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wintriness

wintriness

7.4
A cold, grey feeling like winter in weather or mood
  • noun
  • /ˈwɪntrɪnəs/
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  • She admired the wintriness in the landscape, with its bare trees and icy silence.

Examples

  • There was a certain wintriness in his mood that matched the grey skies.

  • The wintriness of the wind made it hard to stay outside for long.

  • The wintriness of the landscape was breathtaking.

  • I love the wintriness of December!

  • She admired the wintriness in the landscape, with its bare trees and icy silence.

  • The wintriness of the wind made it hard to stay outside for long.

  • There was a certain wintriness in his mood that matched the grey skies.

Synonyms

coldness
vswintriness
5 1.0

A feeling or condition of low temperature

focuses on seasonal harshness and a desolate atmosphere rather than only low temperature
bleakness
vswintriness
3 6.3

A cold, empty feeling that makes a place or situation seem sad

emphasizes season-like chill and stark weather as well as desolation

How Wintry

iciness
2.9
wintriness
7.4
coldness
5 1.0
coolness
6 1.0

Surface Forms

wintriness singular
wintrinesses plural

Morphology

wintriness = wintry (transparent) = winter + y + ness

A straightforward nominalization of the adjective 'wintry' (which itself comes from 'winter'), so the meaning 'state of being wintry' is directly derived.

Etymology

Wintriness comes from winter plus the ending -ness, where -ness means 'state' or 'quality'. So wintriness is the 'state of being like winter', cold, bare, or bleak, and you can see the same root in the word wintry.