Froginess vs Frogness - What's the difference?
froginess | frogness |
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The quality of being a frog.
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Frogness is a related term of froginess.
As nouns the difference between froginess and frogness
is that froginess is an alternative spelling of frogginess while frogness is the quality of being a frog.froginess
English
Noun
(-)- He quoted a student who had passed through such an experience and complained that "for him, zoology had too much froginess ."
- And yes, a life will grow there — everywhere — but some mutant successor species whose sages will preach that the human species was put on earth to prepare the way for their holy froginess or fungoidicity, or whatever the new holiness becomes.
- Occasional rude laughs lifted the spirits of Flip the Frog After his first two outings, Flip the Frog's froginess was quickly toned down, and he become species-ambiguous, with his white- gloved hands, white-shoed feet and upright posture.
frogness
English
Noun
(-)- Rather than empathy with what I might imagine a snake or frog might feel, I was sufficiently absorbed in snakeness and frogness as to wonder how the humans around me might feel.
- I am obligated to explain frogness at this point, but I will let it go for now, lest we be led into a discussion regarding instinct and into speculations on nature you might have felt lurking in the original question the minute you saw it.
- Just as in Roux's case, it takes work to learn to use a frog, and more work still to strip it of its frogness and transform it into a standard organism that works the same as all other species.