caginess

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noun

The quality of being cagey.

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Meanings

nouncaginess (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being cagey.

    And as a much better NYT comment piece on queerbaiting put it last year: “As self-serving as some celebrity caginess can be, you can’t build a world in which everyone feels free to self-identify by ordering everyone to self-identify.”

    2024 January 10, Laura Snapes, “Taylor Swift’s people shut down speculation about her sexuality – but risked rebuking her LGBTQ fans”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
caution

Origin

From cagy + -ness.

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Cite this entry
APA

caginess. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caginess

MLA

“caginess.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caginess. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “caginess,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/caginess.

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