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handmadeness

handmadeness noun: the quality of being handmade.

Noun

handmadeness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being handmade.
    • Ladouceur is one of a group of Canadian artists, including former members of Winnipeg's Royal Art Lodge, whose primary medium is drawing and whose work is marked by "lowbrow" sensibilities, a Dadaistic fondness for absurdity, small-scale handmadeness, and imagery that seems to spring, surreal and...2018 July 6, Robin Laurence, “At the Burnaby Art Gallery, Jeff Ladouceur: Pearl Path takes cartoonish characters into surreal, amusing realms”, in The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, B.C.: Overstory...
    • My first thought was of Paul Klee, that kind of love-at-first-sight allure, seductive hand-madeness and unfiltered accessibility, only bigger and stronger.2020 June 26, Roberta Smith, “The Radical Quilting of Rosie Lee Tompkins”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 07 Sep 2023

Forms of handmadeness

alternative formhand-madeness

Origin of handmadeness

From handmade + -ness.

Questions about handmadeness

What does handmadeness mean?
Handmadeness means the quality of being handmade.
What part of speech is handmadeness?
Handmadeness is a noun.

Words near handmadeness in the dictionary

  1. handloomed
  2. handlooming
  3. handlooms
  4. handly
  5. handmade
  6. handmadeness
  7. handmades
  8. handmaid
  9. handmaiden
  10. handmaidenhood
  11. handmaidenly

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