skyness

English

Etymology

sky +‎ -ness

Noun

skyness (uncountable)

1. The essence of what it means to be the sky; the qualities that make the sky what it is.
   • 2007, Helen McCann, Other Lives - Other Learning, Lulu, →ISBN, page 119:

     […] the sky surrounding us, so alive and immediate I felt I could almost put out my hand and immerse it in 'skyness'.

   • 2011, Max Lucado, The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life, Thomas Nelson, →ISBN, page 190:

     You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock.

   • 2013, Silke Panse, “Ten Skies, 13 Lakes, 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Ecoasthetics in The Swimmer and James Benning's Land Films”, in Anat Pick, Guinevere Narraway, editors, Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human, Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 43:

     There is no latent structure incarnated, no inherent skyness or lakeness in an abstract structural relation. The sky or the lake is not structured, only the film.