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Owliness vs Lowliness - What's the difference?

owliness | lowliness |

As nouns the difference between owliness and lowliness

is that owliness is the condition of being an owl or having owllike characteristics while lowliness is the property of being lowly.

owliness

English

Noun

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  • 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

    lowliness

    English

    Noun

  • The property of being lowly.