pottiness

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noun

The quality of being potty.

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Meanings

nounpottiness (usually uncountable, plural pottinesses)

plural pottinesses

  1. uncountableusuallyThe quality of being potty.

    It’s all very well for the Warden to talk about an open mind, but we shall all feel perfectly ghastly wondering what other people are thinking about us, and whether our own conversation doesn’t sound a little potty. It’s the pottiness, you know, that’s so awful.

    1935, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night

Origin

From potty + -ness.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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