glassiness

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English

Etymology

glassy +‎ -ness

Noun

glassiness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being glassy.
    • 1837, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Vision of the Fountain” in Twice-Told Tales, Boston: American Stationers, p. 296,[1]
      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, Still Glides the Stream, Chapter 1,[2]
      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 […]
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