protectingness

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noun

protectiveness

Scrabble 19
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Meanings

nounprotectingness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableprotectiveness

    How old was Isabel? According to all reasonable inferences from the presumed circumstances of her life, she was his elder, […]; nevertheless, not only did he feel his muscular superiority to her, so to speak, which made him spontaneously alive to a feeling of elderly protectingness over her; […]

    1852, Herman Melville, Pierre; or The Ambiguities

Origin

From protecting + -ness.

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

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

Chicago

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

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