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woodennesses

woodennesses is the plural of woodenness.

Meaning of woodenness

Noun

woodenness (usually uncountable, plural woodennesses)

  1. (usually) The state of being wooden (often in a figurative sense).
    • There is hardly a house but is divided against itself, for our foe is the all but universal woodenness of both head and heart, the want of vitality in man, which is the effect of our vice; and hence are begotten fear, superstition, bigotry, persecution, and slavery of all kinds.1859, Henry David Thoreau, A Plea for Captain John Brown

Questions about woodennesses

What is woodennesses the plural of?
Woodennesses is the plural of woodenness.

Words near woodennesses in the dictionary

  1. woodenheadedness
  2. woodenheads
  3. woodenish
  4. woodenly
  5. woodenness
  6. woodennesses
  7. Woodens
  8. woodentop
  9. woodentops
  10. woodenware
  11. woodenwares

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