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owlishness

owlishness

English

Noun

owlishness ‎(uncountable)

The state or condition of being owlish.
- 1956, Saul Bellow, "Isaac Rosenfeld" in It All Adds Up, p. 263,
  He liked to look with avuncular owlishness over the tops of his specs.

Synonyms

owliness