Home › Words › F › featnessfeatnessfeatness means skill; adroitness.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, featness ranks #16,750 of 42,762 for Qualifying.EtymologyFrom feat + -ness. Piecewise doublet of factness.nounSkill; adroitness.e.g.“Why want to go afar Where pitfalls are, When all we swains adore Your featness more and more” — 1925, Thomas Hardy, “An Expostulation”, in The Poetical Works of Thomas Hardy (poem), lines 1-4, page 760:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).