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ˌall-ˈoverness
[f. all-over adj. phr. + -ness.]
1. = all-overishness.
1820in Amer. Speech (1965) XL. 127 I'm seized with an alloverness, I faint! I die! 1828Blackw. Mag. XXIV. 191, I could almost fain be sick—not very sick, but have a gentle all-overness—a tranquil debility. 1840Fraser's Mag. XXI. 474/1, I felt attacked by the malady best designated by the term all-overness.
2. The quality of being ‘all-over’ (see all-over adj. phr. 2).
1953Archit. Rev. CXIV. 194/1 There is continual interplay..between the flat, tawny-coloured all-overness and the coming out of the objects. 1955P. Heron Changing Forms of Art 122 His form is very powerful; but it is distinct from the form of Renoir in that it is developed entirely in terms of this ‘alloverness’. |