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unbornness

unbornness noun: the quality of being unborn.

Noun

unbornness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being unborn.
    • Eliot's poetry reverberates in us because it appeals to our sense of the unbornness of the worlds in which we live, our sense of the immaturity and plasticity of even the most learned, smart, highly developed self.1997, Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism, page 282

Origin of unbornness

From unborn + -ness.

Questions about unbornness

What does unbornness mean?
Unbornness means the quality of being unborn.
What part of speech is unbornness?
Unbornness is a noun.

Words near unbornness in the dictionary

  1. unboring
  2. unborn
  3. unborn child
  4. unborn children
  5. unborne
  6. unbornness
  7. unborns
  8. unborrowable
  9. unborrowed
  10. unborrowing
  11. unbosom

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