Word.ws English Dictionary

swarminess

swarminess noun: the quality of being swarmy.

Noun

swarminess (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being swarmy.
    • There are those who will dispute this statement, but the fact of the matter is that swarminess is an inherited character and young queens produced by a swarmy colony will, most probably, also head swarmy colonies.2004, John Ellis Dews, Eric Milner, Breeding Better Bees, page 6

Origin of swarminess

From swarmy + -ness.

Questions about swarminess

What does swarminess mean?
Swarminess means the quality of being swarmy.
What part of speech is swarminess?
Swarminess is a noun.

Words near swarminess in the dictionary

  1. swarmes
  2. swarmeth
  3. swarmier
  4. swarmiest
  5. swarmin'
  6. swarminess
  7. swarming
  8. swarmingly
  9. swarmings
  10. SWARMP
  11. swarmplot

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: swarminess (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “swarminess.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/swarminess. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.