😔 A gloomy mood 🐣 Wanting to hatch eggs

broodiness

7.9

A strong wish to sit on eggs to hatch them or to have babies

noun
/ˈbruːdɪnɪs/

: instinto de incubación

His sudden broodiness surprised everyone.

Examples

After discussing their future plans, he admitted that a sense of broodiness had begun to grow within him.
The hen's broodiness made her stay on the nest for days.
Some people experience a sudden broodiness when they see babies or young animals.
Farmers sometimes try to reduce broodiness in hens to increase egg production.
Have you noticed her broodiness lately?
She felt a sudden stir of broodiness as she watched the mother hen care for her chicks.
The farmer noticed an unusual increase in broodiness among his hens during the spring season.

Synonyms

brooding

vsbroodiness

Specialized

1 7.3

Sitting on eggs to keep them warm until they hatch

is a desire to sit on eggs or to have children

Antonyms

abandonment

26 3.6

Leaving someone or something and not coming back

Surface Forms

broodiness singular

broodinesses plural

Morphology

broodiness = broody (transparent) = brood + y + ness

This sense is a direct nominalization of 'broody' in its literal sense (inclined to sit on eggs / desire to have young), so the meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Broodiness comes from the word brood, meaning 'a group of young', and from the verb 'to brood' which means 'to sit on eggs'. A hen that is broody will stay on the nest to warm her eggs, so broodiness describes the wish to sit on eggs or a strong desire to have children.