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mardiness

mardiness noun: the quality of being mardy.

Noun

mardiness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being mardy.
    • Irritated by my feeling of non-specific mardiness, I force myself out of bed, stretching flamboyantly as I walk over to open the shutters.2006, Laura Hird, Hope And Other Stories, page 36

Origin of mardiness

From mardy + -ness.

Questions about mardiness

What does mardiness mean?
Mardiness means the quality of being mardy.
What part of speech is mardiness?
Mardiness is a noun.

Words near mardiness in the dictionary

  1. mardiest
  2. Mardigian
  3. Mardigians
  4. mardily
  5. Mardin
  6. mardiness
  7. marding
  8. mardivirus
  9. mardiviruses
  10. mardle
  11. mardled

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