Word.ws English Dictionary

catness

catness noun: the quality of being a cat.

Noun

catness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a cat.
    • My theory is that every person contains a certain predetermined essence of either catness or dogness; a rare few contain essences of both. Catness is caution, privacy, order, mind; dogness is impulsiveness, sociability, chaos, body.2002, Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song & Other Rememberings, page 110
    • For example, every cat is different, but all cats share the same catness because they participate in the cat form.2009, Naomi Zack, The Handy Philosophy Answer Book, page 31

Origin of catness

From cat + -ness.

Questions about catness

What does catness mean?
Catness means the quality of being a cat.
What part of speech is catness?
Catness is a noun.

Words near catness in the dictionary

  1. catnappings
  2. catnaps
  3. catne
  4. catnep
  5. catneps
  6. catness
  7. catnip
  8. catnipped
  9. catnippy
  10. catnips
  11. Cato

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: catness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “catness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/catness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.