mountainousness

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Etymology

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From mountainous +‎ -ness (a state of being, suffix forming a noun).

Noun

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mountainousness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being mountainous.
    • 1808, Allan Ramsay, “An Inquiry into the Propriety of the Rules Prescribed for Pastoral Poetry”, in The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy; with Illustrations of the Scenary: [], volume 1, Edinburgh, page 182:
      [] according to Polybius, the Arcadians, owing to the mountainousness of their country, and the severity of the weather, were very rugged and unsociable.

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