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addleness

noun

Etymology

From addle + -ness.

  1. inherited from *adalaz✻
  2. inherited from *adal✻
  3. inherited from adela
  4. inherited from adel
  5. suffixed as addleness — “addle + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state or quality of being addle.

    • The "addleness" of these eggs was consequently merely apparent. Their failure to hatch did not result from lack of inherent power of development […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for addleness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA