sheernessn.
rare.
The quality of being sheer (see the adjective).
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the world > matter > light > transparency or translucence > [noun]
diaphanity1477
perspicuitya1500
sheerness1587
transparence1594
translucency1598
tralucency1599
transparency1615
clarity1616
pellucidity1642
diaphaneity1660
pellucidness1684
clearness1692
translucidity1694
translucidness1727
transparentness1727
translucence1755
see-through1954
the world > relative properties > wholeness > state or quality of being simple, unmixed, or uncompounded > [noun]
purenessa1398
simplenessa1398
simplicitya1398
simplesse?c1400
sincerity1546
purity1553
incompoundness1600
unmixedness1612
immixtness1646
immixture1648
uncompoundedness1649
meracity1656
incommixturea1682
singleness1695
simplexity1817
sheerness1903
1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. iv. 53 Like as the light of the Sunne hath diuers effects through the disposition of mens eyes, and of the sheerenesse of things.
1903 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 407 There is something of that quality of sheerness in this tale of peasant life..which we find in..‘A Village Tragedy’... But it is not so grim.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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