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ravenness

ravenness noun: the quality of being a raven.

Noun

ravenness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a raven.
    • Not only are shoes and ravens not exchangeable, but it is to say the least questionable whether we should regard ravenness as positively relevant to blackness on the evidence of the white shoe.1974, Mary B. Hesse, The Structure of Scientific Inference, page 160

Origin of ravenness

From raven + -ness.

Questions about ravenness

What does ravenness mean?
Ravenness means the quality of being a raven.
What part of speech is ravenness?
Ravenness is a noun.

Words near ravenness in the dictionary

  1. Ravennan
  2. Ravennans
  3. Ravennate
  4. Ravennates
  5. Ravennese
  6. ravenness
  7. ravenous
  8. ravenously
  9. ravenousness
  10. ravenries
  11. ravenry

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