Northernness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being northern. uncountable
  2. 2
    A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world. uncountable

    "Pure "Northernness" engulfed me: a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of Northern summer, remoteness, severity…and almost at the same moment I knew that I had met this before, long, long ago."

  3. 3
    the property of being to the north wordnet

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"Pure "Northernness" engulfed me: a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of Northern summer, remoteness, severity…and almost at the same moment I knew that I had met this before, long, long ago."

Etymology

From northern + -ness.

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