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shadiness en · NOUN

Etymology

Etymology tree English shady Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English shadiness From shady + -ness.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) The property of being shady.
   • The autumn fields were autumn woods now—oak and beech and maple shadiness—as if they had ridden backward through the years of cultivation into primeval forest. The air was cool with mystery as well as with the shadiness. 1931, LeRoy MacLeod, Three Steeples: A Tragedy of Earth, page 113:
   • "There were still a lot of government restrictions on how much meat you could get from the packing houses. So I had to turn to certain "independent" distributors to get some of the meat cuts my customers wanted." There was something about the way Wolff said the word independent that suggested a slight bit of shadiness, but certainly not enough shadiness for a full-blown indictment. 1982, Julius K. Hunter, Kingsbury Place: The First Two Hundred Years, page 163:

Forms

Translations (3)

pl zacienienie (the property of being shady) · pl cienistość (the property of being shady) · la opacitas (the property of being shady)