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snowmanness (uncountable) (rare)

1. (philosophy) The quality of being a snowman.
   • 1992, S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies, volume 4, page 68:

     It cannot be regarded as a spatio-temporally dispersed individual (like a football team) which has different properties (such as polar bearness or snowmanness) in different spatio-temporal regions.

   • 2010, Tamar Szabó Gendler, “Part II. Pretense, Imagination, and Belief”, “Imaginative Resistance”, “9. The Puzzle of Imaginative Resistance (2000)”, in Intuition, Imagination, and Philosophical Methodology, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 193:

     Or maybe being-a-snowman is just a way of describing some more fundamental property upon which snowmanness supervenes?

   • 2013, Ayub V. O. Ofulla, “Chapter One: Chaos-Order Relationships and the Ancient Concepts of Continuous Creations”, in The Secrets of Hidden Knowledge: How Understanding Things in the Physical Realm Nurtures Life, Abbott Press, →ISBN, page 18:

     Furthermore, we can rate the degree of fuzziness. If something is a definite fact, it is given a value of 1. If it is definitely untrue, it is given the value of 0. For our snowman, if it is a perfect snowman it has the value of 1 and if it is a blob it has a value of 0. As the weather gradually wears away its snowmanness, its fuzzy value slowly moves from 1 down to 0.