treeiness en · NOUN
Etymology
From treey + -ness.
Meanings
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(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: