WOODENNESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does woodenness mean? • WOODENNESS (noun)
The noun WOODENNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being wooden and awkward
Familiarity information: WOODENNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• WOODENNESS (noun)
Meaning:
The quality of being wooden and awkward
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Context examples:
he criticized the woodenness of the acting / there was a certain woodenness in his replies
Hypernyms ("woodenness" is a kind of...):
awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))
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