Meanings
nounaddleness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe state or quality of being addle.
The "addleness" of these eggs was consequently merely apparent. Their failure to hatch did not result from lack of inherent power of development […]
1872, American Bee Journal, volumes 7-8, page 146
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