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doctorishness

doctorishness noun: the state or quality of being like a doctor.

Noun

doctorishness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being like a doctor.
    • They clung passionately to his doctorishness, believing it to be safe. It wasn't safe at all.1955, Sylvia Cooper, Thunder Stone, page 16
    • A child can make up the truth about the doctor just as well as, or better than, he can observe and retell the truth about the doctor. Indeed the process of retailing in so far as it is unselective, in so far as it fails to eliminate the inessentials that clutter up the concept of doctorishness is...1994, Susan Rusinko, The Plays of Benn Levy: Between Shaw and Coward, page 201

Origin of doctorishness

From doctorish + -ness.

Questions about doctorishness

What does doctorishness mean?
Doctorishness means the state or quality of being like a doctor.
What part of speech is doctorishness?
Doctorishness is a noun.

Words near doctorishness in the dictionary

  1. doctorin'
  2. doctoring
  3. doctoring up
  4. doctorings
  5. doctorish
  6. doctorishness
  7. doctorize
  8. doctorized
  9. doctorizes
  10. doctorizing
  11. doctorless

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