Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The quality of being stony: as, the stoniness of ground or of fruit; stoniness of heart.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The quality or state of being stony.
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- noun The state or quality of being
stony .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Bella's fixation on Edward's stoniness looks a lot like a kind of fetishism.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Kenji had seen something in her then, a steeliness, a stoniness, and he had recognized it.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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She suggested after-dinner strolls, picnics at the beach; with a stoniness he did not quite understand, Gavin refused her.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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Bella's fixation on Edward's stoniness looks a lot like a kind of fetishism.
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It is because of, rather than in spite of, this stoniness that Bella finds him irresistibly attractive.
Archive 2008-12-01 2008
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Kenji had seen something in her then, a steeliness, a stoniness, and he had recognized it.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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Kenji had seen something in her then, a steeliness, a stoniness, and he had recognized it.
Blood Ninja II Nick Lake 2010
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I continue to struggle with a stoniness that shuts out so many.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Sexual Abuse and the Sacred Heart of Jesus 2010
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She suggested after-dinner strolls, picnics at the beach; with a stoniness he did not quite understand, Gavin refused her.
Strangers at the Feast Jennifer Vanderbes 2010
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It is because of, rather than in spite of, this stoniness that Bella finds him irresistibly attractive.
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