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Definition of Longness
1. Noun. The property of being of long spatial extent. "One gene causes shortness and the other causes longness"
Specialized synonyms: Extension, Lengthiness, Prolongation, Elongation
Derivative terms: Long, Long
Antonyms: Shortness
2. Noun. Duration as an extension.
Specialized synonyms: Length Of Service, Longevity
Derivative terms: Long
Antonyms: Shortness
Definition of Longness
1. n. Length.
Definition of Longness
1. Noun. (rare) length, lengthiness ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Longness
1. the state of being long [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Longness
Literary usage of Longness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Beauties of England and Wales, Or, Delineations, Topographical by John Britton, Joseph Nightingale, James Norris Brewer, John Evans, John Hodgson, Francis Charles Laird, Frederic Shoberl, John Bigland, Thomas Rees, Thomas Hood, John Harris, Edward Wedlake Brayley (1802)
"... as early as the year 1230. The Courts of Chancery and common Law are held in
this town. longness Point is the extremity of a peninsula ..."
2. A Hand-book of the English Language: For the Use of Students of the by Robert Gordon Latham (1860)
"The longness or shortness of a vowel or syllable is said to be its quantity.
§ 205. Attention is directed to the word vowel. ..."
3. A Defence of Phonetic Spelling: Drawn from a History of the English Alphabet by Robert Gordon Latham (1872)
"When we denote its longness by doubling the vowel itself we do the same. When we
use a second and a different vowel, as in coal or bait, ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1878)
"... was that steadiness of the compass at sea was to be obtained not by heaviness
of needles or of compass-card, or of added weights, but by longness of ..."
5. The English Language by Robert Gordon Latham (1855)
"Or—supposing we were to change the principle of representation, and instead of
using a letter we were to denote the property of longness by some mark (say ..."
6. Origines Islandicae: A Collection of the More Important Sagas and Other by Guðbrandur Vigfússon, Frederick York Powell (1905)
"Then Sigurd went with Thormod to longness. They knocked at the door, and a woman
came out and ... That evening Thordis lay down to sleep at longness. ..."
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