dogness

English

Etymology

dog +‎ -ness

Noun

dogness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being a dog.
    • 2001, Simone Santini, Exploratory Image Databases: Content-Based Retrieval, page 28:
      The signifier dog does not signify "dogness" by virtue of some connection with the signified of dogness, but by its differential relation with other signifiers, like cat, cow, house, and so on.

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