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catlikeness

noun

Etymology

From catlike + -ness.

  1. derived from catta
  2. derived from cattus
  3. inherited from *kattuz✻
  4. inherited from *kattu✻
  5. inherited from catt
  6. inherited from cat
  7. suffixed as catlike — “cat + like”
  8. suffixed as catlikeness — “catlike + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being catlike

    The quality of being catlike; felinity.

    • For example Victor Brauner's Woman into Cat incorporates catlikeness into the eye, the hand, and produces as it were a double flower sprouting from the breast.

The neighborhood

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