catlikeness

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noun

The quality of being catlike; felinity.

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Meanings

nouncatlikeness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being catlike; felinity.

    For example Victor Brauner's Woman into Cat incorporates catlikeness into the eye, the hand, and produces as it were a double flower sprouting from the breast.

    1986, Anna Balakian, Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute, University of Chicago Press, page 190

Origin

From catlike + -ness.

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APA

catlikeness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catlikeness

MLA

“catlikeness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catlikeness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “catlikeness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/catlikeness.

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