Noun: oweness
| Singular | oweness |
| Plural | owenesses |
Sample Sentences
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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]). [2015 February 10, Village of Downers Grove, “rEmarks Data for February 10, 2015 Village Council Meeting”, in www.downers.us:]
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“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. [2021 January 2, Revolt Staff, “Singer Kim Hill responds to Will.i.am’s comments about the Black Eyed Peas”, in Revolt:]
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“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?” [2021 March 31, “The Real Housewives of Dallas recap: Kameron in the big, new house”, in Preston Hollow Advocate:]
Nouns inflected like oweness
penniless-bench,
wintergrass,
kitchen pass,
grey fox,
grey box,
trailer hitch,
paleness,
loaded march,
Tush Push,
horribleness,
slaughteress,
chapparvovirus,
greenwax,
royal flush,
crab cactus,
geostress,
syngas,
wintercress,
ichthys,
ichthus, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *h₃enh₂-
3. Proto-Indo-European *-os
4. Proto-Indo-European *h₃énh₂os
5. Proto-Italic *onos
6. Latin onuslbor.
7. English onus
8. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyḱ-
9. Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₂óyḱe
10. Proto-Germanic *aiganą
11. Proto-West Germanic *aigan
12. Old English āgan
13. Middle English owen
14. English owe
15. Proto-Germanic *-in-
16. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
17. Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
18. Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
19. Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
20. Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti
21. Proto-Germanic *-ōną
22. Proto-Germanic *-inōną
23. Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
24. Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
25. Proto-Indo-European *-tus
26. Proto-Germanic *-þuz
27. Proto-Germanic *-assuz
28. Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
29. Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
30. Old English -nes
31. Middle English -nesse
32. English -ness
33. English oweness
34. 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.