addleness

noun

addleness

noun

Etymology From addle + -ness.

1

The state or quality of being addle.

The "addleness" of these eggs was consequently merely apparent. Their failure to hatch did not result from lack of inherent power of development […]1872, American Bee Journal, volumes 7-8, page 146:

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