seedness

Noun

seedness (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state or quality of being seed.
   • […] when the seed surrenders, it becomes a tree. Seeds that don’t surrender their “seedness” only wither up and blow away.1988, Peter Hayes, chapter 9, in The Supreme Adventure: The Experience of Siddha Yoga, New York: Dell, page 163
2. (obsolete) Seedtime.
   • As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
     That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
     To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
     Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Measure for Measure”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
   • […] there be certaine little wormes breeding in the root, that do eat it: which happeneth by occasion of much raine falling immediatly after the seednesse, especially, when some sudden heat and drowth ensueth therupon […]1601, C[aius] Plinius Secundus [i.e., Pliny the Elder], “[Book XVIII.] chapter 17.”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Historie of the World. Commonly Called, The Naturall Historie of C. Plinius...