Seedness

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The state or quality of being seed. rare, uncountable

    "[…] when the seed surrenders, it becomes a tree. Seeds that don’t surrender their “seedness” only wither up and blow away."

  2. 2
    Seedtime. obsolete, uncountable

    "As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry."

Example

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"[…] when the seed surrenders, it becomes a tree. Seeds that don’t surrender their “seedness” only wither up and blow away."

Etymology

From seed + -ness.

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