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oakness en · NOUN

Etymology

From oak + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being oak, or of being an oak tree.
    • For Aristotle, an acorn becomes an oak, because it has the essence of oakness within it, which means it should become an oak. 2007, Siniša Malešević, Mark Haugaard, Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought, page 86:
    • The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness. 2004, François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Crime Fictions: Subverted Codes and New Structures, page 2: