uxoriousness The character or quality of being uxorious; doting or an excessive submissive fondness of one's wife. Philander, Uxorious I once knew a gander True to his goose. He didn't philander, Didn't seduce. Hail, meritorious Gander uxorious! —Willard R. Espy in Say It My Way, 1980. Found on http://www.wordinfo.info/words/index/info/view_unit/2254/