frogness

English

Etymology

From frog +‎ -ness.

Noun

frogness (uncountable)

1. the state, quality, or condition of a frog.
   • 1988, Stanislav Grof, The Adventure of Self-Discovery, page 58:

     Rather than empathy with what I might imagine a snake or frog might feel, I was sufficiently absorbed in snakeness and frogness as to wonder how the humans around me might feel.

   • 1998, Sondra Horton Fraleigh, Penelope Hanstein, Researching Dance: Evolving Modes of Inquiry, page 198:

     I am obligated to explain frogness at this point, but I will let it go for now, lest we be led into a discussion regarding instinct and into speculations on nature you might have felt lurking in the original question the minute you saw it.

   • 2012, Charlotte Sleigh, Frog, page 127:

     Just as in Roux's case, it takes work to learn to use a frog, and more work still to strip it of its frogness and transform it into a standard organism that works the same as all other species.

Related terms

• frogginess
• frogdom

Translations

state, quality or condition

• Finnish: sammakkomaisuus (likeness to a frog); sammakkous (state or quality of being a frog)