deerness
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
9
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A parish in Orkney council area, Scotland
name
A river in County Durham, north east England, a tributary of the River Browney with a course of 12 miles.
Example Sentences
- "Thus, he praised the work of the cave painters and their “contemplative intuition” in portraying the animals in their surroundings, in particular their illumination of the essential being of these animals, their “'deerness,'” for example."
- "In spite of the general features discussed above, the Filippovka stags remain enigmatic. That they were conceived of as supernatural is shown by their exaggerated features and their gold- and silver-foil covering, as well as by the fact that they are only realistic enough to indicate their “deerness,” as noted by Farkas."
- "[…] that which makes each particular being the very kind of being which it is, e.g., the chair's chairness, the tree's treeness, the sky's skyness, the deer's deerness, or the human's humanness."