personalnessとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

personalness ‎(uncountable)

1. The state of being personal
   • 1920, Gerald Stanley Lee, The Ghost in the White House^[1]:

     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.

   • 1917, Julian Street, American Adventures^[2]:

     Not 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.

   • 1901, M.P. Shiel, The Purple Cloud^[3]:

     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.