Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

seedness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: seed-ness
IPA

9

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

4

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The state or quality of being seed.

Uncountable

noun

Obsolete; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"[…] when the seed surrenders, it becomes a tree. Seeds that don’t surrender their “seedness” only wither up and blow away."
"As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time That from the seedness the bare fallow brings To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry."
"[…] there be certaine little wormes breeding in the root, that do eat it: which happeneth by occasion of much raine falling immediatly after the seednesse, especially, when some sudden heat and drowth ensueth therupon […]"
"[…] how does God admonish us of the value of time, by so constructing things, as that opportunities once let slip, i.e. time wasted, are never to be redeemed, do what we will to repair our folly! A seedness suffered to escape, and the harvest for the year irrecoverable […]"

Etymology

From seed + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: seed

Usage

Questions

What does seedness mean?: The state or quality of being seed.
Where does seedness come from?: From seed + -ness.

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