seedinessn.

Brit.

/ˈsiːdɪnᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈsidinᵻs/

Forms: 1600s seedinesse, 1800s– seediness.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seedy adj., -ness suffix.

Etymology: < seedy adj. + -ness suffix.With sense 1 compare earlier seedness n. 2b.

†1. A seed or germ of something. Obsolete. rare.Only in translations of the writings of Jan Baptist van Helmont.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source or primitive or original form

germc1550

stocka1625

seediness1662

primordium1704

germen1794

root form1832

rootstock1862

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxxviii. 293 Not only those good inclinations of fathers, or grandfathers, are propagated into the Seed; but also, certain diseasie seedinesses [L. seminaria], such as are in simples.

1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 1043 In the Meseraick veins, fibers, and the beginnings and rudiments of sperm or seedinesse were not yet obtained [L. nondum nactis fibris, spermatisque initiis, ac rudimentis].

2. The state of having produced seeds; the quality of bearing seeds; abundance of seed.

ΚΠ

1786 W. Scott New Spelling, Pronouncing, & Explanatory Dict. Eng. 295/2 Seediness, a seedy state or quality.

1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xii. 71 I take great interest..in the seediness of my garden; seeds and seed-cases are perhaps the most wonderful of any of the parts of plant life.

1923 Culture Citrus Fruits (U.S. Dept. Agric., Farmer's Bull. No. 1340) 13 The Triumph is one of the earliest of grapefruit varieties... On account of its extreme seediness and small size, however, it can not be recommended for commercial planting.

1982 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 69 1169 (title) Variation in average seed size and fruit seediness in a fruit crop of a guanacaste tree.

2001 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 88 693 Pollen stainability was shown to correlate with the degree of seediness.

a. Shabbiness, squalor; the state of being run-down, dilapidated, or gone to seed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness

squalor1621

sorditude1623

sordidness1656

squalidity1668

squalidness1727

frowziness1729

sordor1823

seediness1832

fluffiness1860

grubbiness1866

crumbiness1949

raunch1952

scruffiness1974

grunginess1978

scuzziness1980

grottiness1984

the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > condition of having lost freshness > shabbiness

shabbiness1711

seediness1832

secondhandinessa1849

down-at-heeledness1916

1832 Boston Morning Post 5 Jan. Sunday reverses all his meditations, converts his sorrow for them into shame for the seediness of his own wardrobe in such well-dressed society.

1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlii. 457 A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness.

1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vii. xl. 218 The seediness of the blue cloth was relieved by a velvet collar.

1889 T. A. Trollope What I Remember iii. xiii. 200 An appearance of seediness in poor fallen Venice is by no means an inexplicable characteristic.

1989 D. Maharidge & M. Williamson And their Children after Them iv. i. 163 The seediness of the house stands in contrast to the care lavished on its contents.

2003 B. Adams Pits & Pendulum xviii. 127 I wrote to the hospital with more details..of the seediness I had encountered in that hospital room: patients' scattered, unwashed clothing and unmade beds; how some staff had found the untidiness amusing.

b. The quality or condition of being morally dubious or disreputable; sleaziness. In early use in figurative contexts.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > moral sordidness

mirec1400

sordidity1584

dirta1625

dirtiness1649

sordidness1656

sleaziness1727

sordor1823

seediness1852

squalor1860

sleaze1967

1852 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 24 July 57/2 Seediness is the prominent feature of the betting mass, as they are on such occasions collected—seediness of dress and of character.

1875 Bell's Life in London 3 July 6/3 The morals, the walk in life, and sometimes the linen of a tout are exceedingly objectionable. Meanness envelopes him in a halo of seediness.

1936 Observer 27 Dec. 5/1 You would have thought that, with the intellectualism, he might have got tired of the other kinds of seediness, alcoholic, sexual and so forth.

1978 Time Out 18 Aug. 55/5 Hoffman, spivvy and moustached for maximum seediness, is an ex-con on parole who can't go straight.

2011 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 31/7 He helped to rescue the cigar's image from the seediness associated with cheap stogies chomped in gangster films by Edward G Robinson.

4. Slight indisposition or ill health, esp. as a result of excessive eating or drinking; a state of feeling generally unwell and out of sorts. Now somewhat archaic.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > disordered state

untemperateness1398

mistemperancec1485

mistemper1549

intemperature1559

mistemperateness1561

mistempering1561

dissension1582

indisposition1598

undisposedness1600

untune1603

disaffection1618

discomposure1646

distemper1648

misaffection1650

indisposedness1654

intemperies1676

intempery1676

intemperament1698

seediness1832

the uglies1846

upset1866

undertone1872

run-downness1890

woofits1918

underfunction1941

underfunctioning1941

1832 W. M. Thackeray Diary 5 June in Lett. & Private Papers (1945) I. 206 Drank too much wine &..grew sick & sleepy so came home... The day spent in seediness repentance & novel reading.

1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 74 What is called ‘seediness’, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged, and will have her penalty.

1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 323 Slight fits of seediness from time to time.

1936 D. Thomas Coll. Lett. c20 Apr. (1987) 222 I left London with Life No. Thirteen's headache, liver, and general seediness, and have by this time thoroughly recovered.

1996 J. W. Stedman W. S. Gilbert ix. 137 It often required rest in bed or on a sofa, and it is likely that Gilbert's ‘seediness’ included migraine.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	seediness
释义	seedinessn. Brit. /ˈsiːdɪnᵻs/, U.S. /ˈsidinᵻs/ Forms: 1600s seedinesse, 1800s– seediness. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: seedy adj., -ness suffix. Etymology: < seedy adj. + -ness suffix.With sense 1 compare earlier seedness n. 2b. †1. A seed or germ of something. Obsolete. rare.Only in translations of the writings of Jan Baptist van Helmont. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source or primitive or original form germc1550 stocka1625 seediness1662 primordium1704 germen1794 root form1832 rootstock1862 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xxxviii. 293 Not only those good inclinations of fathers, or grandfathers, are propagated into the Seed; but also, certain diseasie seedinesses [L. seminaria], such as are in simples. 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 1043 In the Meseraick veins, fibers, and the beginnings and rudiments of sperm or seedinesse were not yet obtained [L. nondum nactis fibris, spermatisque initiis, ac rudimentis]. 2. The state of having produced seeds; the quality of bearing seeds; abundance of seed. ΚΠ 1786 W. Scott New Spelling, Pronouncing, & Explanatory Dict. Eng. 295/2 Seediness, a seedy state or quality. 1893 G. D. Leslie Lett. to Marco xii. 71 I take great interest..in the seediness of my garden; seeds and seed-cases are perhaps the most wonderful of any of the parts of plant life. 1923 Culture Citrus Fruits (U.S. Dept. Agric., Farmer's Bull. No. 1340) 13 The Triumph is one of the earliest of grapefruit varieties... On account of its extreme seediness and small size, however, it can not be recommended for commercial planting. 1982 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 69 1169 (title) Variation in average seed size and fruit seediness in a fruit crop of a guanacaste tree. 2001 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 88 693 Pollen stainability was shown to correlate with the degree of seediness. 3. a. Shabbiness, squalor; the state of being run-down, dilapidated, or gone to seed. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > [noun] > and meanness squalor1621 sorditude1623 sordidness1656 squalidity1668 squalidness1727 frowziness1729 sordor1823 seediness1832 fluffiness1860 grubbiness1866 crumbiness1949 raunch1952 scruffiness1974 grunginess1978 scuzziness1980 grottiness1984 the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [noun] > condition of having lost freshness > shabbiness shabbiness1711 seediness1832 secondhandinessa1849 down-at-heeledness1916 1832 Boston Morning Post 5 Jan. Sunday reverses all his meditations, converts his sorrow for them into shame for the seediness of his own wardrobe in such well-dressed society. 1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xlii. 457 A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness. 1852 R. S. Surtees Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour vii. xl. 218 The seediness of the blue cloth was relieved by a velvet collar. 1889 T. A. Trollope What I Remember iii. xiii. 200 An appearance of seediness in poor fallen Venice is by no means an inexplicable characteristic. 1989 D. Maharidge & M. Williamson And their Children after Them iv. i. 163 The seediness of the house stands in contrast to the care lavished on its contents. 2003 B. Adams Pits & Pendulum xviii. 127 I wrote to the hospital with more details..of the seediness I had encountered in that hospital room: patients' scattered, unwashed clothing and unmade beds; how some staff had found the untidiness amusing. b. The quality or condition of being morally dubious or disreputable; sleaziness. In early use in figurative contexts. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > moral sordidness mirec1400 sordidity1584 dirta1625 dirtiness1649 sordidness1656 sleaziness1727 sordor1823 seediness1852 squalor1860 sleaze1967 1852 Chambers' Edinb. Jrnl. 24 July 57/2 Seediness is the prominent feature of the betting mass, as they are on such occasions collected—seediness of dress and of character. 1875 Bell's Life in London 3 July 6/3 The morals, the walk in life, and sometimes the linen of a tout are exceedingly objectionable. Meanness envelopes him in a halo of seediness. 1936 Observer 27 Dec. 5/1 You would have thought that, with the intellectualism, he might have got tired of the other kinds of seediness, alcoholic, sexual and so forth. 1978 Time Out 18 Aug. 55/5 Hoffman, spivvy and moustached for maximum seediness, is an ex-con on parole who can't go straight. 2011 Daily Tel. 5 Sept. 31/7 He helped to rescue the cigar's image from the seediness associated with cheap stogies chomped in gangster films by Edward G Robinson. 4. Slight indisposition or ill health, esp. as a result of excessive eating or drinking; a state of feeling generally unwell and out of sorts. Now somewhat archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > [noun] > disordered state untemperateness1398 mistemperancec1485 mistemper1549 intemperature1559 mistemperateness1561 mistempering1561 dissension1582 indisposition1598 undisposedness1600 untune1603 disaffection1618 discomposure1646 distemper1648 misaffection1650 indisposedness1654 intemperies1676 intempery1676 intemperament1698 seediness1832 the uglies1846 upset1866 undertone1872 run-downness1890 woofits1918 underfunction1941 underfunctioning1941 1832 W. M. Thackeray Diary 5 June in Lett. & Private Papers (1945) I. 206 Drank too much wine &..grew sick & sleepy so came home... The day spent in seediness repentance & novel reading. 1874 J. S. Blackie On Self-culture 74 What is called ‘seediness’, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been outraged, and will have her penalty. 1894 J. D. Astley Fifty Years of my Life I. 323 Slight fits of seediness from time to time. 1936 D. Thomas Coll. Lett. c20 Apr. (1987) 222 I left London with Life No. Thirteen's headache, liver, and general seediness, and have by this time thoroughly recovered. 1996 J. W. Stedman W. S. Gilbert ix. 137 It often required rest in bed or on a sofa, and it is likely that Gilbert's ‘seediness’ included migraine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1662
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