Meanings
nouncompoundhood (uncountable)
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe property of being a compound.
Inseparability is perhaps the strongest test of compoundhood.
2006, Pavol Štekauer, Rochelle Lieber, Handbook of Word-Formation, page 377
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