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philoprogenitiveness

philoprogenitiveness noun: the state or condition of being philoprogenitive.

Noun

philoprogenitiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being philoprogenitive.
    • He was walking upon the terrace finally upon the eventful day when, amidst an immense jangling of bells from Clavering Church, where the flag was flying, an open carriage and one of those travelling chariots or family arks, which only English philoprogenitiveness could invent, drove rapidly with...1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 23, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published...
    • Life-size, bald, china heads were produced as guides, suitably inscribed with a patchwork labeled "sublimity," "ideality," "benevolence," and that splendid Victorian substitute for sex - "philoprogenitiveness."1973, Lyall Watson, Supernature, page vi. 203

Origin of philoprogenitiveness

From philoprogenitive + -ness.

Questions about philoprogenitiveness

What does philoprogenitiveness mean?
Philoprogenitiveness means the state or condition of being philoprogenitive.
What part of speech is philoprogenitiveness?
Philoprogenitiveness is a noun.

Words near philoprogenitiveness in the dictionary

  1. philopotamid
  2. philopotamids
  3. philoprogeneity
  4. philoprogenitive
  5. philoprogenitively
  6. philoprogenitiveness
  7. philopterid
  8. philopterids
  9. philornithic
  10. philoroman
  11. philos

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