pristineness
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pristineness (uncountable)
- The state or condition of being pristine.
- 2011, Nicholas Johnson, Big Dead Place, page 78:
- The resilience of mankind in Antarctica is inexorable; even the constant bleating of those who whine for permanent silence and infinite pristineness dissipates into an insignificant Buddhist drone beneath the soothing rumble of fleets of machines with pulsing hydraulics.