distress, concern’

Old English synn ‘misdeed, fault, crime, wrong’

Old English synlēas ‘without sin’

Middle English synneles

English sinless

Today it means

noun The state or condition of being sinless.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “sinlessness”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

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