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enemyness

noun

Etymology

From enemy + -ness.

  1. derived from inimīcus
  2. derived from enemi
  3. inherited from enemy
  4. suffixed as enemyness — “enemy + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being an enemy

    The quality of being an enemy; enmity.

    • Several facts indicate his "enemyness": (1) the Arawete killer confers names his enemy's soul gives him, but does not "wear" them himself. (2) He must not resume sexual relations with his wife until long after the killing, […]
    • While this discourse resembled other Cold War narratives of "enemyness," and while the Nation of Islam itself nurtured an oppositional identity, representations of the group were particularly racialized and classist […]

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