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featheredness

featheredness noun: the quality of being feathered; presence of feathers.

Noun

featheredness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being feathered; presence of feathers.
    • But it happened that they had not yet reached that state of featheredness which he considered desirable; and having nothing else to do, he sat down under the tree to watch the old ones bringing them the fattest worms, and freshest bugs, and other delicacies of the season.1871, Sarah des Brisay, Jack the Fly-Killer

Origin of featheredness

From feathered + -ness.

Questions about featheredness

What does featheredness mean?
Featheredness means the quality of being feathered; presence of feathers.
What part of speech is featheredness?
Featheredness is a noun.

Words near featheredness in the dictionary

  1. feathered oof-birds
  2. featheredge
  3. featheredged
  4. featheredges
  5. featheredging
  6. featheredness
  7. featherer
  8. featherers
  9. featherfeet
  10. featherfew
  11. featherflower

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