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Lakeness vs Fakeness - What's the difference?

lakeness | fakeness |

As nouns the difference between lakeness and fakeness

is that lakeness is the state or quality of being a lake while fakeness is the condition of being fake.

lakeness

English

Noun

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  • The state or quality of being a lake.
  • * 1977 , J. Bryan Moffet, Teaching Elementary School Social Studies , Little, Brown (1977), page 184:
    • Children who have seen a small lake surrounded by a white sand beach have beginning ideas of what lakeness is.
  • * 1995 , Ralph Lombreglia, Make Me Work , Penguin (1995), ISBN 9780140242225, page 100:
    • Sam was painting big abstract landscapes in those days — masses of green and brown and blue plucked from the world around here — and he would tell me the right way to look at the lake, how to empty myself of all thoughts of lakeness , and just see the thing.
  • * 2002 , Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham , Oregon State University Press (2002), ISBN 9780870715471, page 113:
    • Ahead stretched miles of the unknown, lands and waters resembling my home waters, yet not quite it. There was a disturbing feeling of lakeness : unlike four-doored Possession Sound and multi-doored Puget, Port Susan had but a single door.

    fakeness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The condition of being fake.