oakness
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]oakness (uncountable)
- The quality of being oak, or of being an oak tree.
- 2004, François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Crime Fictions: Subverted Codes and New Structures, page 2:
- The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness.
- 2007, Siniša Malešević, Mark Haugaard, Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought, page 86:
- For Aristotle, an acorn becomes an oak, because it has the essence of oakness within it, which means it should become an oak.