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leerness

noun

Etymology

From Middle English lereness, from Old English lǣrnes (“emptiness”), equivalent to leer (“empty”) + -ness.

  1. inherited from lǣrnes
  2. inherited from lereness

Definitions

  1. The quality of being leer

    The quality of being leer; lack; emptiness; dullness.

    • It cometh from the very chilled maw, or from the too much heated maw, or from too mickle fulness, or of too mickle leerness, that is emptiness, or of evil wet or humour rending and scarifying the maw.
    • A feeling of nausea, giddiness, leerness or emptiness, are among the common symptoms of indigestion, and do not require any special description.
    • The prime property assigned by Skoda to a percussion-sound, its fulness or its leerness (ideas adopted from Laennec) is, in fact, a compound perception, made up chiefly by the duration of the sound.

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