-hood

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Suffixes
-archy
-Biology suffixes
-cide
-cracy
-cycle
-gate
-genesis
-hood
-ic
-illion
-ism
-ist
-kinesis
-mania
-nik
-graphy
-oid
-logy
-ome
-omics
-nomy
-onym
-ous
-phil-
-phob-
-phone
-polis
-scope
-stan
-ville
-ware
Not to be confused with hood.
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-hood is an English suffix that means a "state or condition of" or a group sharing a certain characteristic. Examples include childhood and falsehood.

It is cognate with the German language suffix -heit, e.g. Kindheit.

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