shimmerinessn.
/ˈʃɪmərɪnɪs/ The condition of being shimmery; a flickering or insubstantial quality.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance
airiness1535
slightnessa1616
wanzingness1642
hollowness1648
insubsistence1651
emptiness1695
dreaminess1796
unsubstantiality1838
insubstantiality1848
aeriality1854
vapourishness1860
tenuousness1901
shimmeriness1913
1913 D. H. Lawrence Sons & Lovers vii. 153 Only this shimmeriness is the real living. The shape is a dead crust.
1948 M. Schorer in Hudson Rev. I. 76 His [sc. Lawrence's] belief in a..poetry in which nothing is fixed, static, or final, where all is shimmeriness and impermanence.
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