Duchessness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being a duchess. rare, uncountable

    "It would make little difference to most of us now whether the Duchess of Portland or her stand-in had posed—except that both might be lacking in any abstract quality of ‘Duchessnesss’."

Synonyms

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duchesshood

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"It would make little difference to most of us now whether the Duchess of Portland or her stand-in had posed—except that both might be lacking in any abstract quality of ‘Duchessnesss’."

Etymology

From duchess + -ness.

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