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auntness

noun

Etymology

From aunt + -ness.

  1. derived from amita
  2. derived from ante
  3. derived from aunte
  4. inherited from aunte
  5. suffixed as auntness — “aunt + ness”

Definitions

  1. the state of being an aunt.

    • An aunt may be young, ridiculously so, as a body; but as a soul, that is, as her real self, she must enjoy the full privilege of auntness.
    • When I wasn't completely creeped out by this sudden switch-off of normal auntness, I'd ask my mom what was going on.
    • Her auntness is accidental. The accident is my father who recently, and for reasons both private and worrying, reclaimed this extremely peripheral twig of the family tree' (Swaminathan 2006, pp. 2—3).

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for auntness. 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