eastnessn.
/ˈiːs(t)nəs/, U.S. /ˈis(t)nəs/ 1. The state or condition of being (relatively) eastern in position or orientation.
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the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > East > [noun] > quality
easternness1655
eastness1848
easterliness1898
1848 Yale Lit. Mag. Mar. 236 It [sc. the sun] rises a cold moon, out of the jaws Of distant Eastness.
1904 Med. Sentinel Sept. 401 One of the advantages of our extremely remote westness is that it brings us quite fairly well in touch with the extreme eastness of things.
1972 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 69 1233 All topological properties, such as tangency, signs of slopes, northness, and eastness, are invariants.
2005 Jrnl. Torrey Bot. Soc. 132 295/2 We convert aspect into two uncorrelated measures of aspect, Eastness and Southness.
2. Eastern quality or character.
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1921 Life 8 Dec. 10/1 East is East, calm and serene in the very conviction of its Eastness, while West is equally and as indubitably West.
1959 W. Wasserstrom Heiress of All Ages 97 She can acquire understanding only when she reconciles the northness of her nature with its southness, eastness with westness, chastity with magnetism.
2007 M. Kuus Geopolitics Reframed ii. 33 Joining Europe then becomes a way of establishing maximum distance from the East or Eastness.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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