Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being terrene; world-liness.

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

  • noun obsolete Earthiness; worldliness.

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  • noun obsolete earthiness; worldliness

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Examples

  • Trees creak in sorrow for the engineered wound through their terrain, their terrenity or earth-hood.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

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