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Etymology

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From cotton +‎ -ness.

Noun

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cottonness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being cotton.
    • 2009 August 13, Cintra Wilson, “Playing to the Middle”, in New York Times[1]:
      The few clothing items that are made of cotton make a sincere point of being cotton and tell you earnestly about their 100-percent cottonness with faux-hand-scribbled labels so obviously on the Green bandwagon they practically spit pine cones.

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