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hawkiness en · NOUN

Etymology

From hawky + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The state of resembling or being similar to a hawk; hawkishness.
    • She was drab and depressed and seemed to be trying not to cry. But the depressed face had the right slight hawkiness about it, and there was no question that they knew one another well. 1981, Diana Wynne Jones, The Time of the Ghost, New York, N.Y.: Beech Tree, published 1997, →ISBN, page 123: