secondariness
English
Etymology
secondary + -ness
Noun
secondariness (uncountable)
- The state of being secondary.
- 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son
- To follow all his movements and thoughts as well as she could with wistful secondariness
- 1884, Margaret Oliphant, The Wizard's Son
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for secondariness in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)