placenessn.
/ˈpleɪsnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈpleɪsnᵻs/ rare before late 20th cent.
Originally: the quality of having or occupying a place. Later also: the quality reminiscent of a particular locality or place.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > quality of having
localitya1538
placeness1674
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 78 It cannot but harshly be said, that the world has a placeness or whereness at all.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 84 Such a thing as placeness or stowage.
1985 B. Holm Music of Failure 87 It will never make it on television, though it has ground, water, sky, weather, all the ingredients of placeness.
1988 Smithsonian Stud. Amer. Art Fall 23/1 A large picture, five feet long and nearly one yard high, the work's height lends conviction to its substance—the visceral placeness—of the scene depicted.
1999 Irish Times (Nexis) 13 Apr. 13 A lyric, pastoral poet shaped by the diction of Frost, the rhythms of Hopkins and the ‘placeness’ of Kavanagh, Heaney has also looked to myth, history and classical European literature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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