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- rareuncountablethe state of being an aunt.
When I wasn't completely creeped out by this sudden switch-off of normal auntness, I'd ask my mom what was going on.
2009, Pam Brodowsky, Evelyn Fazio, Staying Sane When You're Going Through Menopause2 more examples
An aunt may be young, ridiculously so, as a body; but as a soul, that is, as her real self, she must enjoy the full privilege of auntness.
1957, Manabendra Nath Roy, Fragments of a Prisoner's Diary: Crime and karma, cats and womenHer auntness is accidental. The accident is my father who recently, and for reasons both private and worrying, reclaimed this extremely peripheral twig of the family tree' (Swaminathan 2006, pp. 2—3).
2013, E. Dawson Varughese, Reading New India: Post-Millennial Indian Fiction in English, page 104
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