owlishness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
owlishness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being owlish.
- 1956, Saul Bellow, “Isaac Rosenfeld”, in It All Adds Up, page 263:
- He liked to look with avuncular owlishness over the tops of his specs.