westnessn.

1855 J. C. Maxwell Let. 19 Feb. in L. Campbell & W. Garnett Life J. C. Maxwell (1882) vii. 210 I suppose when my father can move I will see him out of this eastern clime and safe located in Gallovidian westnesses.

1979 Washington Post 7 Oct. e5/2 Clusters [of hostels] have sprung up in Michigan and Ohio, a bunch in Colorado and California, and others dot the vast westness of the country.

1889 H. A. Giles tr. Chuang Tzu 206 Any given point is of course east in relation to west, west in relation to east. Absolutely, it may be said that its westness does not exclude its eastness.

1930 C. C. Martindale in Monument to St. Augustine 88 Because of a radical South-ness and West-ness in his make-up, he never could find an affinity with Greek.

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.

2009 Boston Globe (Electronic ed.) 11 Oct. It was the southness, not the westness, of the New World that made him..feel that something remarkable had been discovered across the Atlantic.