lizardness
nounEtymology From lizard + -ness.
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The quality of being a lizard.
- A word that expresses precisely the essence of lizardness, for he lies listlessly in the sand and then, suddenly, he zips onward to some unknown spot1982, Aharōn Megged, Asahel: A Novel, page 56:
- The lizardness within us is our wild side.1995, Gary Paul Nabhan, Stephen Trimble, The Geography of Childhood: Why Children Need Wild Places, page 154:
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- Now that many of us have met the minimal graduate school standards of lizardness, we have seen that whatever our own degree of lizardness, there are always bigger lizards scampering around the academic terrarium.2014, Michael Szenberg, Lall Ramrattan, Robert M. Solow, Secrets of Economics Editors, page 173:
- Related terms
- lizardom