Leerness

Quick meaning: Leerness is a noun meaning (now rare or obsolete) The quality of being leer; lack; emptiness; dullness.

Meaning

(now rare or obsolete) The quality of being leer; lack; emptiness; dullness.

Example Sentences

A feeling of nausea, giddiness, leerness or emptiness, are among the common symptoms of indigestion, and do not require any special description.

[…] a film negative, which, having been exposed to unshielded light, had, due to chemical action, turned to absolute opaqueness, to this quality of leerness, this layer of glaucomalike blindness.

The prime property assigned by Skoda to a percussion-sound, its fulness or its leerness (ideas adopted from Laennec) is, in fact, a compound perception, made up chiefly by the duration of the sound.

It cometh from the very chilled maw, or from the too much heated maw, or from too mickle fulness, or of too mickle leerness, that is emptiness, or of evil wet or humour rending and scarifying the maw.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include lacke, leanenesse, lack, slackery, lackage, lack-looks.

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