Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Shadowy or unsubstantial character or quality.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being shadowy.

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  • noun The state or property of being shadowy.

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  • noun relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body

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Examples

  • He scarcely heeded the fragments of dreams -- clear, green landscapes, amazing gleams of peace, the sudden broken voices, the rustling and calling shadowiness of subconsciousness -- in this quiet sunlight of reality.

    The Return Walter De la Mare 1914

  • Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house

    Archive 2009-01-01 Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2009

  • Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house

    Life As Poetry Judith "Jlo" Quinton 2009

  • Guessing that she was trying to picture the scene, he recalled the way the chapel had looked, moving from the bright light outside into its tall shadowiness.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

  • Guessing that she was trying to picture the scene, he recalled the way the chapel had looked, moving from the bright light outside into its tall shadowiness.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

  • Guessing that she was trying to picture the scene, he recalled the way the chapel had looked, moving from the bright light outside into its tall shadowiness.

    Kissed By An Angel Elizabeth Chandler 2003

  • Only the highest spires of the city pierced heaven above their shadowiness.

    The Unicorn Trade Anderson, Poul and Karen 1984

  • On our right the mountain rose further, on our left it plunged downward, in frosted shadowiness where here and there gleamed yellovy the windows of a home.

    Explorations ANDERSON, Poul 1981

  • The curtains are drawn, the lamp is lighted and veiled into exquisite soft shadowiness.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 Various

  • Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house

    Modern British Poetry Louis Untermeyer 1931

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