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pondness

pondness noun: the quality of being a pond.

Noun

pondness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being a pond.
    • In “The Catfish,” he’s not much interested in the pondness of pond or the fishiness of fish.2009 September 20, Daisy Fried, “Dark Glamour”, in New York Times
    • Dunwoody Pond, then, is a matrix containing all of the possible meanings of pondness. The pond is an archetype, a mold so to speak of primordial dimensions; it is embedded with natural forms; it is the material enclosing objects of study.2014, Susan Naramore Maher, Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains

Origin of pondness

From pond + -ness.

Questions about pondness

What does pondness mean?
Pondness means the quality of being a pond.
What part of speech is pondness?
Pondness is a noun.

Words near pondness in the dictionary

  1. pondlike
  2. pondlilies
  3. pondlily
  4. pondman
  5. pondmen
  6. pondness
  7. Pondo
  8. pondok
  9. pondokkie
  10. pondokkies
  11. pondoks

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