Noun: comess
Sample Sentences
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As Jasmine told me emphatically, "facts" are knowledge -- of correct practices and their meanings -- and provide the antidote to the comess of mixed ways of knowing and of behaving. [2004, Aisha Khan, Callaloo Nation, →ISBN, page 211:]
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Somewhere in the comess, Beti had lost her headpiece. [2012, Connie Wilkins, Steve Berman, Heiresses of Russ 2012, →ISBN, page 260:]
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The seer man revealed that the "comess" (conflict, trouble, confusion) this man was experiencing was linked to cuckoldry (perhaps his own; this part of the story was left vague), explaining that the neighbors "had worked obeah” on him and his family, "put[tin] graveyard dirt and many other things in a buried heap" under the outside stairs. [2014, J.W. Pulis, Religion, Diaspora and Cultural Identity, →ISBN, page 268:]
Nouns inflected like comess
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Antillean Creole komès, from French commerce. Doublet of commerce. See: French Nouns '
commerce'.