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wolfishness

wolfishness noun: the quality of being wolfish.

Noun

wolfishness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being wolfish.
    • “I have withstood so long the wrath and wolfishness of this ogre.”1961, Norma Lorre Goodrich, “Beowulf”, in The Medieval Myths, New York: The New American Library, page 32

wolfishness meaning in Sanskrit

wolfishness in Sanskrit

wolfishness, rapacity
वृकतात् vṛká-tāt

Origin of wolfishness

From wolfish + -ness.

Questions about wolfishness

What does wolfishness mean?
Wolfishness means the quality of being wolfish.
What is wolfishness in Sanskrit?
Wolfishness in Sanskrit is वृकतात् (vṛká-tāt). See Wolfishness meaning in Sanskrit.
What part of speech is wolfishness?
Wolfishness is a noun.

Words near wolfishness in the dictionary

  1. wolfing up
  2. Wolfinger
  3. Wolfingers
  4. wolfish
  5. wolfishly
  6. wolfishness
  7. Wolfkill
  8. wolfkin
  9. wolfkind
  10. wolfkins
  11. Wolfland

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Adapted from Wiktionary: wolfishness (page history and authors); वृकतात् (Sanskrit) (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.

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