easterlinessn.
/ˈiːstəlɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈistərlinᵻs/ The condition or quality of being easterly.
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easternness1655
eastness1848
easterliness1898
1898 Lancet 26 Mar. 857/1 Basing his enquiry on 243 patients, who entered at Torquay, Bournemouth, Ventnor or Hastings, he finds that the proportion ‘improved’ varies directly with the easterliness of the station.
1927 J. Adams Errors in School 222 Each of them has acquired an absolute quality; Edinburgh of easterliness and Liverpool of westerliness.
1935 Jrnl. Ecol. 23 142 It is further remembered that southerliness and northerliness, not easterliness and westerliness, determine distribution.
1999 Hobart Mercury (Nexis) 4 Feb. Never has southerliness or easterliness been at such a premium.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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