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milk-and-wateriness

milk-and-wateriness noun: the condition of being milk-and-watery; mawkishness; insipidness.

Noun

milk-and-wateriness (uncountable)

  1. The condition of being milk-and-watery; mawkishness; insipidness.
    • There is (at any rate in modern days) a mawkish milk-and-wateriness about the Christian attitude, and also a painful self-consciousness, which is not pleasant; and though Nietzsche's blonde beast is a sufficiently disagreeable animal, one almost thinks that it were better to be that than to go...1920, Edward Carpenter, Pagan and Christian Creeds, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., published 1921, page 191

Origin of milk-and-wateriness

From milk-and-watery + -ness.

Questions about milk-and-wateriness

What does milk-and-wateriness mean?
Milk-and-wateriness means the condition of being milk-and-watery; mawkishness; insipidness.
What part of speech is milk-and-wateriness?
Milk-and-wateriness is a noun.

Words near milk-and-wateriness in the dictionary

  1. milk voucher
  2. milk vouchers
  3. milk wool
  4. milk-alkali syndrome
  5. milk-and-water
  6. milk-and-wateriness
  7. milk-and-watery
  8. milk-bar cowboy
  9. milk-bar cowboys
  10. milk-brother
  11. milk-brothers

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