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BALKINESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does balkiness mean?
• BALKINESS (noun)
The noun BALKINESS has 1 sense:
1. likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly
Familiarity information: BALKINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Likely to stop abruptly and unexpectedly
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("balkiness" is a kind of...):
intractability; intractableness (the trait of being hard to influence or control)
Derivation:
balky (stopping short and refusing to go on)
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