Roseness
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Roseness is a noun meaning (philosophy) The quality of being a rose (type of flower).
Meaning
(philosophy) The quality of being a rose (type of flower).
More Meanings
- (biology) The property of being a rose comb.
Example Sentences
A rose comb is therefore regarded as a single comb in which roseness is present but peaness is absent; and a pea comb is similarly a single one where peaness is present and roseness is absent.
[…] the ruling idea being that the knower cannot know the sensible things, but can only know the unchanging Forms of the things, and Plato means that there can be no rose absent roseness, for roseness makes a rose be a rose.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include rosiness, bloom, blush, romanticism, radiance, frutescence.
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