| 释义 |
seediness|ˈsiːdɪnɪs|
[f. seedy a. + -ness.]
The attribute of being seedy.
1. Untidiness, squalid shabbiness.
1837Dickens Pickw. xliii, A casual visitor might suppose this place to be a Temple dedicated to the Genius of Seediness. 1853R. S. Surtees Sponge's Sp. Tour xl. 218 The seediness of the blue cloth was relieved by a velvet collar. 1889Trollope What I remember iii. xiii. 200 An appearance of seediness in poor fallen Venice is by no means an inexplicable characteristic.
2. Slight indisposition, general want of ‘tone’ in the physical system.
1874Blackie Self-Cult. 74 What is called ‘seediness’, after a debauch, is a plain proof that nature has been out⁓raged, and will have her penalty. 1894Sir J. D. Astley 50 Years Life I. 323 Slight fits of seediness from time to time.
3. nonce-use. (See quot.)
1893G. D. Leslie Lett. Marco xii. 71, I take great interest..in the seediness of my garden; seeds and seed-cases are perhaps the most wonderful of any of the parts of plant life. |