foundedness

English

Etymology

From founded +‎ -ness.

Noun

foundedness (uncountable)

  1. The state of being founded.
    • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xix:
      [B]ecause of the centuries he has spent dormant in the tumulus, there is a foundedness as well as a lambency about him.
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