massness
nounEtymology From mass + -ness.
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The quality of being a part of a mass.
- But the continued movement in the direction of massness and individualism has clearly resulted in huge unpaid emotional debts […]1975, Agricultural Development Council. Research and Training Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center, Papers, Volume 4
- It was the massness of the book in Menzel's view that had transformed it into both a problem and an enormously powerful medium that had the capacity to shape one's dreams.2009, Andrew Piper, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age:
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences Of a noun The quality of being a mass noun.
- A mass noun, in contrast, does not refer to a discrete object (or objects) in the real world - it refers to massness.2013, Rint Sybesma, The Mandarin VP: