Definify.com

Webster 1913 Edition


Featness

Feat′ness

,
Noun.
Skill; adroitness.
[Archaic]
Johnson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Featness

FE'ATNESS

,
Noun.
[from feat.] Dexterity; adroitness; skillfulness. [Little used.]

Definition 2024


featness

featness

English

Noun

featness (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) skill; adroitness
    • 1925, Thomas Hardy, An Expostulation (poem), lines 1-4:
      Why want to go afar
      Where pitfalls are,
      When all we swains adore
      Your featness more and more
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Johnson to this entry?)