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goldenness en · NOUN

Etymology

From golden + -ness.

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) The quality of being golden.
   • Aslan's goldenness in this book is a different kind of goldenness from the one we find in The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader.' There it was Solar; here it is, paradoxically, Lunar—the good upper half of the Lunar nature. 2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis:
   • The dim gray goldenness of the leaves above them seems to grow more ardent in color as they rise against the clear but not too intense blue of the sky. 1873 September 14, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 32, page 378:
   • There is uncommon breadth and mass about it, with a richness of colouring, a sort of brown and glossy goldenness, which is common in the works of the artist. 1832, Allan Cunningham, The lives of the most eminent British painters and sculptors, volume 1:

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goldishness