Meaning of rockness | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The essence of what it means to be a rock; the qualities that make a rock what it is.
   uncountable
2. The quality of music being rock music, or generally "rocking" (being excitingly good).
   slang, uncountable

Examples

“We do not have to become a rock to study rocks, but we do have to understand the nature of “rockness.””

“You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock.”

“He asked, how can you truly know the rockness of a rock by categorizing it? Simply dividing it into smaller pieces, weighing it, and looking at its properties may tell you a great deal about what it is like, but what it is, its essence, its rockness, escapes such analysis […]”

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