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glassiness

noun

Etymology

From glassy + -ness.

  1. inherited from glasy
  2. suffixed as glassiness — “glassy + ness”

Definitions

  1. The state of being glassy.

    • In one spot, the gush of the water violently agitated the sand, but without obscuring the fountain, or breaking the glassiness of its surface.
    • The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness.
    • The rounded top rail had been polished to glassiness by the Sunday trouser-seats of generations of village youths whose favourite perch it had been while waiting for the chimes to stop [...]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA