Featheredness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being feathered; presence of feathers. uncountable

    "But it happened that they had not yet reached that state of featheredness which he considered desirable; and having nothing else to do, he sat down under the tree to watch the old ones bringing them the fattest worms, and freshest bugs, and other delicacies of the season."

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"But it happened that they had not yet reached that state of featheredness which he considered desirable; and having nothing else to do, he sat down under the tree to watch the old ones bringing them the fattest worms, and freshest bugs, and other delicacies of the season."

Etymology

From feathered + -ness.

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