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Etymology

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pond +‎ -ness

Noun

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pondness (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The quality of being a pond.
    • 2009 September 20, Daisy Fried, “Dark Glamour”, in New York Times[1]:
      In “The Catfish,” he’s not much interested in the pondness of pond or the fishiness of fish.
    • 2014, Susan Naramore Maher, Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains:
      Dunwoody Pond, then, is a matrix containing all of the possible meanings of pondness. The pond is an archetype, a mold so to speak of primordial dimensions; it is embedded with natural forms; it is the material enclosing objects of study.