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massness

massness noun: the quality of being a part of a mass.

Noun

massness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a part of a mass.
    • But the continued movement in the direction of massness and individualism has clearly resulted in huge unpaid emotional debts […]1975, Agricultural Development Council. Research and Training Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center, Papers, Volume 4
    • It was the massness of the book in Menzel's view that had transformed it into both a problem and an enormously powerful medium that had the capacity to shape one's dreams.2009, Andrew Piper, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age
  2. The quality of being a mass noun.
    • A mass noun, in contrast, does not refer to a discrete object (or objects) in the real world - it refers to massness.2013, Rint Sybesma, The Mandarin VP

Origin of massness

From mass + -ness.

Questions about massness

What does massness mean?
Massness means the quality of being a part of a mass.
What part of speech is massness?
Massness is a noun.

Words near massness in the dictionary

  1. Massmann
  2. Massmanns
  3. Massmans
  4. massmonger
  5. massmongers
  6. massness
  7. Masso
  8. masso-
  9. massoia lactone
  10. Massoia tree
  11. massoialactone

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