Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being pendulous, or hanging and swinging.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being pendulous; the state of hanging loosely; pendulosity.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The state or quality of being
pendulous .
Etymologies
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pendulous + -ness
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Examples
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On both the skin hangs heavy, their mouths turned down, a pendulousness in both their jaws, as though oppressed.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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He succumbed to the hypnotizing power of cleavage, the pendulousness of femininity, as she ran her small hands over the muscles of his shoulders and leaned boldly into his face.
The Town Chuck Hogan 2004
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