leerness

Examples of leerness in a sentence

• The prime property assigned by Skoda to a percussion-sound, its fulness or its leerness (ideas adopted from Laennec) is, in fact, a compound perception, made up chiefly by the duration of the sound.1893, Samuel Jones Gee, Auscultation and Percussion:
• L., however, the small area of “cardiac leerness,” or absolute dulness, corresponds very well to the probable size of the “cardiac” or “relative” dulness in the sense in which I suggest its use.1896, The Practitioner, volume 57, page 271:
• The "fullness" and the "leerness" of Skoda, terms which are still occasionally employed in German literature, although compound perceptions, depend mainly upon the duration of the vibrations.1917, George William Norris, Henry Robert Murray Landis, Edward Bell Krumbhaar, Diseases of the Chest and the Principles of Physical...
• […] a film negative, which, having been exposed to unshielded light, had, due to chemical action, turned to absolute opaqueness, to this quality of leerness, this layer of glaucomalike blindness.2010, Laurence A. Rickels, I Think I Am, page 160:

Forms of leerness

Origin of leerness

From Middle English lereness, from Old English lǣrnes (“emptiness”), equivalent to leer (“empty”) + -ness.

Questions about leerness

What does leerness mean?

Leerness means the quality of being leer; lack; emptiness; dullness.

How do you use leerness in a sentence?

The prime property assigned by Skoda to a percussion-sound, its fulness or its leerness (ideas adopted from Laennec) is, in fact, a compound perception, made up chiefly by the duration of the sound.

What part of speech is leerness?

Leerness is a noun.