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teˈrrenity Now rare or as nonce-wd.
[f. as prec. + -ity; cf. med.L. terrēnitās (Du Cange).]
The quality or condition of being earthy; concr. earthy matter.
1627–77Feltham Resolves 74 (L.) [It] debases all the spirits to a dull and low terrenity. 1650Charleton Paradoxes Prol. 23 The Acid Spirit, immersed in an excessive quantity of Terrenity, becomes..languid. 1973T. Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow iv. 733 Trees creak in sorrow for the engineered wound through their terrain, their terrenity or earthhood. |