单词 | deciduousness |
释义 | deciduousnessn. The state or condition of being deciduous (in various senses of the adjective). ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [noun] > transience frailnessa1300 timelinessa1500 transitoriness1550 fleeting1616 temporality1635 wanzingness1642 transiency1647 impermanency1648 undurableness1648 transientness1653 fugacity1656 evanidness1659 fugaciousness1664 timeishness1674 timesomeness1674 volatilenessa1676 fleetingness1709 deciduousness1727 fleetness1727 momentaneousness1727 preterience1730 transience1739 evanescence1751 unpermanency1751 transitiveness1775 caducity1793 impermanence1796 ephemerality1822 passingness1839 transitionalness1880 anitya1882 diariness1891 anicca1904 ephemeralness1911 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Deciduousness, aptness to fall. 1769 D'Alenzon tr. ‘Hoamchi-Vam’ Bonze II. 29 Alas! there is in human nature a fatal strange deciduousness! 1856 W. Thompson Nat. Hist. Ireland IV. 182 The fishermen distinguish them..by their gold-coloured backs..and the deciduousness of their scales. 1871 J. Earle Philol. Eng. Tongue viii. 395 This early deciduousness of our reflex pronoun. 1911 J. Y. Bergen & O. W. Caldwell Pract. Bot. iv. 68 Winter deciduousness is not a perfectly definite phenomenon, always setting in at precisely the same season. 1970 Revista Geográfica 1 June 99 Rainforest trees are evergreen, but it is not unusual that..the leaves are all shed before the new flush appears, a form of deciduousness not to be confused with seasonal deciduous dormancy. 2000 C. Tudge Variety of Life ii. xxiv. 580 Only a few conifers have adopted deciduousness, such as the larch and bald cypresses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1727 |
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