Aunt vs Auntness - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between aunt and auntness

is that aunt is a sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent while auntness is (rare) the state of being an aunt.

(en noun)

A sister or sister-in-law of someone’s parent.

* 2007 , Nancy Eshelman, A Piece of My Mind: Columns from the Patriot-News , page 35:

I mentioned another aunt , my late mother's sister, who's about the same age.

(also'' great-aunt ''or grandaunt) A person's grandparent's sister or sister-in-law.

(usually auntie) A grandmother.

An affectionate term for a woman of an older generation than oneself, especially a friend of one's parents, by means of fictive kin.

* (with regard to gender) uncle * (with regard to ancestry) niece, nephew

* (qualifier, sister of someone's father) paternal aunt * (qualifier, sister of someone's mother) maternal aunt

* Auntie * auntie, aunty * agony aunt * big auntie * great-aunt * grandaunt * little auntie * mine aunt * naunt

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(rare) the state of being an aunt

* auntdom * aunthood