Meanings
- uncountableThe state of being personal
And they do not resemble English storms, but rather Arctic ones, in a certain very suggestive something of personalness, and a carousing malice, and a Tartarus gloom, which I cannot quite describe.
1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud2 more examples
As the mutual education of marriage is an individual affair,--as the more individualness, the more personalness there is in the relation is what the relation itself is for, the mutual education of employers and employees is going to be found to have more meaning, value and power, the more individual and personal--that is to say, the more alive it is.
1920, Gerald Stanley Lee, The Ghost in the White HouseNot the least part of the charm of this museum is the fact that it is not of great size, and that one may consequently visit it without fatigue; but the chief fascination of the place is the dramatic personalness of its exhibits.
1917, Julian Street, American Adventures
Origin
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