Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being amphibious; ability to live in two elements; participation in two natures.
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- noun The state or quality of being
amphibious .
Etymologies
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amphibious + -ness
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Examples
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I have always thought that canal-life -- by reason of its amphibiousness, its phenomenal slowness, its monotony amid endless change, its solitude amid busy and peopled scenes which it is always touching but never entering -- must be a unique existence, a _modus vivendi_ quite apart from other human experiences by land or sea.
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"a kind of mental as well as physical amphibiousness."
The Negro and the Nation A History of American Slavery and Enfranchisement George Spring Merriam 1878
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