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woodenness

[wood-n]

adjective

consisting or made of wood; wood: a wooden ship.

stiff, ungainly, or awkward: a wooden gait.

without spirit, animation, or awareness.

dull or stupid.

indicating the fifth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary.

Origin:
1530–40; wood¹ + -en²

Related forms

wood·en·ly, adverb

wood·en·ness, noun

Synonyms
3. expressionless, vacant, lifeless, impassive.

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wooden (ˈwʊd^ən)

—*adj*
1.	made from or consisting of wood
2.	awkward or clumsy
3.	bereft of spirit or animation: a wooden expression
4.	obstinately unyielding: a wooden attitude
5.	mentally slow or dull
6.	not highly resonant: a wooden thud

—vb
7.	slang (Austral) (tr) to fell or kill (a person or animal)

'woodenly

—*adv*

'woodenness

—n

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"Our foes are in our midst and all about us. There is hardly a house but is divided against itself, for our foe is the all but universal woodenness of both head and heart, the want of vitality in man, which is the effect of our vice; and hence are begotten fear, superstition, bigotry, persecution, and slavery of all kinds. We are mere figure-heads upon a hulk, with livers in the place of hearts. The curse is the worship of idols, which at length changes the worshiper into a stone image himself; and the New-Englander is just as much an idolater as the Hindoo. This man was an exception, for he did not set up even a political graven image between him and his God."

-Henry David Thoreau

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