reptilianness
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ɹɛpˈtɪl.i.ən.nɪs/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Hyphenation: rep‧til‧i‧an‧ness
Noun[edit]
reptilianness (uncountable)
- The quality of having reptile characteristics.
- 1973, Sarah Lyddon Morrison, The Modern Witch's Spellbook[1], page 135:
- And it wasn't just because he took her to the theater, the best movies, the most expensive restaurants (which reptile people always do to make up for their reptilianness).
- 2000, James Blish, A Case of Conscience[2], page 148:
- That the combination was perfectly capable of overriding any repugnance people might feel toward his additionally overwhelming reptilianness had already been demonstrated, in response to his first interview on 3-V.
- 2005, William Fish, Philosophy of Perception: A Contemporary Introduction[3], page 25:
- The first option would require that we are aware of properties such as clumsiness, reptilianness, and felineness by being aware of objects that actually possess those properties.
Translations[edit]
embodiment of reptile characteristics
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