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    Solicitousness is the quality of caring a lot about whether someone is safe, well, or comfortable — and showing it. A person with solicitousness keeps asking if you are cold, if you have eaten, if you need to sit down. It is the noun for the adjective 'solicitous'. Two things are worth knowing. First, this is a rare and rather heavy word; 'solicitude' (the next word) is the one educated speakers usually reach for, and in everyday talk people just say 'concern' or 'kindness'. If you write 'solicitousness' in an essay it will not be wrong, only unusual. Second, the word is often used with a small doubt inside it. Because solicitous care is care you can SEE, writers use it when someone is being a bit too attentive — fussing over you, or being extra nice to a customer or a boss because they want something. So it can be warm (a nurse's solicitousness) or slightly cool (the waiter's solicitousness made her ). The sentence around it tells you which. It is almost always uncountable: you have solicitousness, not 'a solicitousness'.

    殷勤關切;無微不至的關心(帶有「關心得很明顯、有時過了頭」的味道;中性偏書面,日常口語會說「很關心」「很體貼」)

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組成solicitous (caring about someone's wellbeing) + -ness (the state of being that thing). '-ness' is the everyday English ending that turns an adjective into a noun: kind → kindness, dark → darkness. 'Solicitous' itself goes back to Latin sollicitus, meaning 'anxious, stirred up' — so under the kindness there is a hint of worry.

同家族的字

  • solicitudethe older, more common noun from the same adjective solicitous — almost the same meaning
  • solicitousthe adjective this noun is built from
  • solicitsame Latin root sollicitare; to ask for something earnestly
  • kindnessshares the noun-making ending -ness

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

solicitousnessnoun

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    The state or quality of being solicitous.

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。