"shadiness" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: shadinesses [plural]
Etymology: shady + -ness Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|shady|ness}} shady + -ness Head templates: {{en-noun|-|+}} shadiness (usually uncountable, plural shadinesses)
  1. The property of being shady. Tags: uncountable, usually Translations (the property of being shady): opacitas [feminine] (Latin)
    Sense id: en-shadiness-en-noun-qGKczPPT Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ness

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1931, LeRoy MacLeod, Three Steeples: A Tragedy of Earth, page 113",
          "text": "The autumn fields were autumn woods now—oak and beech and maple shadiness—as if they had ridden backward through the years of cultivation into primeval forest. The air was cool with mystery as well as with the shadiness.",
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          "ref": "1982, Julius K. Hunter, Kingsbury Place: The First Two Hundred Years, page 163",
          "text": "\"There were still a lot of government restrictions on how much meat you could get from the packing houses. So I had to turn to certain \"independent\" distributors to get some of the meat cuts my customers wanted.\"\nThere was something about the way Wolff said the word independent that suggested a slight bit of shadiness, but certainly not enough shadiness for a full-blown indictment.",
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          "sense": "the property of being shady",
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