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Meaning of "wooliness" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF WOOLINESS

ˈwʊlɪnɪs


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WOOLINESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Wooliness 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.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH WOOLINESS

comeliness · deadliness · friendliness · godliness · holiness · kindliness · liveliness · loveliness · lowliness · manliness · oiliness · shoaliness · silliness · timeliness · ugliness · ungodliness · user-friendliness · womanliness · woolliness · worldliness

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WOOLINESS

woolder · Woolf · woolfell · woolgatherer · woolgathering · woolgrower · woolgrowing · woolhat · woolie · woolies · Woollcott · woolled · woollen · woollens · Woolley · woollier · woollies · woolliest · woollily · woolliness

WORDS THAT END LIKE WOOLINESS

agribusiness · big business · bulkiness · business · cleanliness · cleanliness is next to godliness · core business · craziness · dizziness · do the business · e-business · emptiness · family business · fitness · happiness · laziness · loneliness · readiness · rough-and-readiness · show business · trustworthiness

Synonyms and antonyms of wooliness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «wooliness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WOOLINESS

Find out the translation of wooliness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of wooliness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wooliness» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

wooliness
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

lanosidad
570 millions of speakers
en

English

wooliness
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

wooliness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

wooliness
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

wooliness
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

lanosidade
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

wooliness
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

verbosité
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Ketulenan
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Verschwommenheit
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

wooliness
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

wooliness
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Wooliness
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

wooliness
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

wooliness
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

लोकरीचे कापड
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

yünlülük
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

lanosità
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

wooliness
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

wooliness
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

wooliness
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wooliness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wooliness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

wooliness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

wooliness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wooliness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WOOLINESS»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of wooliness
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «wooliness».

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

EXAMPLES

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOOLINESS»

Discover the use of wooliness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to wooliness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Patents and Technological Progress in a Globalized World: ...
The danger of a general 'fair use' is its wooliness, the danger of specific exceptions is that a deserving new kind of activity (home transfer of format, tape to DVD or loading from your own CD to iPod) will have no exception unless and until it ...
Wolrad Prinz zu Waldeck und Pyrmont, Martin J. Adelman, Robert Brauneis, 2008
2
Curtis's Botanical Magazine
This speeies is, in the Hortus Kewensis, attempted to be distinguished from eriocepbala by the smoothness of its capitula 5 but this character by no means holds, the wooliness being very variable in degree in both species; for though the  ...
‎1814
3
A Carib Grammar and Dictionary
(w)ewororoka /vm/ buzz, sough wororoka [* wororoky -ka] Nil remove the wooliness of (w)eworordka /vm/ dispose of one's wooliness WOroroko [* wororoky -pto] Nil make wooly (w)eworordko /vm/ make oneself wooly wororoky / n/ thick fur, ...
Henk Courtz, 2008
4
Curtis's Botanical Magazine, Or, Flower-garden Displayed: In ...
This species is, in the Hortus Kewensis, attempted to be distinguished from eriocepbala by the smoothness of its capitula; but this character by no means holds, the wooliness being very variable in degree in both species; for though the corolla ...
John Sims, 1814
5
The Truth about Sharks and Pigeons
“Err, that is because no-one is allowed to visit you unless summoned, your Wooliness,” said Bristol respectfully. “Really?” the flock leader looked surprised, “ and who says that?” “The law, your Wooliness.” “Sounds like a damn silly law, I think ...
Matt Phillips, 2012
6
Being and the Between: Political Theory in the American Academy
"Wooliness" is a name for the failure to produce a univocally transparent analysis. The thought is judged negatively on that score. "Wooliness" signals ambiguity, confusion, nebulousness, murk, incomprehensibility, But what do all the latter ...
William Desmond, 1995
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Cognitive-behavior Therapy for Severe Mental Illness: An ...
Wooliness of thought is a problem where the patient's flow of thought isn't frankly incomprehensible but is just vague and imprecise. Here the crucial anchor for each meeting is the agreed target. The clinician and patient need to come to ...
‎2009
8
Sisyphus_s Boulder: Consciousness and the limits of the knowable
But we wouldn't know how genes code for wooliness, nor how gene variation codes for differences in wooliness. We would just figure that genes were implicated somehow. In this case, natural selection's connection to the molecular world ...
Eric Dietrich, Valerie Gray Hardcastle, 2005
9
Democracy and Exchange: Schumpeter, Galbraith, T.H. ...
Lindsay once said that 'indecisive wooliness is the curse of much modern democratic thought' (Lindsay, 1943: 263). As a university teacher, he will have known how important it is to be lucid, rigorous, precise and to the point. Reality is  ...
David A. Reisman, 2005
10
Social and Virtual Space: Science Fiction, Transnationalism, ...
As far as I can determine, “indeterminacy” is a kind of vague wooliness. Deconstruction, however, is both precise in terms of the way in which it uses language and rigorous in terms of the structures of argumentation and not- argumentation it ...
Laura Chernaik, 2005

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOOLINESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term wooliness is used in the context of the following news items.
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In the garden: Silver foliage proves to be golden in brutal heat of …
All that wooliness offered protection from the searing sun of its native Middle Eastern home. Despite all the downiness, this is one tough perennial. Best used as ... «Yakima Herald-Republic, Jul 15»
2
Jaguar F-Type V6 Coupe
Ironically, so much better than the old E-Type - I managed to steal a drive in an original V12 Coupe last year, and was a trifle disappointed at the wooliness. «Eurekar, Jul 15»
3
Reality is that problems have multiplied since 1998
I had huge concerns about the whole sheep wooliness on issues like accountability, collective responsibility, opposition and vetoes, but decided that a couple of ... «the Irish News, Jul 15»
4
The Soon Coming “Ijoba Fi Diha” Of Nigeria
They see democracy or governance more as a means to an end, and in Achebe's words, have a tendency to 'pious material wooliness and self-centered ... «Nigerian Observer, Mar 15»
5
Omloop Het Nieuwsblad and Kuurne Brussels Kuurne 2015: five …
While Etixx suffer an embarrassment of riches, Sky's greatest problem in recent years seems to have been a strategic wooliness that has begat race plans no ... «Rouleur, Mar 15»
6
Book review: How to Kill a Unicorn
One of the key messages of the book, for example, is that the brainstorming process involved in innovation projects often leads to wooliness of thought. «Irish Times, Feb 15»
7
Chameleon Bids Them Dance and Sing
... he was also regularly called upon for solo flights, executed with astounding agility and voiced with a beautiful baritone tone without a hint of fog or wooliness. «The Boston Musical Intelligencer, Feb 15»
8
The Season's 8 Best Sweaters, as Modeled by Anastasia Ashley
One of the greatest joys of fall is slipping on a favorite sweater for the first time in months, its soft wooliness beating back autumnal crispness. Whether you're a ... «Esquire, Nov 14»
9
Interstellar review: a little bit lost in space
The philosophical wooliness is in keeping with a project that, for all its many technical accomplishments, feels slightly thrown together. Interstellar is beautiful ... «Irish Times, Nov 14»
10
The Conversion Merry-Go-Round
Church of England members often become Muslim, preferring its definite stance on issues compared to CofE wooliness. Catholics tend to opt for Judaism, ... «Huffington Post UK, Nov 14»
REFERENCE
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