nauticalness
nauticalness noun: the quality of being nautical.
Noun
nauticalness (usually uncountable, plural nauticalnesses)
- The quality of being nautical.
- However, Dinky did beautifully while I was being demonstrated to, and when he had made a skillful landing and getaway I turned her prow (that sounds much more nautical than bow, and much bigger, too, don’t you think?) towards the upper reaches (more nauticalness, d’y see?) of the river and chugged...1920 August, C[arl] H[arry] Claudy, “Dinky—A Prose Poem”, in J. Harry Lewis, editor, The Crescent, volume 11, number 6, Saint Paul, Minn.: Crescent Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 152
- THE sailors’ inn of popular fancy is—as fanciful things have, fortunately perhaps, so often a way of being—very far removed from the sailors’ inn of sober actuality. It is, to begin with, of an incredible, nay, an impossible, nauticalness; so that, should a landsman venture his nose within it, he...1925, C[icely] Fox Smith, “Sailos’ Inns”, in Ship Alley: More Sailor Town Days, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company, →OCLC, page 6
- Synonyms:
- nauticality
Examples of nauticalness in a sentence
- It is, to begin with, of an incredible, nay, an impossible, nauticalness; so that, should a landsman venture his nose within it, he might almost be excused for feeling a little seasick.1925, C[icely] Fox Smith, “Sailos’ Inns”, in Ship Alley: More Sailor Town Days, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton Mifflin Company...
- Little coats that carry a suggestion of nauticalness in their trimmings.1931 April 1, Canadian Department Stores, “Cheviot Serge Coats”, in The Ontario Intelligencer, Belleville, Ont.: W[illiam] H[erbert]...
- Nauticalness virtually overflows from this coffee shop–styled seafood house, from its steamy interior to its patio, where the smell of the salt air goes perfectly with the fresh seafood chowder.1992, “Redwood Empire”, in Laura Hagar, Stephanie Irving, editors, Northern California Best Places: Restaurants, Lodgings, and Touring...
- And somewhere, somewhere in all this nauticalness and officialese and professionalismo there reposed, Hradec was almost sure, the walkie-talkie.1993 April, Donald E[diwn] Westlake, chapter 8, in Don’t Ask (Dortmunder; 8), New York, N.Y.: Mysterious Press, →ISBN, page 56:
Synonyms of nauticalness
Forms of nauticalness
| plural | nauticalnesses |
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Origin of nauticalness
From nautical + -ness.
Questions about nauticalness
- What does nauticalness mean?
- Nauticalness means the quality of being nautical.
- How do you use nauticalness in a sentence?
- It is, to begin with, of an incredible, nay, an impossible, nauticalness; so that, should a landsman venture his nose within it, he might almost be excused for feeling a little seasick.
- What part of speech is nauticalness?
- Nauticalness is a noun.
- What is the plural of nauticalness?
- The plural of nauticalness is nauticalnesses.
Words near nauticalness in the dictionary
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