seedness
Etymology
From seed + -ness.
seedness means the state or quality of being seed. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
noun
- The state or quality of being seed.“[…] when the seed surrenders, it becomes a tree. Seeds that don’t surrender their “seedness” only wither up and blow away.”
- Seedtime.“As those that feed grow full, as blossoming time
That from the seedness the bare fallow brings
To teeming foison, even so her plenteous womb
Expresseth his full tilth and husbandry.”