Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The quality of being stony: as, the stoniness of ground or of fruit; stoniness of heart.
Wiktionary
- n. The state or quality of being stony.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being stony.
Examples
“I continue to struggle with a stoniness that shuts out so many.”
The Huffington Post: Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Sexual Abuse and the Sacred Heart of Jesus
“She suggested after-dinner strolls, picnics at the beach; with a stoniness he did not quite understand, Gavin refused her.”
“It is because of, rather than in spite of, this stoniness that Bella finds him irresistibly attractive.”
“Bella's fixation on Edward's stoniness looks a lot like a kind of fetishism.”
“Kenji had seen something in her then, a steeliness, a stoniness, and he had recognized it.”
“But compared to other parts of the Rocky Mountains, the shallowness and stoniness of soils play a relatively minor role in forest distribution.”
Northern Rocky Mountain Forest-Steppe - Coniferous Forest - Alpine Meadow Province (Bailey)
“There were lovely honeyed orange and lemon aromas and flavors, and a nice stoniness in the aftertaste.”
“Dekalb, Laidig, Berks, Weikert, and Lehew soils are all common and slope angle, fertility, and stoniness are limitations.”
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
“Low fertility, acidity, stoniness, and steepness are characteristics of these soils.”
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
“The Hayesville and Grimsley, Porters soils are widespread and are characterized by stoniness and steepness.”
Ecoregions of Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia (EPA)
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