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dogness

dogness noun: the state or quality of being a dog.

Noun

dogness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being a dog.
    • The signifier dog does not signify "dogness" by virtue of some connection with the signified of dogness, but by its differential relation with other signifiers, like cat, cow, house, and so on.2001, Simone Santini, Exploratory Image Databases: Content-Based Retrieval, page 28
    Synonyms:
    doghood, dogitude

Synonyms of dogness

Origin of dogness

From dog + -ness.

Questions about dogness

What does dogness mean?
Dogness means the state or quality of being a dog.
What part of speech is dogness?
Dogness is a noun.

Words near dogness in the dictionary

  1. dognapper
  2. dognappers
  3. dognapping
  4. dognappings
  5. dognaps
  6. dogness
  7. Dogo Argentino
  8. dogoir
  9. dogoirs
  10. Dogon
  11. Dogons

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