Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being glassy.
The luster of inquiring glance faded swiftly into vacant glassiness.
1899 March, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number MI, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part II2 more examples
In one spot, the gush of the water violently agitated the sand, but without obscuring the fountain, or breaking the glassiness of its surface.
1837 March 6, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “The Vision of the Fountain”, in Twice-Told Tales, Boston, Mass.: American Stationers Co.; John B. Russell, →OCLC, page 296The rounded top rail had been polished to glassiness by the Sunday trouser-seats of generations of village youths whose favourite perch it had been while waiting for the chimes to stop [...]
1948, Flora Thompson, chapter 1, in Still Glides the Stream
Origin
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