Elmness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being an elm tree. uncountable

    "We seem to have become similarly obsessed, abandoning particular, familiar trees in favour of a kind of abstract notion of elmness."

Example

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"We seem to have become similarly obsessed, abandoning particular, familiar trees in favour of a kind of abstract notion of elmness."

Etymology

From elm + -ness.

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