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birdness

birdness noun: the quality of being a bird.

Noun

birdness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a bird.
    • When we reason about an arbitrary bird, we may conclude that it flies, but we do not alter our concept of birdness to include flight in order to make that conclusion, as the above account implies.2000, Timothy R. Colburn, Philosophy and Computer Science, page 91
    • A penguin or a clucking hen logically might satisfy the ascertainable criteria of birdness but remain somehow inapt for excavating focal meanings.2012, Richard Biernacki, Reinventing Evidence in Social Inquiry

Origin of birdness

From bird + -ness.

Questions about birdness

What does birdness mean?
Birdness means the quality of being a bird.
What part of speech is birdness?
Birdness is a noun.

Words near birdness in the dictionary

  1. birdnapped
  2. birdnapper
  3. birdnappers
  4. birdnapping
  5. birdnaps
  6. birdness
  7. birdnest
  8. birdnested
  9. birdnesting
  10. birdnestings
  11. birdnests

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