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Oiliness vs Owliness - What's the difference?

oiliness | owliness |

As nouns the difference between oiliness and owliness

is that oiliness is the quality of being oily while owliness is the condition of being an owl or having owllike characteristics.

oiliness

English

Noun

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  • the quality of being oily

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    owliness

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • The condition of being an owl or having owllike characteristics.
  • * 2011 , , Withering Tights , HarperTeen (2011), ISBN 9780061799310, page 217:
    • Like Monty had told us, I thought about the "qualities" of owliness . My wise nature. Where my home might be. What I would have for supper. Mouse, I fancied.
  • The state of being in an ill temper; crankiness.
  • * 1979 , Ian Dutton, " Weather was cool, but teams' tempers weren't", The Leader-Post , 10 August 1979:
    • The teams obviously studied at the Hatfield-McCoy school of diplomacy and graduating at the top of his class in owliness was Eston playing-coach Don Sasser.

    Synonyms

    *(condition of being an owl or owl-like) owlishness *(state of being in an ill temper) crabbiness, crankiness, grumpiness, orneriness