Lexic.us

Definition of Shadiness

1. Noun. Relative darkness caused by light rays being intercepted by an opaque body. "There's too much shadiness to take good photographs"

2. Noun. Of questionable honesty or legality. "The shadiness of their transactions"

Definition of Shadiness

1. n. Quality or state of being shady.

Definition of Shadiness

1. Noun. The property of being shady. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Shadiness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Shadiness

shaded riverine aquatic cover shadeful shadeless shadelessly shader shaderless shaders shades shades of shadflies

shadflower shadfly shadier shadiest shadily shadiness shadinesses shading shadings shadkhan

shadkhanim shadkhans shadlunite shado beni shadoof shadoofs shadow shadow-box shadow-boxing shadow-cast replica

Literary usage of Shadiness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"Shadiness ; exclusion of light. Oiled paper becometh more transparent, and admits the visible rays with much less ..."

2. Pictorial Calendar of the Seasons, by John Aikin (1854)
"Whisp'ring and low, and bending o'er; and not A solitary gleam of fervid sun Shall find thee on thy soft and mossy throne, Lapped in delicious shadiness thy ..."

3. Howitt's Journal by William Howitt, Mary Botham Howitt (1847)
"... in delicious shadiness thy lot. In shadiness, and flowers, and herbage deep, Stretch thy fair limbs, half buried in the ..."

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