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dogliness

dogliness noun: the state, quality, or condition of being dogly.

Noun

dogliness (uncountable)

  1. The state, quality, or condition of being dogly.
    • My own observations would endorse that concept, especially in the case of Dido, my ninth dog and first Labrador, who epitomizes the spirit of dogliness more than any other I have encountered.1995, Chapman Pincher, My Life as a Real Dog, page ix
    • The moment when the wolf took its first step toward dogliness is no more specific than any other moment in evolutionary history.2019, Maggie Ryan Sandford, Consider the Platypus

Origin of dogliness

From dogly + -ness.

Questions about dogliness

What does dogliness mean?
Dogliness means the state, quality, or condition of being dogly.
What part of speech is dogliness?
Dogliness is a noun.

Words near dogliness in the dictionary

  1. doglessly
  2. doglessness
  3. doglet
  4. doglets
  5. doglike
  6. dogliness
  7. dogling
  8. doglings
  9. doglock
  10. doglocks
  11. dogloo

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