Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The feline quality; the quality of being cat-like in manner or disposition.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun uncountable The state of being
feline . - noun countable Any feline characteristic.
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Examples
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I don't know them terribly well, but I really love their cats -- three fat, fluffy, hallway-wandering marvels of felinity who act as the third floor welcoming committee.
two things of relative inconsequence, yet genuine sadness or inconvenience 2007
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So I walk out into the living room to find some serious felinity going on on the couch.
behold the cute! dianora2 2005
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DeCandido.net me on Facebook me on Twitter on this page... not quite the progress I was hoping for felinity
not quite the progress I was hoping for terri_osborne 2004
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DeCandido.net me on Facebook me on Twitter on this page... felinity the tooth, the whole tooth, and nothing but the tooth which Heinlein book should you be a character in?
felinity terri_osborne 2004
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And speaking of felinity, Franklin Harris passes along a needed site that reminds us, "My Cat Hates You."
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For their part, the house cats returned his gaze, affirming that each and every one of them knew their place in the hierarchy of felinity without a word, or a hiss, having to be spoken.
Carnivores of Light and Darkness Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 2000
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ALMOST to a man, the soldiers who arrive for the 1995 event are sinewy, not brawny; their movements evoke felinity and grace rather than raw power.
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If there are cats, they're only emphasis upon universal felinity.
The Book of the Damned Charles Fort
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Her pointed remarks had not been inspired by sheer felinity.
Sleeping Fires: a Novel Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton 1902
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Woman's femininity – and "the eternal feminine" means simply the eternal sexual – is more apparent in proportion to her humanity than the femininity of other animals in proportion to their caninity or felinity or equinity.
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