Definition of Diaphanousness

1. Noun. The quality of being diaphanous. ¹

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Definition of Diaphanousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Diaphanousness

diaphaneities
diaphaneity
diaphanic
diaphanie
diaphanies
diaphanography
diaphanometer
diaphanometers
diaphanoscope
diaphanoscopes
diaphanoscopy
diaphanotype
diaphanotypes
diaphanous
diaphanously
diaphanousness (current term)
diaphemetric
diaphen hydrochloride
diapheromera
diaphone
diaphones
diaphonic
diaphonics
diaphonies
diaphony
diaphorase
diaphorases
diaphoreses
diaphoresis
diaphoretic

Literary usage of Diaphanousness

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

1. Greek Theories of Elementary Cognition from Alcmaeon to Aristotle by John Isaac Beare (1906)
"the ' scent.' the water (moist) only l. We attribute diaphanousness to Odour ex- ^^ water ..."

2. A Text-book of Ophthalmology by William Fisher Norris, Charles Augustus Oliver (1893)
"Where central vision remains fair, while the cup appears to be complete, it must be concluded, with Mauth- ner, that, owing to the diaphanousness ..."

3. Astronomical Register (1867)
"In order to this, they fancy the body of the comet to be like a globe or ball of glass, which by its diaphanousness imbibes the beams received from the sun, ..."

4. Travels in England by Richard Le Gallienne (1900)
"How strangely spiritual this solid earth, of chalk and nibbling sheep, can sometimes seem; what an expression of diaphanousness it sometimes wears. ..."

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