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caginess

caginess noun: the quality of being cagey.

Noun

caginess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cagey.
    • And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”2024 January 10, Laura Snapes, “Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Origin of caginess

From cagy + -ness.

Questions about caginess

What does caginess mean?
Caginess means the quality of being cagey.
What part of speech is caginess?
Caginess is a noun.

Words near caginess in the dictionary

  1. cagging
  2. Cagiano
  3. cagier
  4. cagiest
  5. cagily
  6. caginess
  7. caging
  8. cagings
  9. Cagle
  10. Cagles
  11. Cagley

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