broodiness
nounEtymology
From broody + -ness.
Definitions
The state of being broody.
- In contrast, egg-producing white leghorn chickens have had the broodiness bred out of them.
- Bohmes Liebeslied, for flute and piano, is arresting in its low-key broodiness; Bittersweet Music I, its piccolo a lonely bird in its nervous twitters, continued the despairing mood.
- When a hen shows signs of broodiness remove her to the sitting-room.
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