Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being a part of a mass.
But the continued movement in the direction of massness and individualism has clearly resulted in huge unpaid emotional debts […]
1975, Agricultural Development Council. Research and Training Program, University of Wisconsin--Madison. Land Tenure Center, Papers, Volume 41 more example
It was the massness of the book in Menzel's view that had transformed it into both a problem and an enormously powerful medium that had the capacity to shape one's dreams.
2009, Andrew Piper, Dreaming in Books: The Making of the Bibliographic Imagination in the Romantic Age - uncountablehuman sciencesThe quality of being a mass noun.
A mass noun, in contrast, does not refer to a discrete object (or objects) in the real world - it refers to massness.
2013, Rint Sybesma, The Mandarin VP
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massness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/massness
“massness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/massness. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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