wheyness

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noun

The quality of being wheylike.

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Meanings

nounwheyness (plural not attested)
  1. no pluralThe quality of being wheylike.

    1878, Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Summer Snow She was comely in her tall fairness; but Hal's manly brown had entirely obviated the charge of a certain wheyness of tint, which might attach itself to Debby's flaxen hair, light eyebrows, and blonde, rather colourless skin.

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    Nine months in England had restored his bony face to a pleasing wheyness, bleached the sun creases in his slender music-mastering hands.

    2013, Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover

Origin

From whey + -ness.

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APA

wheyness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheyness

MLA

“wheyness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheyness. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “wheyness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/wheyness.

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