foundedness en · NOUN
Etymology
From founded + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state of being founded.
[B]ecause of the centuries he has spent dormant in the tumulus, there is a foundedness as well as a lambency about him.
1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix: