goldenness

English

Etymology

golden +‎ -ness

Noun

goldenness (countable and uncountable, plural goldennesses)

1. The quality of being golden.
   • 1832, Allan Cunningham, The lives of the most eminent British painters and sculptors, volume 1:

     There is uncommon breadth and mass about it, with a richness of colouring, a sort of brown and glossy goldenness, which is common in the works of the artist.

   • 1873 September, The Atlantic Monthly, volume 32, page 378:

     The dim gray goldenness of the leaves above them seems to grow more ardent in color as they rise against the clear but not too intense blue of the sky.

   • 2008, Michael Ward, Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C. S. Lewis:

     Aslan's goldenness in this book is a different kind of goldenness from the one we find in The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader.' There it was Solar; here it is, paradoxically, Lunar—the good upper half of the Lunar nature.

Coordinate terms

• goldishness