Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being, or seeming, married.
I couldn't stand the sterile marriedness of it. I make sure I don't always sleep on the same side of Jonathan's bed when I stay over. I don't want ritual or routine in a relationship.
2011, Lily King, Father of the Rain, page 1401 more example
Impatience had crossed your face so firmly that I had known, in that instant, that now we were actually a kind of married, and that our marriedness was probably making your real relationship more palatable.
2008, Ali Smith, The first person and other stories
Origin
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marriedness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marriedness
“marriedness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marriedness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “marriedness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/marriedness.
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