WOODENNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodenness mean? 

• WOODENNESS (noun)
  The noun WOODENNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being wooden and awkward

  Familiarity information: WOODENNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODENNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being wooden and awkward

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

there was a certain woodenness in his replies

Hypernyms ("woodenness" is a kind of...):

awkwardness; clumsiness; gracelessness; stiffness (the inelegance of someone stiff and unrelaxed (as by embarrassment))

Derivation:

wooden (lacking ease or grace)