madeness

Noun

madeness (uncountable)

1. The quality of having been made (by someone or something)
   • Or, as the atheists say: 'It's just there, a given, brute fact.' Well, is that what we are saying? No, we say, because though 'not out of' anything, still, it is made. And there, in that dark, opaque thought which is not a thought, in that sense of the 'madeness' of things which is beyond the grasp...2002, Denys Turner, Faith Seeking, London: SCM Press, →ISBN, page 31
   • As both a scholar of the novel and a practitioner, Thirlwell revels in the artificiality of text and language, the sheer madeness of books, and part of the pleasure of reading him is to see him take pleasure in the process of making.2015 April, Adam Kirsch, “Such a Nice Monster”, in James Bennet, editor, The Atlantic, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2023