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roseness

roseness noun: the quality of being a rose (type of flower).

Noun

roseness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a rose (type of flower).
    • […] the ruling idea being that the knower cannot know the sensible things, but can only know the unchanging Forms of the things, and Plato means that there can be no rose absent roseness, for roseness makes a rose be a rose.2015, Loren Berengere, Infinity and the Supermen, page 367
  2. The property of being a rose comb.
    • A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.1909, The Eugenics Review, volume 1, page 136

Origin of roseness

From rose + -ness.

Questions about roseness

What does roseness mean?
Roseness means the quality of being a rose (type of flower).
What part of speech is roseness?
Roseness is a noun.

Words near roseness in the dictionary

  1. Rosene
  2. Roseneil
  3. Rosener
  4. Roseners
  5. Rosenes
  6. roseness
  7. Rosenfeld
  8. Rosenfield
  9. Rosenfields
  10. Rosengarten
  11. Rosengrant

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