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edginesses

edginesses is the plural of edginess.

Meaning of edginess

Noun

edginess (usually uncountable, plural edginesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being edgy.
    • Fay Lie grabs Isaac Sachs’s elbow. “You’ll remember bumping into Luisa Rey the other day?”
      “I’m one lucky conscript. Hi, Luisa, again.”
      Luisa feels an edginess in his handshake.2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 130

Questions about edginesses

What is edginesses the plural of?
Edginesses is the plural of edginess.

Words near edginesses in the dictionary

  1. edgier
  2. edgiest
  3. edgily
  4. Edgin
  5. edginess
  6. edginesses
  7. edging
  8. edging in
  9. edging out
  10. edging up
  11. edgingly

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