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  • noun The quality of having layers.

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layered +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • And this denseness seems to be the hallmark of literariness; density of narrative more accurately reflects the disparate aspects of any person's life, so that the more faithful a narrative is to that multi-layeredness, the "better" the writing.

    The Wind-up Bird Chronicle Fred Perry 2009

  • And this denseness seems to be the hallmark of literariness; density of narrative more accurately reflects the disparate aspects of any person's life, so that the more faithful a narrative is to that multi-layeredness, the "better" the writing.

    Archive 2009-10-01 Fred Perry 2009

  • I know that this praise of the multi-layeredness of the universe is itself a grotesque oversimplification of the complexity and subtlety of this interplay between forces, and my apologies for those who would articulate it better than I.

    Last day before Christmas great escape. Imogen 2008

  • I know that this praise of the multi-layeredness of the universe is itself a grotesque oversimplification of the complexity and subtlety of this interplay between forces, and my apologies for those who would articulate it better than I.

    Archive 2008-12-01 Imogen 2008

  • Images provide us with a sense of the layeredness of experience, of the way physical surroundings change and remain the same over time.

    'I Saw a Nightmare …' Doing Violence to Memory: The Soweto Uprising, June 16, 1976 2005

  • It's a pretty cool way to show the many-layeredness of a spot that would otherwise just be asphalt.

    ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science Martin R none@example.com 2009

  • The town of Bath, where Starbucks-sipping tourists swarm over ancient Roman ruins, is an especially advantageous place to consider time’s layeredness.

    Layers of Time | For Phil | clusterflock 2009

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