glassiness

English

Etymology

From glassy +‎ -ness.

Noun

glassiness (uncountable)

1. The state of being glassy.
   • 1837 March 6, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Vision of the Fountain”, in Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: American Stationers Co.; John B. Russell, →OCLC, page 296:

     In one spot, the gush of the water violently agitated the sand, but without obscuring the fountain, or breaking the glassiness of its surface.

   • 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II:

     The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness.

   • 1948, Flora Thompson, chapter 1, in Still Glides the Stream‎^[1]:

     The rounded top rail had been polished to glassiness by the Sunday trouser-seats of generations of village youths whose favourite perch it had been while waiting for the chimes to stop [...]