amphibiousness
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- noun
- /æmˈfɪbiəsnəs/
- Specialized
- The amphibiousness of frogs allows them to thrive in both aquatic and terrestrial environments.
Examples
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The engineer praised the amphibiousness of the new vehicle, which can smoothly transition from land to water.
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Many reptiles, like crocodiles, exhibit an incredible amphibiousness that aids their survival in varied habitats.
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Sometimes I would float on my back in the water, handing half my body over to the elemental sea, and the other half to sun and atmosphere, and then I really was visited, as they say, by a sensation of amphibiousness.
Fiction book (1999)
How Aquatic
Surface Forms
Morphology
amphibiousness = amphibious (transparent) = amphibious + ness
Regular nominalization of the adjective 'amphibious' using the productive suffix '-ness', so the meaning is directly derived.
Etymology
The word amphibiousness comes from Greek parts amphi- ('both') and -bios ('life'), the same root you see in amphibian and the bio- of biology. So, amphibiousness means the quality of being able to live or work 'both' on land and in water.