hoarness

English

Etymology

hoar +‎ -ness

Noun

hoarness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being hoar.
   • 1871, The Antiquary, volumes 1-2, page 13:

     To mark this absolutism of change over the works of man is both pleasing and profitable, for what is more emotional than to observe the hoarness, the mellowness, and the natural final decay of objects whose beginnings date almost from the immemorial […] ?