submergedness
nounEtymology From submerged + -ness.
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The state of being submerged.
- More: he now yearned as avidly for this submergedness, this union of all things living, as he had hitherto shrunk from it.1930, Henry Handel Richardson, The Fortunes of Richard Mahony, The Text Publishing Company, published 2012, page 837:
- […]and utilizing also the nuanced effects achieved through submergedness, textual mobility becomes a determinant force curtailing individualistic efforts at self-demarcation—both of finite narrative structures and of extrafictional subjects.1990, Michael Steppat, Chances of Mischief, Böhlau Verlag, page 327:
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- […]indicates that for all his Dostoievskian submergedness he is becoming a member of the inner circle, a wielder of power, and it is an odd paradox that must afford him some amusement as he guns down the roaches.2012, Gardner Dozois, The Visible Man and other stories, Berkley Publishing Corporation, unnumbered page: