Lameness vs Lakeness - What's the difference?
lameness | lakeness |
A impediment to walking due to the feet or legs.
:His lameness may have prevented him from walking but it didn't stop him from running for public office.
(informal) The quality of being lame, pathetic or uncool.
The state or quality of being a lake.
* 1977 , J. Bryan Moffet, Teaching Elementary School Social Studies , Little, Brown (1977),
* 1995 , Ralph Lombreglia, Make Me Work , Penguin (1995), ISBN 9780140242225,
* 2002 , Harvey Manning, Walking the Beach to Bellingham , Oregon State University Press (2002), ISBN 9780870715471,
As nouns the difference between lameness and lakeness
is that lameness is a impediment to walking due to the feet or legs while lakeness is the state or quality of being a lake.lameness
English
Noun
- I can't believe the lameness of the special effects in that movie.
Anagrams
* * * * *lakeness
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Noun
(-)page 184:
- Children who have seen a small lake surrounded by a white sand beach have beginning ideas of what lakeness is.
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.
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.