ˈstuntinessn. the condition of being stunted. Latham quotes from ‘Cheyne Philosophical Conjectures’ a passage identical with quot. 1740 for stuntednessn. at stuntedadj. Derivatives.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > lack of height > [noun]
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a1878 G. G. ScottLect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 179 While walls and pillars might avail themselves to the full of this upward striving, it was hard that the arch should be condemned to unalterable stuntiness.