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Catless vs Catness - What's the difference?

catless | catness |

As an adjective catless

is without a cat or cats.

As a noun catness is

the quality of being a cat.

catless

English

Adjective

(-)
  • Without a cat or cats.

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    catness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The quality of being a cat.
  • * 2002 , Rebecca McClanahan, The Riddle Song & Other Rememberings , page 110:
    • My theory is that every person contains a certain predetermined essence of either catness or dogness; a rare few contain essences of both. Catness is caution, privacy, order, mind; dogness is impulsiveness, sociability, chaos, body.
  • * 2009 , Naomi Zack, The Handy Philosophy Answer Book , page 31:
    • For example, every cat is different, but all cats share the same catness because they participate in the cat form.
  • *2013 , Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, Promises to Keep , page 125:
    • The cat didn't have a sense of what a witch was, and didn't care, but it was willing to tolerate his catness as long as he maintained proper deference.