Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

milk-and-wateriness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: milk-and-wa-ter-i-ness
IPA

27

Scrabble Score

17

Letters

6

Syllables

12

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The condition of being milk-and-watery; mawkishness; insipidness.

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"There is (at any rate in modern days) a mawkish milk-and-wateriness about the Christian attitude, and also a painful self-consciousness, which is not pleasant; and though Nietzsche's blonde beast is a sufficiently disagreeable animal, one almost thinks that it were better to be that than to go about with one's head meekly hanging on one side, and talking always of altruism and self-sacrifice, while in reality one's heart was entirely occupied with the question of one's own salvation."

Etymology

From milk-and-watery + -ness.

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does milk-and-wateriness mean?: The condition of being milk-and-watery; mawkishness; insipidness.
Where does milk-and-wateriness come from?: From milk-and-watery + -ness.

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