catlikeness

English

Etymology

catlike +‎ -ness

Noun

catlikeness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being catlike; felinity.
   • 1986, Anna Balakian, Surrealism: The Road to the Absolute, University of Chicago Press, page 190:

     For example Victor Brauner's Woman into Cat incorporates catlikeness into the eye, the hand, and produces as it were a double flower sprouting from the breast.