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enemyness en · NOUN

Etymology

From enemy + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (nonstandard, uncountable) The quality of being an enemy; enmity.
    • Several facts indicate his "enemyness": (1) the Arawete killer confers names his enemy's soul gives him, but does not "wear" them himself. (2) He must not resume sexual relations with his wife until long after the killing, […] 2005, Mark S. Mosko, Frederick H. Damon, On the Order of Chaos: Social Anthropology and the Science of Chaos, page 128:
    • While this discourse resembled other Cold War narratives of "enemyness," and while the Nation of Islam itself nurtured an oppositional identity, representations of the group were particularly racialized and classist […] 2005, Sean McCloud, Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, page 73: