massness

English

Etymology

mass +‎ -ness

Noun

massness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being a part of a mass.
   • 1975, Agricultural Development Council. Research and Training Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center, Papers, Volume 4

     But the continued movement in the direction of massness and individualism has clearly resulted in huge unpaid emotional debts […]

   • 2009, Andrew Piper, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age‎^[1]:

     It was the massness of the book in Menzel's view that had transformed it into both a problem and an enormously powerful medium that had the capacity to shape one's dreams.

2. (linguistics, of a noun) The quality of being a mass noun.
   • 2013, Rint Sybesma, The Mandarin VP‎^[2]:

     A mass noun, in contrast, does not refer to a discrete object (or objects) in the real world - it refers to massness.