GAMENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gameness mean? 

• GAMENESS (noun)
  The noun GAMENESS has 1 sense:

1. disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

  Familiarity information: GAMENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GAMENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Disability of walking due to crippling of the legs or feet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

claudication; gameness; gimp; gimpiness; lameness; limping

Hypernyms ("gameness" is a kind of...):

disability of walking (a disability that interferes with or prevents walking)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gameness"):

intermittent claudication (lameness due to pain in leg muscles because the blood supply is inadequate; pain subsides with rest)

Derivation:

game (disabled in the feet or legs)

 Context examples 

In height, strength, and reputation for gameness there was very little to choose between them, but Wilson had been the more severely tested.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The old ones and then the young were discussed—their weight, their gameness, their hitting power, and their constitution.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)