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dronishness

dronishness noun: the quality of being dronish.

Noun

dronishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being dronish.
    • They are clumsy unmannerly creatures, and quite incapable of culture or improvement. Their great characteristic is laziness — dronishness in early life and dronishness to the end. They have no inclination for a life of activity and usefulness […]1876, Journal of Horticulture and Practical Gardening, volume 30, page 102

Origin of dronishness

From dronish + -ness.

Questions about dronishness

What does dronishness mean?
Dronishness means the quality of being dronish.
What part of speech is dronishness?
Dronishness is a noun.

Words near dronishness in the dictionary

  1. droning on
  2. droningly
  3. dronings
  4. dronish
  5. dronishly
  6. dronishness
  7. dronist
  8. dronists
  9. dronkennesse
  10. dronkgras
  11. dronkgrass

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