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Meaning of "wolfishness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WOLFISHNESS

wolfishness  [ˈwʊlfɪʃnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WOLFISHNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wolfishness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES WOLFISHNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of wolfishness in the English dictionary

The definition of wolfishness in the dictionary is the characteristics or nature of a wolf.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WOLFISHNESS


bearishness
ˈbɛərɪʃnəs
bluishness
ˈbluːɪʃnəs
boyishness
ˈbɔɪɪʃnəs
brackishness
ˈbrækɪʃnəs
bullishness
ˈbʊlɪʃnəs
dwarfishness
ˈdwɔːfɪʃnəs
elfishness
ˈɛlfɪʃnəs
Englishness
ˈɪŋɡlɪʃnəs
girlishness
ˈɡɜːlɪʃnəs
greenishness
ˈɡriːnɪʃnəs
hoggishness
ˈhɒɡɪʃnəs
huffishness
ˈhʌfɪʃnəs
Jewishness
ˈdʒuːɪʃnəs
oafishness
ˈəʊfɪʃnəs
raffishness
ˈræfɪʃnəs
reddishness
ˈrɛdɪʃnəs
sniffishness
ˈsnɪfɪʃnəs
standoffishness
ˌstændˈɒfɪʃnəs
sumphishness
ˈsʌmfɪʃnəs
toffishness
ˈtɒfɪʃnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WOLFISHNESS

wolfberry
Wolfe
Wolfenden Report
Wolfensohn
wolfer
Wolffian body
wolffish
wolfhound
wolfish
wolfishly
Wolfit
wolfkin
wolflike
wolfling
wolfram
Wolfram von Eschenbach
wolframite
wolfsbane
Wolfsburg
wolfskin

WORDS THAT END LIKE WOLFISHNESS

Britishness
business
Caithness
childishness
foolishness
foppishness
freshness
harshness
highness
lushness
much of a muchness
rashness
richness
roughness
Royal Highness
selfishness
smoothness
stylishness
thoroughness
toughness
unselfishness

Synonyms and antonyms of wolfishness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wolfishness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WOLFISHNESS

Find out the translation of wolfishness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wolfishness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wolfishness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

wolfishness
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

wolfishness
570 millions of speakers

English

wolfishness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

wolfishness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

wolfishness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

wolfishness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

wolfishness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

wolfishness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

wolfishness
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Wolfishness
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wolfishness
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

wolfishness
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

wolfishness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Wolfishness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wolfishness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

wolfishness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वक्रता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

wolfishness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

wolfishness
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

wolfishness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

wolfishness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

wolfishness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wolfishness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wolfishness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wolfishness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wolfishness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wolfishness

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WOLFISHNESS»

The term «wolfishness» is used very little and occupies the 192.253 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WOLFISHNESS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wolfishness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOLFISHNESS»

Discover the use of wolfishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wolfishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Herstory: The Second Released Norma Shearer Novel
PRINCE. OF. WOLFISHNESS. D'S WORK ON his latest book of poetry was called : Leaves of My Favorite 7ree. And, this became acclaimed by critics, worldwide. The Spire Vampire was still a problem. Ed had been too busy to do anything ...
J Melville, Melville J.D., 2012
2
Great Fool: Zen Master Ryōkan : Poems, Letters, and Other ...
When men act like wolves, they hide their wolfishness and do not dare to show it openly . . . The wolfishness of man is far more terrible and hateful than that of real wolves. Men who give themselves the appearance of honest persons but inside ...
Ryōkan, Ryūichi Abe, 1996
3
Post-traumatic Culture: Injury and Interpretation in the ...
Whereas the Disney ideology polarizes the heroic individual and the wolfish mob , Wolf understands wolfishness to be the survival mania of anarchic individualism — hence its aptness for a decade in which libertarian and free-market ...
Kirby Farrell, 1998
4
Renaissance Beasts: Of Animals, Humans, and Other Wonderful ...
Although he enters into hallucinatory wolfishness voluntarily, the resultant wildness combines human agency and animal compulsion: the wolf shape compromises the human status of the shape changer so that only after his return to human ...
Erica Fudge, 2004
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The Crisis
His wolfish fangs are particularly apt to be bared to those of other racial groups. It is the wolfishness of race to race, especially of the white race to the Negro race in our country, that I wish to discuss this morning. Underlying racial wolfishness ...
6
When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays
Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist.
Marilynne Robinson, 2012
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Ancient Germanic Warriors: Warrior Styles from Trajan's ...
Heseesheroes such as Hector,Diomedes,and Achilles as at times overcome by fighting madness; that is,in the throes of “wolfishness,”astateakin toberserkrecklessness. Speed,stealth, and fighting madness characterized Greek wolfwarriors ...
Michael P. Speidel, 2004
8
The process of government
c) Satisfactions of social instincts from wolfishness to brotherhood. d) Satisfactions of mental activity; from being in servitude to the physical to becoming the ultimate end of effort. a) Satisfactions of aesthetic feeling; from delight in the hideous to ...
A. Fisher Bentley
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The Process of Government: A Study of Social Pressures
c) Satisfactions of social instincts from wolfishness to brotherhood. d) Satisfactions of mental activity; from being in servitude to the physical to becoming the ultimate end of effort. e) Satisfactions of aesthetic feeling; from delight in the hideous to ...
Arthur Fisher Bentley, 1995
10
On Becoming an Alchemist: A Guide for the Modern Magician
Even a wolf might cooperate if seen in his essential wolfishness and hailed as “ brother.” Please don't take this in a sappy way. Since the 1960s, St. Francis has become a rather hippy-dippy figure in the popular imagination. You will miss the  ...
Catherine MacCoun, 2008

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOLFISHNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wolfishness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Method to His Madness
Among the archival footage Riley includes in his project are scenes of Brando behaving with gallant wolfishness toward his female interlocutors during a press ... «Artforum, Jul 15»
2
Is your dog a genius? Try these games with your pooch to find out
Maverick: A cheeky wolfishness and a strong independent streak are what make a maverick so successful. Stargazer: There's more going on in the stargazer's ... «Today.com, May 15»
3
Wolf at the Door: Antonin Scalia and the Legal Conservative …
Not surprisingly, Scalia could not conceal his wolfishness when he declared at the inaugural meeting of the Federalist Society in 1982 that among the Founders ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
4
Jan Moir watches as Cressida Bona makes her theatre debut in …
At every turn she does high-stepping wolf knees and proper wrist-drop wolf paws – you simply can't fault her wolfishness. Her parents must be pleased that all ... «Daily Mail, Jan 15»
5
Wolf Hall recap: episode one – a clash of artistries to relish
Is it the wolfishness of mankind? Homo homini lupus, says the Latin proverb (man is a wolf to men). Or is Wolf Hall, like Brideshead, the architecture that ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
6
Riske and Reward
Riske's win is refreshing because it strikes a blow for a vestigial lone-wolfishness. She grew up in Pittsburgh, Pa., which has never been mistaken for a hotbed of ... «Tennis Magazine, Oct 14»
7
Sarah Sands: The office has become a new flexible friend
Following the erroneous story that Bill had tried to get Elizabeth Hurley delivered to him by plane, female commentators have applauded his wolfishness. «Evening Standard, Feb 14»
8
'Being Human': That Time of the Month
... Human producers set the table for this season, casting Josh's future into the dark and doubtful while his friends tried to work through his perpetual wolfishness. «Screen Rant, Jan 14»
9
Spielberg Revisited
Recurrently, beginning in the middle of the film, we see Schindler being shocked beneath his poise by the blacker and blacker wolfishness of the Nazis whose ... «The New Republic, Oct 13»
10
Douglas Glover comes out swinging, prose first
He wasn't defeated, he told himself, only indignant at the sudden wolfishness in the weather, which had descended without warning in the prospectus of his ... «The Globe and Mail, Sep 13»

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« EDUCALINGO. Wolfishness [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/wolfishness>. Apr 2024 ».
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