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shadiness

shadiness noun: the property of being shady.

Noun

shadiness (usually uncountable, plural shadinesses)

  1. (usually) The property of being shady.
    • The autumn fields were autumn woods now—oak and beech and maple shadiness—as if they had ridden backward through the years of cultivation into primeval forest. The air was cool with mystery as well as with the shadiness.1931, LeRoy MacLeod, Three Steeples: A Tragedy of Earth, page 113
    • "There were still a lot of government restrictions on how much meat you could get from the packing houses. So I had to turn to certain "independent" distributors to get some of the meat cuts my customers wanted."
      There was something about the way Wolff said the word independent that suggested a...1982, Julius K. Hunter, Kingsbury Place: The First Two Hundred Years, page 163

Forms of shadiness

pluralshadinesses

Origin of shadiness

From shady + -ness.

Questions about shadiness

What does shadiness mean?
Shadiness means the property of being shady.
What part of speech is shadiness?
Shadiness is a noun.
What is the plural of shadiness?
The plural of shadiness is shadinesses.

Words near shadiness in the dictionary

  1. shadier
  2. shadiest
  3. shadily
  4. shadine
  5. shadines
  6. shadiness
  7. shadinesses
  8. shading
  9. shading coil
  10. shading coils
  11. shading pen

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