catlikeness en · NOUN
Etymology
From catlike + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality of being catlike; felinity.
For example Victor Brauner's Woman into Cat incorporates catlikeness into the eye, the hand, and produces as it were a double flower sprouting from the breast.
1986, Anna Balakian, Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute, University of Chicago Press, page 190: