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treeiness en · NOUN

Etymology

From treey + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Resemblance to a tree.
    • You know what I mean, anyway — 'the treeiness of the tree.' But I don't believe he's seen a picture by either. 1974, Beatrice Kean Seymour, Summer of life:
    • ...found it necessary to discard the treeiness of the tree and the grassiness of the grass. 1913, Royal Society of Arts, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts:
    • When we try to say what a tree is, we can only say that a tree is a manifestation of treeiness. 1970, Morse Peckham, The triumph of Romanticism: collected essays:

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