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Noun suffixe: ESS - URE

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-ess (female) 

actress, princess, waitress, lioness, heiress


-ette (small version, feminine version)

cigarette, suffragette, bachelorette


-hood (state)

parenthood, motherhood, childhood, brotherhood, falsehood, neighborhood, womanhood


-ia (condition) 

anorexia, bulimia, hypochondria, hysteria, anesthesia, euthanasia, hemophilia


-iatry (treatment) 

podiatry, psychiatry


-ics, -istics  (technology of, study of) 

acoustics, mathematics, physics, ethics, politics, ballistics, linguistics, statistics


-ion, -sion, -tion (result, action, state) 

opinion, dominion,  revision, fusion, reversion, industrialization, organization, personification, magnification,declaration, celebration, information, elimination, combination, extinction


-ism (condition, belief) 

alcoholism, communism, socialism, monotheism, fanaticism, egotism


-ist (one who specializes in) 

dermatologist, optimist, optometrist, fascist, realist, artist, biologist, chemist, communist, guitarist, machinist, nationalist, organist, physicist, cartoonist, columnist, bicyclist, violinist, terrorist


-itis (inflammation) 

appendicitis, arthritis, bronchitis, hepatitis


-ity, -ty (state)

equality, abnormality, probability, civility, stupidity, curiosity, mobility, reality, tranquility, activity, honesty, difficulty, safety, cruelty, subtlety, loyalty, modesty, certainty,  formality, parity, veracity, conformity, exclusivity


-ium (chemical element) 

barium, helium, calcium, potassium


-ling (smaller thing)

duckling, hatchling, sapling


-ment (state)

retirement, establishment, movement, abandonment, ailment, fragment, government


-ness (state)

awareness, kindness, darkness, fondness, happiness, truthfulness, sleepiness, usefulness, correctness, helpfulness, wellness


-oid : resemblance  

android, anthropoid, geoid, opioid, rhizoid


-ology (study of) 

anthropology, biology, entomology, psychology, etymology, morphology


-ose (sugar ending) 

fructose, glucose, lactose, ribose

 

-ship (position held, state)

courtship, ownership, internship, worship. partnership, membership, friendship, readership, relationship, scholarship


-sis  (state, analysis, disease)

analysis, paralysis, psoriasis, prognosis, thrombosis, neurosis, psychosis, metastasis, dialisis, urinalysis


-ster (person associated with) 

gangster, mobster, youngster


-th (state)

strength, labyrinth, length, birth, death, depth, growth, warmth, width, tenth, hundredth, thousandth, millionth


-tomy (cut out) 

appendectomy, thyroidectomy, tonsillectomy, vasectomy, lobotomy


-tude  (state) 

fortitude, beatitude, certitude, multitude, longitude, latitude


 -ure (action, process)

failure, pressure, procedure, legislature, departure, enclosure