pondness
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]pondness (uncountable)
- (rare) The quality of being a pond.
- 2009 September 20, Daisy Fried, “Dark Glamour”, in New York Times[1]:
- In “The Catfish,” he’s not much interested in the pondness of pond or the fishiness of fish.
- 2014, Susan Naramore Maher, Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains:
- 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.