stoninessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

stoniness (usually uncountable, plural stoninesses)

1. The state or quality of being stony.
   1. (literally) The state or quality of being full of stones.

      Synonym: rockiness

      the stoniness of this soil

   2. (figuratively) The state or quality of being like stone: immovable, unpersuadable, emotionally cold, or stoic.

      Near-synonyms: coldness, iciness, stoicism

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参照

• “stoniness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.