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English
Etymology
From mountainous + -ness (“a state of being”, suffix forming a noun).
Noun
mountainousness (uncountable)
- 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.
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