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wheyness

wheyness noun: the quality of being wheylike.

Noun

wheyness (plural not attested)

  1. (no plural) The quality of being wheylike.
    • She was comely in her tall fairness; but Hal's manly brown had entirely obviated the charge of a certain wheyness of tint, which might attach itself to Debby's flaxen hair, light eyebrows, and blonde, rather colourless skin.1878, Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Summer Snow
    • Nine months in England had restored his bony face to a pleasing wheyness, bleached the sun creases in his slender music-mastering hands.2013, Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

Origin of wheyness

From whey + -ness.

Questions about wheyness

What does wheyness mean?
Wheyness means the quality of being wheylike.
What part of speech is wheyness?
Wheyness is a noun.

Words near wheyness in the dictionary

  1. wheyiest
  2. wheyish
  3. wheyishness
  4. wheylike
  5. wheyn
  6. wheyness
  7. wheys
  8. whf
  9. whfg
  10. WHI
  11. Whian Whian

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