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Definition of Diaphanousness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Diaphanousness
Literary usage of Diaphanousness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Greek Theories of Elementary Cognition from Alcmaeon to Aristotle by John Isaac Beare (1906)
"the ' scent.' the water (moist) only l. We attribute diaphanousness to Odour
ex- ^^ water ..."
2. A Text-book of Ophthalmology by William Fisher Norris, Charles Augustus Oliver (1893)
"Where central vision remains fair, while the cup appears to be complete, it must
be concluded, with Mauth- ner, that, owing to the diaphanousness ..."
3. Astronomical Register (1867)
"In order to this, they fancy the body of the comet to be like a globe or ball of
glass, which by its diaphanousness imbibes the beams received from the sun, ..."
4. Travels in England by Richard Le Gallienne (1900)
"How strangely spiritual this solid earth, of chalk and nibbling sheep, can
sometimes seem; what an expression of diaphanousness it sometimes wears. ..."
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