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skyness en · NOUN

Etymology

From sky + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The essence of what it means to be the sky; the qualities that make the sky what it is.
    • You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock. 2011, Max Lucado, The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 190:
    • […] the sky surrounding us, so alive and immediate I felt I could almost put out my hand and immerse it in 'skyness'. 2007, Helen McCann, Other Lives - Other Learning, Lulu, →ISBN, page 119:
    • There is no latent structure incarnated, no inherent skyness or lakeness in an abstract structural relation. The sky or the lake is not structured, only the film. 2013, Silke Panse, “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Ecoasthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films”, in Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, editors, Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 43: