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Definition of 'skyness'

English

Noun

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  • The essence of what it means to be the sky; the qualities that make the sky what it is.
  • * 2007 , Helen McCann, Other Lives - Other Learning , Lulu (2007), ISBN 9781847531353, page 119:
    • the sky surrounding us, so alive and immediate I felt I could almost put out my hand and immerse it in 'skyness' .
  • * 2011 , Max Lucado, The Lucado Inspirational Reader: Hope and Encouragement for Your Everyday Life , Thomas Nelson (2011), ISBN 9780849948305, page 190:
    • You can't impact the treeness of a tree, the skyness of the sky, or the rockness of a rock.
  • * 2013 , Silke Panse, "Ten Skies, 13 Lakes'', 15 Pools – Structure, Immanence and Ecoasthetics in ''The Swimmer'' and James Benning's Land Films", in ''Screening Nature: Cinema Beyond the Human (eds. Anat Pick & Guinevere Narraway), Berghahn Books (2013), ISBN 9781782382263, page 43:
    • There is no latent structure incarnated, no inherent skyness or lakeness in an abstract structural relation. The sky or the lake is not structured, only the film.

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