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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

aceness en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • āsʹnəs
  • āsʹnĭs
  • /ˈeɪs.nəs/
  • /ˈeɪs.nɛs/
  • /ˈeɪs.nɪs/
  • āsʹnĕs
  • (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From ace + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (slang, uncountable) Excellence.
    • Tonight's show scales heights of theatrical aceness. NME magazine (quoted in 2012, Jenny Stanley-Clarke, Kylie - Naked: A Biography)
  2. (uncountable) The quality of being asexual.
    • there is no clear answer whether asexuality is best conceptualized as a sexual identity, a sexual orientation, a lack of sexual orientation, or a meta-category in opposition to non-aceness, or even if such conceptualizations are mutually exclusive. 2021 March 10, Florencia Catri, “Defining Asexuality as a Sexual Identity: Lack/Little Sexual Attraction, Desire, Interest and Fantasies”, in Sexuality & Culture, volume 25, →DOI, page 1531 of 1529–1539: