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lakeness

lakeness noun: the state or quality of being a lake.

Noun

lakeness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being a lake.
    • Children who have seen a small lake surrounded by a white sand beach have beginning ideas of what lakeness is.1977, J. Bryan Moffet, Teaching Elementary School Social Studies, Little, Brown, published 1977, page 184
    • Sam was painting big abstract landscapes in those days — masses of green and brown and blue plucked from the world around here — and he would tell me the right way to look at the lake, how to empty myself of all thoughts of lakeness, and just see the thing.1995, Ralph Lombreglia, Make Me Work, Penguin, →ISBN, page 100
    Synonyms:
    lakehood

Synonyms of lakeness

Origin of lakeness

From lake + -ness.

Questions about lakeness

What does lakeness mean?
Lakeness means the state or quality of being a lake.
What part of speech is lakeness?
Lakeness is a noun.

Words near lakeness in the dictionary

  1. Lakeman
  2. Lakemans
  3. lakemanship
  4. Lakemba
  5. Laken
  6. lakeness
  7. Lakenfelder
  8. Lakenfelders
  9. Lakenham
  10. Lakenheath
  11. Lakenvelder

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