chinlessness

noun

Etymology

From chinless + -ness.

  1. inherited from *ǵénus
  2. inherited from *kinnuz
  3. inherited from *kinnu
  4. inherited from ċinn
  5. inherited from chyn
  6. suffixed as chinless — “chin + less
  7. suffixed as chinlessness — “chinless + ness

Definitions

  1. The quality of being chinless.

    • Everyone has read of his beetling brows, his prominent teeth, his chinlessness, his hairiness, and has seen them reproduced in pictures, even in bronze busts.
    • Patriarchy deliberately inculcates rivalry between women; Eva speaks of this in her description of the mean-spirited rivalries between girls in the cotillion competition which her chinlessness had locked her out of.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for chinlessness. 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