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Northernness
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northernness
English
Etymology
From en northern ness.
Noun
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A fascination with the northern lands of Britain and Scandinavia, but also a sense of longing for an unattainable, imaginary world.http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/24742248 20 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20171115075623/http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/0/24742248 15 November 2017 http://www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/whatson/whats-on/online/magical-books/pure-northernness
en 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.
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