Bonelessness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Bonelessness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being boneless.
Meaning
The state or quality of being boneless.
Example Sentences
The dancer wears a long, soft drapery, which is never lifted to her ankles. Agility and apparent bonelessness are her characteristics.
His face was as soft and round as a dumpling. There seemed to be no structure in it. no indication of a skull beneath the skin. ¶ This unpleasant effect might have argued an equally unpleasant temperament. Luckily this was not so. But it exemplified a parallel bonelessness of outlook.
1889, Pan [pseudonym of Oliver Herbrand Gordon Leigh], Dinnerology: Our Experiments in Diet, Chicago, New York and San Francisco: Belford, Clarke & Co., Chapter 3, p. 41, Our “fish” course would include salmon steaks, cod rissoles, oysters and other finny-cal morsels, and we prided ourselves on their bonelessness.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include skinlessness, leglessness, fleshlessness, baselessness, tonelessness, limblessness.
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