Daddishness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being daddish. uncountable

    "Tempted as I was to believe that interindividual and cultural differences in "caddishness" and "daddishness" simply reflect a genetic difference as straightforward as that seen in voles, the chapters on behavioral genetics disabused me of that notion"

Example

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"Tempted as I was to believe that interindividual and cultural differences in "caddishness" and "daddishness" simply reflect a genetic difference as straightforward as that seen in voles, the chapters on behavioral genetics disabused me of that notion"

Etymology

From daddish + -ness.

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