aceness

English

Etymology

From ace +‎ -ness.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪs.nɛs/, /ˈeɪs.nɪs/, /ˈeɪs.nəs/
• enPR: āsʹnĕs, āsʹnĭs, āsʹnəs

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: ace‧ness

Noun

aceness (uncountable)

1. (slang) excellence
   • NME magazine (quoted in 2012, Jenny Stanley-Clarke, Kylie - Naked: A Biography)

     Tonight's show scales heights of theatrical aceness.

2. The quality of being asexual.
   • 2021 March 10, Florencia Catri, “Defining Asexuality as a Sexual Identity: Lack/Little Sexual Attraction, Desire, Interest and Fantasies”, in Sexuality & Culture, volume 25, →DOI, page 1531 of 1529–1539:

     there is no clear answer whether asexuality is best conceptualized as a sexual identity, a sexual orientation, a lack of sexual orientation, or a meta-category in opposition to non-aceness, or even if such conceptualizations are mutually exclusive.

Anagrams

• Senecas, encases, scænes, seances, séances