catlikeness

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English

Etymology

From catlike +‎ -ness.

Noun

catlikeness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being catlike; felinity.
    • 1986, Anna Balakian, Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute, University of Chicago Press, page 190:
      For example Victor Brauner's Woman into Cat incorporates catlikeness into the eye, the hand, and produces as it were a double flower sprouting from the breast.