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dottiness

noun

Etymology

From dotty + -ness.

  1. inherited from *duttaz✻ — “wisp”
  2. inherited from *dott✻
  3. inherited from dott — “a dot, point”
  4. inherited from *dot✻
  5. suffixed as dotty — “dot + y”
  6. suffixed as dottiness — “dotty + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of quality of being covered in dots.

    • As in the center of Figure 6-3, a single stroke may reveal the inherent dottiness of computer stroking, which you can minimize by reducing the Step value on the Tool Options palette.

  2. The state or quality of being dotty, mildly insane or preoccupied.

    • She needs to be simultaneously preposterous and entirely serious, and Angela Lansbury, in her Tony-nominated performance in the current revival at the Shubert Theater, is a whirlwind of dottiness with a ramrod spine of practicality.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for dottiness. 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