oweness

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It's a recognised English word, but it isn't in the official NASPA Scrabble word list.

Scrabble points: 10
Words With Friends: 11
Letters: 7

Pronunciation

/ˈəʊnəs/

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/ˈəʊnəs/ · /ˈoʊnəs/ (US) · /ˈoʊˌnɛs/ (US)

Definition of oweness

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

(uncountable, usually)Eggcorn of onus; the condition of being obligated or responsible for something.

“These signs can be placed so that they dont^([sic]) impeed^([sic]) traffic patterns. The oweness is on the driver to read the signs in a safe and timely manner in my opinon^([sic]).”
““Why I’m coming on camera and addressing you is because for you to make that statement as if the oweness is on the Black community to celebrate you and the band when you didn’t celebrate us,” Kim says in the video.”
““Since when is talking about somebody’s racist video worse than making a racist video? She offended an entire race of people, all of a sudden, the oweness is on me, how does this happen?””

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Etymology

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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₃enh₂- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os Proto-Italic *onos Latin onuslbor. English onus Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ- Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂óyḱe Proto-Germanic *aiganą Proto-West Germanic *aigan Old English āgan Middle English owen English owe Proto-Germanic *-in- Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂ Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti Proto-Germanic *-ōną Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English oweness An eggcorn of onus, as owe (“to be under obligation”, verb) + -ness (abstract-noun suffix), interpretable as "the state of being under obligation." The eggcorn may have been produced due to the frequency of the collocation "the onus [is/was] on [someone] to," whereas onus is very rarely used in popular speech without this collocation.

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