elfness

English

Etymology

From elf +‎ -ness.

Noun

elfness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being an elf; elf attributes and qualities viewed collectively.
    • 1932, Denis Botterill, Quiet Helens: Poems, Bedford: Thetan Press, page 73:
      illuming lost towers, illuming
      hidden recess and excess selfness,
      light on the mind's stark glooming
      with her light airy elfness[.]
    • 2003, Greg Harvey, The Origins of Tolkien's Middle-earth for Dummies, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons, page 73:
      That, of course, would make Men a younger, less evolved, and in some ways less spiritual form of humanness (or "Elfness," rather).
    • 2024, Kim Harrison, Demon's Bluff, New York: Ace, page 30:
      He'd once had his ears docked - as all elves of his generation had - but a spell had returned them to their natural, pointy-arched elfness to match both Lucy's and Ray's.
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