Deerness

Quick meaning: Deerness is a noun meaning The state or quality of being a deer.

Meaning

The state or quality of being a deer.

Example Sentences

[…] that which makes each particular being the very kind of being which it is, e.g., the chair's chairness, the tree's treeness, the sky's skyness, the deer's deerness, or the human's humanness.

Thus, he praised the work of the cave painters and their “contemplative intuition” in portraying the animals in their surroundings, in particular their illumination of the essential being of these animals, their “'deerness,'” for example.

In spite of the general features discussed above, the Filippovka stags remain enigmatic. That they were conceived of as supernatural is shown by their exaggerated features and their gold- and silver-foil covering, as well as by the fact that they are only realistic enough to indicate their “deerness,” as noted by Farkas.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include deerhood, deerdom, direness, drearness, dearness, duckness.

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