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WAXINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does waxiness mean?
• WAXINESS (noun)
The noun WAXINESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being made of wax or covered with wax
Familiarity information: WAXINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being made of wax or covered with wax
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("waxiness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Derivation:
waxy (made of or covered with wax)
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