mountainousness

English

Etymology

From mountainous +‎ -ness (“a state of being”, suffix forming a noun).

Noun

mountainousness (uncountable)

1. The quality of being mountainous.
   • 1808, Allan Ramsay, “An Inquiry into the Propriety of the Rules Prescribed for Pastoral Poetry”, in The Gentle Shepherd, a Pastoral Comedy; with Illustrations of the Scenary: […], volume 1, Edinburgh, page 182:

     […] according to Polybius, the Arcadians, owing to the mountainousness of their country, and the severity of the weather, were very rugged and unsociable.

Translations

a mountainous condition

• French: état montagneux m