mountainousness

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.

Translations

a mountainous condition

French: état montagneux m

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