Birdness
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 The quality of being a bird. uncountable
"When we reason about an arbitrary bird, we may conclude that it flies, but we do not alter our concept of birdness to include flight in order to make that conclusion, as the above account implies."
Example
More examples"When we reason about an arbitrary bird, we may conclude that it flies, but we do not alter our concept of birdness to include flight in order to make that conclusion, as the above account implies."
Etymology
From bird + -ness.