Meanings
nounsmittenness (uncountable)
- uncountableThe quality of being smitten.
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Howard, in my favourite of all your books, Roots Schmoots, you acknowledge that Our People are “smitten with their own tragedy”. But that tragedy and your smittenness seem to have overwhelmed your capacity for empathy for the other contemporary tragedy – that of the Palestinian right to self-determination and sovereignty.
2024 October 13, Louise Adler, “Dear Howard Jacobson, don’t let historical hatreds cover Israel’s cruelty”, in The Guardian
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smittenness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smittenness
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“smittenness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smittenness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “smittenness,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/smittenness.
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