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massness en · NOUN

Etymology

From mass + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being a part of a mass.
    • It was the massness of the book in Menzel's view that had transformed it into both a problem and an enormously powerful medium that had the capacity to shape one's dreams. 2009, Andrew Piper, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age:
    • But the continued movement in the direction of massness and individualism has clearly resulted in huge unpaid emotional debts […] 1975, Agricultural Development Council. Research and Training Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center, Papers, Volume 4
  2. (of a noun, uncountable) The quality of being a mass noun.
    • A mass noun, in contrast, does not refer to a discrete object (or objects) in the real world - it refers to massness. 2013, Rint Sybesma, The Mandarin VP: