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whiggishness

whiggishness noun: the quality of being whiggish.

Noun (1)

whiggishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being whiggish.
    • Near-synonym: presentism
    • Two anathemas of academic historians of science have been attracting a certain amount of interest in the history of science blogo-twittersphere lately. One is whiggishness and the other heroes, the two of which often come together in history writing and broadcasting aimed at a broad audience.2012 October 3, Rebekah Higgitt, “Why whiggish won't do”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Noun (2) capitalized: Whiggishness

Whiggishness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative letter-case form of whiggishness.

Forms of whiggishness

alternative formWhiggishness

Origin of whiggishness

From whiggish + -ness.

From Whiggish + -ness.

Questions about whiggishness

What does whiggishness mean?
Whiggishness means the quality of being whiggish.
What part of speech is whiggishness?
Whiggishness is a noun.

Words near whiggishness in the dictionary

  1. whiggify
  2. whiggifying
  3. whigging
  4. whiggish
  5. whiggishly
  6. whiggishness
  7. whiggism
  8. Whigham
  9. Whighams
  10. whight
  11. Whigism

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