Meaning of lakeness | Babel Free

Definitions

The state or quality of being a lake.

uncountable

Examples

“Children who have⟳ seen a small lake surrounded by a white sand beach have⟳ beginning ideas of what lakeness is.”

“Sam was painting big abstract landscapes in those days — masses of green and brown and blue plucked from the world around here — and he would tell⟳ me the right way to look⟳ at the lake, how to empty myself of all thoughts of lakeness, and just see⟳ the thing.”

“Ahead stretched miles of the unknown, lands and waters resembling my home waters, yet not quite it. There was a disturbing feeling of lakeness: unlike four-doored Possession Sound⟳ and multi-doored Puget, Port Susan had but a single door.”

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