addleness
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]addleness (uncountable)
- The state or quality of being addle.
- 1872, American Bee Journal, volumes 7-8, page 146:
- The "addleness" of these eggs was consequently merely apparent. Their failure to hatch did not result from lack of inherent power of development […]