glassiness
English
Etymology
glassy + -ness
Noun
glassiness (uncountable)
- The state of being glassy.
- 1837 March 6, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Vision of the Fountain”, in Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: American Stationers Co.; John B. Russell, OCLC 1868501, page 296:
- In one spot, the gush of the water violently agitated the sand, but without obscuring the fountain, or breaking the glassiness of its surface.
- 1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], OCLC 1042815524, part II:
- The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness.
- 1948, Flora Thompson, Still Glides the Stream, Chapter 1,
- 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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