Northernness
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See also: northernness
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
Northernness (uncountable)
- A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world.[1][2]
- 1955, C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Geoffrey Bles:
- Pure "Northernness" engulfed me: a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of Northern summer, remoteness, severity…and almost at the same moment I knew that I had met this before, long, long ago.
References[edit]
- ^ (Please provide the book title or journal name)[1], 2016 August 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 15 November 2017
- ^ http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/online/magical-books/pure-northernness