wheyness

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English

Etymology

From whey +‎ -ness.

Noun

wheyness (plural not attested)

  1. The quality of being wheylike.
    • 1878, Henrietta Keddie (Sarah Tytler), Summer Snow
      She was comely in her tall fairness; but Hal's manly brown had entirely obviated the charge of a certain wheyness of tint, which might attach itself to Debby's flaxen hair, light eyebrows, and blonde, rather colourless skin.
    • 2013, Susan Sontag, The Volcano Lover:
      Nine months in England had restored his bony face to a pleasing wheyness, bleached the sun creases in his slender music-mastering hands.