oakness

English

Etymology

oak +‎ -ness

Noun

oakness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being oak, or of being an oak tree.
   • 2004, François Gallix, Vanessa Guignery, Crime Fictions: Subverted Codes and New Structures, page 2:

     The rational detective, of course, is not prepared to bow before oakness and elmness.

   • 2007, Siniša Malešević, Mark Haugaard, Ernest Gellner and Contemporary Social Thought, page 86:

     For Aristotle, an acorn becomes an oak, because it has the essence of oakness within it, which means it should become an oak.