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sunniness|ˈsʌnɪnɪs|
[f. as prec. + -ness.]
1. The state of being illumined by the sun, or full of sunshine.
1611[see sunnage]. 1823Moore Mem. (1853) IV. 146 In the sweet valley of Chitway, enjoying all the sunniness and leafiness that still lingers around us. 1860F. Galton in Vac. Tour. 430 The relative sunniness of different places on the calculated path of total eclipse.
†2. Sunburn, tan. Obs. rare.
1753Richardson Grandison I. xxxvi. (1754) 254 His face is overspread with a manly sunniness (I want a word) that shews he has been in warmer climates than England.
3. fig. Brightness of aspect, feeling, manner, etc.
1837Beddoes Let. in Poems (1851) p, ciii, The chapters in hand requiring a light-hearted sunniness of style. 1880Disraeli Endym. III. 65 He did not greet her with that mantling sunniness of aspect which was natural to him when they met. 1880‘Vernon Lee’ Italy iii. i. 68 A certain sincerity and sunniness of nature. |