neshness

noun

neshness

noun

Etymology From nesh + -ness.

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UK, Dialectal The condition of being nesh.

I should be inclined to think it was from general neshness of constitution.1874, Thomas Hardy, Far from the Madding Crowd, Chapter 41:

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