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cottonness en · NOUN

Etymology

From cotton + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being cotton.
    • The few clothing items that are made of cotton make a sincere point of being cotton and tell you earnestly about their 100-percent cottonness with faux-hand-scribbled labels so obviously on the Green bandwagon they practically spit pine cones. 2009 August 13, Cintra Wilson, “Playing to the Middle”, in New York Times: