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umbrosity en · NOUN

Etymology

From umbrose + -ity, or borrowed from Latin umbrōsitās.

Meanings

  1. (rare, uncountable) Shade, shadiness.
    • Cotton is grown here as an annual, yet in some strong lands it is allowed to remain in the ground for two seasons[…]from the umbrosity of its foliage, and its hoeings, it leaves the land, in a fit and open state to receive a winter crop. 1839, Thomas MacGill, A hand book, or guide, for strangers visiting Malta, page 20:
    • Shrubberies.[…]The judicious introduction of views of more distant scenery; which is most frequently desirable, unless in such parts as, by way of contrast, are preserved in umbrosity. 1806, John Claudius Loudon, A Treatise on Forming, Improving, and Managing Country Residences, page 352:
    • The architecture of winecellar-cum-dungeon prohibited a smooth transition from illumination to umbrosity. Lasse's logic was sound: Concentrate on the penumbral areas; any useful item in the deep shadow cannot be seen and any such object in the light will have been removed. 2007, Michael J. A. Speyer, The Chronicles of Samuel Sassodoro, Book Two, page 30:
    • the interstitial divisions being continuated by the accession of oil, it becometh more transparent, and admits the visible rays with less umbrosity 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC: