unbornness

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noun

The quality of being unborn.

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Meanings

noununbornness (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe quality of being unborn.

    Eliot's poetry reverberates in us because it appeals to our sense of the unbornness of the worlds in which we live, our sense of the immaturity and plasticity of even the most learned, smart, highly developed self.

    1997, Daniel Albright, Quantum Poetics: Yeats, Pound, Eliot, and the Science of Modernism, page 282

Origin

From unborn + -ness.

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APA

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

MLA

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

Chicago

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

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