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wrungness

wrungness noun: the quality of being wrung.

Noun

wrungness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being wrung.
    • There are two things awry; on the one hand, the acting for self (a distinct tension and wrungness); and, on the other, the relations of life are distorted, and made to be against the natural demands; […]1878, James Hinton, Ellice Hopkins, Life and Letters of James Hinton, page 273
    • Our social and psychological sciences stand helpless before the terrible things done by human beings, but the warpedness and wrungness of the human will is something we cannot admit into “serious” conversation.2021, Dallas Willard, Renovation of the Heart, page 42

Origin of wrungness

From wrung + -ness.

Questions about wrungness

What does wrungness mean?
Wrungness means the quality of being wrung.
What part of speech is wrungness?
Wrungness is a noun.

Words near wrungness in the dictionary

  1. WRULD
  2. WRULDs
  3. wrung
  4. wrung out
  5. wrung out one's sock
  6. wrungness
  7. WRVS
  8. WRX
  9. wry
  10. wry-billed plover
  11. wry-billed plovers

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