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marriedness en · NOUN

Etymology

From married + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being, or seeming, married.
    • Impatience had crossed your face so firmly that I had known, in that instant, that now we were actually a kind of married, and that our marriedness was probably making your real relationship more palatable. 2008, Ali Smith, The first person and other stories:
    • I couldn't stand the sterile marriedness of it. I make sure I don't always sleep on the same side of Jonathan's bed when I stay over. I don't want ritual or routine in a relationship. 2011, Lily King, Father of the Rain, page 140: