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Northernness en · NOUN

Etymology

From northern + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world.
    • Pure "Northernness" engulfed me: a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of Northern summer, remoteness, severity…and almost at the same moment I knew that I had met this before, long, long ago. 1955, C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Geoffrey Bles: