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Tamilness

Tamilness noun: the quality or state of being Tamil.

Noun

Tamilness (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being Tamil.
    • How lost they looked, some obedient and some merely confused, each boy alone, each boy likely a stranger to the one behind him and the one in front of him, except in their common Tamilness.2023, V. V. Ganeshananthan, Brotherless Night, Viking, page 112

Origin of Tamilness

From Tamil + -ness.

Questions about Tamilness

What does Tamilness mean?
Tamilness means the quality or state of being Tamil.
What part of speech is Tamilness?
Tamilness is a noun.

Words near Tamilness in the dictionary

  1. Tamilic
  2. Tamilism
  3. Tamilisms
  4. Tamillian
  5. Tamillians
  6. Tamilness
  7. Tamils
  8. tamin
  9. Taminda
  10. tamine
  11. tamines

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