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inkiness

noun

Etymology

From inky + -ness.

  1. derived from ἔγκαυστον — “burned-in”
  2. derived from encaustum — “purple ink used by Roman emperors to sign documents”
  3. derived from enque
  4. inherited from ynke
  5. suffixed as inky — “ink + -y”
  6. suffixed as inkiness — “inky + ness”

Definitions

  1. The condition of or an instance of being inky.

    • Please excuse all the inkinesses—my pen dropped into the sand, and messed things up a bit

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for inkiness. 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