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woodenness

noun

Etymology

From wooden + -ness.

  1. derived from *h₁weydʰh₁-✻
  2. inherited from *widuz✻
  3. inherited from *widu✻
  4. inherited from wudu
  5. inherited from wode
  6. suffixed as wooden — “wood + -en”
  7. suffixed as woodenness — “wooden + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being wooden (often in a figurative sense).

    • […] Marigold’s smile faded into woodenness […]
    • What of him then? If no woman has yet detected, behind his woodenness, his clenched grimness, any flicker of the sacred fire […]

The neighborhood

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