Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
the quality of being wooden and awkward;
- Example: "he criticized the woodenness of the acting"- Example: "there was a certain woodenness in his replies"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Woodenness \Wood"en*ness\, n.
Quality of being wooden; clumsiness; stupidity; blockishness.
[1913 Webster]
We set our faces against the woodenness which then
characterized German philology. --Sweet.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
woodenness
n 1: the quality of being wooden and awkward; "he criticized the
woodenness of the acting"; "there was a certain woodenness
in his replies"