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chinlessness

chinlessness noun: the quality of being chinless.

Noun

chinlessness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being chinless.
    • Everyone has read of his beetling brows, his prominent teeth, his chinlessness, his hairiness, and has seen them reproduced in pictures, even in bronze busts.1985, Courtlandt Canby, Nancy E. Gross, The World of history, page 65
    • On the Tuesday after Miss Pettigrew's funderal Mr. Conrad Rackley returned to Neely in a rented truck thecab of which he shared with a pair of Masseys who we did not know for Masseys right off but who we recognized as relations on account of a common chinlessness, which is apparently the...1987, Charles East, The New Writers of the South: A Fiction Anthology, →ISBN, page 176

Origin of chinlessness

From chinless + -ness.

Questions about chinlessness

What does chinlessness mean?
Chinlessness means the quality of being chinless.
What part of speech is chinlessness?
Chinlessness is a noun.

Words near chinlessness in the dictionary

  1. Chinle Creek
  2. Chinle Wash
  3. chinless
  4. chinless wonder
  5. chinless wonders
  6. chinlessness
  7. Chinley
  8. Chinley, Buxworth and Brownside
  9. chinlike
  10. chinlock
  11. chinlocks

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