ploverness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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The essence of what it means to be a plover; the qualities that make a plover what it is.

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"He has no problem with Graves painting “what he feels about what he sees,” but for Peterson, it just doesn't work with birds: “The critic will ask 'isn't it just the very essence of ploverness?' My answer is 'hardly; I know too damn much about plovers.'""
"The ploverness of this bird. One preened, another fed, most were just static, daydreaming."

From plover + -ness.

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