Northernness

See also: northernness

English

Etymology

northern +‎ -ness.

Noun

Northernness (uncountable)

  1. A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world.[1][2]
    • 1955, C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life, Geoffrey Bles:
      Pure "Northernness" engulfed me: a vision of huge, clear spaces hanging above the Atlantic in the endless twilight of Northern summer, remoteness, severity…and almost at the same moment I knew that I had met this before, long, long ago.

References
  1. (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎, 2016 August 20 (last accessed), archived from the original on 15 November 2017
  2. http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/online/magical-books/pure-northernness
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