woodenness Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the quality of being wooden and awkward
    • he criticized the woodenness of the acting
    • there was a certain woodenness in his replies

WordNet


Wood"en*ness noun
Definitions
  1. Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.
    We set our faces against the woodenness which then characterized German philology. Sweet.

Webster 1913