Desertness

Des´ert`ness

A deserted condition.

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.

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Full desertness, In souls as countries, lieth silent-bare Under the blanching, vertical eye-glare Of the absolute Heavens.

Like Wordsworth, Barrett fills her octave with negatives: "hopeless," "passionless," "desertness," "silent-bare." But unlike Wordsworth, she does not convert them into positives.

"In silence like to death": Elizabeth Barrett's sonnet turn

There are signals that the city is ready to deal more creatively with its climate, to parlay its desertness into a unique asset and a source of pride.

The new Phoenix: desert and downtown

Farther west, Richard Misrach has devoted himself to an ongoing visual compendium of "desertness," or the "idea" of the desert.

Space is the place

Today, as the desert is being stripped of its "desertness," novelists are trying to preserve its imaginative cultural value.