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donnishness

donnishness noun: the quality of being donnish.

Noun

donnishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being donnish.
    • In the morning he got up pallid and he shaved badly, but he was a generation ahead of his own Euphemia series, and the school of charm and quiet humour and of letting things slide with a kind of elegant donnishness, had lost him for ever…1914, H. G. Wells, chapter 9, in The Wife of Sir Isaac Harman

Origin of donnishness

From donnish + -ness.

Questions about donnishness

What does donnishness mean?
Donnishness means the quality of being donnish.
What part of speech is donnishness?
Donnishness is a noun.

Words near donnishness in the dictionary

  1. donning
  2. Donnington
  3. Donnington and Muxton
  4. donnish
  5. donnishly
  6. donnishness
  7. donnism
  8. donno
  9. donnot
  10. donnots
  11. Donns

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